NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cass]

You are NOT going to believe this. After all the mistakes I made hatching this season (and they were numerable) my last broody actually HATCHED A CHICK!!!! OMG, I am sooooo excited.

It is the teeniest tiny little thing, but then it is only a day old. I have them in a rabbit cage so nothing can happen to the chick. I hope. I guess I shouldn't count on anything, after this hatching season being soooo poor....but I certainly hope that this little one lives, cuz it's the ONLY Ameruacana I hatched. EVER.

 

[Henicillin]

You are NOT going to believe this. After all the mistakes I made hatching this season (and they were numerable) my last broody actually HATCHED A CHICK!!!! OMG, I am sooooo excited.

It is the teeniest tiny little thing, but then it is only a day old. I have them in a rabbit cage so nothing can happen to the chick. I hope. I guess I shouldn't count on anything, after this hatching season being soooo poor....but I certainly hope that this little one lives, cuz it's the ONLY Ameruacana I hatched. EVER.

Congratulations!

 

[My Henny Hens]

Gotta love the duckies! Mine are around ten weeks old, and the drakes are now feathering in with their adult colors. It's a patchy process, though, so they look more like unkempt, bedraggled hobos than soon-to-be-handsome boys.

We're hearing quite a bit about bees swarming this year. Our completely wild guess is that they had lower death rates than usual thanks to the warm winter, so the hives are already strong. Acquiring six new colonies this year must be great!

There's a guy on Route 20 who has two unused hives at the edge of his yard (they have stuff piled up against them and on top of them). Alan is trying to catch him outside so he can make an offer to buy them, since both are big ones with multiple supers. Dude is never home, though, dang the luck.

Henicillin - Yes, we did experience fewer winter losses with the bees thus making them stronger earlier. Your "wild" guess is on the money! GOOD LUCK getting the hives from the dude on 20. Welcome to life with both the "birds and the bees". Tee, hee!!!

 

[My Henny Hens]

We just got our first hive last night. My 16yo DS wants to manage them. (YAY!) When 12yo DD first saw them, she said "awww they're so cute! " DH gave her a weird look and said "they're bees."

Just wait, when he sees as new bee come crawling out, he will be going goo goo gaga at th em too.

It won't take long! Pretty soon everyone will be drinking their morning coffee out by the hives to watch the happenings at the entrance! Good Luck!!!

 

[In His Service]

My BO broody has raised her one little chick separated from the flock but within sight of them. They have been out free ranging with all the flocks few times, and today she took baby into the big coop with the other BOs. They grow up so fast.

 

[Henicillin]

Nature apparently threw the off switch on my broody whose last two dud eggs cracked today. She is completely back to normal. She spent all day with the flock, and is now roosting with them. So much for her motherhood ambitions! I swear, when I took her off that nest today to clean up the ghastly rotten egg, she boogied out of that coop like a kid being released from school for summer vacation, like "Nothing else to set? Sweet! I'm outta here!" Now if my blasted Wyandotte would just snap out of it, life would be good!

 

[Cydney83]

I just want to pop in and say hello! I currently live in southern Jefferson County, NY. New to ducks, chickens, and actually trying to start a "as self-sufficient as possible" homestead. I also love knitting and yarn! I am also looking for a 4-H for my children so if there is anybody that is from up here and knows of one, I would love to hear about it!

...hope you enjoy and learn lots!

 

[Henicillin]

It won't take long! Pretty soon everyone will be drinking their morning coffee out by the hives to watch the happenings at the entrance! Good Luck!!!

<sings> "All we are saaaay-iiiing is give bees a chance!"

We both have these stickers on our cars, because they're awesome.

http://www.cafepress.com/beegeek.51510022

 

[In His Service]

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Love the "Beek" stuff too

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Cass--congrats on the chick! I have had the same rotten luck with hatching so when Stripe hatched out her egg, I was thrilled. My conundrum is that I have people who want chicks so do I incubate or wait for another broody? Decisions, decisions..

Hen--what is it with wyandottes? I have one also that has gone broody. Psychotic Betty is sitting in the nest box being a witchy broody. The other girls beat the crap out of her yesterday when she was out because she is such a pain. I gave her eggs last year to hatch and all she did was break them and then eat them. No way is she getting any this year.

My silkie juveniles went to their new home yesterday. I found out that they will be living the good life on a farm that is open to the public and has a petting zoo. They will be incorporated onto the mini golf area, safe from golf ball and such but as one of the attractions. I know the people who own the farm so I know they will have a fabulous life of leisure. The four that I am keeping as my breeding quad looked so sad and lost last night after the others left. I could hear their cheeps as they were looking for their hatchmates. They seem okay this morning and were busily digging holes under their coop.

Going to be another hot, sticky day. Heres hoping everyone finds a cool spot and no one loses any birds.