NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

Hey Everyone! Had my first 2 eggs this am. One blue and one brown egg! Felt like I found a $100 on floor. My 3 1/2 year old was so happy but dropped the blue egg on floor was upset but she cant wait to go what she called "easter egg" hunting again!

Had to share this with people who would understand!

egg hunting is favorite part of the day. I got 11 yesterday. I was so excited!! Only 6 today, and my husband got home before me. I went grocery shopping and he went easter egg hunting. Oh well, I guess I have to share.

 

[Cass]

egg hunting is favorite part of the day. I got 11 yesterday. I was so excited!! Only 6 today, and my husband got home before me. I went grocery shopping and he went easter egg hunting. Oh well, I guess I have to share.

My neighbors are going to chicken sit for me while I am on vacation. Their daughters are SOOOO excited to be able to walk in the coop and have an egg hunt ....and they get to keep the eggs. (they have a tractor with outside nest boxes, so they aren't even tall enough yet to reach in and grab the eggs yet. So this is a big deal for them)

 

[rancher hicks]

Pharm - glad your girls are laying so well. I had a pair but she never laid and egg and he crowed constantly. I think the tin foil hat I was wearing threw them off.

Glass - Lees gets their chicks from Ideal. I got my first batch from them and they were fine too.

Jaylynn - Good for you. Nothing like finding that first egg. Hope tomorrow will be just as exciting.

 

[rancher hicks]

Stony - Had a woman call for chickens today. I told her I wanted 10 for a two year old layer. Good layers they are too. She said she'd have to get back to me. Don't know what she expected. We debated on here what we thought it took to bring a chick to lay, @ 50 # that's 14-15 dollars. You can't sell them for less. That doesn't make sense. These are new to chicken people.
Not sure what it takes for a hybrid though. I've chickens that have cost me 20 for a chick. Others 10-16. Not including shipping.

Featherz I wish I could get delivery but can't.

Kamir - I don't like Country either but I just get what I need and go. They're very nice at my TSC so I like to go there. I have to drive to another CM cuz the one near me is mad at me and they were never friendly anyhow. I think they eat, Crab for breakfast.

 

[featherz]

Stony - Had a woman call for chickens today. I told her I wanted 10 for a two year old layer. Good layers they are too. She said she'd have to get back to me. Don't know what she expected. We debated on here what we thought it took to bring a chick to lay, @ 50 # that's 14-15 dollars. You can't sell them for less. That doesn't make sense. These are new to chicken people.
Not sure what it takes for a hybrid though. I've chickens that have cost me 20 for a chick. Others 10-16. Not including shipping.

Wow, good for you. I asked 5 for my 2 year old layers and was hard to get even that. I ended up taking much less, just so they could go to a good home. They were hatchery birds tho, so that has something to do with it. I ask 10-15 for 1 year (ish) and less. I think with non hatchery birds that will lay well at the 2 year mark, especially interesting breeds, it's possible to get more.

My NN rooster Elvis is hopefully going to a good home today to someone who wants him.I have too many roosters in that coop and picked him out to go - not because he is aggressive, but because he has no matching ladyfriend should I need to rehome him as a 'pair'. Hopefully he will make some other NN ladies happy (he's going to a home with others).

Setting up more electric fence today! We should have a big enough area that I can start letting the ladies (and gentlemen) out again!

 

[java girl 2]

Stony - Had a woman call for chickens today. I told her I wanted 10 for a two year old layer. Good layers they are too. She said she'd have to get back to me. Don't know what she expected. We debated on here what we thought it took to bring a chick to lay, @ 50 # that's 14-15 dollars. You can't sell them for less. That doesn't make sense. These are new to chicken people.
Not sure what it takes for a hybrid though. I've chickens that have cost me 20 for a chick. Others 10-16. Not including shipping.

Featherz I wish I could get delivery but can't.

Kamir - I don't like Country either but I just get what I need and go. They're very nice at my TSC so I like to go there. I have to drive to another CM cuz the one near me is mad at me and they were never friendly anyhow. I think they eat, Crab for breakfast.

How old are the lavender orps?, how many hens and roos do you have? What are they like as far as temperament? Are they friendly? roos protective? Would you be willing to trade a quilt/quilts for them?

 

[stonykill]

Stony - Had a woman call for chickens today. I told her I wanted 10 for a two year old layer. Good layers they are too. She said she'd have to get back to me. Don't know what she expected. We debated on here what we thought it took to bring a chick to lay, @ 50 # that's 14-15 dollars. You can't sell them for less. That doesn't make sense. These are new to chicken people.
Not sure what it takes for a hybrid though. I've chickens that have cost me 20 for a chick. Others 10-16. Not including shipping.

Featherz I wish I could get delivery but can't.

Kamir - I don't like Country either but I just get what I need and go. They're very nice at my TSC so I like to go there. I have to drive to another CM cuz the one near me is mad at me and they were never friendly anyhow. I think they eat, Crab for breakfast.

I got $20 a piece last year for Sumatra pullets, 16 weeks old, about to lay. And all but one was happy at that price. The other wasn't happy, but paid it anyway.

I never have paid more than $6 a chick and never will. But that's me, I'm cheap. That's why I sell my chicks reasonable.

I'm sellingthese Sumatra's cheap because I don'tneed them. The plan was, I hatch extra's and add them to my Sumatra pen. Well 3 hens in that pen went broody. It is easier to remove roosters from thatpen than introduce a bunch of chickens. So I either feed them and eat them, or sell them now. That is why I'm selling them reasonable.

 

[Cass]

I got $20 a piece last year for Sumatra pullets, 16 weeks old, about to lay. And all but one was happy at that price. The other wasn't happy, but paid it anyway.

I never have paid more than $6 a chick and never will. But that's me, I'm cheap. That's why I sell my chicks reasonable.

I'm sellingthese Sumatra's cheap because I don'tneed them. The plan was, I hatch extra's and add them to my Sumatra pen. Well 3 hens in that pen went broody. It is easier to remove roosters from thatpen than introduce a bunch of chickens. So I either feed them and eat them, or sell them now. That is why I'm selling them reasonable.

And they are fine birds. Now if they would only learn to live OUTSIDE, like I intended for them to do, I would be a happy camper.

PS 2 of th surviving birds are showing they are male. PHEW!!!! I thought all my roos got eatten by predators

 

[kamir]

Stony - LOL...goat ropin' music. No Blue Seal Feeds near me that I know of. I do know of a feed place in Binghamton, and one much farther away in Owego, but Agway is close to my grocery store and I need to conserve $$$$ so I don't travel too far if I can help it.

rancher - $10 for a layer and she had to get back to you? Good grief...as the chicken said, "Cheep, cheep." Nothing wrong with the folks at TSC. They've always been helpful and friendly when I've gone there to get items for my 8N tractor.

I just wish no music was played in any store, then no one gets bothered. Bring your own mp3 player if you want to listen to music.


Hey, wasn't the cool front nice?

kamir

 

[stonykill]

And they are fine birds. Now if they would only learn to live OUTSIDE, like I intended for them to do, I would be a happy camper.

PS 2 of th surviving birds are showing they are male. PHEW!!!! I thought all my roos got eatten by predators

and I wish that mine that lived outside lived inside. BTW I have a beautiful light blue roo for sale