NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

Ate our own tonight, roasted sussex and potatoes carrots onions cabbage....Big feed savings, culled three sussex cockerels and two white giant pullets, all non breedable, forgot how much work that is, got to get quicker, took three hours...More room in the coops, should have done more, left a giant cockerel and one pullet, and just couldn't decide on the single langshan, think it is a cockerel, not sure, just to darn purty to eat right now....

it is work I hate to do ...

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: Vernon. older pullets up to 2 years.

Do you have any pictures ?
How much would 3 hens cost ?

 

[shodack]

My husband is wondering how to find someone in our area (tully) who processes chickens. Says it's too much work for him.

 

[tao chick]

My husband is wondering how to find someone in our area (tully) who processes chickens. Says it's too much work for him.

I haven't had any luck. (Herkimer Utica) I think The one place that does it only does it occasionally and might not do it again until Spring.

 

[rancher hicks]

My husband is wondering how to find someone in our area (tully) who processes chickens. Says it's too much work for him.

I haven't had any luck. (Herkimer Utica) I think The one place that does it only does it occasionally and might not do it again until Spring.

I have the email for someone in the Central/Constantia area. Though I've only used her once. There are others. You might try CL.

I had considered building a set up just for that purpose using a Hoop House but we're not rural enough. With a set up it should go faster I would think. When most of the work is just setting up and getting things together. I suppose used pots and coolers and sink what not would defray the cost of having a designated set up. Gander Mountain has those two burner propane stoves cheaply enough. Sink/garden hose hookups are easy too.

 

[Gramma Chick]

My husband is wondering how to find someone in our area (tully) who processes chickens. Says it's too much work for him.

Off Facebook - All about Chickens and Ducks /upstate N.Y.
TURKEYS , CHICKENS AND RABBITS PROCESSED IN A CLEAN INDOOR FACILITY COOLED AND SHRINK WRAPPED IN (FRESH STYLE BAGS) REFERENCES AVAILABLE PULASKI, NY CELL 315-706-9024 KLUCK-N-HENS POULTRY FARM OPENED YEAR ROUND.

Carl Sampson 315 298 7246 chicken shrink wrapped and cooled ready for freezer $ 4.50 each.<- I think this is your chicken
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010553371413&fref=nf

 

[Pyxis]

What a couple of days over here. First I lost an ayam cemani hen for reasons unknown. She had managed to lose her leg band so now I'm going to have upset everyone and check theirs to see who's accounted for. And today Pepper, my oldest hen, given to me by Bakingintherain years ago when she already two, somehow managed to hang herself up over my fence by her leg. She was tangled in a piece of string that I don't know where she picked up. She could have been hanging there for hours. She's now hobbling around. I don't know if she just sprained it pretty good, cut blood flow off to it, or dislocated it but she can move her toes so I don't think it's dislocation. So now I have to watch that to see if she heals up.

 

[Purpletie3]

What a couple of days over here. First I lost an ayam cemani hen for reasons unknown. She had managed to lose her leg band so now I'm going to have upset everyone and check theirs to see who's accounted for. And today Pepper, my oldest hen, given to me by Bakingintherain years ago when she already two, somehow managed to hang herself up over my fence by her leg. She was tangled in a piece of string that I don't know where she picked up. She could have been hanging there for hours. She's now hobbling around. I don't know if she just sprained it pretty good, cut blood flow off to it, or dislocated it but she can move her toes so I don't think it's dislocation. So now I have to watch that to see if she heals up.

I hope your hen's leg is okay and sorry about your Cemani hen too...

 

[Purpletie3]

Off Facebook - All about Chickens and Ducks /upstate N.Y.
TURKEYS , CHICKENS AND RABBITS PROCESSED IN A CLEAN INDOOR FACILITY COOLED AND SHRINK WRAPPED IN (FRESH STYLE BAGS) REFERENCES AVAILABLE PULASKI, NY CELL 315-706-9024 KLUCK-N-HENS POULTRY FARM OPENED YEAR ROUND.

Carl Sampson 315 298 7246 chicken shrink wrapped and cooled ready for freezer $ 4.50 each.<- I think this is your chicken
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010553371413&fref=nf

If anyone knows of someone this side of town I would be interested too. I really need to pare down my roosters. I have about 50 or so and I would like to get down to about 25 or so. It's going to be hard tho...
Pulaski is about a 2 hour drive for me.

 

[rancher hicks]

What a couple of days over here. First I lost an ayam cemani hen for reasons unknown. She had managed to lose her leg band so now I'm going to have upset everyone and check theirs to see who's accounted for. And today Pepper, my oldest hen, given to me by Bakingintherain years ago when she already two, somehow managed to hang herself up over my fence by her leg. She was tangled in a piece of string that I don't know where she picked up. She could have been hanging there for hours. She's now hobbling around. I don't know if she just sprained it pretty good, cut blood flow off to it, or dislocated it but she can move her toes so I don't think it's dislocation. So now I have to watch that to see if she heals up.

I am sorry for your loss. Folks fret and all but sometimes birds just give up the ghost. My B. Marans rooster was the same. Fine 20 minutes before but dead the next. We don't read about these things in the books or we might not have gotten into this hobby to begin with.

I too found a bird hanging once. They recovered after some rest.

If anyone knows of someone this side of town I would be interested too. I really need to pare down my roosters. I have about 50 or so and I would like to get down to about 25 or so. It's going to be hard tho...
Pulaski is about a 2 hour drive for me.

I had talked with a girl who came for some birds a while ago about helping them process next year so I could learn. I'm tired of giving away roosters. Perhaps you can find someone nearby who wants to learn and have them help you. If this is going to be something you'll do on a regular basis it might be worth putting together a "drill plucker" thing. You can find a video on Youtube. Even if it cost you the $2.50 per bird I paid that's a lot of money.