NY chicken lover!!!!

[Henicillin]

I dressed up three of my girls in hen saddles (from Louise's Country Closet, a shop belonging to a fellow BYC'er - I've just ordered some more from her in case I need them), so they weren't feeling much love for me. I had two "mediums" and one "large," but the three girls who needed them were all "mediums," so the Faverolle in the large (longer than the others by about an inch) looks a bit like a little girl playing dress-up in her mom's clothes.

The roos seem a bit nonplussed by the girls' new duds, especially when they try to climb aboard and can't get much of a grip.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

My girls seem to be trying to teach me everything at once this month. There is the victimization of Stewie, the incarceration of the two mean girls, today Stewie had a sort of tear on one of her feet, so I washed it and put the new BluKote on it...and one of the nice red girls seems to be getting broody. Yikes! And there have been an awful lot of striped feathers in the coop, but neither BR looks naked. Stewie is a little sparse on her head...is this more being picked on or the beginning of molt?
I think they should have kept me in the easy class, this feels like AP.

Sounds like you have lots of drama up there! If you are seeing lots of feathers in the coop, I suspect your girls are going into a molt. Not sure how old they are but they do molt around this time of year. Mine just finished a hard molt and there were more feathers than woodchips in the coop. It looked like someone had blown them all up at once! lol Stewie will be okay. There is always one who is at the bottom of the pecking order that gets beat on every once in a while. I suppose if the mean girls dont learn their lesson, you could just have a bbq to fix that!

 

[vmdanielsen]

Does anybody else find candling eggs as fascinating as I do? I could do it several times a day. I resist the temptation though! Lockdown tomorrow. Brooder set up in the basement. I need to get chick starter today. And so it begins!!

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

OOO Ginny! I envy you! I have to hold off till April! What are you hatching? Dropping the big oak this weekend if the weather is nice so we can start building the coop. Going to be splitting lots of wood this coming week! I should be all buff by the time its all done!

DH has decided he wants a mixed flock so we will be getting a bunch of straight run chicks when chick days arrive. Eating the roos but maybe keeping one for breeding. Hopefully the hens I have now wont be too mean to the newbies when we integrate them this summer. Working on my breeding program and trying to decide which line to bring in for my silkies. Of course, I have only gotten one pullet egg so far. They really are slow to mature.

Spring fever is here early so I am purging my house of stuff. I often wonder how I ended up with so much stuff? Kids are grown and gone so its time to get rid of it all. I want clean and simple. Might need a backhoe and a dumptruck! lol. Not really that bad.

Everyone have a nice day.

 

[featherz]

I have pips!!! I have 19 eggs left from my 'prize dozen' from hot2pot and four of my own eggs. The hot2pot eggs are blue - americauna and easter eggers - and two blue pips and one brown pip. Woot! C'mon blue eggies! (and I am hoping for a NN from my four brown eggs).

 

[Glasshen]

Thanks Madsenaccord, I do worry about the girls, and want them to all live happily ever after...

 

[stonykill]

I'm holding off just a bit on hatching. Except for my 2 broody's. They do what they want

. Besides straight Sumatra's I plan on hatching Sumatra mixes as well for egg laying birds. I have one pen with a Black Sumatra Roo , 2 White Leghorns and one white EE. Another pen has a Black Sumatra Roo 2 RIR'S and one cool, hawk colored EE. Of my free range RIR's and Black Austrolops their Roo is a Blue Sumatra. I will grab a few Black Austrolop eggs from them at the very least. Last year I hatched 2 of that mix, and they looked like GIANT Sumatra's. Unfortunately a weasle got them right before the hen started laying.
I need to build a nice brooder in a shed, and wait for warmer weather. No more chicks in the house! That white dust they create gets into everything!

 

[Framac]

Eggs in the bator are now on day 11. I'll candle again this weekend to make sure they are all developing. I am hoping to start ciollecting for the second hatch something in the next few days.

This morning had quite the surprise as one of our ewes had triplets. One is weak and in the house under the heat lamp and the other 2 are doing great. Big lambs too. All 3 are bigger then the twins born 16 days ago. Good thing Mama has an udder like a milk cow.

Hope Everyone has a great day!

Chris

 

[vmdanielsen]

OOO Ginny! I envy you! I have to hold off till April! What are you hatching? Dropping the big oak this weekend if the weather is nice so we can start building the coop. Going to be splitting lots of wood this coming week! I should be all buff by the time its all done!

DH has decided he wants a mixed flock so we will be getting a bunch of straight run chicks when chick days arrive. Eating the roos but maybe keeping one for breeding. Hopefully the hens I have now wont be too mean to the newbies when we integrate them this summer. Working on my breeding program and trying to decide which line to bring in for my silkies. Of course, I have only gotten one pullet egg so far. They really are slow to mature.

Spring fever is here early so I am purging my house of stuff. I often wonder how I ended up with so much stuff? Kids are grown and gone so its time to get rid of it all. I want clean and simple. Might need a backhoe and a dumptruck! lol. Not really that bad.

Everyone have a nice day.

Amy,

Next time you are at work, stock up on the epsom salts! I suspect that while you are getting buff that you will need hot epsom salt baths to help ease the pain of all those "moving wood muscles"! Ans find a good massage therapist!

I am hatching Americauna(EE)/leghorn crosses, a olive egger and americaunas. I am hoping for light blue egg laying machines! I want them to lay ASAP! At the end of June they will be 4 months old . I hope that the long days will bring them into lay quickly. Brooing in the basement does create a lot of dust but this year I have put up plastic sheeting around the brooder. Within the plastic sheeting there is a small window that I can open if it gets to stale. I hope to get them into the garage by mid April.

My son will be 18 in May and I too, have begun dumping stuff. First it gets moved to the garage, then if after 6 months, it gets tossed, unless of course, I find it buried in the basement, then it gets tossed immediately. The older I get the more minimalistic I get. I want a clean house, but don't like to take the time to clean, so I figure, less stuff less cleaning. Seems to be working..........

 

[vmdanielsen]

I have pips!!! I have 19 eggs left from my 'prize dozen' from hot2pot and four of my own eggs. The hot2pot eggs are blue - americauna and easter eggers - and two blue pips and one brown pip. Woot! C'mon blue eggies! (and I am hoping for a NN from my four brown eggs).

good luck!!