NY chicken lover!!!!

[happycountryhens]

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I know what you mean about it looking like a massacre.

Doris has been moulting for a month. I put her on higher protien food. She still looks very bedraggled and has not laid an egg for a month.
The other girls are all June babies, so they are in the mode of starting to lay eggs. There are 25 of them.
No silkie roo...thanks.

Maybe norweigen jaerhoun hatching eggs in the spring.

 

[featherz]

I got 23 eggs yesterday, right when my DH started to insist that eggs are giving him gastric distress and maybe he should lay off eggs for a while. ROFL.

My molters are starting to look decent again, although I am sure a few others will start molting soon - still have a RIR, three leghorns, an EE and a few others that are 'due' but haven't started yet. I am so glad I am on this forum or I would have never known just how bad a molter can look - none of mine have looked as bad as the bald chickens in the molting thread.

I am going to join in on the NYD hatch, Goddess willing, so I should have chicks in January. Whoo Boy. DH is getting me an ecoglow 50 for Xmas, so if all goes well I think I'll sell off at least one of my smaller ecoglows.

 

[rancher hicks]

Just real quick before church,

I got 20 eggs from 29 hens but then found one in front of the feeder so maybe that's 21 from 29. Some of the 29 are older than two so I figure that's not bad. As for molts I barely noticed one as usual. Can't say why though. Rooster looked a little ragged for a while.

The warm weather may be the reason for all the eggs. That and because half are new layers. I've got 10 BR's and 2 SLW yet to start laying also.

Have a nice day,

Rancher

 

[Henicillin]

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I would be interested in buying one for Christmas!! Does he/she sell to others?

That he does! It's Coldwater Creek Farm on Coldwater Tavern Road in Nassau. You see his signs all over the place advertising fresh turkeys. Here's his contact info: http://timesunion.kaango.com/ad-turkey-fresh-free-range-pastured-no-medications/19898119 They're a bit pricey, but so, so delicious! I'm a member of the Community Food Compact farm buying club in Nassau, so that's how I found out about him. I was buying eggs from him through the Compact before my girls started paying rent.

Speaking of turkeys, while poking around the Porter's site, I discovered that they sell assorted crossbreed poults from their experimental breeding programs for six bucks apiece. That price has sold me on the idea, so I'm going to break out the credit card and reserve fifteen of the little beasties for the spring, as I can't think of a single good reason why I shouldn't try them.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

rancher and featherz: my girls are laying like yours. A lot of them are new layers and the combo with the warm weather plus timed lights must be a good thing.

 

[Framac]

Chickens are so funny. I had 19 layers, and over the last 3 weeks I got between 10-16 eggs a day (never less then 10).

A friend who gave us a sheep last year expressed interest in having fresh eggs, so my wife and I decided to give them 4.

Yesterday between their 4 new ones and my 15, 7 eggs. Silly chickens don't like change.

Chris

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Has anyone aver found ticks on chickens?
I just pulled one off my dog and I wondered if chickens ever got ticks.

 

[mlward]

Tab's chicken obsession :

Has anyone aver found ticks on chickens?
I just pulled one off my dog and I wondered if chickens ever got ticks.

Our woods have been really bad this year for ticks. I pull them off the cats from time to time, but have never seen one on the chickens. I think they must eat them too fast. I hope!

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

I know. I've pulled a tick off 2 of the 4 dogs, 1 off the cat, and 1 off my daughter so far. They've been bad. I've never seen this many before.

 

[silvercat76]

With twenty chickens I'm still pulling them off my two older kids, two cats, dog and myself and husband. They are bad here!