Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[foamspoon]

Welcome Bryan . Beautiful set up. I hope your chicks arrive safely in this heat. I had terrible luck this passed spring with chicks sitting on tarmacs because of storms. Ill keep my fingers crossed for you.

Iwish I could do meat birds. I would just need someone to process them. Yes I am a hipocrite.i can't raise them then cull them. I'm sure this will get every one talking. I could raise them, give them the best 10 weeks a meat bird could ever want but I would have to have someone else do the deed for me.

All good! The "Eagle has landed" and all are safe and happy! One looked a little rough at the start out of the box but seems to be ok now!

 

[magsrags]

This morning I was running outside in my nightgown and flip flops to throw a stinky garbage bag outside and spotted a mother turkey with her little poults in the yard across the street.
The wildlife woman had recommended that I wait until I see such a thing and try to get the poult "adopted".
Thus began my 6 AM Nightgown Mission Impossible.
Roberta, thank God there's a thatch of woods sparing your view.
I plucked the poult from his roost within the large dog carrier and snuck across the street. The mother was alerted by my flip flops so I had to shed them by the mailbox and ran like a half-naked madwoman, barefoot, with a now-screaming poult across the street and onto my neigbbor's lawn.
The mother, who had began to flee, stopped dead when she heard the poult. I set him down and darted out of view. He cried, she called. He cried, she called. Another poult came out of the nearby woods and my little guy took it as a sign to run for his life.
I waited a minute or two before I dared a peek and saw all of them together, walking nonchalantly down the long drive.
Yay!
And I only startled one person but he was elderly passerby. At least now he has something to talk about back at the Village.

GREAT tory with a happy ending. Job well done!

 

[magsrags]

Good read here.
On the trend to abondan chickens after people tire of them.


http://www.nbcnews.com/health/backy...-cope-critics-say-6C10533508?ocid=msnhp&pos=7

 

[queenchick16]

All good!  The "Eagle has landed" and all are safe and happy!  One looked a little rough at the start out of the box but seems to be ok now!

Glad to hear it. Make sure you keep us posted.

 

[queenchick16]

Good read here.
On the trend to abondan  chickens after people tire of them.


http://www.nbcnews.com/health/backy...-cope-critics-say-6C10533508?ocid=msnhp&pos=7

I worry about this.since most people are idiots. It just brings more SHIrT for us.
Someone is giving away chickens on Craigslist. There out in Southold . Under the Free section.

 

[magsrags]

I worry about this.since most people are idiots. It just brings more SHIrT for us.
Someone is giving away chickens on Craigslist. There out in Southold . Under the Free section.

there are always chickens available at my feed store now. Hens and roos......never used to be. Sean casey animal rescue in Brooklyn brings their adoptees here as well.

 

[queenchick16]

Hey Bryan, how are the babies?

Yesterday I was cleaning out the frig so i gave the girls small containers of applesauce. They went crazy over it. Trying everything to keep them comfortable in this heat.

Has anyone heard from Suzanne? She must be on vacation.

BQfarm, I have a dirt run also. My girls free range though so are in it for a very short time everyday. I use an old garden tool to scrap the chicken pods up. In this heat they become pods pretty fast. In the late fall and all winter I through it into my garden to be turned over in the spring.the stuff on the lawn I just hose in.

 

[Cheeky Chick]

Well Peri just started crowing

I hope he gets better at it.

Poor little Peri-has a funny crow-I'm sure it will improve. Of course, that choking sound is kinda cute?

 

[Cheeky Chick]

Good read here.
On the trend to abondan chickens after people tire of them.


http://www.nbcnews.com/health/backy...-cope-critics-say-6C10533508?ocid=msnhp&pos=7

Just sad. My girls make such a fuss after I come home from vacation-they'd feel so abandoned if I just dumped them.

 

[Cheeky Chick]

So how is everyone's week going? I'm out in Montauk, and figured out how to use my phone as a hot spot. Of course, everyone is still sleeping. It's so beautiful out here-it's my favorite place.

My little Poults are enjoying vacation. They get cuddled all day long, and are FAR more needy and affectionate than Chicks. They're also getting pretty big. All wing feathers are in, and they have just the biggest eyes I've ever seen. Soprano is a chocolate, and Montana is a Spanish black. They have completely different personalities, Soprano is really cuddly and sticks to me like glue, Montana enjoys exploring, but has to run back to check on me every few minutes.

I really miss my girls at home though-Sweet Brown, my BCM hand raised loner, is probably thinking I've abandoned her-she usually tries to follow me into the house, since she figures she's not a chicken at all. My husband walked in one night and found her perched on the back of a kitchen chair. She'd gotten in, without me knowing it, and got up there and figured dinner was coming soon.

I'll be home On Saturday, I hope everyone's July is going great!