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    Bay Area BYCers!

    It looks like all the girls are taken to nice homes. Thanks everyone for your help! Dave
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    Great! I sent you a PM. Dave
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    She is a sweet girl and yes you can have her. I would prefer you pick her up some evening after 8:30 so they will all be nice and calm. Will that work for you?
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    Downsizing in Walnut Creek...I am afraid my last 3 girls need a new home or homes. They are 18 months old and have been good layers (see below) with sweet personalities. Daisey is a Barred Rock, Polly is an Americana laying lovely jade green eggs, and Geneva is big fluffy Buff Orpington. Geneva...
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    Thanks for the tips. I wish I could give her some eggs to hatch but this is just not a good time for that. I am (gently) booting her off the nest despite her fluffing and curses, but I am getting worried about her eating and drinking. Despite her grumpiness, she is a very sweet girl. I try to...
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    One of my Buff Orps has gone seriously broody on me. She only wants to sit on a nest and growl at me! This has been going on for about a week now. Is there anything I can do to discourage her or do I just wait for her to get frustrated and settle down?
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    Welcome! We always need more hobby farmers and being a gentleman just adds to it! ;-) Dave
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    Thanks, Wishing, when you say probiotics do you mean something like yoghurt? Mine don't really seem very rundown except maybe by the season and the weather (they are all molting) but their egg production has really dropped off. No eggs yesterday and only 2 today, and all the eggs are pretty poopy.
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    Actually 1-2 of my 5 hens have it too. I have been wondering if it is the feed. I am giving them that fancy Omega-3 Layena and I wonder if that could be causing it.
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    Nice pics, Jeremy! Beautiful birds, too!
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    I went last year before my coop was done and before I got the peepers and it was pretty amazing. Biggest chickens I EVER SAW!! Saw one little girl maybe 6 years old walking around with a big fluffy hen that looked about as big as she was! ...and watch out for the turkeys! [gasp]
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    You might think about checking to see how much they charge to deliver. One cubic yard (27 cubic feet) will weigh 2500 pounds or so. Too much to haul even in a full size pickup like a Ford F-150. To put it another way, 1 yard will require about 50 bags of playground sand which will cost you at...
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    I know that much of the rest of North America considers us a bunch of weather-wussies, but seriously now...do we need to do anything for our flock with the temps dropping into the 20s??
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    Got chicken stories?

    OK here is a historical story that is part of my family lore. One branch of my family is Scotch-Irish. The Scotch meant they started in the lowlands of Scotland, then got resettled by the British into Ulster, then got tired of the Brits and immigrated in about 1725 through Charleston to to the...
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    Thanks everyone. I use sand inside the coop, so it makes perfect sense to put it down in the run. It looks like it is going to take a yard or two...I will have my work cut out for me! HaHa!
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