Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[Imprfctme]

No, I tried to do that last week. Wanted to bring some birds home from out of state. The only animals allowed in the cabin are cats and dogs. No animals can be checked with the baggage as cargo.

I have wondered this myself in the past, and it occured to me as I was thinking about it, egad if my 23 yr old self could see this now... lol.... I think I remember some movie about a plane ride in communist Russia and there are chickens on the flight. Why can't they fly cargo? Seems to me that should happen, they ship horses for heaven's sake.

 

[Imprfctme]

Anyways I figure any hatched now could start
Laying fertile eggs in the sping.
I'm going a bit nuts today. My sisters 20 yr old
suicidal son is missing along with a ton of pills.
My sister thinks he is dead even though he hasnt
been found yet. I can't deal with this so I have
been buying hatching eggs. Good thing for me
hatching eggs are my drug of choice. Ugh.

I am so terribly sorry to hear about your nephew. I hope he gets through this difficult time.

 

[Toxic Chicken]

Today I was high on LIFE!
I went less than 1 hour away to a workiong farm ion Lakewood NJ with a animal/chicken buddy.
Good grief it would take me an hour to type what I found and saw there. My little dream place. From Emus to sheep and all inbe-tween.
3 hours later....yes 3 hours of the nicest one on one tour ....I came home with a beautiful Lav. Orp pullet(my choice of 2 troughs of 6-10 week olds) and feathers from every pea hen, rare pheasant, turkey and chicken I could find on the ground  or buy. I will post the p[lace in a seperate message for ypour future reference.
6 mind you.....6 huge incubators for hatching eggs....eggs for sale of the different breeds for pick-up only...... and no hatchery stock at all. Nice fat healthy birds and just a joy for me to visit.
Chicken crack.....I was both overwhelmed and over joyed. :cd
Shusters Farm. I used to live down there and it is was right by the place I used to clean stalls and herd horse turd to ride for free. Amazing.............absolutely a day trip for a Sunday(the ONLY day for tours) where you can pick them out and buy should you choose to. He has a buildong just for peeps in brooders.
On BYC and ebay as well. He mcares for his animals....really cares. Impressive.....and the care and attention was what will make me go back and back. No more shipped eggs for me!
He will hatch out egg breeds if requested, straight run but not in tiny numbers. He has those 350 count incubators and 6 of them.
3 generationson this farm and will take all my pure roos from now on should I need rehome them long as I tell him where they came from.
The emu and alpacas were amazing and sheep goats pet friendly. 4-H tours and schools alike go there.
Can you tell I am jazzed!!!????
I picked my lavendar orpington pullet from maybe 12 peeps offered at between 8-12 weeks old. Wonderful cause by then the difference between the roos and hens combs is just so obvious. Right now he has quite a number available but someone was also picking 6 hens this afternoon so I am sure that will change.
My friend took a turkey poult and a redish/golden polish which is likely a girl in my book. Gorgeous! we just controlled ourselves. eGad that was hard!

Ooh I want to visit this farm. Sounds like my dream place.

 

[Imprfctme]

I would really, really like to do the New England Poultry Fair this year - or I guess next year, since it will be 2013. I'd love to meet some of the N.E. bloggers and of course hang out and talk chicken with you guys. Let's all try and put that on our calendars as a reward to us for making it through the holidays, yeah? We can even do a Yankee Gift Swap either serious or silly, regifting totally allowed. It would be nice to have something to look forward to, plus we need to keep Roberta from turning on the Mega Incubatron 3000 and hatching 200 eggs in the middle of winter and driving herself crazy.

So who's with me? We could even book a block of rooms for a group discount or something for that one night, carpool together, etc.

 

[Toxic Chicken]

I just won another CL auction. 9+ eggs from a
different breeder than the first ones.
I hope some of you are serious about wanting
CLs.

 

[Carolyn252]

I just won another CL auction. 9+ eggs from a
different breeder than the first ones.
I hope some of you are serious about wanting
CLs.

I'm serious about wanting BLUE-egg layers, so two cream legbar pullets would be very welcome here.


But, I can only take them if they've been vaccinated against Marek's Disease, and are at least four months old so they can cope with living with my hens.

Pet quality is sufficient, I don't breed, or show, my birds.

 

[Toxic Chicken]

I would really, really like to do the New England Poultry Fair this year - or I guess next year, since it will be 2013. I'd love to meet some of the N.E. bloggers and of course hang out and talk chicken with you guys. Let's all try and put that on our calendars as a reward to us for making it through the holidays, yeah? We can even do a Yankee Gift Swap either serious or silly, regifting totally allowed. It would be nice to have something to look forward to, plus we need to keep Roberta from turning on the Mega Incubatron 3000 and hatching 200 eggs in the middle of winter and driving herself crazy. 

So who's with me? We could even book a block of rooms for a group discount or something for that one night, carpool together, etc.

I might need to go to sell chicks unless I find homes for them
here.

 

[smkchick]

Glad you had a nice time at Lambertville, I get nervous suggesting places like that. Early Spring will be even better .

Can't imagine better!!

 

[Toxic Chicken]

It's so cold out at night. I'm thinking of bringing the broody
silkie inside to hatch her eggs. ? Or am I just over thinking
this. It kind of defeats the purpose of letting her do it vs my
incubator. My brain is just not functioning.

I'm just nervous they won't hatch like the first time
I bought CL eggs. Or they hatch but the little ones
Freeze.

 

[smkchick]

Okay, it's 2:40 am and I'm still awake. My beautiful weekend was shaken (if not stirred) by an ongoing "conversation" via email with my siblings about my mother's financial situation. It's long, it's complicated and it's ugly. Fortunately, my siblings and I are all on the same page, but it means dealing with my mother. We own 1/2 of the family home, which we inherited from our father. The other 1/2 is Mom's. She's all worried about running out of money but doesn't want to sell the house (which is a 6 bedroom Colonial in Baldwin, complete with killer taxes and huge heating costs). We're all struggling ourselves financially (hello, unemployed here) so we can't help out. Every six months or so some snake oil salesman or Robert Wagner convinces my mother she should take out a reverse mortgage, which of course she can't, and then we go round and round this for a couple of weeks while she bemoans her inability to make this decision for herself because we own 1/2 the house. There's more to it than that, but I'll spare you.

After a whole day of emails all around NY and NC, I'm so sick of the whole thing, I'm going to drive there right now and put a *&^%ing "For Sale" sign on the place. Or a Molotov cocktail.

Anyone ever read "The House of Sand and Fog"?

Thanks for letting me vent.

I'm definitely in for an extended road trip to Springfield in January. And, Heather, any Sunday you want to round up the girls and go to the farm in NJ, give me a shout. I'd love to do that!