I might be interested. I just sold my EE s and am missing their blue eggsI'm looking for a pure blue egger (Cream Legbar, Araucana, etc.) roo to breed with my Leghorn.
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I might be interested. I just sold my EE s and am missing their blue eggsI'm looking for a pure blue egger (Cream Legbar, Araucana, etc.) roo to breed with my Leghorn.
I know there are a bunch of us Northern California types here (yeah, I'm talking to you).
Now, the question is where do we draw the line between North and South?
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Welcome!I'm in what I consider the North Eastbay - Martinez CA
My chickens originally came from Concord Feed
So I'm thinking I can post here
If anyone is still looking for a way to keep their chickens alive in this heat: One more tool I just figured out yesterday. I have large plastic cement mixing tubs that I use for dustbaths, and have tried to use before with some water and pavers to give them a cool place to stand on or even lie down, without having to be standing in the water - which they avoid like the plague. It didn't really work - the pavers didn't get very cool and the chickens rarely used it.
Then yesterday in my panic I bought a few large bags of ice to fill into buckets to place in the run. Moderate success, they didn't cuddle up to them, but some hung out near the buckets and no one died. When I dumped the buckets at night I found they still had a lot of ice in them, so I dumped it in the run. This morning most of it was still frozen, after a night that didn't dip below 90 before 9 o'clock or so...
Anyway, this morning I took one of those large pans, put in large pavers (taking up maybe half the floor area) and dumped a large bag of ice into the pan. I spread it out so none was covering a paver, and tadaaa! The chickens are using it! At least the smarter, more trusting ones are (of course the SFH, the SS and the BR ). They stand on the pavers and stop panting, at 105 F! Yipee! I have another bag of ice at the ready should this one all melt away...
Gaaahhh - I am soo glad that they are predicting the weather to become a bit more bearable tomorrow!
Welcome!
Pleas post here. Do you have pictures?
You are doing fine!Im hoping this posts to the Northern California Forum
Question: Worming
Example http://www.dbcagproducts.com/produc...t=healthpack&utm_campaign=chicken_advertising
I was shocked to see how much pharma c$&p was being feed to the chickens I acquired and detoxed them
I only have three - I could understand how something like this could get out of control with a bigger population
For now I'm taking the natural route - am I delusional? My grandmother and her mother before her didn't use all that pharma stuff!
Please share your thoughts and remedies
washing hands before and after, controlling flies, keeping feet clean, picking up poop sooner than later to compost, using herbs in the bedding, occasionally use diatomaceous earth food grade
Using a recipe given to me by another chicken person locally that consists of crushed garlic (a proven antiviral etc) and apple cider to name a few
Again please share
You are doing fine!
You can send a sample in for a float test to UC Davis before treating for worms--only if they find worms.
cahfs.ucdavis.edu
Check every six months to a year