NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

You stay up pretty late don't you Gramma.........

Yes I am a Night Owl ...I work at night at my computer ...doing Ebay Listings .
So my chickens dont get out too early here ..Noon ...or after ...
I also have a Tab that is always open to this thread..So you will most always see that I am on ..
I click it once in a while to see if there is any action ..

 

[Gramma Chick]

You stay up pretty late don't you Gramma.........

So with deep litter you just put it deep first ..and stir it up ?
I start with the ground & add litter on top as it gets dirty or wet .
Your way sounds drier ...mine absorbs some moisture on the bottom in the winter .
Im using leaves for litter this season .. I like dried grass better ...but I didnt collect much ..& the leaves where available when it was time to start collecting

 

[Beer can]

Me too, night owl, I work second shift I like it, no alarm clock and get home at a decent time. Sucks with kids in school though.

 

[Beer can]

So with deep litter you just put it deep first ..and stir it up ?
I start with the ground & add litter on top as it gets dirty or wet .
Your way sounds drier ...mine absorbs some moisture on the bottom in the winter .
Im using leaves for litter this season .. I like dried grass better ...but I didnt collect much ..& the leaves where available when it was time to start collecting

I used straw after I cleaned my coop out. I guess straw and hay is a no no collects mold I have read,. But I also added about four inches of dry sawdust on top, I let them stir it up. My coop stays dry, guess I'm lucky. Wet and muddy everywhere else on my property. I also read DE isn't all that it is cracked up to be on chicken chick look it up

Never used it before, and now don't plan to. But I might use it in my garden as a slug preventive.

 

[bakingintherain]

Well, I have been sick as a dog since Wednesday and just now am starting to get better after starting some meds, so I apologize if I missed any big news.

Not a great week for me, though. All the poultry is well, but last night, I returned home briefly from house sitting to find that I had lost Larrikin, my sun conure. I am going to miss him so much. I had him for eight years, and I should have had him for at least twelve more. He never acted sick and he wasn't old, so I'm not really sure what happened. It's just not going to be the same to walk into the house and not hear his contact call, to not have him pestering me for a bit of whatever I'm eating, to not have him climb down his cage to blow kisses at me and to not hear him laugh when he heard us laughing, to not have him greet me "Hi Puff" whenever I walk into the room. Parrots have huge personalities, and my life is going to seem so flat without him in it for a long time.

I will likely have another parrot, since once you own one your life is so empty without them, but no one will ever replace Lark.

Sorry for your loss I hope you feel better soon

 

[rancher hicks]

I totally think it's one of the sorting stations between NY and South Carolina. I haven't had any problems with shipped eggs from anywhere else in the country! Aside from quail, which I bred in house, last year all my incubator runs were shipped eggs, and I had it running non stop from March through September! I lost a whole batch of melanastic pheasants from N. Carolina, but had a 90% hatch rate from pheasants that came from halfway across the country! These eggs were packed with a ton of padding and multiple layers, so they really had to have taken quite a hit to cause that level of disruption! I'm leaving the last egg in my manual turn incubator in the hopes that it might have survived. The ring of death isn't obvious yet, but it's not looking promising... I have chicken eggs due in tomorrow that are headed up from close to Philadelphia. I'm not worried about those - they will have spent less than 48 hours in transit from a route that has always yielded healthy eggs!

I'm expecting eggs Saturday or rather hoping they come in. I thought they'd be shipped Monday but since I'm only paying shipping I can't complain. Coming from VA. I've got one egg in the incubator working. A CR and very important.

It will mean quick cleaning and set up in the basement but I hope to have it working at peak temp and full. I can't see running a half full incubator. I can dispose of unwanted chicks but can't add more if they all don't hatch.

 

[aisored]

Hi from Onedia County new to this trying to figure out if it's legal to have. Byc in mewhartford NY

 

[Gramma Chick]

Hi from Onedia County new to this trying to figure out if it's legal to have. Byc in mewhartford NY

is that new hartford ?

 

[aisored]

Yes it is !!!!!

 

[Gramma Chick]

Yes it is !!!!!

Welcome To The NY Thread
I dont see anything listed against it online ..I see Utica has some laws .
I would call the town ..they should know if there is any ordinances against it