NY chicken lover!!!!

[Lynzi777]

chicks do not have to be vacinated. Some people do it religiously, others say if they die, the surviving stock will be healthier than if they had been vacinated.

The NP you are referring to is a certification of being disease if you are selling chickens across state lines. NPIP certified. You do NOT have to do or be either thing to have chicks in your yard and life.

I have over 30 birds (OMG, I only wanted 5 hens and one roo) and I don't vacinate and I am not NPIP certified. (I BUY chicks, and sell eggs....if I did the reverse I would have to do things differently)

Gotcha! Thanks for the response. I did do some reading on here but it seems like everyone has their own opinions and their own way of doing things - which is COMPLETELY fine, but when you're looking for an answer it's just easier to give your story/situation and ask and get answers based on your case alone. I appreciate the info. Thanks again!

 

[Henicillin]

There is now a second "who's your mama" light brown egg chick (I had the privilege of watching it come out of its shell), and the Marans egg has pipped. Go, babies, go!

I'm waiting for a couple of the non-chicken people I know to make the sudden association between the cute little chickies hatching from my girls' eggs and the eggs they buy, and be horrified.

Random fun cartoon:

 

[Henicillin]

Correction - two have hatched, and two more have pipped. The Leghorn cross is the sole slacker, but that peep was alive and well, so these mutts may be five for five.

What's really funny about the light brown eggs is that I accidentally collected one Saturday night (the Sharpie "X" was small), and it sat out in the egg basket in the garage overnight. Alan discovered it on Sunday morning, and went out and stuck it back under the broody, even though he figured it would be dead. Nope - it's alive. These things are tough!

The extra roo problem is also solved - Alan's friend wants to invite him to dinner as the main course, so he's being shipped out Friday. As I caught the jerk roughing up a Buff Brahma this afternoon, I'm all for it!

 

[vmdanielsen]

There is now a second "who's your mama" light brown egg chick (I had the privilege of watching it come out of its shell), and the Marans egg has pipped. Go, babies, go!

I'm waiting for a couple of the non-chicken people I know to make the sudden association between the cute little chickies hatching from my girls' eggs and the eggs they buy, and be horrified.

Random fun cartoon:

Thanks Amy. I so need a good laugh. Ginny

 

[queenchick16]

OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!!

As some might know, my wife is a large animal vet. She has a lot of Dairy clients, and some have found out through the grape vine that I am into Chickens. Well Today a very nice Farmer was chatting with my wife about the Birds, and casually asked with what was I hatching with. She told him a Styrofoam tabletop. He replies: Well it is older, and I haven't used it in a while, but I have a cabinet Incubator in my basement he can have.


My wife calls to ask If I am interested

.... Do Birds fly?

Of course I am interested.

So hopefully by the weekend, I'll have a cabinet incubator!!!!!!!

Framac

I love getting things like that. Did your wife go to Cornell and if so what year did she graduate? My husband graduated 1985. I was at the Vet school diagnostic lab til then.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Morning all. My broody silkie is sitting tight on her two eggs and I can now leave the pop door open without having to chase her back into the coop to sit on eggs rather than her sitting on nothing in the run. She lets me pet her after attempting to skewer my hand to let me know that she will defend her eggs to the bitter end. I am hoping that she is successful and that I get to watch her with babies. Will the babies be okay with her in the coop with the other 2 hens and roo in there? Or should I remove them after they hatch? I would really like to see her raise them.

The coop walls are up. Dh went and got roof panels yesterday. Have to get siding today. Hoping to get both on by friday and enough done to move the terrorists out of the basement and into the coop. They are growing way faster than my hens did. They need space to roam about. Today they are 4 weeks old. My tiny tots are no longer tiny and seem to have hit a growth spurt as well. They are coming up on 3 weeks old. I do know that suddenly I have to refill feeders and waterers a couple times a day now.

Hen--funny cartoon. Glad to see your roo got a dinner invite and that your eggs are hatching. Mine have all been invited to freezer camp at the end of the summer.

Got some much needed rain night before last and yesterday morning. Means mowing the lawn again but thats okay. At least the dust has settled some. My daughters friend from college is here visiting. She hails from Tennesee so we are giving her the New York experience (and I dont mean the city!). Those two will be busy girls this week.

Off to work and corp is coming to visit. Makes for a not so fun day. I am hoping they just breeze through and leave me alone to do my job. Everyone have a good day!

 

[Cass]

Morning all. My broody silkie is sitting tight on her two eggs and I can now leave the pop door open without having to chase her back into the coop to sit on eggs rather than her sitting on nothing in the run. She lets me pet her after attempting to skewer my hand to let me know that she will defend her eggs to the bitter end. I am hoping that she is successful and that I get to watch her with babies. Will the babies be okay with her in the coop with the other 2 hens and roo in there? Or should I remove them after they hatch? I would really like to see her raise them.

The coop walls are up. Dh went and got roof panels yesterday. Have to get siding today. Hoping to get both on by friday and enough done to move the terrorists out of the basement and into the coop. They are growing way faster than my hens did. They need space to roam about. Today they are 4 weeks old. My tiny tots are no longer tiny and seem to have hit a growth spurt as well. They are coming up on 3 weeks old. I do know that suddenly I have to refill feeders and waterers a couple times a day now.

Hen--funny cartoon. Glad to see your roo got a dinner invite and that your eggs are hatching. Mine have all been invited to freezer camp at the end of the summer.

Got some much needed rain night before last and yesterday morning. Means mowing the lawn again but thats okay. At least the dust has settled some. My daughters friend from college is here visiting. She hails from Tennesee so we are giving her the New York experience (and I dont mean the city!). Those two will be busy girls this week.

Off to work and corp is coming to visit. Makes for a not so fun day. I am hoping they just breeze through and leave me alone to do my job. Everyone have a good day!

IF you provide them with some place to get away from the older hens/roos they will be fine in the coop. If you don't let her raise them, she might not break her broodiness and isn't that the reason you let her hatch eggs? So she would move on with her life and start laying again?

I have used an old laundry basket propped on nails just high enough for the chicks, an egg crate with holes big enough for the chicks, not the hens and several other things for them to get away from the older hens. Usually Momma will protect them fiercely, but I always have a place for them to run under, just in case she isn't looking 100% of the time. (And as they start to get feathered out, she won't be as fierce about protecting them....she'll be letting them find their own place in the pecking order and those older hens are be very insistant, to the point of injury, if the juviniles don't have someplace they can duck under for cover.)

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Thanks Cass. I will have to make something for them to hide under. Being the first chicks that will have hatched under a first time broody and in the group, I am sure there will be some adjusting going on. I dont think Little Man would hurt them but he has his moments and might inadvertantly do so. This is all new for me so she and I will be learning together!

 

[Framac]

I love getting things like that. Did your wife go to Cornell and if so what year did she graduate? My husband graduated 1985. I was at the Vet school diagnostic lab til then.

My Wife did not go to Cornell. She did her first 3 years in the Caribbean, and her last year at Purdue.

 

[Framac]

I also got eggs hatching under the broody last night. This time I secured them into the nest box with some HW cloth and wire. Tonight i will check on the other two eggs. If they are all hatched, or if one seems to be a quitter, I may move hen and chicks to the floor of the coop. I probably should make something for the chicks to run under as well.

Framac