NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

DH watched the girlies for a while today so I could work on my gardens.  He got out their bikes and played on the swing set.  And I got grass pulled and soil mulched and prepped in some of my tire beds.  I'm loving this weather!

Let see those tire beds. One thing about my raised beds is I just take the weed whacker and go around them and keeps the weeds down. Easy , Peasy. No bending over or none of that stuff.

I noticed buds on all the bushes I planted last fall. Currants, raspberries and gooseberries and lilacs. I am so glad. If CM has another sale this year I'll put in some Blueberries too. Plus any other things they have for sale. Now that I have plans watch they won't have any.

 

[stonykill]

well if the sexing by tailfeathers is correct on week/less than week old chicks I have 50% pullets, 50% roo's in my mutts.

 

[demp4]

Oh sure like I need chicks. the incu is nearly full, 33 eggs. Plus I've got 8 CR's and an EE in one Brooder and two ducks and three chicks in the other brooder. Even if they were giving them away I couldn"t take any.

I agree!!! I have 32 chick eggs and 12 turkey eggs in bator 8 chicks in brooder and a full yard.

 

[featherz]

Free baby roo if anyone wants him. Also have lot of free REALLY baby roos, all from blue eggs - some are americauna and some are EE and I can't tell which are which yet. Just checking before I send them to a freezer camp placement. One or two of the 5 week olds is a NN roo. Hard to tell 100% yet, probably will know for sure in a week or so on those.

This guy is 11-12 weeks old and is very friendly - and much prettier than shown on this pic. But he's already trying to jump the ladies so he's the first to leave!
He hatched from a blue egg with a bunch of tailless araucana eggs, so he's either a tailed araucana or an EE. My bet is on EE. The chicken right behind him is an araucana cockerel from the same hatch.

 

[rancher hicks]

It would probably be good for anyone who can deal with them to just put up a coop to grow out roos. I'd like to but just don't have the money for such and adventure.

 

[featherz]

It would probably be good for anyone who can deal with them to just put up a coop to grow out roos. I'd like to but just don't have the money for such and adventure.

Nor do I. I end up taking them to auction or sending them over to a freezer camp home. I try to rehome some of the special ones, but there's only so much I can do. Fortunately I think easter will be my last hatch O' the year! =)

 

[rancher hicks]

Nor do I. I end up taking them to auction or sending them over to a freezer camp home. I try to rehome some of the special ones, but there's only so much I can do. Fortunately I think easter will be my last hatch O' the year! =)

There is no auction nearby me and it would cost more in gas than I would get anyhow. It would be better to just take their heads off and toss them. I would like to do a few more Delaware cuz I'm replacing all the hens at least. I do know people who will eat them.

 

[Framac]

Loving this weather, got a lot done this weekend with the flower beds, yard. Was hopign to move some composted manure, but the gods did not cooperate, and by gods I mean my 5 month old.

Has anyone every had a chick that sat very far back on their legs, like on the joint itself. I had one, the last to hatch and it just was not getting any better. Almost like the legs were sticking out to the side. I taped the legs in, and it did not help with mobility and the chick was not growing. I put it down last night when I noticed that the joints were inflamed from walking on them.

Right now I got 19 healthy chicks in the brooder, and 42 eggs in the bator. I know this will not be the last hatch of the year as I still have no Amers hatched, and a few friends want blue egg layers.

Framac

 

[happyhensny]

Got a few things done this weekend _ built some raised garden beds out of Hemlock rough cut 2 x 10 x 8 (dimension of each bed is 4 x 8), then decided that 4 isn't enough so I called the saw mill and ordered enough for 2 more beds.

Still have 6 of these sweethearts left...

 

[Cydney83]

Beautiful on both! Just sayin' if anyone wants the D'uccles I am going to Albany Thurs..and can bring them back to central NY!...

Got a few things done this weekend _ built some raised garden beds out of Hemlock rough cut 2 x 10 x 8 (dimension of each bed is 4 x 8), then decided that 4 isn't enough so I called the saw mill and ordered enough for 2 more beds.

Still have 6 of these sweethearts left...