Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[Toxic Chicken]

I won, I won !
4+ cream legbar eggs.

Tehehehehe hahaha

 

[Cheeky Chick]

Hey! You guys seem to be having so much fun! Mind if I join in? I'm a long island gal myself. I'm going to pick up my babies on Wednesday. I'm certain I'm getting a silkie-lavender, or a dark color. Unfortunately the silkies are unsexed still get what I get. I'm hoping for a pulley of course but I have a feeling no matter what, I don't have that kind of luck. I think there's a ban on backyard roosters, but I'll have to see about that. I'm probably going to go with a pair of barred rock and maybe a few orps. I'm hoping for a Cochin as well. They're just hatched so I have a few weeks to finish my coop and pen.
I'm totally excited and can't wait for those babies!!

How many chickens do you guys have in all?

 

[smkchick]

Welcome to the thread! I'm Suzanne.

I'm sitting next to an incubator with 5 viable Lavender Orpington eggs in it, which are supposed to hatch tomorrow. There are 3 babies (Buff Orpington named Lola, Speckled Sussex named Mabel, Silver Laced Wyandotte named Blanche) in a brooder box in the other room. And 6 in the coop outside (Black Star named Gladys, Rhode Island Red named Agatha, Easter Egger named Rhonda, Barred Rock named Wanda, Golden Comet named Shirley and Black Australorp named Aretha). Which equals 8, of course. Not counting the 12 eggs in the mail. I have a Master's Degree in chicken math.

Keep us posted with chick pix.

 

[JerseyHen]

Hi Cheeky Chick. I got an A+++ in chicken math as well, or morehens disease. I have 22 hens currently in the coop (barred rock, faverolles, wellsummer, speckled sussex, brahma), 1 adult roo (brahma), 6 chicks in the brooder (easter eggers), 3 under a broody momma hen due May 8 (dark brahmas), and 2 eggs on the counter waiting for a broody (might be 5 eggs by the time my next broody gets broody enough). And I will be doing my best not to aquire another flock at the sussex show this month.

 

[Toxic Chicken]

I have 6
That's it, 6
No matter how you count em it = 6

Hehehehe


Oh and WELCOME

 

[smkchick]

I'm totally paranoid that my lavender orpington eggs won't hatch. Don't ask me why. Just an attitude problem, I guess.

Tonight, the dog was very interested in the incubator. She kept going over to it and sniffing it. Is is possible she knows something I don't know?

I took the day off tomorrow for the hatch. Oh yeah. And because I can.

My cousin's coming over to help me sit on the eggs. She's bringing chicken for lunch. All of a sudden that strikes me as very funny...

 

[stoopid]

from Ridge! The gals have dubbed me "the chicken fairy godmother"
Can't understand how that came about.....
My real name is Roberta, but I just call myself STOOPID.
It started years ago, after I got a bad case of Lyme disease. I ordered Guineas to eat the ticks.
Those things are CRAZY! To offset the racket, I got a bunch of bantams.
But the hawks kept eating them, so I got more.
Then, I figured I would get BIGGER birds. Not so easy to eat.
Yeah....
Then I got an incubator.
Oh boy, the trouble I am in......

 

[stoopid]

Suzanne, if you listen very carefully, they peep to each other.
It's a good sign, the dog does know something!

 

[smkchick]

Suzanne, if you listen very carefully, they peep to each other.
It's a good sign, the dog does know something!

I've been listening - I remembered that from hatching the ducklings in my class. And all of those hatched, even thought conditions were not as wonderful as here. (Although we did have those expensive Lyon incubators).

And Clara definitely senses something - she wouldn't go out, won't eat her breakfast and is lying on the other side of the gate near the incubator. I feel like we're in labor!

 

[queenchick16]

Welcome Cheeky Chick; I am proud to say I have kept my OCD- Obsessive Chicken Disease in check since Nov. That's when I hatched 4 NN, 5 red blue laced wyandottes and 4 buff laced polish (all Roosters). I kept 3 that are now 6 month old juveniles. I also have 2 year old kids and one old lady that is now in menopause.

Its a pretty crazy, fun loving bunch so be prepared. Welcome again.. Carol from East Islip