NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chicken girl 15]

Keystone Mills that I posted about above is in Cortland.  Not far off Route 81.  That would be about 1.5 hr for you. 

I bought a couple more bags, but instead went with the middle protein option for layers which came in pellet form.  Getting only 2-3 eggs daily, even my reliable green egger has completely stopped.  But getting an occasional Spitz egg now.  The sickly-looking chicken is still hanging on, thinking it may be an injury rather than egg impaction.  Keeping her in the brooder bin in my tack room, may just cull her.  Still moving the Spitz daily from the barn rafters to the coop.  Anyone need a Spitz roo? 

sadly with all my hatching and ordering I am 7 roo too many here. I have 12 in total, 7 living in the "meat coop" out back, 1 is a bantam so him and his 2 bantam wife's live in the grow out coop (which I think holds 4 or 5 more cockerels) and my 3 lead boys run with the "ladies ". I love chicken breeding for specific traits but I will be darned if I don't end up with more testosterone in the flock than I need. It's a good thing cockerels make good soup.

 

[rancher hicks]

Egg Producer is not meant to be used as a complete feed, it is to mix with your own grains to create your own ration.

What grains would those be? Since the producer is pellets how would I mix them? Because of the molt this year, I've mixed the Producer with Feather Fixer.

 

[tao chick]

I have a Cream Brabanter rooster available for free. He's not terrible but did challenge my 8-yo and I'm not willing to work with him on manners. I'm considering soup next week. His name is Conan.

 

[tao chick]

Rats. I don't know how long they've been working on it,but as of yesterday they managed to dig through the concrete floor of my chicken coop. I did a very temporary fix yesterday that I figure is already compromised today. I'll be trying to reinforce it all today with hardware cloth, limestone slabs, and whatever else I need to do to keep them out. Jerk rats.

 

[tao chick]

sadly with all my hatching and ordering I am 7 roo too many here. I have 12 in total, 7 living in the "meat coop" out back, 1 is a bantam so him and his 2 bantam wife's live in the grow out coop (which I think holds 4 or 5 more cockerels) and my 3 lead boys run with the "ladies ". I love chicken breeding for specific traits but I will be darned if I don't end up with more testosterone in the flock than I need. It's a good thing cockerels make good soup.

Do you have any pure Brabanter or spitz/brabanters? I'd consider a cream colored roo from you in spring if he had good manners. I'll be hatching crosses in the spring then separating the Brab girls again.

 

[dcba flock]

Hi everyone I'm finally situated since relocating back to upstate NY and will hopefully be having some peeps hatching the next few days

To start my new flock

 

[boskelli1571]

Rats. I don't know how long they've been working on it,but as of yesterday they managed to dig through the concrete floor of my chicken coop. I did a very temporary fix yesterday that I figure is already compromised today. I'll be trying to reinforce it all today with hardware cloth, limestone slabs, and whatever else I need to do to keep them out. Jerk rats.

Before you completely fill the hole, drop some Tom Cat or other poison down the hole then cover up. They will likely eat the poison and it's safely underground away from livestock..

 

[rancher hicks]

Rats. I don't know how long they've been working on it,but as of yesterday they managed to dig through the concrete floor of my chicken coop. I did a very temporary fix yesterday that I figure is already compromised today. I'll be trying to reinforce it all today with hardware cloth, limestone slabs, and whatever else I need to do to keep them out. Jerk rats.

Got pics?

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Do you have any pure Brabanter or spitz/brabanters? I'd consider a cream colored roo from you in spring if he had good manners. I'll be hatching crosses in the spring then separating the Brab girls again.

I have no clue. But I can get pics once they are all older. Everyone is a possible sale bird except Girlie and my mating sets.

 

[annie511]

I'm a first time chicken owner and I have 11 pullets (about 22 wks old). A few of them are exploring the boxes and squatting for me. I wasn't going to do artificial light but I'm wondering if I should to get them started laying.

Will they start laying with the days so short without light?

These are 2 of the ones that are squatting and in and out of the boxes rolling the fake eggs around. I would appreciate some input on this from fellow NYers