NY chicken lover!!!!

[bakingintherain]

Hi, I'm a new member but I feel shy about posting in the big welcome board.  I've stalked BYC for years and decided it was finally time to join.  I live in WNY, Cattaraugus county.  I've had chickens for several years now.  Last year we moved here from across the state and I sold my flock and started from scratch again.  I think my husband kept hoping I would just live without chickens, but I can't help it!!  Even with lots of Amish neighbors selling eggs for 1.50 a dozen, I still want chickens in my backyard too.
Right now I have a trio of barnyard mix ducks.  They laid eggs like champions all through this winter.  An egg a day without fail.  I just loaded the 'bator with a bunch of their eggs; in a few days I'll candle them to see if they're fertile.  I also have a little flock of chickens, seven black cochin bantams and four production layers from a neighbor who was downsizing.  I'm trying to get the cochins into condition for breeding; hoping to get an incubator load or even better, three broody nests of cochin eggs.
My husband keeps insisting that warm weather is right around the corner and we'll be sugaring in a week.  I hope he's right!  All through January and February I daily encouraged my chickens that the cold would only last for another few weeks; they're tired of hearing it by now.

Welcome I skipped the big welcome board too lol, yes lots of enablers on here! I told my hubby I would be restarting my flock and only getting about 12 max, well I have 6 hens 1 roo right now, picking up 5 more in a couple week, having a friend hatch some Millie's,and I have a few coming from Tab at the chickenstock lol

 

[boskelli1571]

I know what you mean! I asked my hubby to build a little tractor and it could hold four hens. Then I decided to get bantams so I could have more chickens in the same space. Three months later come the layers from the neighbor and my husband is getting more and more freaked out. Now it's spring and I foolishly requested hatchery catalogs. I have my sights on a rotten old rv sitting in our back woods as a better, bigger, away-from-the-house-and-my-husbands-sight chicken lodging.
*sigh* If I didn't have my level-headed husband to make me think through decisions, I would be awash in poultry and impoverished to boot.

Welcome to our flock! We will all do our best to enable your chicken addiction!

 

[demp4]

@Gramma Chick the hatched chicks will be split amongst 3 families willing to take and raise for eggs.

I have EE mixes, and another person is giving us barnyard mix, I thought I could buy a half dozen or a dozen of another breed to show egg color differences. We will be studying embryology as well as incubating and raising. If we get a good hatch we may sell a few to pay for feed costs.

We plan on setting next Friday the 13th.

 

[demp4]

@Sristi. I started with 2 ended up with 50 within 2 yrs. am back down to 10 but growing again this spring.

There are a few enablers here.

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

I hit over 60 within 6 months, cut back for the winter, and will have hit twice that number by this fall. It truly is an addiction!

 

[Beer can]

I don't want to many eggs, don't want to sell them, but I want a few different breeds, the white giants for meat and to preserve and perfect, and for capons, and the fibros for meat, of course there will be eggs, but you can't just have a few of each and do any good breeding, you need flocks, ughh , then there's the EEs, wellies and brownleghorns for the cool colorful egg basket, I might become up to my ears in eggs in a couple years, wonder if I can put the dogs on a egg diet?

 

[Purpletie3]

I don't want to many eggs, don't want to sell them, but I want a few different breeds, the white giants for meat and to preserve and perfect, and for capons, and the fibros for meat, of course there will be eggs, but you can't just have a few of each and do any good breeding, you need flocks, ughh , then there's the EEs, wellies and brownleghorns for the cool colorful egg basket, I might become up to my ears in eggs in a couple years, wonder if I can put the dogs on a egg diet?

I feed my dog scrambled eggs~ She loves them and has such a nice shiny coat!

 

[Gramma Chick]

Hi, I'm a new member but I feel shy about posting in the big welcome board.
All through January and February I daily encouraged my chickens that the cold would only last for another few weeks; they're tired of hearing it by now.

Welcome !
thanks for introducing yourself & your Birds
We are all tired of the cold & snow..the Humans & the Birds ..the wildlife !

 

[Gramma Chick]

@Gramma Chick the hatched chicks will be split amongst 3 families willing to take and raise for eggs.

I have EE mixes, and another person is giving us barnyard mix, I thought I could buy a half dozen or a dozen of another breed to show egg color differences. We will be studying embryology as well as incubating and raising. If we get a good hatch we may sell a few to pay for feed costs.

We plan on setting next Friday the 13th.

I should be in Syracuse on thursday .You just want a Dozen ? 2.00
I have a mixed flock
Hens - Comets , a RIR , Plymouth Rocks - Americanas , Sumatras , a Olive Egger with .Australorp Roo & Olive Egger Roo

 

[Purpletie3]

Just google RV chicken coops and you'll get lots of ideas. Ha, ha,

hmmmm.....ideas for the old pop yup sitting in my yard....has a floor, a roof and wheels...just pop it up and fill in the middle with wood and viola. Only problem it is meticulous and has a broken bed rail so we don' really use it.