NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chicken girl 15]

is that their opinion or is it in writing somewhere ..like a law or ordinance
Can you take it before the board to get a variance? if it is
Many people consider chickens pets ..not live stock ...like if it has a name it is a pet

now there is an idea. Name them all and train one on a leash. See no "livestock " just pets.

Mine are both.

 

[Gramma Chick]

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A peaked roof would be a improvement ...
No windows but it looks like air may be able to get between the slats ..maybe light can too.
I figured if someone wanted a cheap coop or ideas on what could be done ..with pallets
it looks well made ...very sturdy
then there is this other one ..it has windows - $60.00
Very open ...they must not of had predator problems ..or they did ...and that is why they are selling it
https://syracuse.craigslist.org/grd/5487569538.html

New Metal Coop $ 175.00
https://syracuse.craigslist.org/grd/5499930591.html

 

[Gramma Chick]

Who was looking for guinea fowl? Someone in Fulton has some
https://syracuse.craigslist.org/grd/5500095340.html

 

[aisored]

now there is an idea. Name them all and train one on a leash. See no "livestock " just pets.

Mine are both.

 

[aisored]

is that their opinion or is it in writing somewhere ..like a law or ordinance
Can you take it before the board to get a variance? if it is
Many people consider chickens pets ..not live stock ...like if it has a name it is a pet

I can't find it anywhere in our laws or codes however when I called thats what I was told we are going ahead this year we currently have 6 4 day old pullets

 

[Beer can]

I'm not sure what our zoning laws are but our town official drives past our farm every day and knows we sell eggs, meat and produce . So I'm assuming I'm ok.

Just 'assuming' but if your town is anything like ours, and I think it is, don't know much about your town besides when our girls softball team played your town's (I won't brag how it ended ). I always figured Harpursville being more urban, closer to Binghamton.
Town codes don't hold much water when the people that hold office are our neighbors friends and family, normal everyday people. Personal property rights mean something to us, and our elected officials are 'us'. I could if I really wanted to put a junk car in my front yard as a chicken coop tractor, and there would be no complaints. Even if there was by some better than us 'outsiders' at the town board, 'against town code' never goes anywhere. I couldn't even imagine living in a urban area, I love rural...
I think your probably safe Chicken girl 15, bet you could add goats cows and Emu's with no problems.

 

[Olderthebetter]

Do you have any pictures to wet peoples appetite ?

I have a few pics they aren't the best but from over the winter this year. I am working on getting them back outside now and will get some better pics. I don't heat the polebarn and got them to roost in a big dog house inside their pen so we managed to not have any frost damage on combs again this winter or last winter on them was happy to see. I don't keep the cuckoo rooster with the girls all the time he is too big and it gets hard on them I think. There is a black rooster too I hatched but he has some red leakage on his wings so is not good really for black project but he is gentle and very sweet so keeps order for the girls.




there is choc hen in the back... black girl on the right... single black cuana on the left was raised with that clutch so there she is with the orps.




and the big ol cuckoo rooster- he is split to choc and will make both black and choc

 

[sugarstark]

Anyone use an old pack and play for a brooder? I have an old one my mom picked up at a yard sale when my oldest was a baby that has been packed away. I have 3 small kids 4 and under, and a dog so I thought it would allow them to see them safely without having to hover over something Thoughts?

I'm honking not such a great idea as the cloth mesh will get caked with beak flicks and dust. Better off just getting some chicken wire and old crib slats or something or a spring frame

 

[Beer can]

Found how to make natural food colors, still think turmeric would work good though for yellow. I didn't see green here, but yellow and blue makes green right? 'It's sealed' Lol! Multi colored pickled eggs coming up! Not using the fruit colors for eggs, but there's others.
http://tinyurl.com/hy6kg2f

 

[Devona]

Thanks a bunch, beer can. I think I will pickle me some eggs! So the eggs absorb the flavored of whatever you add? And I suppose you throw out the liquid when you're eating the eggs? I've never pickled anything. This should be interesting.

The new coop and fence look really neat, purple tie! Do you think the slots will be enough ventilation in the summer?

Gramma, I like the coop in the first link you sent.. I would add a couple Windows though, and maybe slop the roof more. I think that's an easier roof to build, for someone like me, rather than a peaked roof. I picked up eight pallets on Friday, and I hope to go to Home Depot tomorrow to buy a thing to separate them out. I want to make a sloped roof, leaving the eaves open for ventilation, covered with hardware cloth. But I want the coop to be two story because my yard is so small, that it would be nice if every bit is utilized, and they can use the underside to shelter from the elements, but not have to be inside. So I will have to buy some cement blocks to set the four feet into. I think I have some two by four wood left over from when DH build the shed last year. There's even some rubbery shingle type things that I could use either on the roof or sides. I have two old small windows I can use also, but not sure how I'll attach them. I'm kinda excited and nervous at the same time. I love that I don't have to buy too much stuff for this. Hubby complains about my expensive hobbies. I tell him at least I don't ask him for jewelry like some of his friends wives.

And I haven't bought seed or feeders for the wild birds in a while. I want to surprise him when he gets back, so I'm not saying a word about it on the phone to him. I hope I don't have to cut any angles. That would be one crooked coop. Well as long as it's secure and comfortable, it doesn't have to be pretty. It's not like it's gonna be in my front yard. If I had a front yard

.... My aunt and uncle are visiting another aunt's house, about half an hour's drive away, and my aunt has volunteered my uncle's services to help with this project. I just have to go pick him up, and take him back. So he might have some ideas as well. His sons are construction contractors, so hopefully they got those genes from him, even though he's a farmer. Anyway, enough rambling about that.
Regarding the bloody chick poop, I didn't see very much today, and everyone is still looking and behaving 'chickenly', rushing to the fence when I approach, eating their garlicky feed, trying to steal bits of kale from each other, etc.