NY chicken lover!!!!

[myfivegirls]

Quote: She doesn't look like any of the Bielefelders that I've hatched - different type of crele.

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Nope, not the only one - all this year the chickens have come before the garden - why I didn't start any plants inside this year, after so many years of doing it!
Hoping to finish planting and do more weeding today.

The latest hatch was a sticky, wet disaster - only 7 hatched by themselves & the rest were either a sticky, stuck mess or had drowned or died.

Must have been too much humidity - even tho I did a dry incubation, it was the extra humidity during lockdown combined with the T-storms & rain that did it??
And yet, the two broodies that has 14 SFH eggs under them - set on the same day as these incubator eggs - 13 chicks hatched on the 11th, when only 1 from the incubator hatched that day!
I moved the chicks to the one broody and gave the other SFH eggs in the incubator due in a few weeks to the other broody. So far she's adjusted to having eggs again and no chicks.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Sweet momma (mj) has babies

How cool!!! I'm sure that she is loving it!

Just got real dark here...we have tornado warnings. Hopefully, power will be ok as I have an incubator full of lovely eggs!!!

Everyone stay safe!!!!

We had a heck of a night here in DeRuyter. We got 2 storms within a short time. Had a tornado warning. It got really nasty and hair here. Then at about 4:30 we lost power. Which wouldn't have been such a big deal, but I have an incubator full of shipped eggs. I covered them good and said a prayer..By 6 the power was still off. I had put hot hands in there to help with the heat, but it wasn't keeping it warm enough so I took them out to my broodies. They are already sitting on a bunch of eggs. I was afraid that they wouldn't be able to handle a few more, I had just given Chleo 8 duck eggs and she is spread pretty far trying to handle those. There was no way I'd give them to the broody ducks, they aren't doing that good of a job..>Well I said a little prayer and split them up to put under the 2 girls...Power finally came back on at 3am...Went out and got them this morning and brought them back in...Candled them and all look good with the little ones swimming around in the egg...huge sigh of relief...

Rancher glad that you are back home safe and sound. Looks like you have a jungle there to take care of. Take it slow and you'll get caught up.

 

[lisa523]

Hi I'm also from ny in chautauqua,county. I'd like to get meat
Birds but I have never processed them. If like to learn. There are amish around my area but I haven't found any to process yet.

Any ideas on where to take chickens to process or how to do it myself?

 

[Beer can]

@lisa523 There is threads on processing your own on BYC, check YouTube also. Personally I like to just skin them, wife wants them plucked. I need to build a chicken plucker before I do a bunch more, also good threads here on homemade pluckers, and YouTube vids.

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Have to candle the rest.. But am motivating to peek at everyone today... I was this one's brooder while the power was down..

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Hi I'm also from ny in chautauqua,county. I'd like to get meat
Birds but I have never processed them. If like to learn. There are amish around my area but I haven't found any to process yet.

Any ideas on where to take chickens to process or how to do it myself?

Are you anywhere near Dundee? There's an Amish family there that will process for $2/bird.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

My husband and I watched a funnel form then dissipate. There was an unconfirmed report of a touch down two towns over,

Of course, the power went out for three hours. The hatcher is full of Ancona eggs that just went into lockdown last night. Incubator 2 is full of scovies, and 3 was production run and a few more saxonies (mama saxony is a sporadic layer at this point), about half full. All in all, close to 4 dozen eggs may or may not have survived. If they were quail I wouldn't worry. Quail will hatch in a warm breeze. Much of the production run was moulards. They die if you look at them funny they are so hard to hatch (even Holderread only got a 40% hatch rate..) I'm pretty sure my cabinet is full of dead moulards after that weather related surprise.....
Never, ever, a dull moment here...

Ugh, lady, that's rough. Fingers crossed many of them pull thru.

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Ugh, lady, that's rough. Fingers crossed many of them pull thru.

I'm pretty sure I lost the hatcher contents. Some movement in the scovies, but about half are looking sketchy. Haven't checked the cabinet yet. Mom is paranoid and won't go into her room, so next stop looks like the hospital for her... Never a dull moment...

 

[Glasshen]

We're having a hatch here. Gave her 3 eggs, she got it up to 8, yesterday she put one outside her box, this morning there was peeping.

 

[lisa523]

Are you anywhere near Dundee? There's an Amish family there that will process for $2/bird.

Unfortunately I don't know where dundee is