NY chicken lover!!!!

[marquisella]

With the molting and combining all the youngsters into the coop, as well as I will be away in late October and early November, I have brought back the large feeder to be in the coop. I still feed in the yard, but not as much. The feed I use is the feed for meat birds, it is cheaper than Flock Raiser a d has the same ingredients for less. Only getting two eggs somedays, and found that they are laying behind the nest boxes...sneaky girls. As soon as they stop molting, I will hook up the rope lights. As they need a certain number of hour of light to make eggs, I'll set up the timer and we'll start getting more eggs. While they molt I won't add the light, they need to put their energy into making feathers, then they can switch to egg production. I believe Marquisella said 13 was the minimum hours of light for good egg production.

At least 13, I do 15. That more closely mimics summer hours.

Talk about molting....its been going on here for 2 months and still not finished....sigh. Only birds laying are the Silkies, Brabanters and 1 Marans. Oops, I lied, found 1 Sussex egg today. They are molting the worse, white feathers all over the place!

Speaking of Sussex, I have some Coronations available. Both sexes. I hatched out a lot so I would have good choices and am overun with them!

 

[DeansMill]

No, she wasn't extra... I got the number that I ordered and I ordered all pullets except my one Delaware roo.

 

[DeansMill]

Thanks gramma chick!! I remember you too...

 

[cracrzy4chicks]

Help !! I have a singleton chick................. hatched Tues. anybody have chicks a week or less old ? The little bugger needs company ! NO silkies please !

 

[Purpletie3]

Help !! I have a singleton chick................. hatched Tues. anybody have chicks a week or less old ? The little bugger needs company ! NO silkies please !

Mine are all over a week. What kind of a chick did you hatch...I do have smallish chicks of the honas. I have some due tomorrow but I am seeing no action out of them.

 

[DeansMill]

Mine were hatched the 21st, so they are 9 days old... where are you?

 

[cracrzy4chicks]

Mine are all over a week. What kind of a chick did you hatch...I do have smallish chicks of the honas. I have some due tomorrow but I am seeing no action out of them.

It's a Dark Cornish

Mine were hatched the 21st, so they are 9 days old... where are you?

I'm in Westernville............almost to Boonville


I think I may have found a couple chicks close by. I'll keep you all posted !

 

[Purpletie3]

It's a Dark Cornish

I'm in Westernville............almost to Boonville


I think I may have found a couple chicks close by. I'll keep you all posted !

ok- I am down in Fenner- outside of Cazenovia.

 

[rancher hicks]

I got my DBA at the County Clerk's Office.I also have insurance that costs more than what I make in a year. I have my NPIP also from the State. Maybe check with the local Cornell Cooperative Extension in your area. Eggs sell for $3.50 dozen. I am priced on the lower side of the gammut....with $5.50 being asked around the corner for a RIR laying flock...My eggs are that of an Easter Basket...blue, green, green speckles, olive,tan, brown, pink, creme and I may even have a close to white layer.

DBA? Insurance? NPIP? Is all this stuff expensive? Why do you need it? I've heard of NPIP but never looked into it.

 

[Purpletie3]

DBA? Insurance? NPIP? Is all this stuff expensive? Why do you need it? I've heard of NPIP but never looked into it.

I started a small farm with a roadside stand. The DBA was under $40, the insurance is $500+ and the poultry license was free. Just more NYS hoops as far as I am concerned but i run things as a business.Knowing my luck someone would twist their ankle on my stand or say my green eggs made them sick...just CYA