Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[gjensen]

The comparison still works. Northern CA is a bunch different from Southern CA And the Bay Area Ca is the third different area. Remember, CA takes the space of nearly all of the original 13 colonies.

There is a lot of diversity here.

It was a joke, but you are right about the diversity in California. LOL.

 

[ronott1]

It was a joke, but you are right about the diversity in California. LOL.

It was hot here yesterday. The Chickens are ok but boy were they panting!

I missed the joke but can understand it today.

 

[gjensen]

It was hot here yesterday. The Chickens are ok but boy were they panting!

I missed the joke but can understand it today.

It was hot here yesterday. The Chickens are ok but boy were they panting!

I missed the joke but can understand it today.

I am not someone to take seriously. I am not real bright, and not a good communicator, etc., but I rarely mean any harm.

The heat is our largest limiting factor with most things. It dictates what we do and how we do it. Winters are normally mild, but we live far enough north to be reminded what it is like on occasion. It is usually after a warm spell, so it seams rough to us. Never get acclimated.
We are having an unusually mild spell, but very wet. Funny how the southeast is having cooler than "normal", and the west is having hotter than "normal". I guess the extremes find a balance.

 

[ronott1]

I am not someone to take seriously. I am not real bright, and not a good communicator, etc., but I rarely mean any harm.

The heat is our largest limiting factor with most things. It dictates what we do and how we do it. Winters are normally mild, but we live far enough north to be reminded what it is like on occasion. It is usually after a warm spell, so it seams rough to us. Never get acclimated.
We are having an unusually mild spell, but very wet. Funny how the southeast is having cooler than "normal", and the west is having hotter than "normal". I guess the extremes find a balance.

The heat here makes it hard to have some breeds. Marans die in the heat unless you go to a lot of effort. A BYCr just up out of Sacramento had a Marans die yesterday--the pullet had just started laying. My Heritage RIRs do fine in the heat which is good news since I am working on Heat tolerant breeds. Penedesencas do very well here since it does not get cold enough to freeze their combs.

 

[thedragonlady]

I am not someone to take seriously. I am not real bright, and not a good communicator, etc., but I rarely mean any harm.

The heat is our largest limiting factor with most things. It dictates what we do and how we do it. Winters are normally mild, but we live far enough north to be reminded what it is like on occasion. It is usually after a warm spell, so it seams rough to us. Never get acclimated.
We are having an unusually mild spell, but very wet. Funny how the southeast is having cooler than "normal", and the west is having hotter than "normal". I guess the extremes find a balance.

It may be cooler than "normal" here as long as the clouds are weeping, but when the sun does come out, it STEAMS. Thank goodness I put
another foot of sand in my runs a couple of weeks ago. My covered runs stay dry, and shaded. The Orps have dug deep holes under the hydrangea bushes, which are under the pear tree canopy.Since the pears are getting larger, the tree rats are snatching them down too. The Orps gobble them up. Once those pears ripen, the Orps will all have sticky shirt fronts , but the pears are good for them . In August, when it gets really hot, and the birds eat very little, the pears supply lots of moisture and nutrients.

 

[capayvalleychick]

A creep feeder built into the corner of my main run is the answer. The youngsters can get in, but not the fat girls.The babies know they can eat and drink in peace there.

Do you have a picture of the creep feeder or can you describe it, please?

 

[armorfirelady]

A creep feeder built into the corner of my main run is the answer. The youngsters can get in, but not the fat girls.The babies know they can eat and drink in peace there.

Do you have a picture of the creep feeder or can you describe it, please?

I googled creep feeder since I had no idea lol

This is what I made for my tots. The slats are wide enough for them to fit thru but the big girls are to big. I keep the tots feed, water & grit in here for them. I can adjust the space of the slots as the tots grow,

 

[thedragonlady]

Do you have a picture of the creep feeder or can you describe it, please?

I have a 6' x 8' pen fenced off in the main covered run. This is where I put babies out of the brooder. They stay in there for a few days, and get used to the big birds, and vice versa. I have a sliding panel that slides horizontally ( very important ) that then allows the babies to come and go.
The big girls seem to be able to squeeze UNDER anything, but a vertical narrow space defeats them.The babies know that they are safe in the creep, and they are much less stressed.

 

[BLT79]

Hi,
3riverschick sent me over! Just saying hi for now, going to browse some of these hundreds of posts! haha!

 

[Eggcessive]

This is just some portable metal fencing from Lowe's or HomeDepot that I use inside my coop for chicks. It is turned upside down with plastic chicken wire zip tied to it when they are tiny. This is showing when it was turned upside down with the plastic netting removed so the youngsters could come and go to food/water. They have roosts inside, but they quickly start roosting on the fencing. It can be made larger or small er by adding/removing a section.