NY chicken lover!!!!

[Beer can]

I'd take a picture of mine but it is currently pouring rain here all morning so far :-(

 

[Stuffedcritter]

New to chickens in Herkimer County, NY. I have 7 11-week old chicks and 4 2-week old chicks, all barnyard mixes. I have to separate the cockerels soon from the older batch. I'm moving 3 of the 4 cockerels to a separate pen. The rain is preventing the construction of the other coop. This has been a wonderful experience for my kids so far, but we haven't gotten to the egg-laying or processing part.

I grew up in Pains Hollow and Jordanville now I'am in Canajoharie. Hekimer got hammered Saturday by the rain stopped at Walmart for an oil change on are way to Sodus Bay ( you pick strawberries are only $2.00 there) Strawberry pepper jam is my new fav. just add a pinch fresh cracked pepper to jam jars cut it in when doing the air thing.

Broody hen has kicked three out of 18 eggs, been setting for about a week force her to get off the nest once a day to eat and drink. Should I water float the eggs at this point?

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

I grew up in Pains Hollow and Jordanville now I'am in Canajoharie. Hekimer got hammered Saturday by the rain stopped at Walmart for an oil change on are way to Sodus Bay ( you pick strawberries are only $2.00 there) Strawberry pepper jam is my new fav. just add a pinch fresh cracked pepper to jam jars cut it in when doing the air thing.

Broody hen has kicked three out of 18 eggs, been setting for about a week force her to get off the nest once a day to eat and drink. Should I water float the eggs at this point?

if they are only a week along I don't think that there would be any movement big enough for the egg to wiggle in the water. I would wait till they are at least 2+ weeks along. I would candle them to see if there is any movement in them.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Lady Hawke and luv...get some rest and feel better. Try drinking a cup of hot water with half a lemon squeezed in it several times a day. I find it helps a lot when you are feeling tired and poorly. Peppermint is good for breathing issues and asthma, as well as stomach aches.

I have some nice yummy lemon tea that I have been drinking...along with some coffee. The hot drinks I feel help with breaking up the crap in my chest...at least I think that it helps. I like Vicks too! I slather myself up at night. My bedroom smells like a eucalyptus forest. I feel a little better today, but no where near 100%. I have so much to do, but between feeling like crap and the weather being crap not much is getting done.. When is this rain going to stop. really need a week of dry weather to dry up things around here...You would think that they could find a way to transport some of this rain to the West coast where they need it.

 

[Beer can]

Just checked out our rainfall for the month so far, 8.5". Still raining and the month isn't over, quite yet. We avg this month 4-5". Florida avg rainfall during rainy season is around 7.5".

 

[Chicken girl 15]

This rain has to give!!! My poor girls want to clear the bugs out of the yard but won't get out from under the coop. They haven't been to my garden in 2 days.

 

[Pyxis]

Well this is strange. Hershey, my welsh harlequin drake, and his pekin girlfriend vanished when I went to the store - but now there are two pekins, one of whom is maybe his girlfriend, the other is a drake, and a young khaki campbell out there. Bizarre. I'm hoping he shows back up and is just on a jaunt with his girlfriend somewhere or something, but where the heck did the other three ducks come from?

 

[rancher hicks]

I hear you! I tried to get some rhubarb going here and it never took off. I am going to have to try again, since I'd really like to have some growing!

I have it in raised beds. It does help.

 

[rancher hicks]

My friend has a patch that is amazing, mine has been trying to grow for a few years and doesn't really do much

I try planting in different locations.

 

[tao chick]

Stuffedcritter: I live in Ilion. My trip to TSC in Herkimer today was wet. I can't finish my seclusion coop until this wet weather subsides. Hopefully later this week.