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  1. Alohacayo

    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    ...It was a good & necessary choice. We got mom into City of Hope and their assessment was not much better. But, they did have a treatment that *might* be able to extend her comfort and life but we were still at a very ugly 3-18 months, if the chemo worked… It did not work. Mum went down hill...
  2. Alohacayo

    Not new, but back at it

    The baby ones are always spooky to find. Glad no one was hurt! It’s an adventure living out here.
  3. Alohacayo

    Not new, but back at it

    Thank you for the links. It’s always great to have them repeated so they’re easier to find. I built a hoop coop. The hoop coop is completely enclosed with 1/2” hardware cloth. We are in rattlesnake territory. There’s a golf course that winds thru the subdivision, and we are surrounded by rocky...
  4. Alohacayo

    Not new, but back at it

    ...yells. But she does not cluck. My mother finds this exceedingly funny. I do not. I mentioned siblings. I have a sister a few years younger. She *never* shuts up. She is not above temper tantrums, even though she’s also now in her 5th decade. My mother named the chicken who won’t shut up...
  5. Alohacayo

    Not new, but back at it

    Hello, again! It’s been a while, not even sure how long. It’s been busy around here. Some good, some sad, both in re the chickens and personal. The chickens! Carla-the-mouth is doing fine. She’s a welsummer, 3yo. We had a blessed few months of silence this winter, but as soon as the eggs...
  6. Alohacayo

    When to give up (non-laying hen?)

    Lol, except for the baby picture, the others in that collage is from December. I’ll get some in the morning. I’m technically okay with the no eggs part. Unless she’s a rooster, if she starts crowing, that’s an immediate out of here, bc the HOA would lay an egg over that. We are getting...
  7. Alohacayo

    When to give up (non-laying hen?)

    ...If it wasn’t that she’s always whining/pacing, she could stay, but I got chickens for the entertainment for my elders and Ethel is causing *them* distress. We’ve been dealing with her pacing/whining since December (same time she started nest exploration). Normal chicken noises are fine. This...
  8. Alohacayo

    In need of advice. Not chicken related

    All day long. My aunt & uncle owned a restaurant (supper, wine bar, desserts) for 40+ years on the CA coast. They had a cool custom salad bar… it was an old sail boat sloop, that one of their fishmongers had found after it had washed up. It was OLD. And teak… they had it refurbished and made...
  9. Alohacayo

    Raising Mealworms - best practices? How to prevent / stop grain moths to keep wife happy?

    A quick search led me to this: It appears that the nutrition profile is very similar. Using either should work similar, so then it comes down to management of the food source. Live mealworms can be refrigerated, super worms can not. Mealworms life cycle is much faster than superworms. Supers...
  10. Alohacayo

    Raising Mealworms - best practices? How to prevent / stop grain moths to keep wife happy?

    Hi again, it appears you are in Bulgaria? If so, I googled and they do appear to be available in your country. https://service4pets.eu/portfolio-item/zophobas-morio/ Looks like min order is 50kg (that is ALOT of worms!), but I’m hopeful you’ll be able to find them in a smaller quantity...
  11. Alohacayo

    Raising Mealworms - best practices? How to prevent / stop grain moths to keep wife happy?

    Hi, They are zophobas morio. They are a darkling beetle. Super easy to breed and keep as a colony. Getting them to morph though is 🤏 tricky, but really cool process...
  12. Alohacayo

    The welsummer that won’t shut up, feed related?

    ...noises simply aren’t acceptable. I’m still good with the neighbors, apparently so far they can’t or don’t really hear her, but unfortunately *I* do and it drives me up a wall. I’m really trying to hold out until she’s past 12 months old, hoping whatever is prompting her to get so...
  13. Alohacayo

    Meyer versus local hatchery (hilltop)

    🤷‍♀️ About the outsourcing, but it would be easy enough to contact Patrick or Denise. Because of my very smooth transaction with hilltop, I have zero qualms to recommend them. If you’re anywhere near Corona, in SoCal, I’d order from them again… They were not inexpensive, but sexing was spot...
  14. Alohacayo

    The welsummer that won’t shut up, feed related?

    ...I have great neighbors. And they have not complained, and honestly her ‘tortured human’ over the fence noise is probably not carrying much… but *I* can’t handle it. Hurts my head. It’s interesting, based on the comments that very loud hens seem to be related to 1) good layers 2) greens...
  15. Alohacayo

    Anyone have Sourdough Starter?

    Hi 👋🏼, Ayup, I do sourdough. I make about 10# of bread weekly. The original starter was given to my uncle abt 40 years ago from a friend in Germany. We’re in SoCal. Eventually, no matter where your starter originates, it will be colonized by your local yeasts. Unless you keep it under lab...
  16. Alohacayo

    Hog Panel Run Hardware Cloth Question

    Wow! That is a post. Thank you!
  17. Alohacayo

    Black Acres: The chickens that saved me

    HA! Aside from my welsummer that barks & moans, my cream legbar lays green. A really pretty minty green. But green. Although, I showed my aunt the eggs, and she said they looked blue to her. But she’s the only one who says they’re blue… I’m afraid to see what the two polish will lay, at this...
  18. Alohacayo

    The welsummer that won’t shut up, feed related?

    PLEASE LAUGH. It’s about the only thing that kept me sane with her. My parrots were loud and sometimes annoying (the opera/sewing machine Rhonda mentioned above) but omg this chicken… I never, in my wildest thoughts, thought a chicken could make the noises she makes. Bc she’s been doing it...
  19. Alohacayo

    The welsummer that won’t shut up, feed related?

    Lol, if she starts up again she’s going to have to go live in Hollywood! My neighbors are used to weird noises. I had a yellow-naped parrot (I got her in her mid-20’s, previous pet that was paired up), long time ago, that from dawn to dusk sang opera (loudly!) and made a really weird noise in...
  20. Alohacayo

    The welsummer that won’t shut up, feed related?

    Update: it’s been a week since we had the Friday from hades with Carla-the-mouth. We had very windy (35/40mph sustained, 50/75mph gusts) during the day on Saturday also… These are desert Santa Anna’s (the devil winds). But, they only apparently bothered Carla the first day. I’m happy to...
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