NY chicken lover!!!!

[RubyNala97]

I'm a newbie so I honestly don't know much at all. I just wanted to acknowledge you and say hello!  I'm sure one of the others may have some feedback when they're on. 

Thank you!! "Hello" back at ya!

Someone who ships would chime in sometime with more information...but I know that you have to have an approved poultry shipping box and I think that you will need to have the correct paperwork too. may need NPIP and I think the AI paperwork...but I'm sure that some one more knowledgeable will let you know better..

Welcome to the group

Thanks. I'm prepared for the proper box but wondering if I NEED to be NPIP?

call or go visit the post office you plan on sending from. They should be able to tell you all you need.

Will do. I read an article on byc that said to be prepared for your local post office to NOT know the laws. But they've been really good about all my shipped egg packages, I've received, so I'll give them a shot.

Welcome ...
http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm
it might not be a good time to ship with the bird flu going around ...may be extra laws because of that ..
Call your post office ...dont know the # ?
https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorAction!input.action

Thank you. Going to read the links now!

As long as they are not silkies they might learn. My TSC 'silkies' I had in a temporary coop/run this spring after they were stinking the house up and the garage was getting close to too warm during the day. I had to pick them up and put them in the coop for weeks every night before they 'got' it.
I got the giants and sussex July 2, so around middle of August? Moved 'silkies' to big coop and put the new ones in temp coop. They still won't go in the dang coop at night, pouring rain, getting cold this fall, looked like drowned dirty white mops when I get home at 10-10:30pm. Finally a couple weeks ago they started going in....they haven't the last few days

And the cockerel/rooster is the 'alpha male' right now and none of the others pick on the pullets, they all go in to lay eggs and eat, don't know what's wrong with the stupid birds? Maybe they are racist and like to stay segregated

It's been 6 months and my silkies still wait at the bottom of the ramp each night for me to pick them up and place them in the coop! Why can't they just walk into the coop by themselves!!

 

[Beer can]

It's been 6 months and my silkies still wait at the bottom of the ramp each night for me to pick them up and place them in the coop! Why can't they just walk into the coop by themselves!!

I don't even have a ramp, straight walk in. Even if they didn't roost I'd feel better (I'm sure they would also) if they would get out of the weather. They are in and out of the coop all day, but huddled in a pile outside when I get home at night....

 

[rancher hicks]

As long as they are not silkies they might learn. My TSC 'silkies' I had in a temporary coop/run this spring after they were stinking the house up and the garage was getting close to too warm during the day. I had to pick them up and put them in the coop for weeks every night before they 'got' it.
I got the giants and sussex July 2, so around middle of August? Moved 'silkies' to big coop and put the new ones in temp coop. They still won't go in the dang coop at night, pouring rain, getting cold this fall, looked like drowned dirty white mops when I get home at 10-10:30pm. Finally a couple weeks ago they started going in....they haven't the last few days

And the cockerel/rooster is the 'alpha male' right now and none of the others pick on the pullets, they all go in to lay eggs and eat, don't know what's wrong with the stupid birds? Maybe they are racist and like to stay segregated

Well for heavens sake! I keep telling everyone Silkies are aliens, but no one believes me. THEY ARE OUT TO GET US! Remember folks I warned you about the dangers of Silkies.

 

[rancher hicks]

chickens are very habitual ...they want to roost at night..
if they cant get in the coop to roost ...they will find a place they can ...like the fence .
it may be a problem ...but probably not ...just wait & see if it happens again ..

 

[akaruby]

Love the pictures! What kind of chickens are in the top picture?

I don't even have a ramp, straight walk in. Even if they didn't roost I'd feel better (I'm sure they would also) if they would get out of the weather. They are in and out of the coop all day, but huddled in a pile outside when I get home at night....

It took my silkies a long time to go in the coop. They still don't roost though. I love my silkies!

Getting some large fowl and bantam cochin, Easter eggers (Cochin rooster over EE hens) and possibly maran hatching eggs...super excited to get them. Will keep some chicks but sell others. Building a new smaller coop this week to get it all set up in plenty of time before they hatch. I have some pallets we took apart and extra hardware cloth so it will be completely repurposed...need to decide on design.

Everyone enjoy the sunshine today

 

[Gramma Chick]

Treat Advice to Everyone - I found
I admit I am guilty of more than 10 %

A rule of thumb is to not give them more than about 10%of their feed as treats--Even BOSS and etc. There is no real hard set number though. Just give them a bit once a day. If you do not have a lot of chickens, then your kitchen waste would be too much for them.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Rancher -Not Yours ..Right ?

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Treat Advice to Everyone - I found
I admit I am guilty of more than 10 %

A rule of thumb is to not give them more than about 10%of their feed as treats--Even BOSS and etc. There is no real hard set number though. Just give them a bit once a day. If you do not have a lot of chickens, then your kitchen waste would be too much for them.

My recent version of chicken treats has been to wet a few cups of their crumble, mix in a cup or so of scratch grains and grate in a carrot or zucchini or apple and add a handful of oyster shells. One of my favorite parts of having chickens is when they all come running at treat time, so I had to come up w something kinda healthy. And they're pretty happy about the wet crumbles. Thinking I will add soaked alfalfa pellets to the mix when it gets cold as that's supposed to be a warming food.

 

[HISIRISHGEM]

Um, if my girls go up the tree's, they're on their own!

 

[HISIRISHGEM]

Funny story: After work yesterday I took my soon to be 3-year-old daughter, ran to my mom's to pick up veggies (we split a CSA share), and then went to the Tully Village office to vote. We just bought our house in the village in February, and are new to this area. So, since it was my first time voting and I'm a wreck, I had no idea what district I was. So I walk up to the table, cute kid in my arms, and of course all of the elderly ladies working were more than pleased to see us, and help us figure out where we were.
When they asked me where I lived one of them jumped in and said she was just a block away from us. So I proceeded to explain which house was mine, and she said, "Oh, the little white one on the corner with chickens!" She and the other ladies sort of exchanged glances.... haha, I guess being the only (the I've seen) chicken keeper in the village has given me a reputation.
Well, that and being the crazy lady that glares and yells at all the jerks flying through the three-way-stop at our corner lot.

We go through Tully a lot. My husbands parents live in Cortland. Welcome to New York! Where did you move from?