NY chicken lover!!!!

[Pyxis]

I've done it both ways and broodies are hands down the best. I have a silkie momma with four chicks right now. And, I just hatched a duckling in my incubator. As in just right now. She should have thirteen siblings by Saturday!

 

[Nambroth]

Thank you, Namboth, for your response. It seems if you sell birds or eggs ( within the definitions on the website ) you need the $200 permit. Once again, NY goes overboard on the regulations. Owners of ducks and geese ( as well as the other species on the website ) need to be watchful about these regulations on egg and bird sales.

Truly, for non-native species? Did talk to someone at the DEC? If so then I have been misinformed (I apologize) and I will check with my regional office. I still have ties there.

 

[Henicillin]

I have my first volunteer for Camp Crock-Pot. It turns out that both of my Jersey Giant/Sussex crosses are cockerels. The older one is the big, gorgeous, nice-tempered bird I want to keep as backup rooster. The younger one, on the other hand, is beginning to exhibit some serious jerk tendencies. He was on the roost this evening aggressively pecking at all the other birds around him, apparently just to be miserable. Finally, my big, grouchy SLW hen got fed up with his nonsense and fetched him a hefty peck upside his empty little head that sent him screeching down beneath the roosts. He's still a bony little cuss, so the current plan is to grow him out a bit longer, but if he keeps this up or ramps up the aggression, his date with DeWalt will come sooner rather than later. After all, it's getting to be soup weather.

Also, I need to get a photo of one of my poor Buff Brahma girls for Photo Friday. She has gone into a full-blown ugly molt, and the poor thing looks like a plucked chicken now, as she has lost all her tail and back feathers. I'm going to saddle her for her protection, and because she looks horrid. Poor nekkid chicken!

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Morning all. What a rainy dreary day. Glad I am working today. Dh says I am a bad chicken mommy this morning for not letting the cheeps out yet. I said they arent going to be in any hurry to run out in the heavy rain this morning.

Hen--my freezer camp volunteers were pretty tasty in a soup I made a couple of days ago, and that was just their carcasses boiled and stripped. Jerk, serial raping roosters are pretty darn good!

Pyxis--congrats on the babies! We need more pics!

Okay--Olaf is crowing his fool head off and now Little Man has started. Out to release the beasts. Have a good day everyone!

 

[Glasshen]

Heni, your buff brahma sounds like she may be a couple of days ahead of Stewie. I do worry about her since she was the one everyone loved to peck, and they probably will remember. Also they seem sort of pecky, since I wore sandals into the coop and several had to peck my newly painted toenails. Are there patterns for saddles, either knitted or fabric?

Edited to add.
Never mind, I found some patterns by using the search window. It seems that like so much of chicken care and life, there is no exactly right way to make chicken saddles. A lesson I learn frequently.

 

[Adoravachick]

Photo Friday!!!!!

 

[Lynzi777]

It's not really the right time of year to hatch chicks unless you have indoor space to brood them for 6 - 8 weeks.   Winter chicks have to be kept indoors longer than spring chicks cuz of the weather.  THEN you have to time their introduction to the colder temperatures carefully.   This is if you hatch indoors.

If you can get a hen to go broody for you (which almost never happens when you want it to) then you can hatch year round cuz the momma keeps the chicks warm and they are born out in the cold, so they acclimate faster/easier.

I think there is a thread on here about hatching, both with a broody and in an incubator.

Oh I know! I guess I should have said I've just been anxiously waiting to see if my Orp Roo is doing the job I'm keeping him here to do ;-) LOL If I try the chick hatching it won't be until spring when I can have one of the mamas do it for me, that's if one will go broody for me at the right time! I don't have an incubator yet so I definitely wouldn't be able to do anything on my own right now.

 

[Adoravachick]

Wow! It is foggy this morning. Can't even see to the little barn. The name we picked for our place is appropriate. En Las Nubes. (In The Clouds) The girls going to show poultry show this weekend got their spa treatment last night. Nails and beaks trimmed and smoothed, bath, blow out, and crest in "curlers", baby powder to the feet, and put into crate with kitty litter. This is crazy people, if anyone ever told me I would do all that for a chicken...I would have laughed in their face. They looked beautiful....I think the dog the actually envious. Here are pics from before their bath.

Isabel

Isadora

 

[Lynzi777]

Adora ~ So cute!! I think I may spend some time cleaning my chickens up this weekend before the colder weather comes. Foggy here too! I was driving so slow this morning on our road bringing my son to school in fear that a deer would jump out in front of us (usually happens at least 2-3 times a week) and I wouldn't be able to see it and slow down in time.

 

[Adoravachick]

Adora ~ So cute!! I think I may spend some time cleaning my chickens up this weekend before the colder weather comes. Foggy here too! I was driving so slow this morning on our road bringing my son to school in fear that a deer would jump out in front of us (usually happens at least 2-3 times a week) and I wouldn't be able to see it and slow down in time.

The deer are insane here. I think they have a death wish. You know I think we could be neighbors...only in different cities.