NY chicken lover!!!!

[Pyxis]

Hi everyone! Hope all is well! I was wondering if anyone would be interested in some Ancona/Rouen ducklings. My Ancona hatched a clutch of 16 eggs! They're only 2 weeks old right now, and I think I'm going to start selling them around 4 weeks old. They're located in Putnam Valley NY (zip code is 10579). Thanks!

Very cute! If my pekin succeeds at hatching, I'll have a bunch of pekin/welsh harlequin crosses I'll have to find homes for. I'll probably keep a girl or two though because with that cross I'm betting they'll be fantastic layers.

How likely is it to be able to tell the sex of a bantam silver laced Cochin/sizzle at 5 weeks seems very henish to me but maybe that is me just hoping lol, out of the 4 millies (6 1/2ish weeks) I am pretty positive it is 2 and 2

My large fowl cochin boys already started turning red and developing some comb and wattles at about four weeks while the pullets were still combless and pink, so I think at this point if she's still looking girly, there's a good chance she's a pullet

 

[Gramma Chick]

While I'm waiting for hatch days (which start Wednesday) I might need to sell chicks before Chicken Stock. I have seen a variety of prices for chicks depending on breed. I value your opinions, so what do you consider fair price for day-olds?

my opinion - Mixed Breeds - $ 2.00 , full Breeds - $ 3.00 - 5.00 , do a discount if they want more .
More if they are older & you have fed them for a while

 

[Pyxis]

While I'm waiting for hatch days (which start Wednesday) I might need to sell chicks before Chicken Stock. I have seen a variety of prices for chicks depending on breed. I value your opinions, so what do you consider fair price for day-olds?

my opinion  - Mixed Breeds - $ 2.00 , full Breeds - $ 3.00 - 5.00 , do a discount if they want more .
More if they are older & you have fed them for a while

I agree with this for hatchery stock chicks, and if you have some really nice show quality chicks you can charge more. People will usually pay up to $10 for a day old chick from a nice show line, and of course people will pay me up to $200 for a perfect cemani chick, as that is what the current going rate is on those. I paid $6 for my LF cochin chicks at the NH chickenstock and I was happy to pay it They are gorgeous now - I should get some pictures actually for photo Friday.

By they way Gramma, loved your pictures, especially the deer! We have one doe who's always in our yard eating the apples that fall off our tree every summer with two fawns.

 

[Gramma Chick]

I get local raw honey all the time and I've never saw that. Honey is supposed to stay good for centuries isn't it? I've had it crystallize, and just put the jar under hot tap water and it returned to normal. And we always keep ours on the counter, not cool.

the counter is cooler than the microwave top ...where I had it ..LOL...
Quote: From what I have read, the honey must have a high water content.
high water content. - than 18 % , open , warm - the microwave top ...where I had it ..was perfect to ferment it I guess ...LOL...

 

[bakingintherain]

Very cute! If my pekin succeeds at hatching, I'll have a bunch of pekin/welsh harlequin crosses I'll have to find homes for. I'll probably keep a girl or two though because with that cross I'm betting they'll be fantastic layers.
My large fowl cochin boys already started turning red and developing some comb and wattles at about four weeks while the pullets were still combless and pink, so I think at this point if she's still looking girly, there's a good chance she's a pullet

I will post a pic later and I may be interested in a few ducklings if you have excess

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Evening all. Good News! I got the job! So happy to be full time again and the pay cut was only a little. Includes benefits too. Just finished writing my resignation letter. Always a good idea to part on good terms just in case. Only have this coming week to work then vacation then starting my new job. When one door closes, another one opens.

I have a friend coming to take 7 of the older hens tonight. 5 barred rocks and 2 sexlinks. She needed some new layers as hers are pretty old and dont lay hardly at all. I get the satisfaction of having my girls go to a forever home instead of having to process them to make room for their daughters. I didnt charge her much for them as they dont have a lot of money. Its a win win for all involved.

Since I emptied my honey jars some they are fine. Just crystalizing is all. Tastes yummy.

Have to bath in deet tonight to round up the ladies for their new home. Darn mosquitoes just wait for me to poke my nose out the door. Im tired of being an all you can eat buffet for them!

Later all!

 

[Pyxis]

Photo Friday (a day late)! Got some stuff done today - got the big chicks moved out of my workshop into pens in the coops - Scotch is a big boy now (he wouldn't let me get a clear picture, brat) so he, my two CCL pullets, and my two WH ducklings went to live in a pen in the cemani coop, which is where they will all permanently live. I got some pictures of the ducklings' first swim, since I couldn't let them swim in the workshop.

Here are the two buff 'goslings' - hard to get a good picture since they're still skittish of me, but they're coming around and are already better today than yesterday.

They follow Lacie around at a bit of a distance since they aren't 100% sure of her yet.

She seems to be okay with them.

She doesn't seem to mind them tagging along after her, which is different from her behavior with other birds - she gets scared and runs if a duck tries to follow her and turns around and tells a chicken to get lost if one of them tries to follow her. With them she just lets them follow. She already talked to them in goose language a couple of times and had them understand and reply, something that's never happened for her before, so I bet she's happy about that. But of course, she still has to run and see me and 'help' with the photography when I'm in the yard.

 

[Pyxis]

Oh, and I did get some pictures of some chickens, too, lol.

Tesoro is growing into a very handsome boy:

One of my GFF cemani pullets wanting to know just what the heck the black clicky box was:

And one of my frizzle chicks with its mother at the feeder. That black leg and blue body in the background belong to my cemani NN rooster. He's a keeper for sure - he follows Green and the chicks around all day making sure they're safe, showing food to the babies, and if one wanders off from mom he follows after it to make sure it stays safe. A very good boy.

Okay, I'm done drowning everyone in pictures, lol. Pharm, congrats on the new job! Bakin, if I have extra ducklings they're all yours

 

[Metella]

Loved the pics .... Tesoro is growing up as handsome as I figured !

Picture Friday ( a day late ) Her is just a random picture ......


I helped to transport this stallion to a parade 4-5 years ago - lovely fellow !

 

[tao chick]

Thanks for the input on pricing chicks. I am hoping to get a good hatch. I'm hoping to post new fluffy chicks for photo Friday next week.