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Hi Steff! Our vacation was amazing! We met some wonderful folks and really enjoyed the trip! There are some vacation pics here https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=253930&p=428 if anyone would like to take a look. We had a relaxing trip, as planned, with plenty of hammock time!
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Glad to hear that most folks can grow all the morning glory varieties with out problems. They really are gorgeous! In San Jose the weather is so mild that a lot of stuff can get invasive. Thanks for the heads up about the bougainvillea! When we move back to a milder climate where I can grow it again I will be sure to keep it away from the flock.

I agree Anna! "Ladybanks" yellow roses are perfect for the Bay Area. The chickens love the leaves but they only eat the bottom half and since ladybanks roses get tall enough they can still keep an area looking gorgeous with all their tiny beautiful little flowers! I had them also in San Jose and they did very well with only a twice a year trim. Congrats on getting Max!

Cheryl thanks for updating us on Max's new home. I'm so glad he is settling in so well with Anna!
 
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Oooooh, the feedstore had day old Silkie chicks when I was there today.

It took all of the will power I had not to buy one in each color and bring them home to my broody.

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Hi fellow Bay area BYCers

I was one of the people who got straight run Ameraucana chicks last year with SunnyDawn. I can only have hens where I am, so we gave two roosters to my brother in law in the Foothills. A Wheaten Ameraucana Rooster and a Silver Ameraucana Rooster. Unfortunately they have decided to kill them, but I wanted to try and rehome them instead because they are beautiful and not the standard EE chickens. You can see pics of John Blehm's Ameraucana's at www.chickhatchery.com from whom we got the chicks. If anyone in the bay area wants them, let me know ASAP. Free to a good home.

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I took a few pictures today, nobody wanted to hold still so they're all a bit blurry.

Neville in all his rooish glory, he's around 6 months old now and acting like it. His hormones are raging and he pounces on everything in sight.

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Alice was the only girl who stopped moving long enough for me to get a somewhat decent shot.

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We had a few visitors in the yard today, they actually held still and let me take a few quick shots, unlike the dummy chickens.
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This giant waterbird was high up in the trees, the chickens made so much noise until he flew off. It's a Black Crowned Night Heron but it sorta looked like a weird penguin to me.
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And a butterfly was enjoying all of the blooms on our citrus trees right now, I was able to get really close.
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I've gotten a strange assortment of eggs lately, giant ones, normal ones and teeny tiny ones.

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Finally, my latest broody is sitting on 8 special eggs, that I think I mentioned before. They are Dun Sumatra eggs. The rooster is Dun colored, the hens are Black and Blue. The resulting offspring will be Dun, Black, Blue or possibly Platinum colored. I am VERY excited about these eggs and I hope, hope, hope that I at least get a couple to hatch.
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They were shipped, so there's no telling how they will do. My other broody sat on shipped eggs though and had a pretty good hatch rate. SO we'll see.

The Dun gene looks chocolate colored, however genetically it is different from the actual Chocolate gene (Choc). The Dun gene is not sex linked and it works similarly to the Blue gene (Bl). Dun and Blue are both Black diluters. With Blue, having 1 copy of the gene will give you a visually Blue bird, having 2 copies of the gene will give you a visually Splash bird. With Dun, having 1 copy of the gene will give you a visually Dun bird, having 2 copies of the gene will give you a visually Khaki bird. The Dun gene and the Blue gene can work together and "double dilute" a Black bird, the resulting color then is Platinum, bird with 1 copy of the Blue gene and 1 copy of the Dun gene.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaanyways... here's a few pictures of the parent birds that my eggs came from. You can see the rooster is a lovely chocolate color. Depending on what I get to hatch from these eggs, I've got a couple projects in mind using the Dun gene.

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Jeremy, nice pics! good luck on your sumatra project.

I don't blame the ladies for not sitting still if Neville is pouncing on everything!

I saw a heron like that on one of my walks down at the Martinez waterfront recently. They sure do look like penguins....until they decide to unfold that crazy-long neck!



Cheryl,
I found your gold Philips driver tip in our stuff when we came back from Clayton. PM me your address and I'll put it in the mail.


Sunny, thanks for the link to your vacation pics! It looks like you and Steve had a great time. It makes me want to go to Ecuador!
 

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