Recent content by DarlingMommy

I'm in Riverside/Woodcrest, and we have a rapidly growing flock of chicks and just yesterday our first duck! We are starting over since moving down from Reno. Would love to meet other people in the area! :-) Hi Norco people!!!!

I'm thinking I got eggs that had been bamboozled by an outside duck.... They are from an Ebay seller who says they are pure Cayuga, but pics below. I'm thinking crossed with Rouen or Swede?? The yellow on his head is VERY clear and noticeable. :-( He's still adorable, but....

I have been putting this off, but I am giving away my whole flock. My dogs got some of my baby chicks (ok, ONE DOG ate a BUNCH of baby chicks) and I don't have the heart or cash to make a brand new awesome coop, when we will be moving before next summer into our own home, and GONE for two months...

Kmollyhughes, do you have pics of your Ameraucauna Roosters? I'm hoping to find a white or blue Ameraucauna Roo to breed with my Lavendar Ameraucauna, but I already have my crazy-splash Pretty Boy Roo so I don't want another rooster permanently.

My very first chicks that I have EVER hatched! And they are from my own birds!!! I have two broodies (who are feather friends and are sitting on one combined pile of 30+ eggs). The eggs are all Ameraucauna/Easter Egger, from an Ameraucauna daddy and either Easter Egger, Barred Rock, or...

Nope; no issues with other predators. Our dogs got a few from my VERY first order, but they straightened out right quick. 'Free ranging' though means they are in our fenced-in acreish, our yard is still fenced by a four foot fence. But they hang out with our dogs all day, no problem. Our dogs...

Hello! I live in Lemmon Valley (Birch and Arkansas) and we DO NOT have bears. Thank goodness. We do have coyotes, but a fenced yard and a large dog will keep them far away. We are also 'lucky' enough that our high desert climate means no racoons, skunks, or smaller predators. I do have two...

I would LOVE little lavender! I have one lav am and I almost bought lavender hatching eggs. Let me know by pm if you decided not to keep her. :)

Alright, I caved and bought an incubator. My six year old found an egg still warm, and did all the research on the work and time, and read words like 'oscillating' and 'thermostat,' so it seemed silly not to buy it. (also, I'm a sucker.) Anybody need to borrow incubator space? I wouldn't even...

We don't homeschool anymore; but we are raising chicks and I have a 4 and 6 year old girl! They would love to share chicken-knowledge with other kids. :)

I would love your laying hens!!!! I'm not breed picky and have plenty of space.

I figured out why my girls weren't all laying. :( We have MITES!!! And not a small amount of mites, enough that one of my younger hens got anemia and had to be nursed back to standing. She was too anemic to even open her eyes. I'm not asking for mite-treatment (we have already gone with...

Where is the BYC Northern Nevada Facebook page?!?! I want to go to a chicken-themed potluck!

Ron, the ones you are reffering to are supposedly easter eggers, gifted by SunnyDawn. If they would deign to lay an egg or two I could confirm whether they are EEs or Delawares!

Now just uploading pics: the lavender and black I got from chicharomarinda. I have a purple chicken! Sometimes I get jealous of you guys with game cameras. Today my girls mostly cooperated, though!