NY chicken lover!!!!

[happycountryhens]

Four eggs from the new girls yesterday!

Two of the eggs are nice brown eggs of medium to large size. Two are rich round brown eggs. Wonder which hens are laying those?

Hens in the small coop are moulting now. No eggs. That's ok. Doris deserves a break.

Nice not to have frozen water this week.

 

[Cass]

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Becareful with the plastic. You don't want the humidity to get to high. Chickens can do quite well with the cold. Read the latest issue of BY Poultry. Drafts you want to block but if it gets to warm then the humidity will go up and that's when you get respiratory problems. Especially if you use the deep litter method. That litter contains quite a bit of moisture.

I hope we all survive the winter,

Rancher

We'll all survive it, Just not sure if all our fingers and toes will.

I am very puzzled by people's concern about chickens and the cold. Wild birds live outdoors all winter and I have yet to find hundreds (or even one) of them dead on the ground in the spring. They have a down coat and thousands of years of inbreed survival instinct and they do survive. Our chickens have food and water delivered to them daily. Why wouldn't they live through the winter if protected from the illnesses of winter?

Want a good laugh? On the "Why aren't my chickens laying" thread someone in TX was asking since her chickens weren't laying any more, should she just sell them and start over in the spring, since she couldn't justify heating the coop for the winter with no eggs in return OMG.

In TEXAS

 

[Cass]

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Nice egg in your avatar!!!!!!

Thanks, I got quite a few nice dark Marans eggs last spring, so I'm growing up all the chicks that hatched from those eggs...I hope they lay as dark as the egg they hatched from and using only roosters from the dark eggs as well.
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If they do lay nice dark eggs will you be selling any chicks in the spring? (I don't have an incubator so I can't buy eggs)

If you are planning to sell chicks can I buy 2 or 3? I really really want chocolate eggs. (I'll Come pick them up so you don't have to ship them)

 

[stonykill]

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Becareful with the plastic. You don't want the humidity to get to high. Chickens can do quite well with the cold. Read the latest issue of BY Poultry. Drafts you want to block but if it gets to warm then the humidity will go up and that's when you get respiratory problems. Especially if you use the deep litter method. That litter contains quite a bit of moisture.

I hope we all survive the winter,

Rancher

We'll all survive it, Just not sure if all our fingers and toes will.

I am very puzzled by people's concern about chickens and the cold. Wild birds live outdoors all winter and I have yet to find hundreds (or even one) of them dead on the ground in the spring. They have a down coat and thousands of years of inbreed survival instinct and they do survive. Our chickens have food and water delivered to them daily. Why wouldn't they live through the winter if protected from the illnesses of winter?

Want a good laugh? On the "Why aren't my chickens laying" thread someone in TX was asking since her chickens weren't laying any more, should she just sell them and start over in the spring, since she couldn't justify heating the coop for the winter with no eggs in return OMG.

In TEXAS

Cass, that is always my response to the chickens/cold thing. They are BIRDS!

lol on the Tx, heated coop. omg.

 

[Cydney83]

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Becareful with the plastic. You don't want the humidity to get to high. Chickens can do quite well with the cold. Read the latest issue of BY Poultry. Drafts you want to block but if it gets to warm then the humidity will go up and that's when you get respiratory problems. Especially if you use the deep litter method. That litter contains quite a bit of moisture.

I hope we all survive the winter,

Rancher

We'll all survive it, Just not sure if all our fingers and toes will.

I am very puzzled by people's concern about chickens and the cold. Wild birds live outdoors all winter and I have yet to find hundreds (or even one) of them dead on the ground in the spring. They have a down coat and thousands of years of inbreed survival instinct and they do survive. Our chickens have food and water delivered to them daily. Why wouldn't they live through the winter if protected from the illnesses of winter?

Want a good laugh? On the "Why aren't my chickens laying" thread someone in TX was asking since her chickens weren't laying any more, should she just sell them and start over in the spring, since she couldn't justify heating the coop for the winter with no eggs in return OMG.

In TEXAS

I got a whole 6 eggs...2 bantams...one olive....one sussex...2 orp or RIR...ok so we have 75 chickens...no lights yet...husband is working on it...never a quick thing...
Does anyone vaccinate for Infectious Laryngotracheitis? My flock hasn't had this...I am so afraid even to say that...I have decided to sell the BLRW and a gentlemen was interested in them until I said I didn't vaccinate for that...so does anyone? Yes it is a horrible thing to have the chickens "drop like flies"..
Wow want a nice night...
I had one little chick hatch...the other got broke on Sunday ...so close..it is a RIR/sussex cross...maybe it will lay a huge egg...

 

[Cydney83]

Tab's chicken obsession :

We're getting 8-10 eggs a day now down from 2 dozen a day. I sell for $2 a doz to my co workers. This time of the year is rough for eggs, but we are going to take advantage of the slow down and worm our birds.
We had 112 birds at last count and that's every bird we have. Finally sold some last night though, 15 hens and a barred OE roo. This weekend we're bringing some extra roos to King's auction.

You sold a few..way to go...I am sure you will know see a drop in the feed bill! I have same you can have!!!

 

[featherz]

I have crappy uninsulated coops and all my birds did fine last winter. The one coop with problems had too much plexiglass, so I am putting extra venting in this year - so I'd never wrap my coops in any plastic unless it was a one day super windstorm.

 

[vmdanielsen]

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We'll all survive it, Just not sure if all our fingers and toes will.

I am very puzzled by people's concern about chickens and the cold. Wild birds live outdoors all winter and I have yet to find hundreds (or even one) of them dead on the ground in the spring. They have a down coat and thousands of years of inbreed survival instinct and they do survive. Our chickens have food and water delivered to them daily. Why wouldn't they live through the winter if protected from the illnesses of winter?

Want a good laugh? On the "Why aren't my chickens laying" thread someone in TX was asking since her chickens weren't laying any more, should she just sell them and start over in the spring, since she couldn't justify heating the coop for the winter with no eggs in return OMG.

In TEXAS

I got a whole 6 eggs...2 bantams...one olive....one sussex...2 orp or RIR...ok so we have 75 chickens...no lights yet...husband is working on it...never a quick thing...
Does anyone vaccinate for Infectious Laryngotracheitis? My flock hasn't had this...I am so afraid even to say that...I have decided to sell the BLRW and a gentlemen was interested in them until I said I didn't vaccinate for that...so does anyone? Yes it is a horrible thing to have the chickens "drop like flies"..
Wow want a nice night...
I had one little chick hatch...the other got broke on Sunday ...so close..it is a RIR/sussex cross...maybe it will lay a huge egg...

I don't vaccinate for anything. One of the theories out there is to allow chickens to develop a natural immunity to what is out there. Now having said that my whole flock will probably catch something horrible(that I could vaccinate against) and die.

What do people insulate their coops with? Last year I did not insulate, but then the wood was new and the wood was apparenly wet because now there are gaps between the boards. I was thinking of stapling cardboard to the inside of the walls and then take it down in the spring. Ideas?
Comments?
Ginny

 

[Cydney83]

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I got a whole 6 eggs...2 bantams...one olive....one sussex...2 orp or RIR...ok so we have 75 chickens...no lights yet...husband is working on it...never a quick thing...
Does anyone vaccinate for Infectious Laryngotracheitis? My flock hasn't had this...I am so afraid even to say that...I have decided to sell the BLRW and a gentlemen was interested in them until I said I didn't vaccinate for that...so does anyone? Yes it is a horrible thing to have the chickens "drop like flies"..
Wow want a nice night...
I had one little chick hatch...the other got broke on Sunday ...so close..it is a RIR/sussex cross...maybe it will lay a huge egg...

I don't vaccinate for anything. One of the theories out there is to allow chickens to develop a natural immunity to what is out there. Now having said that my whole flock will probably catch something horrible(that I could vaccinate against) and die.

What do people insulate their coops with? Last year I did not insulate, but then the wood was new and the wood was apparenly wet because now there are gaps between the boards. I was thinking of stapling cardboard to the inside of the walls and then take it down in the spring. Ideas?
Comments?
Ginny

I am with you ...last year I didn't have one single sickness go though the flock ...a friend came over to get a chicken and I said " oh, no no sickness here" the next week..I lost like 10 birds...

Another nice day! enjoy!

 

[ODEY587]

picking up some genetic hackle chickens today im so excited ill be sure to post some pics later tonight, hve a great day all!!!!