NY chicken lover!!!!

[pharmchickrnmom]

Hi all planning on breeding some feeder stock this spring. I'm just wondering how long before they will be ready to process.

If they are your excess roos, 16 weeks is a good age to process them. I got a lot of nice meat off mine. I just leg and breast them and can them.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Ginny-----

Long time no see. I hope everything is going well for you.


Gramma-- We made the purple robot costume, the mermaid was hand made 20yrs ago for my neighbor's daughter, and the frog was a garage sale find that each of my girls have worn.


Rancher-- Travis trims his beard but if he would be a shoe in for no shave November if he didn't.

Does your DD having a girl live in NY?


Has anyone noticed the meat prices in the store? Sky high. I've been looking recently. Our butcher's wife had an accident and we won't be getting our beef until January now. We've been out of meat for a month now. If anyone knows of any meat (beef, pork, venison) for sale and it is cheaper than the store please let me know. I'm looking to buy enough to get us through til our beef order is ready.

 

[demp4]

We bought a new to us coop and the person we bought it from lined bottom with plastic and it was super easy to drag out and dump. Should I reline with plastic or is it not a great idea?

It is just a wood plywood floor unpainted. At one Seam I can see through a hairline gap. We live north of Oneida Lake so it will get snowy and windy soon. I would like to get them in the new coop as soon as possible.

 

[demp4]

Rancher--  Travis trims his beard but if he would be a shoe in for no shave November if he didn't.    Does your DD having a girl live in NY?


Has anyone noticed the meat prices in the store?  Sky high.  I've been looking recently.  Our butcher's wife had an accident and we won't be getting our beef until January now.  We've been out of meat for a month now.  If anyone knows of any meat (beef, pork, venison) for sale and it is cheaper than the store please let me know.  I'm looking to buy enough to get us through til our beef order is ready.

we bought a whole butchered beef last spring. Meat prices are sky high in the store. You could call local farms and see if they have a quarter available to get you through.

 

[chickenchick86]

If they are your excess roos, 16 weeks is a good age to process them.  I got a lot of nice meat off mine.  I just leg and breast them and can them.  

That's not very long. Somehow I thought it would be longer. This spring will be my first breeding season. I've only had my flock for about six months but fully believe it will be healthier and better for my family to have home grown food. We are already enjoying the eggs.

 

[Lapeerian]

Has anyone noticed the meat prices in the store?  Sky high.  I've been looking recently.  Our butcher's wife had an accident and we won't be getting our beef until January now.  We've been out of meat for a month now.  If anyone knows of any meat (beef, pork, venison) for sale and it is cheaper than the store please let me know.  I'm looking to buy enough to get us through til our beef order is ready.

Any chance of finding a different butcher? Of course after the 15th theyll be busy with gun deer season. Prices of all meat is high. My parents don't have a dairy cull ready, so we are down to the last 6 pounds of burger and a few steaks. I went to Maine's yesterday and bought a box of frozen hamburg patties to get us by, save the ground burger for meatloaf and such. Also bought a box of pre-made meatballs. Hoping hubby gets a deer, we mix the venison and beef together for meatloaf and like venison breakfast sausage. I watch our local store for when it has sales in the whole chickens, buy a few and freeze them. Right now im finding sales and coupons for turkey. Our store has a coupon if you buy $30 of groceries, you can get a small frozen turkey for ? per pound.
The upside to the high prices are the farmers are getting decent prices on calves sent to market. Just a couple years ago it was normal to get a bill from the auction house because the calf or even cull cow didn't bring enough to cover trucking and commission.

 

[Pyxis]

We bought a new to us coop and the person we bought it from lined bottom with plastic and it was super easy to drag out and dump. Should I reline with plastic or is it not a great idea?

It is just a wood plywood floor unpainted. At one Seam I can see through a hairline gap. We live north of Oneida Lake so it will get snowy and windy soon. I would like to get them in the new coop as soon as possible.

Go ahead and line it. It's fine to do and makes cleaning a lot easier. If you want to go permanent so you don't have to keep replacing the plastic. get some linoleum and put that down. I actually went to a local flooring store and asked to buy a remnant and he handed it to me free instead. I was so happy with the owner for that.

 

[Pyxis]

Today was productive! I did a bit of pre-winter coop readying, although there's still a lot to go. I also moved my little flock of CCL, NN bantam, and silkie chicks from their brooder to a cordoned off area in the coop their brooder was in so that they had more space. With 27 chicks it was starting to get a bit crowded! They're loving the extra space and the darn CCL's are eating and growing like fiends. There has been some inbreeding problems in the breed causing bad hatch rates and weak chicks but I have none of that in my flock thank goodness. I also gave the flock the first dose of their before winter worming. Some of the girls are finally coming out of molt, of course, so now I'll get eggs that I can't do anything with Still on the schedule is partially covering the coop fronts with plastic, installing some roof venting, and getting one last deep clean in before it starts to snow. I'd also like to get the run on the new hoop coop that's currently being used to house my chicks, assorted pullets, and my cemani flock until spring, but we will see.

 

[rancher hicks]

Rancher--This is The Duke, a heritage breed rir.. Taken about 3 months ago. You should see him now! I will have to get new pics.

I felt like I had a constant knife through my gut just below my diaphram going through to my back. Sometimes it would radiate up to my shoulder. It would get worse with eating, no matter what kind of food I ate. Sometimes it was in my right side as well. Had an ultrasound, mri and then the hida test, which showed it wasnt working. You usually have to do the first two before getting the hida, which gives a difinitive answer. It can make you feel sick to your stomach as well. It is the constant, unending pain that really grinds you down. My fellow technician is currently going through this. I hope you dont have it.

I noticed it started some time after I ate eggs and bread with butter. I put a heating pad on it and that helps. It's the right side of course. I haven't called the doc, cuz I'm thinking of switching. He moved too far away and doesn't have privileges at DW's hospital. All tests and surgery would have to be done there.

 

[rancher hicks]

Ginny-----

Long time no see. I hope everything is going well for you.


Gramma-- We made the purple robot costume, the mermaid was hand made 20yrs ago for my neighbor's daughter, and the frog was a garage sale find that each of my girls have worn.


Rancher-- Travis trims his beard but if he would be a shoe in for no shave November if he didn't.

Does your DD having a girl live in NY?


Has anyone noticed the meat prices in the store? Sky high. I've been looking recently. Our butcher's wife had an accident and we won't be getting our beef until January now. We've been out of meat for a month now. If anyone knows of any meat (beef, pork, venison) for sale and it is cheaper than the store please let me know. I'm looking to buy enough to get us through til our beef order is ready.

There was a contest mentioned on CBS this morning, showing all the guys with beards. My SIL would be a bear if he didn't shave.

My DD is in TX. She had to have testing done since she's over 30. This is her second.

I have noticed meat prices and others have gone up. We have a few stores to chose from, but at Wegmans I look for stuff that is "reduced". We have a freezer so I just toss it in there.

We do eat a lot of chicken. Chicken Cutlets last night. Chicken Cacciatore the night before. DW always makes too, much so it goes over to DD's and hers as leftovers.

I will have to pay more attention to the garden next year.