Bay Area BYCers!

[SunnyDawn]

Wow Jeremy! What a great story! I am impressed. Sounds like Dora understands you. Either that or chickens aren't as dumb as everyone likes to say they are. We ought to start a thread with great chicken stories and then publish it! Heck we should include all animals/pets and give them each a chapter!

Kim, sorry to hear about your hatch!

I never do shipped eggs for that reason. The PO is just too hard on them!

 

[kelseygirl707]

Hey Guys!

So guess what! I hatched an Emu 4 days ago!!! "She" (we think it may be a girl) is soo Cute, and wants to be with us all the time!!! She follows us around the house, and Bill taught her to eat and drink, just like a daddy emu would. She learned to walk yesterday. She likes to sit in our laps wrapped in a blanket while we watch TV. Unfortunately MIL and FIL don't want an Emu on the Ranch, so she will need a home soon. We plan to take her to the Ag swap in Ukiah on April 8th and ask $75 for her, but if a local BYCer wants to give her a home, we will let her go for $50, becuase we know she will have a wonderful home with a BYCer.

Here is a Video of her learning to walk yesterday, SOO Cute!

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Awww, she's adorable!

 

[PetRock]

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That is something we definitely plan on doing, as well as covering the runs with some sort of netting. This is the second time we've had a bird jump into the creek, the first was a Delaware who decided it was a good place to lay her egg... luckily it was pretty dry then...

As upset as I was when it was happening, I laugh now, too.

I mean... I jumped in a rushing creek to run after a chicken without a second thought or single moments hesitation.

What a close call, Jeremy! So glad that both of you are okay after that experience! Had to laugh at you rushing in to save her without a single thought for yourself (except for your shoes & phone

). I thought the same thing about myself the other day when we drove in all that rain to pick up our three little silvers. I told my daughters that I couldn't believe that we were risking our lives driving in the horrible traffic and rain just to pick up chickens! But, I would do it again in a heartbeat!

 

[PetRock]

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How cute it that!!!! I wish that we had the room to have an emu. She sounds like a sweetie!

 

[PetRock]

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Double post. My browser keeps freezing and when I hit refresh, it reposts my posts! Arghhhh!

 

[jeremy]

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That is something we definitely plan on doing, as well as covering the runs with some sort of netting. This is the second time we've had a bird jump into the creek, the first was a Delaware who decided it was a good place to lay her egg... luckily it was pretty dry then...

As upset as I was when it was happening, I laugh now, too.

I mean... I jumped in a rushing creek to run after a chicken without a second thought or single moments hesitation.

What a close call, Jeremy! So glad that both of you are okay after that experience! Had to laugh at you rushing in to save her without a single thought for yourself (except for your shoes & phone

). I thought the same thing about myself the other day when we drove in all that rain to pick up our three little silvers. I told my daughters that I couldn't believe that we were risking our lives driving in the horrible traffic and rain just to pick up chickens! But, I would do it again in a heartbeat!

Debi, did you catch the last part at the end about me having a chick for you?

I was in a pretty panicked mind set as I saw her being washed away but I remembered that shoes in the water (at least in my experience) slow you down and my phone would be really expensive to replace (with money that I currently have spent on chicks, so...

) so I knew I had to toss that on the ground before taking "the plunge".

I'm glad you and your girls made it home safely, I hope they are enjoying their new babies! I really LOVE my Silver chicks, they are too cute.

kelseygirl707, I want an Emu so bad! Jealous!

 

[jeremy]

Sunny, someone so should start a "Close Calls" thread chronicling heroic chicken saving efforts! I'm sure it would be a good read.

 

[jeremy]

I'm having pretty crummy luck with shipped eggs right now too Kim.

I received a dozen Black Copper Marans (WJ) and Olive Egger hatching eggs from ruth here on BYC, her birds are gorgeous so I was hoping for a terrific hatch. Well, so far I've got 2 Black Coppers out, 1 Blue Copper and one Olive Egger hatched... so 4 of 12 eggs.

One of the BC eggs has a pip and I heard it cheeping but it's taking it's sweet time. I really hope another Olive Egger hatches, ruth's OE eggs are a GORGEOUS deep olive hue.

 

[dldolan]

HOLY SMOKES! Good thing we have had a lot of water up here and Dolly must have learned to swim!

Wow, strong girlie! I am sure it was horribly frightening at the time--you clearly have the no-thought-for-self parenting skill down pat! I supposed you'll need to watch her for pneumonia in case she got water in her lungs. And I'll bet she and Joel are feeling downright spoiled with a heat lamp, having lived outside with mamahen all this time! Sound like she deserved to be pampered, and I hope you got yourself a good, hot bath, too!!

Babies are doing well, and following the lead of the two SS chicks I already had in the brooder. The Lavs are so, so tiny! Here is one of the little Silver guys: