NY chicken lover!!!!

[pharmchickrnmom]

Ah Rancher and Greymane--Seems we are all in the same club. I have 2 herniated discs and 1 bulging disc in my lower back so I am extra careful about what I do or I pay a dear price for it. Weather doesnt help much either. I fell last year on ice outside the run and think that I may have injured my hip at the time but didnt know it. I know it now cause it doesnt want to do what I want it to do sometimes. I keep trying to order a replacement model for my current body but it seems they are all out of stock. Amazing what we live with huh?

Lots of meltage yesterday but no flooding, thank goodness. However, it has all frozen overnight. DH can go out to the big coop today and let them out. I am too chicken (pun intended). Cant wait for spring

Had someone else ask me for eggs yesterday. The girls really need to get cranking again. Wish we had some venison sausage left. The deer dh got this year is almost gone. Nice not having to buy meat though.

Ginny--glad to hear things are going well. Thats my big job tomorrow, cleaning out the coop. The girls will be giving direction and chatting my head off the whole time. I am sure they will be suspicious of the new stuff in their house as well. Like they havent seen this routine before!

Have a good day everyone! Off to the saltmines again today!

 

[sparrker]

I was thinking of getting an incubator for our 3 1/2 year old and 21 month old to watch the baby chicks hatch,but don't know which one. I was thinking the Hovabator (cheap for amount of eggs you hatch). But not sure if I should get the 1583,1586 which both have the wafer thermometer or the 1588 with electronic thermometer. And what about the 12v and 110v. What is the difference? I won't be getting the optional adapter for my car battery. I guess I don't understand the wafer thingy.
This chicken stuff is addicting, never realized it till now.
THank you

 

[lovemyzoo]

All my eggs I think are dead in my incubator. I need to find some fertile eggs closer I think they were in the mail to long. Course the temp spike thanks to my little one didn't help either.

yesterday the girls were out in the rain, they like to play int eh rain? and it started snowing and they all hide under bush. They won't go out in the snow for anything. i had my 1st egg eater today. One of the girls cracked her egg and my wyndotte went crazy trying to peck and eat it. She was even pecking at my daughter as we tried to get the broken egg out of the box..

 

[rancher hicks]

I was thinking of getting an incubator for our 3 1/2 year old and 21 month old to watch the baby chicks hatch,but don't know which one. I was thinking the Hovabator (cheap for amount of eggs you hatch). But not sure if I should get the 1583,1586 which both have the wafer thermometer or the 1588 with electronic thermometer. And what about the 12v and 110v. What is the difference? I won't be getting the optional adapter for my car battery. I guess I don't understand the wafer thingy.
This chicken stuff is addicting, never realized it till now.
THank you

Speckledhen recommended the Genesis 1588 to me and I've not been disappointed. Just spend the money and get it over with. It does make a whining sound but usually it comes from your spouse first. (if you have one). I don't think I ever told her what I paid. I went to Incubator Warehouse.

Believe me what you don't spend on the others you'll spend in frustration and swear words.

 

[rancher hicks]

All my eggs I think are dead in my incubator. I need to find some fertile eggs closer I think they were in the mail to long. Course the temp spike thanks to my little one didn't help either.

yesterday the girls were out in the rain, they like to play int eh rain? and it started snowing and they all hide under bush. They won't go out in the snow for anything. i had my 1st egg eater today. One of the girls cracked her egg and my wyndotte went crazy trying to peck and eat it. She was even pecking at my daughter as we tried to get the broken egg out of the box..

Now you know I love ya, and I'm not sure how far you are from E. Syracuse, but if you want to come and get some eggs I'll give you some. No guarantees mind you but probably better than by mail.. I'll give you at least a doz. Some Del and some orps but may be crosses with different colored orps. I've not separated them out for breeding yet and they are young, but they are free for the picking up. Send me a pm if your interested.
I've buyers for eating so I'll have to save your kinda special like.

 

[sparrker]

Thanks Rancher. I will take your advice( since your a super chicken person)I told hubby that I was getting an incubator. He's not happy, won't tell him how much it is,but he has spend much more on 1980 ski doo snowmobiles that he had to drive to Buffalo to get. And the Ambulance that he bought in Maryland and it still hasn't moved in three years. My daughters love my chickens and that's all that counts to me. Hovabator 1588 it is. With 4 roo's and 26 hens in a couple months I will have some eggs for the incubator. Only getting 4 eggs so far, their 24 weeks old yesterday
Patti

 

[Cass]

Mud, MUD and more MUD!!!!

And here I was wishing for spring???? I simply forgot how darn muddy my yard is when it thaws. I saw a chicken slip in the mud. I'm not going down there unless I have to until Summer. They can come to the porch for their treats.

 

[featherz]

No mud here just ice. I finally sold off 10 of my NYD hatch chickens and had to go drop them off at a farm nearby.. SOLID ICE for acres. Loooooong driveway with multiple 'streets' and the entire farm looked like a sheet of glass. So glad I brought the Jeep but silly me forgot to put the cleats on before leaving. So had to just throw the box of chicks out the door without stepping on the ice.

Glad to know everyone else's driveway out here is worse then mine.

Working on warming the barn up a tad so I can put the 4 week olds out. Need to wean them to 'cold' so they can get out of my house! (yuk!). No heat lamps, they scare me. They can have two more weeks with an ecoglow and a slightly heated barn, then off they go.

 

[vmdanielsen]

Ladies and gentlemen, I joined the Fall Club two nights ago. However, I can't blame ice or snow. Nope - I tried to face-plant in the house. I managed to catch the edge of my sandal on a tiny, uneven spot in the worn-out indoor-outdoor carpeting leading into my laundry/furnace room, and promptly crashed and burned. Yes, yes, I am talented. I'm also a klutz with occasionally iffy balance.

Now, this is a dinky little room with a clear carpet space that's maybe 7 feet by 3 1/2 feet. Somehow, I managed to avoid hitting the furnace, the water pipes, the well pressure tank, the washer, the dryer, a little cabinet I have in there, AND the concrete step up to the garage. The only thing I hit was the floor. Amazing! I also managed to avoid injury somehow. I'm not even really bruised, although I am a tad stiff at the moment. Gravity. It's the law.

My clan will not be pleased with me tomorrow morning. We have the beekeeping class at Betterbee in Greenwich, which is about an hour away, at 8 AM. I'm not about to let them out so the boys can crow their empty little heads off at 6:30 in the morning or so on a Saturday (they don't even get let out that early during the week), so they can just hang out in the coop and do whatever it is they do all day long when it's cold or raining and they aren't outside anyway. They have plenty of food and water, and a lovely new 70-pound alfalfa bale from TSC to dismantle, so they'll get over it or die mad.

Amy, sorry about your fall,

 

[rancher hicks]

Thanks Rancher. I will take your advice( since your a super chicken person)I told hubby that I was getting an incubator. He's not happy, won't tell him how much it is,but he has spend much more on 1980 ski doo snowmobiles that he had to drive to Buffalo to get. And the Ambulance that he bought in Maryland and it still hasn't moved in three years. My daughters love my chickens and that's all that counts to me. Hovabator 1588 it is. With 4 roo's and 26 hens in a couple months I will have some eggs for the incubator. Only getting 4 eggs so far, their 24 weeks old yesterday
Patti

Is this the same as the "Genesis 1588" ??