San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread - Page 580

Ill be there with about 70 chicks for sale but will be busy showing my wife will be in charge of selling.

Phage, you are not kidding about this being a wildlife weekend. Today's topper for me was finding a dead OWL in my pool! I've had gophers, moles, mice and rats drowned in there before, but this was my first owl. It was actually quite sad.

I may have some various birds for sale at the meetup; I will have to wait and see how things sex out in the next few weeks! I'm going to be solo again that weekend, otherwise I'd volunteer to go stake out a site for us. I'm not sure how long Alex will last, so I'm going to have to plan my time carefully.

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Originally Posted by desertdarlene 


Looks like a gopher snake to me. It's definitely a constrictor as you can see by its head. All the poisonous snakes in the US, except coral snakes, are pit vipers and have a heart-shaped head.

Actually, I think it was a glossy snake. (Changed my mind. LOL)   Heres a series of pics: http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/a.e.occidentalis.html

And heres a great site with pictures of San Diego snakes: http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/snakespics.html

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Originally Posted by ChickenRfun257 

Ill be there with about 70 chicks for sale but will be busy showing my wife will be in charge of selling.

What kind of chicks are you selling?

I should be at the meet-up  and may bring chicks:

- cream legbar pairs,

- swedish flower hens

- ameraucanas

- olive eggers

- cuckoo marans 

and probably project chicks including blue egg layers: cream legbar x wheaten ameraucanas, leghorn and brabanter. 

Also have some pea fowl eggs cooking if anyone is interested, but they are not due to hatch until after the meet-up.

Holy COW I am meant to be cutting back on hatching 

I posted a thread on random ramblings to help name the farm.

I need a name and cant think of one

please help by putting your thoughts here.

thank you

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/667537/i-need-a-name-for-the-farm

Someone came to the lake and dropped off several Pekin ducks this weekend.  When I came along, this female was with Louie the gander and two male Pekins and she could hardly walk.  Her back was also all bloody.  I thought, at first, that Louie had hurt her, but I think he might have been protecting her because he seems to get upset when the males gang up on the females.  When I went to pick her up, he stretched out his neck at me, but let me do so.

I moved her to another place at the lake away from the males, but she got really upset and began looking for me in the road and parking lot.  Then, I moved her to another spot and the last I saw her, she was resting in the shade in the tree and seemed to be at peace, but she seemed to perk up when I talked to her.  

Is there anyone here that can take her in?  I'm sure I can catch her again.  I don't think she's eaten much in the last day and doesn't seem interested in bathing.  I carried her around a lot and she didn't poop on me at all.  She can walk a little bit, but not much.  Otherwise, I will have to leave her there, she is too loud for me even to take home for a couple hours, plus the manager said that I absolutely can't bring her there at all not even for a second.

Here is a picture of her.  When I held her, her legs were really hot, but they seemed cooler the second time I carried her around.

I'd love to go to the meetup, with a few suggestions:

1.  No raffle.  I went to the meetup owning six chickens.  One raffle, six "you won!" fertilized Wellie eggs and a month later I had 23 and a second coop.

2.  No one brings chicks.  At all.  See#1 above.

3.  Now that I think about it, maybe it would be better if no one talked to each other.  At all.  See #1 and #2 above.

4.  Who am I kidding.  I will be at the meetup.  I will participate in a raffle, if there is one.  I will bring small baggies of flax seed, DE and kelp to donate to the raffle, if anyone might like those.  I will not bring a carrier, or my nephew, and hope it is enough to save me from my doom.

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Originally Posted by Compost Girl 

I'd love to go to the meetup, with a few suggestions:

1.  No raffle.  I went to the meetup owning six chickens.  One raffle, six "you won!" fertilized Wellie eggs and a month later I had 23 and a second coop.

2.  No one brings chicks.  At all.  See#1 above.

3.  Now that I think about it, maybe it would be better if no one talked to each other.  At all.  See #1 and #2 above.

4.  Who am I kidding.  I will be at the meetup.  I will participate in a raffle, if there is one.  I will bring small baggies of flax seed, DE and kelp to donate to the raffle, if anyone might like those.  I will not bring a carrier, or my nephew, and hope it is enough to save me from my doom.

LOL..... I have a Carrier..... and am a REALLY goood enabler.... hee hee.  Oh and you can borrow it that way I wont go home with anything. 

I may even get to go.  Moms Radiation treatments will be done by then and I will be back on a normal schedule for running to and fro from my house in the desert.

deb

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Originally Posted by Compost Girl 

I'd love to go to the meetup, with a few suggestions:

1.  No raffle.  I went to the meetup owning six chickens.  One raffle, six "you won!" fertilized Wellie eggs and a month later I had 23 and a second coop.

2.  No one brings chicks.  At all.  See#1 above.

3.  Now that I think about it, maybe it would be better if no one talked to each other.  At all.  See #1 and #2 above.

4.  Who am I kidding.  I will be at the meetup.  I will participate in a raffle, if there is one.  I will bring small baggies of flax seed, DE and kelp to donate to the raffle, if anyone might like those.  I will not bring a carrier, or my nephew, and hope it is enough to save me from my doom.

So young and so optimistic.........

Sigh,  

I will bring a spare carrier.........