NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

Well I am starting all over again. But, I have moved from NY to Tennessee. Got my chicks from TSC and 4 ducklings two pekin, two campbells. And bought a Farm Innovators incubator and going to try my hand at incubating. I ordered 6 lavender orphington hatching eggs, and 6 African/Toulouse goose hatching eggs. Hope this works out.
We are brooding the chicks and duckings in collapsable dog crates in my spare living room so far so good.
My husband has been a work in progress building the outdoor chicken coop. Good thing I have a few more weeks til I really need it. lol

Oooohhhh, I like the Toulouse geese. I hope things work out too.

Congratulations,

Rancher

 

[Beer can]

Rancher the 'hide' was because I knew what your response was going to be. I don't use seven or any chemical, that's why I thought DE was a good thing until I read that on chicken chick. I'd post the link but I think it is against BYC rules. I haven't noticed any cooties on my chickens. They dust bathe in wood ashes, which I also heard was bad for them Lol!

 

[rancher hicks]

Rancher the 'hide' was because I knew what your response was going to be. I don't use seven or any chemical, that's why I thought DE was a good thing until I read that on chicken chick. I'd post the link but I don't think it is against BYC rules. I haven't noticed any cooties on my chickens. They dust bathe in wood ashes, which I also heard was bad for them Lol!

So you knew you'd get a rise out of me?

I knew you liked me.

Now are these wood ashes expensive? If there is no money to be had of course they don't work, but then I did just spend $50 for 80#'s of DE. So you may be smarter than some think.

Have a good night,

 

[PhoredaBurds]

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 to hear about ur Lark. Parrots r amazing. An African grey & an eclectus share their home w me. Can't imagine being w/o them. There are many wonderful parrots ISO good homes out there if u ever change ur mind. Feel better soon.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

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 wonder if it's the Rochester hub. I had eggs shipped up here from KY. Tracking said they arrived in Rochester yesterday & left there for my PO that same morning. When I visited my PO yesterday to pick them up, they did not have my package. And they did not have any explanation today why the package was delayed in Rochester yesterday. No damage shown on the outside of the box & no cracked eggs, but the air cells are quite wonky. Fingers crossed they recover & develop.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

My duck's messes that they have made... Playing in the mud by their coop The part of the yard that where the snow has melted so far. That was all grass...but not now...

Looks very similar to the run my geese r in. Last winter the 2 geese & 7 chickens spent the winter in my fenced garden area. The area resembled the surface of the moon by the time spring sprung & I moved them to a different area. The grass all came back without reseeding somehow. The land did have a break from the poultry, but it did recover pretty quickly.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Rancher the 'hide' was because I knew what your response was going to be. I don't use seven or any chemical, that's why I thought DE was a good thing until I read that on chicken chick. I'd post the link but I don't think it is against BYC rules. I haven't noticed any cooties on my chickens. They dust bathe in wood ashes, which I also heard was bad for them Lol!

You notice also...she is not advertizing DE...but is advertizing PDZ which could be a somewhat of a competing Product .
I have used DE ..at first ...when I forgot to put it in their dusting areas they did just fine with out it ..I think longs they dust bathe that is what is important ..

 

[Glasshen]

I use Sweet PDZ, it is an element called ziolote, it dries the area and neutralizes ammonium and is a godsend. It is nothing like DE. I also use wood ashes, i bathe and blow dry chickens, and when necessary I use Eprinex to keep them from the itchies. You are all right, if it works for you, fine. There is no one perfect way to raise chickens.

We cooked one of the roosters, and roasting was not a good choice. Will try to use the other half in soup...think I will can the other two, cause the pressure cooking will make it more tender. He was young, maybe 6-8 months old, and had not been walking around too much as no one like to walk in the snow.

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

I use Sweet PDZ, it is an element called ziolote, it dries the area and neutralizes ammonium and is a godsend. It is nothing like DE. I also use wood ashes, i bathe and blow dry chickens, and when necessary I use Eprinex to keep them from the itchies. You are all right, if it works for you, fine. There is no one perfect way to raise chickens.

We cooked one of the roosters, and roasting was not a good choice. Will try to use the other half in soup...think I will can the other two, cause the pressure cooking will make it more tender. He was young, maybe 6-8 months old, and had not been walking around too much as no one like to walk in the snow.

We slow cooked a rooster of about the same age a few weeks ago and served him on lightly herbed orzo. Very tasty, and super tender!!!

 

[lizzy14]

Hello everyone, I am located in the Western Finger Lakes region, south of Rochester. We've had chickens for about 4 years but lost most of our flock to a fox recently.

We are planning to hatch our own for the first time, picking up some eggs April 25. We could use about a dozen more eggs to fill out the 'bator. Do any of you know of hatching eggs available in the Buffalo/Rochester/Finger Lakes area? We really don't want to keep cockerels so I'm preferring autosexing breeds, but may bend if I don't find any.

I've been lurking on these forums for a few years and have learned so much about chickens from you all. Thanks for any help you can give!

-Liz