NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

I realize there is a thread for selling hatching eggs but I'd like to keep things local so how can we fix it so anyone here selling or trading for eggs only for us NY'ers?

As you know I have my incu up and running, but I'd like to know who has what and where here in NY.

I sold some Birchen Marans to someone up in Fulton or Oswego but have not heard from them since. I know they have or had a rooster.

Still I'd like to know what's out there.

IF I need eggs for hatching I can send you and empty styro container with bubble wrap.

 

[boskelli1571]

I just get a little creeped out about the idea of farming worms in my house. If they're clean & not too smelly I can handle it, but if they're gross & nasty, not so much. Suppose smelly can be relative. Day old chicks are not smelly at first, but 3 week old chicks, still being brood inside can get a little stinky. 4+ week old goslings or ducklings better be outside or able to go outside very soon due to the stink factor per my nose. It's all relative tho I suppose.

@boskelli thank you so much for the links!! I will try the mealworms if I can make a setup in the basement that is warm enough. If it gets smelly or gross, tho I'm out.

Hahaha! It won't get smelly or yucky! (unless you lean in very, very close) - Just don't get the substrate damp or it will mold.

 

[Stuffedcritter]

Has anybody heard or used scalded milk and bread poultice? Draws out infection helps wounds heal. WWoofing people come to your farm / homestead work for free in trade you teach them how to farm.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Has anybody heard or used scalded milk and bread poultice? Draws out infection helps wounds heal. WWoofing people come to your farm / homestead work for free in trade you teach them how to farm.

My husband get ingrown toenails a few times year and he uses it on his toes. He says it works. I haven't had anything to try it on to see for myself.


This is my 900th post?

Didn't think that I have posted that much

 

[nyrunner]

Does anyone near Albany NY have any cream legbar hens available

 

[horsekeeper]

Does anyone near Albany NY have any cream legbar hens available

This is listed on Facebook, Northeast Poultry & Waterfowl Breeders. Not me, but someone I met at a swap.



Missy Eck

October 7 at 7:35pm
Legbar chickens
$25 — Albany NY can meet up somewhere
I have 2 roosters and 9 hens for sale. They are legbars chickens which lay blue eggs and when you hatch out the eggs, they are sex linked so you can right at hatch if they are roosters or hens. they are 5 almost 6 months old and will be laying soon. Hens are $25 each and roosters are $15 each. I will do deals for two groups with a rooster or the whole group but one rooster must go with the hens. Or you can just buy the hens for $25 each. I have more pics of them, just hard to get them all in one pic lol!

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[nyrunner]

Thank you for that

 

[Gramma Chick]

I wouldnt want one either ..kind of ugly ...I.just thought it was interesting

I made the mistake of selling my Cuckoo Marans roo and he was very large too.
I have a mixed breed cuckoo Maran Roo from Tab ...Bobby if you are interested





and " there is another "


un named - He has stripes now

 

[shodack]

Hi fellow NYers!
This will be my first winter with chickens, so I'm starting to think about keeping them happy and healthy over a CNY winter... I'd like to knit them all little hats and sweaters, frankly!

I'm planning to use heated dishes to keep their water and fermented food thawed, but am wondering if I should keep them right in the coop (I use pine shavings in there). Seems dangerous. The coop is on stilts, so my husband and I were discussing putting up three "walls" and keeping the food and water dishes under the coop to avoid having heating elements in bedding. Thoughts?

Also, do you open the coop and let your girls out every single day? Even below zero degrees?
Do you open the coop to collect eggs every day when it's bitterly cold, or avoid opening it up on the coldest days?

 

[Glasshen]

Shodack, good questions. I too use a heated bowl for their water, and having it right in the bedding bothered mee too. Also the bedding ends up in the water, so I have a platform to bring it above the bedding. Anything would do, have used a couple of concrete blocks in the past, but currently using a pile of tiles that were left over from a project. The cord is secured to the wall so it is not snaking around in the fluff.
I do almost always give them an opportunity to come out in the winter, I open the door and shovel some space or trails for them. It they seem more likely to come out if some shavings or other stuff is sprinkled on the snow. We on the thread have speculated that they may not be able to see well with all the snow...
Your idea of feeding them below the coop sounds good, but the snow could build up there too, but it would give them a reason to come out each day.