Bay Area BYCers!

[OrpingtonManor]

glad you found us!

 

[eastbaychicks]

YEa... so what time works? 11 sound good at the boat launch?

 

[OrpingtonManor]

sounds good -- 11am March 27th!

 

[jeremy]

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Livermore Feed and Grain is a good place for food, scratch and I think they get chicks too. I got my chicks from the now defunct Ranch Hag Hens in Petaluma which is a BUMMER so I'll be looking around for pullets.

Livermore here... Yep they have chicks. I went specifically to hold the babies and they wouldn't let me. Now I have to drive to Alamo to hold babies.

Anyone have fertile Buff Orpington or Maran eggs? Pullets work fine too. I just can't raise chicks from babies anymore after we lost one. It was just too hard on me. I'd rather have the hen do it or some one else.

Anyone interested in a pot luck or doggie walk at Del Valle? Or some other park.... it would be fun to meet some of you!!!

I could probably collect some Cuckoo Marans eggs for you. They're hatchery stock but they've been great birds so far. My hen lays consistently everyday and my roo, Franky, is a big softy. He really takes care of his ladies. I do also have some Buff Orp hens, but the resulting chicks would be Cuckoo Marans X Buff Orpington, not pure. (They'd look something like a blurry barred Buff Orp.)

Let me know if you want me to start collecting for you.

 

[eastbaychicks]

Ohhh.... ok... let me get ready. I'll let you know when I've got the DH on board.

 

[jeremy]

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Oh and I didn't even realize how close you were, Livemore is just down the road. I'll just take BART out to Dublin and meet you at the station,

Let me know how many eggs you'd like, I'll go ahead and start setting some aside for you. It'll probably take me about a week or so to collect a dozen. I just wanted to remind you that my birds are hatchery Marans, not from breeder lines. Both my hen and roo are very healthy and productive. She lays everyday and he is very protective. Her eggs tend to be about a 3 on the Marans egg color chart. Her eggs are always darker than the rest of my hens but those who consider themselves "Marans fanciers" might turn their noses up at them.

Here's some pictures of the birds your eggs will come from,

Amelia,

and Franky,

 

[eastbaychicks]

I have a Maran with eggs about that color too... and I still love them! They look so beautiful next to my Blue EE eggs. It's super fun. Your birds are beautiful. Let's keep in touch. I sent you a PM with more info.

 

[eastbaychicks]

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Anyone is welcome to join in, and if you have a dog this is a great spot!

 

[ChickenMama18]

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Anyone is welcome to join in, and if you have a dog this is a great spot!

I'm in the inland east bay out near Antioch. We have five eight month old chickens and four baby chicks. We love having chickens...more then we imagined. We also have one fox terrier mix (who wants chicken for dinner) and a shepherd mix (who cares less about the chickens) who is ten months old. And then there are the two cats who we pretend aren't there (sorry...love them but they are just kind of there) and last we have our rat. Yes, I'd have more if we could...but this will do for now til the kids are grown and I can have horses again.

 

[SC_Hugh]

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OK, today is the day! Beware the Ides of March...March 15th is the only Roman calendar day that I can remember.

"The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression "Ides of March" did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying "March 15." Surely such a fanciful expression must signify something more than merely another day of the year? Not so. Even in Shakespeare's time, sixteen centuries later, audiences attending his play Julius Caesar wouldn't have blinked twice upon hearing the date called the Ides.

The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:

* Kalends (1st day of the month)
* Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months)
* Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months)

The remaining, unnamed days of the month were identified by counting backwards from the Kalends, Nones, or the Ides. For example, March 3 would be V Nones—5 days before the Nones (the Roman method of counting days was inclusive; in other words, the Nones would be counted as one of the 5 days)".

Let's check out those BYC pages. I still have a couple of more photos to upload, but first I have to scan them...maybe by the Ides of April...April 13th!

Looking good,

--Hugh