NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

Last day of CM sale on shavings. $3.99. I stock up. Though I think my past purchase may be damp due to the plastic wrap and hot sun, since they're stored under a tarp.

How do you store your shavings?

 

[shodack]

Not that I should even be looking on CL But just saw someone in Hannibal, NY offering 10 hens and a rooster free...

 

[boskelli1571]

Not that I should even be looking on CL But just saw someone in Hannibal, NY offering 10 hens and a rooster free...

So.........what's wrong with them I wonder??
Yes - Chickenstock is great fun. A day to meet people you only chat with, buy birds, plants etc., good food, did I mention buying birds, rabbits etc.?

 

[rancher hicks]

Not that I should even be looking on CL But just saw someone in Hannibal, NY offering 10 hens and a rooster free...

Well run right up there adn get them.

So.........what's wrong with them I wonder??
Yes - Chickenstock is great fun. A day to meet people you only chat with, buy birds, plants etc., good food, did I mention buying birds, rabbits etc.?

Iv'e gvien away birds. I gave a way SLW's , GLWS's and Aussies simpley because they didn't get along with the others. So you never knows.

My neighbor down thne road is selling the house and I wonder what happened to his birds.

The lowered the price too. $130K. I know it's got about three acres some wooded. There is a cabin on the creek way back too.

6499 Fremont Rd. I think. They do own a smaller parcel 6491

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

The last hatch of the year hatched. One chick hatched Friday and the second hatched yesterday. They are almost exactly 24 hours apart..I swear they are both boys

And now I have put the older on in "Chick Jail" I have a basket that I put in the brooder to keep them apart, but they can both see each other fine. I put it so that the chick can be under the light at one end and out of the light at the other end. The older one pecks the heck out of the younger one. I don't know why it goes after the other one. I keep trying to put them together, but as soon as I put the older on in the main area it goes right after the other chick..Now before anyone says anything I know that they are establishing pecking order, but the last time I put them together I sat there for 5 minute and the older one wouldn't give up. If it keeps going the way that it is it will draw blood. I have never had this problem with chicks before so this is a new situation.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

The last hatch of the year hatched. One chick hatched Friday and the second hatched yesterday. They are almost exactly 24 hours apart..I swear they are both boys   And now I have put the older on in "Chick Jail" I have a basket that I put in the brooder to keep them apart, but they can both see each other fine. I put it so that the chick can be under the light at one end and out of the light at the other end. The older one pecks the heck out of the younger one. I don't know why it goes after the other one. I keep trying to put them together, but as soon as I put the older on in the main area it goes right after the other chick..Now before anyone says anything I know that they are establishing pecking order, but the last time I put them together I sat there for 5 minute and the older one wouldn't give up. If it keeps going the way that it is it will draw blood. I have never had this problem with chicks before so this is a new situation.

Congrats on ur hatch! That behavior does seem like very strange. Hope they are able to work out their differences w/o any blood involved. Good luck.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Put together a couple new feeders today. $30 of supplies & 1 hour from first cut to mounted in the chx house. Ideas straight from BYC

The feeders are narrow & run along the edge of the pen, out of poop range & hopefully the edges of the trough are high enough so they can't scratch & spead the feed all over. My birds have been wasting lots of feed as they spead it everywhere. We'll see if the new feeders get used and how well they actually work tho.

 

[rancher hicks]

The last hatch of the year hatched. One chick hatched Friday and the second hatched yesterday. They are almost exactly 24 hours apart..I swear they are both boys

And now I have put the older on in "Chick Jail" I have a basket that I put in the brooder to keep them apart, but they can both see each other fine. I put it so that the chick can be under the light at one end and out of the light at the other end. The older one pecks the heck out of the younger one. I don't know why it goes after the other one. I keep trying to put them together, but as soon as I put the older on in the main area it goes right after the other chick..Now before anyone says anything I know that they are establishing pecking order, but the last time I put them together I sat there for 5 minute and the older one wouldn't give up. If it keeps going the way that it is it will draw blood. I have never had this problem with chicks before so this is a new situation.

congrats on your hatch. Is that two for two? As for them being a day apart that should'nt be a problem . I've had chicks two days apart and they've done fine.

Put together a couple new feeders today. $30 of supplies & 1 hour from first cut to mounted in the chx house. Ideas straight from BYC

The feeders are narrow & run along the edge of the pen, out of poop range & hopefully the edges of the trough are high enough so they can't scratch & spead the feed all over. My birds have been wasting lots of feed as they spead it everywhere. We'll see if the new feeders get used and how well they actually work tho.

Are you using crumbles? I like pellets but the starter has to be crumbles. This past time I had a starter that looked more like pellets. I did buy another bag of medicated purina and that is more to their size.

I've had two coops on the Dumor Starter but I've been adding water to make it mushy. They still eat it but can't scratch it out. I use those black tubs. I do like your feeders though. Do they hold more than the hanign feeders? I've had trouble with squirrels so I sometimes hang the feeders up high at night.

I had been using feed from Runnings. Layer but 16 % protein. However I've had more birds molt this year than every before. I'm switching back to Agway "egg producer" It's 21% protein. It's $2 more than the Runnings brand but my birds seem to do better making it worth the extra $2.

Runnings did have the feed on sale for $10.90 or thereabouts.

One things I don't like about Agway is I get it at CM and they have to order it for me, so I have to plan ahead.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

We have tried several brands, sizes and protien levels for our flock . So far the one we keep going back to is the Blue Seal all flock pellet a tan and purple bag. Everything else they slow on laying and get all weird. I took my hanging type feeder and put it into a black pig feed pan from TSC. They still scratch and try to make a mess but the pig pan catches 99% of it.

I have also decided to get EE's, lavender orpington, and olive Eggers come spring along with whatever interesting yall have at affordable prices. I would prefer to get them all from BYC members if possible.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

congrats on your hatch. Is that two for two? As for them being a day apart that should'nt be a problem . I've had chicks two days apart and they've done fine.

No I started out with 7. 2 never developed 1 quit around day 15ish. Went into lockdown with 4 eggs. 2 hatched, 1 started to hatch and then quit, the 4th didn't hatch and looked like it quit at about day 19ish. I have had them hatch up to 3 days apart and they were fine. Not sure why the older one picks on the other one so bad..I was worried that they weren't fertile at all so I was happy with 2, just wish that they are pullets, but I have a sneaky feeling that they aren't