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post #7161 of 24015
10/14/12 at 6:04pm
When does the rain usually start in this area? Like for a few days straight?
When does everything get green again?
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post #7162 of 24015
10/14/12 at 6:08pm
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Originally Posted by MonsterClucker View Post

When does the rain usually start in this area? Like for a few days straight?
When does everything get green again?

About January............barnie.gif

The difference between breakfast and chicks, is the temperature you use to "cook" the eggs!

 

What breeds do I have?  More than any sane person would own.

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The difference between breakfast and chicks, is the temperature you use to "cook" the eggs!

 

What breeds do I have?  More than any sane person would own.

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post #7163 of 24015
10/14/12 at 6:14pm
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Originally Posted by MonsterClucker View Post

When does the rain usually start in this area? Like for a few days straight?
When does everything get green again?

 

Rain starts the end of October with heavier rain coming in November. greens up in January and Feburary. Redding area gets quite a bit of rain in the winter. so do the foothills where I am generally.

last winter was light but we still had 26 inches. Year before we had over 50 with quite a bit of snow. Over a foot twice and about 8 snowfalls total. last winter it snowed 3 times but only stuck here once with about 7 inches.

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California Certified Nursery Pro

 

Breeding Crele Penedesenca's ,Black Penedesenca  and White Empordanesa's

plus the

Blue Crew ( U of a Blues , Blue Ameraucana , Easter Eggers , Olive eggers and now Silver Ameraucana )

 

for olive egger purposes

 

"Penedesenca Breeders and Fan Club " on Facebook

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post #7164 of 24015
10/14/12 at 6:25pm
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Originally Posted by ronott1 View Post

Laura, Chickens do like to go high up there don't they?

 

How is your mystery Marraduna Basque doing? Mine that was supposed to be a girl may wind up being a boy.

 

I have been very busy today. I cleaned the garage, coops, made Apricot Pineapple Jelly, Boston Cream pie and will soon start working on rolls for dinner. Dinner is chicken Jambalaya.

 

I should sleep well tonight!

 

busy here today too, my friend Henry (who built my chicken coop) returned to install fancy new external nesting boxes -- will post photos once i can get myself organized.

 

and the mystery chick, Baby, is most likely a boy -- comb is still pale & about the same size as his sister, maybe a TEENY bit bigger but not at large nor as red as the isbar boy, who is two weeks younger.  the basques are now 8.5 weeks old -- from photos of other basques cockerels, i was expecting more of a male-looking comb by now -- but the coloring is a male pattern, as you've said, so likely a boy.  i'll add pictures once i get them off my phone!

-- laura, plus frances & bella (silver penciled rocks), dixie & ethel (cuckoo marans), daisy (australorp), jane (light sussex), eleanor & maggie (EO basque), lucy two & speedy (cream legbars), amelia one and two (CL x pene crosses), AND max the swedish flower hen rooster! plus a bunch of newly-hatched babies...

and cats sophie, henry, and pearl, of course!

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-- laura, plus frances & bella (silver penciled rocks), dixie & ethel (cuckoo marans), daisy (australorp), jane (light sussex), eleanor & maggie (EO basque), lucy two & speedy (cream legbars), amelia one and two (CL x pene crosses), AND max the swedish flower hen rooster! plus a bunch of newly-hatched babies...

and cats sophie, henry, and pearl, of course!

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post #7165 of 24015
10/14/12 at 7:45pm
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Originally Posted by debs_flock View Post

About January............barnie.gif

Your not looking forward to the rains?

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Originally Posted by COOPER12 View Post

Rain starts the end of October with heavier rain coming in November. greens up in January and Feburary. Redding area gets quite a bit of rain in the winter. so do the foothills where I am generally.
last winter was light but we still had 26 inches. Year before we had over 50 with quite a bit of snow. Over a foot twice and about 8 snowfalls total. last winter it snowed 3 times but only stuck here once with about 7 inches.

Wow I can't believe it snows that much were you are! What's the elevation where you live? Um in Anderson. I think we are somewhere around at about 800ft.
Does it snow in Anderson? This is my first year in NorCal so I'm a newbie with the weather out here.
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Originally Posted by lawatt View Post

busy here today too, my friend Henry (who built my chicken coop) returned to install fancy new external nesting boxes -- will post photos once i can get myself organized.

and the mystery chick, Baby, is most likely a boy -- comb is still pale & about the same size as his sister, maybe a TEENY bit bigger but not at large nor as red as the isbar boy, who is two weeks younger.  the basques are now 8.5 weeks old -- from photos of other basques cockerels, i was expecting more of a male-looking comb by now -- but the coloring is a male pattern, as you've said, so likely a boy.  i'll add pictures once i get them off my phone!

I know your happy about your nest boxes!

I'm still trying to find a girlfriend for the isbar Roo. I'm waiting on a email from a lady I just bought some cream legbar juveniles from, she raises blue isbars and said she was gonna check her inventory and let me know if she has any juvie pullets! Hopefully she has one in there!

I do need to find out about how many miles you are from me to see when ill be able to swing that way.
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post #7166 of 24015
10/14/12 at 8:00pm
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Originally Posted by MonsterClucker View Post

I know your happy about your nest boxes!
I'm still trying to find a girlfriend for the isbar Roo. I'm waiting on a email from a lady I just bought some cream legbar juveniles from, she raises blue isbars and said she was gonna check her inventory and let me know if she has any juvie pullets! Hopefully she has one in there!
I do need to find out about how many miles you are from me to see when ill be able to swing that way.

 

thanks!  GoogleMaps says it's 198 miles from there to here -- so, quite a haul.  if you decide you don't want the splash isbar boy, i'll probably be able to sell him to my local feed store (Western Farm in Santa Rosa), unless someone here wants him!

 

and here are some more pictures from today:

 

the two boy-chicks -- basque on left (aka Baby), isbar on right

 

 

henry getting to work on the nesting box install (he built it ahead of time in his garage)

 

 

nest boxes from the outside

 

 

from the inside, with fancy perch!

 

 

view through the next boxes

 

 

finished install of the external nest boxes -- so delighted!!

 

 

we added two new perches inside the henhouse -- INSTANT approval from the younger flock! (and notice, the two boys next two each other again -- isbar right, Baby to his right on that same perch)

 

 

interior of the henhouse, with Speedy the cream legbar peeking around the left edge!

 

 

henry closing the coop door -- all done!!

 

please click on the photos if you want to see larger...

-- laura, plus frances & bella (silver penciled rocks), dixie & ethel (cuckoo marans), daisy (australorp), jane (light sussex), eleanor & maggie (EO basque), lucy two & speedy (cream legbars), amelia one and two (CL x pene crosses), AND max the swedish flower hen rooster! plus a bunch of newly-hatched babies...

and cats sophie, henry, and pearl, of course!

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-- laura, plus frances & bella (silver penciled rocks), dixie & ethel (cuckoo marans), daisy (australorp), jane (light sussex), eleanor & maggie (EO basque), lucy two & speedy (cream legbars), amelia one and two (CL x pene crosses), AND max the swedish flower hen rooster! plus a bunch of newly-hatched babies...

and cats sophie, henry, and pearl, of course!

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post #7167 of 24015
10/14/12 at 8:15pm

Looks like a nice Sunday for everyone. We changed the shavings (we use deep litter method), raked up feathers, hung feeders/waterers and thankfully my husband took over the building of the ladder roosts I wanted to build (nice to know that after 33 years, all I have to do is start the project and he'll take it from me for fear I'll cut a finger off lau.gif).

 

Sold 5 Polish, 4 young ones and 1 Adult Roo and on EE Roo today. Lots of running around catching all the chicks to let them choose and then one of my favorite WCB Polish roos went. Everyone was pretty traumatized after all the chasing but have settle in, some on the new roost. I picked up one of my Splash Polish to put her on the new roost and she felt like she weighed a ton! She's been molting along with everyone else and no ones laying so when she had a bit of poo on her last week and seemed quiet I just wrote it off as molt....but on examination I see she's got something going on. She full of something.......anyone have any experience with this? I noticed when I was cleaning the coop out that there was a runny poo. So, the only real symptoms are that she's really heavy compared to my other hens of the same age, lethargic, molting and loose stool. What should I do? Off to search but if anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. She's one of my favorites and makes beautiful girls for me.

Pam ~ (Formally BigDaddysMom) Married 33 yrs, 2 kids, 5 grandkids! Breeding: Polish; WC Black, White, Splash, Black, Silver & Gold Laced & EE's. Black and Blue Copper Marans & Olive Eggers. Layers: EE, RIR, Sexlink, Australorp, Marans! http://www.facebook.com/HighNDryFarm

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Pam ~ (Formally BigDaddysMom) Married 33 yrs, 2 kids, 5 grandkids! Breeding: Polish; WC Black, White, Splash, Black, Silver & Gold Laced & EE's. Black and Blue Copper Marans & Olive Eggers. Layers: EE, RIR, Sexlink, Australorp, Marans! http://www.facebook.com/HighNDryFarm

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post #7168 of 24015
10/14/12 at 8:35pm
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Originally Posted by lawatt View Post

thanks!  GoogleMaps says it's 198 miles from there to here -- so, quite a haul.  if you decide you don't want the splash isbar boy, i'll probably be able to sell him to my local feed store (Western Farm in Santa Rosa), unless someone here wants him!

and here are some more pictures from today:


the two boy-chicks -- basque on left (aka Baby), isbar on right



henry getting to work on the nesting box install (he built it ahead of time in his garage)



nest boxes from the outside



from the inside, with fancy perch!



view through the next boxes



finished install of the external nest boxes -- so delighted!!



we added two new perches inside the henhouse -- INSTANT approval from the younger flock! (and notice, the two boys next two each other again -- isbar right, Baby to his right on that same perch)



interior of the henhouse, with Speedy the cream legbar peeking around the left edge!



henry closing the coop door -- all done!!

please click on the photos if you want to see larger...

Nice Construction!
They look very high quality.
So I think your about a 3.5 hr one way trip. I hope I can find a day before the end of the month. I'll let you know if I will be able to.

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Originally Posted by BigDaddysMom View Post

Looks like a nice Sunday for everyone. We changed the shavings (we use deep litter method), raked up feathers, hung feeders/waterers and thankfully my husband took over the building of the ladder roosts I wanted to build (nice to know that after 33 years, all I have to do is start the project and he'll take it from me for fear I'll cut a finger off lau.gif ).

Sold 5 Polish, 4 young ones and 1 Adult Roo and on EE Roo today. Lots of running around catching all the chicks to let them choose and then one of my favorite WCB Polish roos went. Everyone was pretty traumatized after all the chasing but have settle in, some on the new roost. I picked up one of my Splash Polish to put her on the new roost and she felt like she weighed a ton! She's been molting along with everyone else and no ones laying so when she had a bit of poo on her last week and seemed quiet I just wrote it off as molt....but on examination I see she's got something going on. She full of something.......anyone have any experience with this? I noticed when I was cleaning the coop out that there was a runny poo. So, the only real symptoms are that she's really heavy compared to my other hens of the same age, lethargic, molting and loose stool. What should I do? Off to search but if anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. She's one of my favorites and makes beautiful girls for me.

Maybe try Duramycin-10. It's a soluble powder you mix in with their water for 5 days. They say its a shotgun approach antibiotic that cures up a number of different conditions. You get it at TSC
Wish I could help out more hmm.png.

Mike
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Now Breeding Blue Double Laced Barnevelders and soon Partridge Orpingtons and Bielefelders !
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post #7169 of 24015
10/14/12 at 8:37pm
I'm sure someone will have more helpful info up her soon for you Mrs Pam.
Ron must be snoozing lol
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Now Breeding Blue Double Laced Barnevelders and soon Partridge Orpingtons and Bielefelders !
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Gold Laced Brahma, Silver Laced Brahma, Buff Laced Brahma, Palomino Brahma, LF Buff Brahma Blue Orpington, Lavender Orpington, Euskal Oiloa Basque, Blue Americuana

Now Breeding Blue Double Laced Barnevelders and soon Partridge Orpingtons and Bielefelders !
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post #7170 of 24015
10/14/12 at 8:40pm
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Originally Posted by debs_flock View Post

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Originally Posted by capayvalleychick View Post

 

 

Great picture!

 

When we sit out with the chickens in the evening, we don't share.  We usually have a cocktail in our hands (and I don't mean part of a rooster).

 

tongue2.gif

 

Deb

yuckyuck.gif Mine try to share my cocktails! If I have something with a lime in there they're always trying to get it but they're not picky, if I set my drink down, someone's always in it. I think I'll get peanuts to deter them!

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Originally Posted by Chickielady View Post

Hi guys !

You getting rain out of this weather system ???????????

I AM SO HAPPY it is finally raining here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

We have had so many fires !!!!!!!!!!!hide.gif

 

So now after the dry, and left us with powdery dust in every run...RAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOBS NON STOP OF RAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!wee.gif

 

So the end result is clay slippery snot mud...underneath is the gravel we put in years ago....

So...not complaining  EVER AGAIN ABOUT TOO MUCH RAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!     yippiechickie.gif

Can't wait to get some serious rain here! Now that I've got the coops all changed out with new shavings and new roosts, I'm ready. Enjoy and don't fall and slip on all that mud!

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Originally Posted by MonsterClucker View Post

I know your happy about your nest boxes!
I'm still trying to find a girlfriend for the isbar Roo. I'm waiting on a email from a lady I just bought some cream legbar juveniles from, she raises blue isbars and said she was gonna check her inventory and let me know if she has any juvie pullets! Hopefully she has one in there!
I do need to find out about how many miles you are from me to see when ill be able to swing that way.

 

thanks!  GoogleMaps says it's 198 miles from there to here -- so, quite a haul.  if you decide you don't want the splash isbar boy, i'll probably be able to sell him to my local feed store (Western Farm in Santa Rosa), unless someone here wants him!

 

and here are some more pictures from today:

 

the two boy-chicks -- basque on left (aka Baby), isbar on right

 

 

henry getting to work on the nesting box install (he built it ahead of time in his garage)

 

 

nest boxes from the outside

 

 

from the inside, with fancy perch!

 

 

view through the next boxes

 

 

finished install of the external nest boxes -- so delighted!!

 

 

we added two new perches inside the henhouse -- INSTANT approval from the younger flock! (and notice, the two boys next two each other again -- isbar right, Baby to his right on that same perch)

 

 

interior of the henhouse, with Speedy the cream legbar peeking around the left edge!

 

 

henry closing the coop door -- all done!!

 

please click on the photos if you want to see larger...

LOVE your set up! love.gif Very well planned and great ventilation. Nice of your friend to take the time to build it for you, his pride in his work shows. Like the way he finished the rafters and you'll love the external laying boxes. From what I can see of your design they should give you no problem choosing to lay in those boxes.

Pam ~ (Formally BigDaddysMom) Married 33 yrs, 2 kids, 5 grandkids! Breeding: Polish; WC Black, White, Splash, Black, Silver & Gold Laced & EE's. Black and Blue Copper Marans & Olive Eggers. Layers: EE, RIR, Sexlink, Australorp, Marans! http://www.facebook.com/HighNDryFarm

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Pam ~ (Formally BigDaddysMom) Married 33 yrs, 2 kids, 5 grandkids! Breeding: Polish; WC Black, White, Splash, Black, Silver & Gold Laced & EE's. Black and Blue Copper Marans & Olive Eggers. Layers: EE, RIR, Sexlink, Australorp, Marans! http://www.facebook.com/HighNDryFarm

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