NY chicken lover!!!!

[marquisella]

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Its easy, you clean up your bird, I don't wash them, just wipe off the legs & feet, put some petrolium jelly on their combs & wattles, put them in the cage, and its done.

Thats all. Unless your birds are covered in mud,,,then you have to wash them,but as long as they don't have bugs, and the feathers feel clean & shiny, that is all there is to it. Of course, they have to be in good weight, and not have any feathers missing.

Sue

Washing would be a must for my whites....right now they look like they have been swimming in mud puddles.....sunbathing in the mud

Yes, white birds you have to wash, that is why I don't have any...

 

[tgrlily]

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I'm planning on showing, so that would make 3!

The white & light birds I bathe... everyone else just gets pedi's, beaks filed & polished. The silkies get the full day of beauty -- shampood twice, pedi, beak & full blow-dry. Fortunately, they seem to like it!

 

[rancher hicks]

I hate to upset everyone but the TSC has chicks and ducks. They also have Lavender Orpingtons. Said they got them from someone in PA.


Take care

Rancher

 

[happyhensny]

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Ours was supposed to get chicks in on Monday-still nothing. This is crazy. Like I need more, we have 50 or so. Well, then there are the little banties, oh, and the quail. And the 65 eggs in the bator. And participating in the March swap and the Easter hatch.

I still could use a few more...

 

[tgrlily]

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What?? I'm heading over right now! They weren't supposed to get anything till next week.

 

[marquisella]

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What?? I'm heading over right now! They weren't supposed to get anything till next week.

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I called the Oneida tsc and they don't have any, yet. He said middle of next week, and don't have lav orps on his list. He was actually angry that the syracuse store got them already!

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

I called utica, rome, and oneida TSC yesterday. Utica said they would have them on Monday. Oneida and Rome said sometime next week.
I think it's great that syracuse has their chicks already being that the TSC website advertises chick days from March 4 to May 4.

 

[tgrlily]

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What?? I'm heading over right now! They weren't supposed to get anything till next week.

i
I called the Oneida tsc and they don't have any, yet. He said middle of next week, and don't have lav orps on his list. He was actually angry that the syracuse store got them already!

NOT NICE.....
They have nothing but clean brooders. No chicks expected till next week @ the Dewitt store. Called the Clay store & they're also not expecting any till next week.

I have worked my TAIL off to get my Lavender Orpingtons where they are & this last cross will make them TRUE orpingtons & no longer in the project phase. That's why I got upset that someone on the next block was getting them too... without doing any of the work. And if TSC does get them, I'll flip out!

 

[chicken stalker]

Sent my DH to tax to pick up feed. I usually do it during my lunch but if chicks are there I may not come back to work.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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So cool!

And that goat looks enormous!