NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cass]

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Wonderful story. I won't put my chicks out til I have a safe place for them since I can't stand to have any of them die. (Which is way funny when you consider I only wanted 6 to begin with and now have WAY more than that)

I am so glad little Cinco returned unharmed.

Is there space under one of your coops? Some of my juvies used to hide under mine (until they got to big for the space) when they thought I was putting them to bed to early. Silly things can't read a weather report I guess. I only put them in early when it is gonna rain and I don't want to be out in the rain rounding them up.

 

[In His Service]

There is a very small space under one coop, we looked under with flashlights, maybe they were able to hide in a corner since they are black. But...we can't understand why they did not come out sooner. Every day we were out with the chickens free ranging. Oh, well, what matters is that they are safe and sound now.

Also, broody momma #2 has hatched her eggs...3 healthy chicks. 2 of her own, and one BO. Broody momma #3 has another 5 - 7 days. Chick city here

 

[Cass]

EGG!!! After over 2 weeks I got an egg today. Of course it was in the nest box of the broody hen and I only pick her up once a day....so I JUST found it.

The rain stopped for a while and I found an egg so the day is looking up. (of course it is 3/4 over....but it is looking up)

 

[featherz]

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Woohoo! Go chickies go!!

Any pips yet on those other eggs?

I thought my leghorns were holding out on me last week - three days in a row with only one egg and they never ever miss a day! (I love my leghorns).. I finally got suspicious and went around the property with a big rake since it's so overgrown.. There they were! a pile of giant white eggs under a bush in front of the house. They are now 'confined to quarters' until 10 or 11AM until they get the hang of it. So far so good, back to getting all my giant eggs again.

 

[In His Service]

My EE girls are soo funny. If they are out free ranging when it is time to lay, they make a screeching bee-line back to the coop. If someone else is in there, boy oh boy the squawking begins!! (one favorite nesting box, who could think of using the other, huh?). For a while, when My BLRW roo was new, and was being picked on by the older girls, we had him and (what we thought was) one of the meeker girls (Amanda) in a temporary coop, but free ranging together. When we let them all out, Amanda would run pell mell,

legs crossed, so she could make it to the old coop/nest box before that egg popped out

 

[featherz]

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My EE girls are funny like that too . Actually my whole group in my back coop is very insistent on either laying in their coop (with their pricey purchased nest boxes) or running over and laying in my growout/overflow coop (which has a box with a towel over it so they don't just lay in the corner).. But my leghorns just have to be rebels.

The EE's will just sit there and moan and whine until a nest box gets free..

Today I had an OE (at least I hope she is, haven't seen her first egg yet) sitting in the nest forever and then egg songing so loud they could probably hear her for miles. No egg.

She was SO proud of her ceramic fake egg that was sitting there.

 

[In His Service]

That's Entertainment!!

 

[hhong3138]

Hello everyone, happy holiday! This is Vanessa from Brooklyn, NY. In NYC, we can only keep hens. I have 2 Buff Orpingtons, 4 Golden Buffs, 1 Rhode Island Red, 2 Black Australorps, and 3 Barred Rocks. They are 8 weeks old. I would love to swap hens

 

[vmdanielsen]

Welcome! My husband grew up in Brooklyn. I can't imagine raising chickens there! Hope you have lots of fun!!!!

 

[Cass]

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Sounds like a nice flock. Only 8 or so more weeks til eggs.

Where do you buy chicken feed in Brooklyn?