NY chicken lover!!!!

[happyhensny]

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Welcome! When are your eggs due to hatch?

 

[countryangel3182]

I am from Berlin, NY anyone near me?

 

[critterranch]

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where is berlin?

i'm in wayne county.

 

[Cydney83]

Welcome everyone! Berlin is that near Norwich?...I am in Vernon....good luck and enjoy!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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We call that a "Day of Beauty" at the salon. All I need is a massage therapist to come over & they'd have the full service.

I know exactly what to shampoo the white birds with to make them ultra-white... because I'm a colorist. Who knew being a colorist would be a good skill to have with chickens?!?

Meagan --- what kind of mixed color is your Hat trick silkie? I have a few of Nikki's chicks growing out right now.

I honestly don't know. This picture is lousy...he is flippin' handsome in person.

 

[Fyrekitten]

Welcome new Forum Members! Nice to always have more NY'ers

Yes, Laurie does combine shipping. When I buy her eggs I usually try to buy within the same auction time frame - about the same day or a day or so apart. I also email her and ask her if it is possible to combine shipping. She usually does. For instance, I bought three different ebay auctions from her (the ones I mentioned in earlier posts) She combined shipping and the fifteen eggs (I got four of each and she threw in an extra of each auction I won) and due to distance and all it came out to $14.00 rather than the $10.00 each auction I think it is. The last Silkies I hatched from her were amazing! I'm keeping these ones if they hatch - my husband just doesn't know it yet.

I am starting to decide who is going with me in the move to NC or GA when it happens (please dear Lord let it happen...

) I have already decided on the Silkies, Cochins, Sivler Seabrights, SSH, and a couple of others. It is going to be hilarious! My Mom was in horror and making fun of me if I took some chickens down with us.

BTW, I think one of my Barreds is either going Broody or already is. I have to go out and check later today. There was a commotion in the one chicken houses and pen with alot of cackling that wouldn't stop. I went out and opened up the doors to the one big House and there was a hen on the nest arranging eggs, crooning to herself and giving her other two sisters stink eye and growling

. The others kept trying to get near and she was having none of it so I rearragned two of the other nesting boxes but I don't think they ever laid in them. When I tried to check out how many eggs were under her she tried to bite me - of course there were more eggs than hers in there so I slipped another one I had found under her. She came out for a bit did the worried hen noises and then went back in to check the nest. This afternoon no one was on it but the eggs were still warm which meant someone had been sitting on them for the last couple of hours.

Thank goodness if they are getting that way - my other fifty eggs showed up today and I just don't want to put any more than the twenty BR eggs in the brooder than there already is

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Hope everyone is having a great day!

 

[Fyrekitten]

That is a great looking boy there!

 

[marquisella]

Questions for all you NY silkie breeders. Do you keep them in cages?

I'm tempted to get some, but frankly don't do the banty thing, except for my grandsons banty partridge Wyandottes, by the way, anyone need eggs? Even those I don't like to cage up.

Also, what accepted varieties are there....I like multi colored.

I have black copper & copper blue Marans, blue Wheaten Ameraucanas, and blue laced Red Wyandottes, for trade. eggs or chicks....and maybe later on, Silver laced Wyandotte eggs.

I know I"m going to regret this.....LOL

Sue

 

[marquisella]

Mark on your calendar the Fingerlakes Feather Club's swap meet on May 7th. I've had lots of calls about it, so there should be quite a few people selling stock, equipment, whatever.

For details, look on the byc chickenstock thread for more info. or email me.

Sue

 

[Cass]

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