NY chicken lover!!!!

[plb91780]

Hi again!

I have 3 silkie chicks I'm looking to find homes for. I hatched out 5, some pure and some mixes, and only want to keep 1 white hen and 1 white rooster.

Here is the craigslist link. I'm in Syracuse. Thanks!

http://syracuse.craigslist.org/grd/4866293004.html

 

[sonew123]

Im so with you Matella!!! I get jealous of people who get to hatch in the winter and have laying chickens by summer I don't have hatch until the end of may basically maybe a little sooner this year will sing

on a good note April announced that she's doing chicken stock at her house again this year in New Hampshire it's four hours from me in New York

 

[Metella]

Yeah - I know I am missing out on opportunities because it is too cold for the set up I have .... and I am not willing to put even more time and money into it to set up a fire hazard brooder. I want peeps now !!!


Can you share the NH chickenstock info with me ? I probably can go to both ....

 

[rancher hicks]

Yeah - I know I am missing out on opportunities because it is too cold for the set up I have .... and I am not willing to put even more time and money into it to set up a fire hazard brooder. I want peeps now !!!


Can you share the NH chickenstock info with me ? I probably can go to both ....

Well now there are ways to set up a brooder without those over heating red lights. Which by the way are much too hot for what is needed. Those lights are for unheated outdoor sheds IMO.

You can use ceramic heat bulbs. Lower wattage and safer I think. You can also use incandescent light bulbs too. Or an oil filled heater hung just above the brooder. Trouble is some folks don't have any imagination and only go by what the books say.

I've got some of these. They come in different wattages. Though the Red heat bulbs do too. Some you can order that are only 175 watts and not the fire setting 250. A lower wattage will be just fine and won't melt the fixture. I say use a lower wattage but more than one unit. You can lower the heat source and if one burns out the others are still working. I put a thermometer inside the brooder to monitor the temp.

Those stupid cardboard kits they sell are a sure way to burn down the house.

If you do brood inside the house, the room temp must be taken into account. A room temp of 65-70 will reduce the need for a 250 watt firestarter.

 

[Purpletie3]

True - I have scored some free peeps and now a broody hatching out my own layers - and even with a great source to supplement my feed costs, free ranging in the summer AND selling my eggs ..... I don't make any money.

However, I have healthy eggs, chicken meat and a greater sense of sustainability should anything happen to any of our food supply lines.

I am with you here! You know that your chickens are happy, healthy and provide good nutritious food for you and your family! I am hoping my hens eat all the slugs in my garden this year and leave great fertilizer behind!

 

[rancher hicks]

I am with you here! You know that your chickens are happy, healthy and provide good nutritious food for you and your family! I am hoping my hens eat all the slugs in my garden this year and leave great fertilizer behind!

I think you can come pretty close to breaking even.

I let my chickens loose in my garden in the fall and I've seen less slug and snails. Too I sprinkle DE around and I know that helps.

 

[horsekeeper]

Well now there are ways to set up a brooder without those over heating red lights. Which by the way are much too hot for what is needed. Those lights are for unheated outdoor sheds IMO.

I have the brooder from Brinsea pictured above and love it. It fits inside a big plastic tub that I use as step one of brooding for 2 weeks. Then I take it out and split the babies into 2 tubs because they are growing and getting too crowded. Since they are in the house they are fine. Two weeks in the tubs, then they go into 2x4 foot wooden brooder cages I built until they are feathered out, then outside. The EcoGlow doesn't get that hot, so I don't worry about fire. I've used it for chicks, ducklings, and turkeys.

 

[DeAnzaJig]

Any particular color you want? I can have some for you in May, if you are okay to drive to Glens Falls to meet me.

I would like the traditional pearl and driving to Glens Falls would be no problem.

How much are you asking? Do you hatch them yourself?

I checked out your coop post. It looks really cool. Do you have any problem with snow gathering on the roof?

Thanks for the response!

 

[Pyxis]

I would like the traditional pearl and driving to Glens Falls would be no problem.

How much are you asking? Do you hatch them yourself?

I checked out your coop post. It looks really cool. Do you have any problem with snow gathering on the roof?

Thanks for the response!

I don't have any trouble with snow gathering on the roof! I just knock the coop after a snow and it all slides right off. It's really strong - I had two huge pine branches come down on it during the last storm and it didn't so much as sag under them. I'll pm you about the guineas

 

[DeAnzaJig]

"Sloansville Poultry and Small Farm Animal Swap" and "Mohawk Valley Poultry Swap."

Thank you for the info and looking the names up for me. will check them out!