Bay Area BYCers!

[user104534]

I might go and check out Alamo Hay and Grain tomorrow. Has anybody been there? If so is it any good?(Compared to my regular Concord Feed.) I was reading some yelp reviews and there were quite a few complaints about the animals being in poor conditions. Any info on that? Thanks.

 

[wolftracks]

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I used to go there with a friend, but wow...long time ago.

Ya know I've read things about places abd then when I got nosey enough to check them out, they were fine. Sometimes I think they have trolls posting complaints. LOL Then again, it just might be a dump these days.

 

[Mrsfoote]

Just Dressed and sliced 5lbs of whitetail deer meat, that is now drying away in my oven as we speak...the house is going to smell so awesome in a few hours.

 

[Zinnia-Hen]

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Completely random, but I nearly had a heart attack when I saw you lived in Palo Alto.

Sorry, I used to live there and get excited when I see someone is around there at the time...

The deer meat sounds really good. I plan on hunting sometime soon.

 

[Lobzi]

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Try El Sobrante Feed. They have a lot of stock to choose from and cater to chicken owners. Its located on Appian Way and Valley View next to the post office.
Hello, from the El Sobrante area!

 

[wolftracks]

So it's 2:30am give or take and what have I been doing the past few minutes?

Playing with my little SPPR chick or course.

I was noticing how upright it is, but there are wing feathers coming in and they sure do look more like the marking from the girls.

Could it possible be????????


I drove past JS West yesterday and there's a big sign outside that says they have chicks. They almost alwaysdo, but since that sale is coming up I bet there's going to be all kinds of good stuff showing up there.

Hope some of you are going to make it out here that day.

 

[sewandgrow]

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I'll be there Kim.!!!!

 

[fowlman01]

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Completely random, but I nearly had a heart attack when I saw you lived in Palo Alto.

Sorry, I used to live there and get excited when I see someone is around there at the time...

The deer meat sounds really good. I plan on hunting sometime soon.

This is kind of random too, but is that a GN in your profile pic?


Walt

 

[Mrsfoote]

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Completely random, but I nearly had a heart attack when I saw you lived in Palo Alto.

Sorry, I used to live there and get excited when I see someone is around there at the time...

The deer meat sounds really good. I plan on hunting sometime soon.

I'm jealous when I get back to Montana I'm hunting more. Born and raised in palo alto

 

[cherylcohen]

Rhodebars, have you guys heard about them? I'm being sent a bunch of eggs this week and will begin breeding them in the spring! less than 100 birds in UK remain. I'll be breeding the hens I hatch to the father roo in the spring. What do you guys think? I hope people will like them on the west coast.

This is from Greenfire's website....Rhodebars are the uniquely wonderful offspring of a shotgun marriage between the Yanks and the Brits. In 1947, British geneticists crossed Rhode Island reds (the quintessential America barnyard chicken) with golden brussbars (a rare British breed) to create an auto-sexing chicken breed with striking red barring and the ability to annually lay hundreds of extra large eggs. (To learn more about auto-sexing chickens please read about Greenfire Farms’ cream legbars on this website.) Rhodebars enjoyed brief favor in Britain’s commercial poultry flocks until they were bypassed by more modern hybrids.

Despite their unusual good looks and solid record of production, today rhodebars are virtually extinct. It is estimated that fewer than a hundred hens remain in Britain, and until now none were known to exist outside that country. The threat to this breed potentially creates the loss of a wonderful genetic treasure since a hen from a good strain of rhodebars will produce over two hundred very large tinted eggs a year. And, rhodebars are perhaps more effective at auto-sexing than any chicken breed in the world: Yellow chicks are males and chicks with ‘chipmunk’ stripes on their backs are females. The visual distinction between the two sexes is striking.

Greenfire Farms was able to import some of the last remaining rhodebars, and we introduced into the breeding flock both production and traditional strains of American Rhode Island reds. These American birds injected some much-needed genetic diversity into the rhodebar line and produced birds that are extremely prolific egg layers. By back-breeding these crosses to pure rhodebars we were eventually able to produce a rhodebar bloodline with all the characteristics of pure rhodebars (including auto-sexing) and the productivity of a modern commercial chicken. Arguably, this makes our rhodebars the ultimate fowl for homesteaders and small-scale producers: a bird that is prolific as it is beautiful with the enormous added benefit of being auto-sexing. These traits are sure to quickly endear the rhodebar to America’s poultry enthusiasts.