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[Chooklet]

Unabashed plug for my listing for various (mostly) cockerals available - some free, others have nominal cost - all are negotiable for the right home.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=532146

I am really hoping to find local folks who are interested

Interesting mix of birds, including a number of mille fleur project cochins.

Thanks for looking!

 

[Fluffy2]

Hi! I am in East Bay also. Got my chicks at Alamo Feed and now go to the Concord Feed and Fuel that has a store in Dublin. They have alot for not being the old type feed store.
I am in need of a Chicken Sitter for the last weekend in July. I have 4 hens that will be 16 weeks at that time. Very easy girls.
My neighbors are gone same weekend

. and we don't have alot (any) friends who understand how easy chickens are.
I live near Stoneridge Mall.
Just need someone to shut the coop after dusk and open it up any time in morning. They free range in the backyard.

Of course I would pay time and gas. Maybe someone has a teenager that would like a quick job and cash?
Help?
Thanks!
Fuzzy 2
Leaving last Thursday in July and returning the next Tuesday.

 

[cherylcohen]

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My 18 year old may be able to help, he does chicken sitting for others around here. Where are you located? PM me with details etc

 

[PetRock]

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Interactive chicken TV!!!

That sounds a lot like my nightly routine! We have seven 1 yr old hens, seven 11-14 wk old youngsters, and three 7 week old babies. They free range all day in our 1/3 acre backyard but then comes the bedtime ordeal. The three babies are always willing to walk the ramp into the coop but I don't quite trust them in their with the older chooks since their broody mama cut them loose and stopped protecting them. So they get picked up and shut in two adjoining nesting boxes that I blocked off for them. Then we wait for the older girls to decide to go into the coop to roost. Meanwhile, the youngsters congregate on the step by our French doors. They spent their younger days in a brooder in our family room right inside the backdoor. They just can't seem to let go of that want to be nighttime house chickens. Once the big girls have gone to bed, we pick up the other seven who are piled by the door and put them inside the run. The order of picking them up is important. If our one BW AM roo or his sister is left for last or near last, it's a guaranteed 20 min. of chasing them around the yard in order to catch them.

Last night, after being placed in the run, all of youngsters went up the ramp into the coop except for our little Silver AM from John. Amelia must be Athena's sister! Even though she is the oldest of our youngsters, she is the tiniest and wants to be a shoulder chicken. She loves to sit on my shoulder, snuggle under my chin, and groom my hair. When she does that, our young roo, Lemon Drop, starts giving me the eye and trying to fly from the ground up to my shoulder. I'm sure that he thinks that he should be top chicken! I'm not interested in a shoulder rooster so I have to foil his plan every time! My hubby wants us to plan a few days away but who would I trust with my chooks and their crazy routine?! I keep telling him that in just a few more weeks, they should all be integrated and putting themselves to bed. Today, he started talking about getting an automatic door for the coop!

 

[jeremy]

Dawn, I just got to work but I'll try to give you my thoughts on the girls later today when I have a break!

Debi (& Dawn), my nightly routine goes about the same. I've got my Amerauana/layers to put away, then the Orpingtons, then the juvies, then the chicks and finally the broodies and their babies... it's typically about a half hour process to put everyone to bed...

Some nights it makes me wish I had only my original 8 girls that I started with back in 2008.

 

[Country Chick at Heart]

Hi! I am in East Bay also. Got my chicks at Alamo Feed and now go to the Concord Feed and Fuel that has a store in Dublin. They have alot for not being the old type feed store.
I am in need of a Chicken Sitter for the last weekend in July. I have 4 hens that will be 16 weeks at that time. Very easy girls.
My neighbors are gone same weekend . and we don't have alot (any) friends who understand how easy chickens are.
I live near Stoneridge Mall.
Just need someone to shut the coop after dusk and open it up any time in morning. They free range in the backyard.

Of course I would pay time and gas. Maybe someone has a teenager that would like a quick job and cash?
Help?
Thanks!
Fuzzy 2
Leaving last Thursday in July and returning the next Tuesday.

Hello! I'm in Pleasanton so if Cheryl's son isn't able to help out, I might be available. Just let me know.

 

[PetRock]

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I totally love my chooks, but this week I've been thinking why in the world did I think that I needed 10 more chickens?!!!! 7 hens was such a nice manageable number! My hens have been so noisy lately with their egg song that I'm starting to worry about the noise level once the 9 pullets start laying. We need to get rid of 22 years of accumulated stuff, sell the house, and find a house that we can afford with some land down in the Santa Cruz area, soon!

 

[jeremy]

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I totally love my chooks, but this week I've been thinking why in the world did I think that I needed 10 more chickens?!!!! 7 hens was such a nice manageable number! My hens have been so noisy lately with their egg song that I'm starting to worry about the noise level once the 9 pullets start laying. We need to get rid of 22 years of accumulated stuff, sell the house, and find a house that we can afford with some land down in the Santa Cruz area, soon!

Debi... the last time I counted, I was at 61 birds from week old chicks to 3+ year old hens... I feel like there's always something to be fed, watered, cleaned, gathered, checked on, etc., etc. ...

We're going away this weekend and a friend is chicken sitting for us, I'm going to start writing detailed instructions for her tonight.

 

[PetRock]

That's a good friend you have, Jeremy!

 

[ChezPoulez]

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When I had much more land and a much larger flock, I found the secret was to keep some lengths of 24" high chicken wire around. I had eye bolts screwed into various fence posts at 6" and 24" high and the same on the corner of the coop. I used double ended clips to clip the chicken wire to the eye bolts to create chutes to funnel the chickens into smaller and smaller areas that made catching easier, or to let them learn to go in on their own.