NY chicken lover!!!!

[Metella]

cute chick disease ... we've all had it !

No - no one can really see my coop from the road - it would be very unlikely that anyone not knowing ... would have a clue there are chickens here as they range from the coop away from the road ... These people are just the next small town over - less than a few minutes drive ...

Please do give me more input See if I am missing something ...

I thought at the first one - that maybe a wondering roo was drawn in by the sound of chickens ... but TWO speckled sussex - at the same age and such as a spring peep would be now ... pulling in the front drive where I had a cage of peeps - not around to the orchard/coop drive .... points to them so far.

 

[Gramma Chick]

cute chick disease ... we've all had it !

No - no one can really see my coop from the road - it would be very unlikely that anyone not knowing ... would have a clue there are chickens here as they range from the coop away from the road ... These people are just the next small town over - less than a few minutes drive ...

Please do give me more input See if I am missing something ...

I thought at the first one - that maybe a wondering roo was drawn in by the sound of chickens ... but TWO speckled sussex - at the same age and such as a spring peep would be now ... pulling in the front drive where I had a cage of peeps - not around to the orchard/coop drive .... points to them so far.

I would probably visit them ...see how they are doing ..count chicken heads ...if they did do it nicely explain about safety to you & your flock
Or email them ..how are their chickens doing ? any problems ? act innocent ...there is a 50 /50 chance it was not them
Dont offend them by accusing them ..they could be innocent
did you give them .. TWO speckled sussex - or more

You have other Roos right ? So most who have driven by with the windows open know you have chickens & your neighbors know also .
do you sell eggs or advertize eggs ?
I could see some idiot driving by ohhh they have Roosters ....they need a few more . dump !

 

[Metella]

They took 7 pullets - 5 were SS the other were ?

Yeah, maybe a probe email ... but all the signs are them ... my neighbors are not close and none have chickens ... you have to go nearly a mile to get to the next chicken owner on my road ... and she doesn't have heritage breeds - only red comets

Thanks guys for answering me and making suggestions ! If any of you have more thoughts - keep them coming - I am not sending anything until this evening ... my DH has been a nice influence on me not to yap back right away but to think about things.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

cute chick disease ... we've all had it !

No - no one can really see my coop from the road - it would be very unlikely that anyone not knowing ... would have a clue there are chickens here as they range from the coop away from the road ... These people are just the next small town over - less than a few minutes drive ...

Please do give me more input See if I am missing something ...

I thought at the first one - that maybe a wondering roo was drawn in by the sound of chickens ... but TWO speckled sussex - at the same age and such as a spring peep would be now ... pulling in the front drive where I had a cage of peeps - not around to the orchard/coop drive .... points to them so far.

I like the second email that you wrote. I would also put in there about the bio-security measures that you should take when bringing a new bird into your flock. I am with everyone else about taking the high road. I would make the letter sound nice yet firm in the displeasure that you felt finding 2 loose roosters at night and the damage that they could have caused..then never sell them anything ever again...stupid people!!!!

 

[Pyxis]

M, so sorry someone dumped those roosters on you It does sound an awful lot like it was the people you sold them to - I don't know anyone else in the area that has speckled sussex and would know that you had chickens. I'm with the others, I would write an email expressing that there was no need to do that, you said you would take roosters back, and they have potentially endangered the rest of your flock with illness. Not to mention they put those roosters and your roosters in danger because of the fighting and how nasty it can get. It just seems to me that it's unlikely that it would be anyone else, because you're right, you can't tell at all that you have chickens when you drive by there.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

All is quiet here...The kids are not happy with me that they have been locked up for a few days. I added the new kid in with the flock and she is adjusting well. She was a bit of a meany at first...When I let her out she ran over and literally pulled my silver laced broody right off of her nest climbed in and then walked back out. I kept an eye on her for a while to make sure that she didn't do it again and break the eggs that MJ is sitting on.

I split up the eggs that the broodies are sitting on. I gave the cochin eggs to MJ. I had 4 and one dissappeered. I hate it when that happens. It is totally gone no sign of it. Then Chleo my white silkie is sitting on the duck eggs and a few of my maran/frizzle eggs. All should be hatching in about a week or so!! Cant wait.

Anyway they are all mad at me for not letting them out. I left them locked in for a few days so the new girl would get a hang of what home is. I don't think that they minded for the most part over the weekend. It was rainy and cold so they all stayed huddled together anyways. They really wanted to go out today, but I have to pick my children up from school for a dentist appointment so they all l have to stay in till I get back, then I'll let them out for a while before it gets dark.

Have some more work to do this week outside to get ready for winter, but my get up and go has got up and went with the cold. Time to bust out the cold weather clothes so I can get some outdoors work done. I really need to go talk to my farmer friend about setting up my straw deliveries..and I want to see if he will let me rake up his leaves! I don't have any leaf trees where I can rake them up. We have mostly pine (which I pick up the needles for winter) But my farmer friend has a bunch of big trees in his yard and I think that he would let me have them. I want them more for the garden then I do the chickens, but will use them for both.

Going to talk to him about bringing up a load of "fertilizer" to put on the garden. Hopefully when next spring rolls around I will have a better crop. The soil seems spent so it is time to do some drastic amendments to the soil so hopefully next year I'll have a better crop. After 2 years of bad yields I have to do something, although last year it wasn't the gardens fault. It was looking good till the flooding wiped out most of my plants and the good top soil layer.

Sorry for the book..Hope that everyone else is starting to adjust to the cold weather better then I am. I hate the cold!!!

 

[Lynzi777]

If these chicks keep hatching as early as they do, I'm gonna have to start locking down on days 16 or 17 instead of day 18! Today is lockdown, I had one pip already last night, and these two are looking like they're gonna hatch today!

 

[wny egger]

I like the second email that you wrote. I would also put in there about the bio-security measures that you should take when bringing a new bird into your flock. I am with everyone else about taking the high road. I would make the letter sound nice yet firm in the displeasure that you felt finding 2 loose roosters at night and the damage that they could have caused..then never sell them anything ever again...stupid people!!!!

yeah i agree ..i also like the idea of playing that you are woundering if it was them and then go into asking them if they had tried to ring the door bell or even tried to email or call you ..and that you were home all day and that they must have stop and dropped them pretty quick for you to have not heard or seen them ..not to mention the fact that now you no someone can be on your property with you home and you not even no ..yeah the more i think about tghis the less amount of time i would give to them ..you certainly dont want them to know they could get on your property without you knowing .yeah i would just be done with them ..dont bite off your nose to dispite your face ..[ i think thats how that saying goes..] anyways the 2nd letter hits all the points you want to make..but i think you should just cold sholder these folks from now on ..



good luck in what ever you choose to do ..sometimes the right thing to do is not always the easyest thing to do ..humble pie is bitter..

 

[Pyxis]

Jeez, a third rooster now too?! Have you been able to see it close enough to see if it's another breed you sold them? Because if it is that probably ersase doubt as to who dumped them. I just hope they only ever got birds from you so you don't have to worry about diseases. Still, might want to start the whole flock on a preventative dose of denagard, just to be safe. The whole thing sucks, sorry

 

[Gramma Chick]

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No ...we are looking to rehome our ducks for the winter ..He has a pig & a pond ..he said he would take our ducks ...
He gave us 4 chickens / laying hens a few years ago ..so we thought he could take the ducks if pigs would put up with them ..
it sounds like they would kill a duck if they could kill a chicken ..also a pregnant sow might be more territorial than normal