NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

Stopped at CountryMax and got chick feeder and waterer. Chick of the week at Cortland TSC was Red Star pullets. Next week is the big delivery for Easter chicks, will definitely be bringing something home! Can't wait for some little fuzz butts.

Though it may be cheaper than driving up here, I've got chicks you can have. Straight run of course. I haven't posted them to CL yet.

 

[demp4]

So glad I found a forum of chicken lovers in NY! I am currently living in Albany but will be moving to Syracuse end of June. Well, 20 minutes south of Syracuse actually. I plan on getting into the chicken hobby with my son when we move up there. Would like to start off with some Buff Orpingtons and possibly some Silkies. Maybe I can find someone more local with these breeds rather than having to order them from out state??

Welcome to BYC! I know someone in Canastota that has silkies hatching and could hatch you some most likely in June.

 

[rancher hicks]

Hello! I am new to this forum. I grew up in Saratoga NY and just moved back from Boston where I lived for 6 years. My new house has some nice land and I hope to build a chicken coop this summer and get some fabulous fowl to fill it!

However, right now I really need some help. I have a lonely male button quail. His "wife" and he had 4 sets of babies over the last two years and I found new homes for all the babies. Now I wish that I had kept some. Last fall, my little guy lost his lover and has been so so lonely ever since. I'm listening to him call out for a mate right now. Ever since then I've been desperately searching for a new mate for him. Ideally I'd like two females of the same age as eachother, so when he goes, they won't be lonely, but all I seem to find are males...and they fight. Does anyone know anyone in the Saratoga/Albany area that has button quails that would be willing to sell me a female or two? I have a large a beautiful enclosure for them and a little gourd house, which is where my previous female hatched out her eggs and take good care of my birds.

If anyone knows anyone who breeds button quails...please let me know! My poor guy has lonely long enough.

Thank you so much!!

-Crystal

Welcome to Hotel California. "You can enter anytime you like but you can never leave".

 

[rancher hicks]

Congratulations and welcome Hunter.

Ditto here.

 

[demp4]

I hate to be a downer but it would kill my back collecting eggs. Not to mention cleaning them out and replacing the nesting material. One thing I look for in design is cleanability. In everything I buy.

Our refridge is a pain in the neck. If it were up to me refridges would be less deep. Who needs the zone in the back where things get pushed to and disappear until they evolve into a new life form? Sure the shelves come out but they don't "roll" out for ease of retrieving last nights meat loaf. At least not ours.

Back to my coops. I like things that are easy to clean. My roost in the one lifts on hinges so I don't have to bend over to get under it.

I tried the all on one level approach this last winter and had a pecking problem, so I went back to the "ladder" design. They arrange themselves to their pecking order and can't get at each other.

My exterior next boxes are just the right height for me to lift the lid collect the eggs and not have to bend down. Because they are inside the covered run I can just scoop out the hay, which is not too dirty and toss it into the mix of wood shaving and straw on the run floor.

I do like the drop board idea though and wish I could use it but it just doesn't work for me. If I could just figure out how to make it work. That would make it easy to clean and keep the floor drier too. I'll have to sleep on it.

My kids usually get the eggs but the original plan was to cut out the back and be able to get eggs from the outside where we wouldn't have to bend down but that step never got completed.

 

[demp4]

I'm in Onieda, right around the corner from you in syr. hello

Hello and Welcome back!

I haven't posted in a LONG time..

...our third (human) baby hatched and we've been busy on the homestead. How was everyone's winter?(or lack of) I am itching for more hatches! I just set 5 dozen eggs, some pure, some mutts, can't wait. We also just got some Muscovy ducks to add to the homestead for mosquito patrol and meat, and 2 rabbits for making more little meat rabbits.

What's everyone got brewing in the bators? -erin-

Congrats our the hatch of your 3rd baby.... =) We have some turkeys, BCM, light coro sussex and some mixed mutts in our bator too...

 

[demp4]

Hello! I am new to this forum. I grew up in Saratoga NY and just moved back from Boston where I lived for 6 years. My new house has some nice land and I hope to build a chicken coop this summer and get some fabulous fowl to fill it!

However, right now I really need some help. I have a lonely male button quail. His "wife" and he had 4 sets of babies over the last two years and I found new homes for all the babies. Now I wish that I had kept some. Last fall, my little guy lost his lover and has been so so lonely ever since. I'm listening to him call out for a mate right now. Ever since then I've been desperately searching for a new mate for him. Ideally I'd like two females of the same age as eachother, so when he goes, they won't be lonely, but all I seem to find are males...and they fight. Does anyone know anyone in the Saratoga/Albany area that has button quails that would be willing to sell me a female or two? I have a large a beautiful enclosure for them and a little gourd house, which is where my previous female hatched out her eggs and take good care of my birds.

If anyone knows anyone who breeds button quails...please let me know! My poor guy has lonely long enough.

Thank you so much!!

-Crystal

Welcome to NY chicken Lover thread!

 

[Cass]

My two eggs are in lockdown....BUT they haven't gotten any heavier in days and days, so I think they are late quitters. I'll give them until day 25 before I panic, cuz the bator doesn't hold temp overly well....sigh....it also doesn't hold eggs very well, only have TWO in there. It will be a miracle if something hatches....but I had to try, right?

Now to clean the stinky brooder and hopefully get the largest chicks to the coop this weekend. THEN I will have room, if one or two of these hatch. (can't be three, cuz there are only 2 eggs)

 

[Lapeerian]

What breeds do you have Rancher? I talked my enabler aka Travis last night, he is able to get *most* of the breeds on my wish list. TSC would be straight run and who knows what for breeds.

Though it may be cheaper than driving up here, I've got chicks you can have. Straight run of course. I haven't posted them to CL yet.

 

[Framac]

Well I got home last night and the hen that was going broody was on the perch. She did not lay an egg, and seemed to have no interest in being broody. FINE, back in with her friends in the main part of the coop. She hops up on the Perch, looks at me, goes back to "her" favorite nest box, and begins the stare.

So My new question is how around day 18/19 do I fix the nest (3 feet off the ground) so the babies don't fall out? Sigh.....


Framac.