NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

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


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.

I think this is a breed GF is having a sale on.

BREED STANDARD PRICE PRESALE PRICE SAVINGS
White Pavlovskaya $99 ea $29 ea $70 ea
Barbezieux $99 ea $29 ea $70 ea
Lavender Wyandotte $99 ea $29 ea $70 ea
Orust $99 ea $29 ea $70 ea
Twentse $59 ea $19 ea $40 ea
Niederrheiner $59 ea $19 ea $40 ea
Black Copper Marans $59 ea $19 ea $40 ea
Bielefelder Pullet $29 ea $19 ea $10 ea
Cream Legbar Pullet $29 ea $19 ea $10 ea
Swedish Flower Hens $29 ea $19 ea $10 ea
Sulmtaler $29 ea $19 ea $10 ea​

I will most likely send out and order next week. IF I have enough folks to help me reach the minimum.

 

[rancher hicks]

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.

Well now that I'm back I'll be sticking eggs under broody hens and have been. Mostly Marans.

 

[rancher hicks]

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


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.

Well now I was bummed. Not having gotten my plants in before leaving for TX. BUT then I remembered I'd prepared my raised beds BEFORE winter, so they're all covered with garden fabric. I just have to weed between the beds and not the beds themselves. I've just come from the Market with loads of tomato plants.

Some folks do raised beds AND non raised.

My herb garden needs redoing but I've got the summer for that. The hardest will be the mowing of the yard. I'll need to remove the bagger for the first cutting. Slow and easy wins the race.

I wish you well,

Rancher, to much to do, Hicks.

 

[Gramma Chick]

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.

Congrats ! Is this your 1st ?
If the eggs are too far away in days she might not finish the last eggs..
.if she stops after a couple days you could incubate the rest & add them to her later...if it is not to far apart time wise

 

[boskelli1571]

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

Where are you at Phoreda? I'm in Potter - I'd love to see your chickens when the AI thing is over & done with........

 

[myfivegirls]

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Oh, I'd love to order some Bielefelders & Swedish Flower Hens, possibly Cream Legbar, but not sure if I'd want to make another trip up that way. Even tho I have the Biel & SFH already, it would be great to have some of the bloodline direct from GFF.
Let me think it over.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Unfortunately I don't know where dundee is

Dundee is about twenty minutes south of Penn Yan. Yes, there is a family out there (I think they are Mennonites) that will process birds. I *thought* it was only $1/bird. But...I have heard from a lady at our church, that they didn't really bleed the birds well enough.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Where are you at Phoreda? I'm in Potter - I'd love to see your chickens when the AI thing is over & done with........

I'm just outside of Watkins, about 25 min fr Dundee. Do u need any spitzhaubens? . Im finding myself w a few extra & more due to hatch this week. I'm guessing the AI thing won't be going anywhere very soon. But AI or not, if u visit I'll make u wear shoe covers & wash ur hands. My chickens promise not to laugh at the stylish shoe covers

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Latest broody drama update:

Well Attila the Hen has settled in quite nicely in the grow-out coop. She is living up to her name and has set the rules with the remaining adolescent chicks that are in there (most of which are small breed and/or bantams).

Her chicks are doing quite well and follow her everywhere. I do see some of the older chicks giving them the stink eye from time to time but...Attila is doing a good job of defending them.


Broody #2 is still playing the nest game. Sitting for long lengths of time, and then abandoning her nest. Thank goodness I removed her due to hatch eggs and have them in the incubator. In a dramatic twist of events, I now have a THIRD broody that has seemingly taken over the nest, as of this afternoon. We'll see if she actually stays on it. She didn't hop off when I opened the gates for everybody to free-range...and she has sat there through treat time.


So my question tonight is...when my eggs hatch on Monday, if I pop those babies underneath Broody #3, assuming she stays broody and isn't just going through a phase, is it possible that she may adopt those chicks and forego sitting on eggs for three weeks? Because if so, that solves my problem of raising these chicks. I can give them to her and all will be well.

Well hopefully...if I can give them to her, I want to put her and the chicks over with Attila in the grow-out side. Hopefully Attila doesn't react negatively to that.

 

[Lapeerian]

So my question tonight is...when my eggs hatch on Monday, if I pop those babies underneath Broody #3, assuming she stays broody and isn't just going through a phase, is it possible that she may adopt those chicks and forego sitting on eggs for three weeks?  Because if so, that solves my problem of raising these chicks.  I can give them to her and all will be well.  

Well hopefully...if I can give them to her, I want to put her and the chicks over with Attila in the grow-out side.  Hopefully Attila doesn't react negatively to that.  

It may be too soon for her, less than a week of brooding before the chicks showed up. Try giving a chick to Miss Flakey Brain (supervised) and one to Number 3 (again supervised) to see if they will accept and defend the chicks. But more than likely you are stuck being momma.

I now have a second going broody. My black 3 year old Orp has been, so set 6 EE and 5 wellie eggs under her last week in the Eglu. She was brooding in the wall nest unit, but agreed to being transitioned to the Eglu before I would give her eggs. Now have my 1 year old mix hen that I hatched last summer sitting in the wall nest unit. And she is ferocious! Hermione would peck and complain, but this one flares her wings and neck out, hissing at you. She is going to get tossed in the bachelor pad with my lonely backup roo for a week. Hope to break her.