California - Northern

[Miss Molly]

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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Gave all the birds a treat at the ranch of alfalfa in the pens!

look at all those big boys!!! liking the beautiful blue roo!! ;-) [/quote] Is he related to the birds I got from you Jeff? I need a roo!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Good morning Molly!

So far it's just me, the dogs and the finches.  Now, if some of the eggs due on Thursday would start doing something..................an early pipper would be nice.  Then get dressed and head out to turn everyone out (unfortunately into the mud).  I am so ready for a good couple of weeks of dry weather so some of this can soak in and dry out.

Deb

Jason, I did a good candling last night as I locked the eggs down.  I used my very bright light and I could get a good look.

Out of your 12 eggs, 5 were clear, 4 look like they had developed and quit, 3 are a good solid dark color inside, although I've never seen any movement.  Nothing smells, so I just left them all in since they weren't my eggs.  If they were mine, I'd just toss the 9.  The rest of the eggs locked down with them, 4 of the 5 eggs I set from my WCB polish (first test hatch) and 5 eggs that appear to have made it from my Secret Santa swap, BCM & OE's.

Deb

Hey Deb, are your Polish large fowl or bantam? I need a roo and some hens to add to my flock but still undecided on color (guess ill know when i see them) but I need LF.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Merry Christmas everyone! All the kids, grandkids, parents and various other relatives came to our house Christmas Eve. I worked until about 4 and still needed to shop so I did a cheddar chowder and upstate minestrone soups, French bread and salad. The kids changed from day to eve about 2 weeks ago and I've been working long hours everyday at my stores since we got back from Hawaii last month and knew I couldn't do a big dinner on Christmas Eve so soup it was!

I wasn't thrilled with not having the kids around for Christmas Day but I am so exhausted that I was glad it was over.....but I wouldn't want to do it again! Didn't even get dressed today...my husband and I opened the gifts from each other, drank mimosas and took a couple of naps! I'm not opening my stores tomorrow! Can't believe I get two days off in a row! Now if the rain would just stop so I can get some chicken time in!!!

I'm so thankful for this wonderful forum and all the friendship made here. I've been falling asleep reading posts and looking at all the beautiful chickens this last month (hence an empty post from me a couple of days ago).

Cheryl, my heart just breaks for you, having lived with back pain the last 4 years and getting my life back after surgery this year, I know what you are going through. It's hard enough to even complete a thought in all that pain, let alone make the decision you've made. I hope I can help you out in some way. My surgeon is in San Francisco and I can't recommended him more! He's the best of the best. Someone here recommended Zuckerman and I've heard good things about his talent as a surgeon, not good things about his bedside manner. A surgeon who had back surgery by my Dr recommended him to me.

My thoughts and prayers are with Liz and 3 year old. It must have been a very hard day. Hugs to you.

Here's a picture of our new puppy Kate and our old girl Gracie when Santa came to visit us. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Merry Christmas everyone! All the kids, grandkids, parents and various other relatives came to our house Christmas Eve. I worked until about 4 and still needed to shop so I did a cheddar chowder and upstate minestrone soups, French bread and salad. The kids changed from day to eve about 2 weeks ago and I've been working long hours everyday at my stores since we got back from Hawaii last month and knew I couldn't do a big dinner on Christmas Eve so soup it was!
I wasn't thrilled with not having the kids around for Christmas Day but I am so exhausted that I was glad it was over.....but I wouldn't want to do it again! Didn't even get dressed today...my husband and I opened the gifts from each other, drank mimosas and took a couple of naps! I'm not opening my stores tomorrow! Can't believe I get two days off in a row! Now if the rain would just stop so I can get some chicken time in!!!
I'm so thankful for this wonderful forum and all the friendship made here. I've been falling asleep reading posts and looking at all the beautiful chickens this last month (hence an empty post from me a couple of days ago).
Cheryl, my heart just breaks for you, having lived with back pain the last 4 years and getting my life back after surgery this year, I know what you are going through. It's hard enough to even complete a thought in all that pain, let alone make the decision you've made. I hope I can help you out in some way. My surgeon is in San Francisco and I can't recommended him more! He's the best of the best. Someone here recommended Zuckerman and I've heard good things about his talent as a surgeon, not good things about his bedside manner. A surgeon who had back surgery by my Dr recommended him to me.
My thoughts and prayers are with Liz and daughter. It must have been a very hard day. Hugs to you.
Here's a picture of our new puppy Kate and our old girl Gracie when Santa came to visit us. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

love the Santa picture.

 

[lawatt]

so here's a question for anyone who might still be around & on-line: my next-door neighbor (the nice one, not the grumpy one) recently got a rooster for his flock, which does not free-range, they all stay in their coop/run -- and my flock *does* free-range when i'm home & the weather is good, and there's no fences between our yards -- and today one of my girls ended up hanging around at Al's coop, we presume drawn by the rooster crowing? is this likely to become a habit? if i had a rooster of my own, would he keep my flock away from the other coop?

and if i was making a chicken-photo christmas card, this would likely be it:


merry christmas/happy holidays to all!
laura

Quote:
thanks for this! and wondering if anyone else has any thoughts -- the two coops are probably roughly a half-acre apart, they can't SEE each other, but they can certainly hear each other. I can also get back into the habit of letting my girl free-range more in the afternoon, rather than the morning -- they are drawn toward my neighbor's property in the morning this time of year because he gets sun earlier than my place does -- but i don't want them constantly hanging around his coop?

and happy boxing day to all -- the day to recover from christmas!

 

[Papa Brooder]

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Gave all the birds a treat at the ranch of alfalfa in the pens!

look at all those big boys!!! liking the beautiful blue roo!! ;-)

Is he related to the birds I got from you Jeff? I need a roo![/quote] Those are brahmas. You got Marans from me. . My Marans came from someone out near Galt.

 

[Papa Brooder]

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Gave all the birds a treat at the ranch of alfalfa in the pens!

look at all those big boys!!! liking the beautiful blue roo!! ;-)

Is he related to the birds I got from you Jeff? I need a roo!

Those are brahmas. You got Marans from me. . My Marans came from someone out near Galt.[/quote] Ill check my grow out pens. I might have one cockerel in there. Right now I have my hens covered with a black copper roo that I hatched from her eggs since I lost the blue copper roo in summer. I do have some other Roos but not pure lines and I can't recall the quality I the egg color they came from. , those you got are pure wade jean line. I did also set some shipped eggs that will hatch in a few weeks, some with excellent color. Gonna hatch those separate and band them so eventually I should have a wade jean roo for you if you need. Or if you are less considered with line and just need a roo to make more dark egg layers I'm sure j have something or you.

 

[debs_flock]

Hey Deb, are your Polish large fowl or bantam? I need a roo and some hens to add to my flock but still undecided on color (guess ill know when i see them) but I need LF.

I have both. In bantams I only have silver laced

In LF and currently laying, I have WCB

In LF, I also have Tolbunts, but they aren't anywhere near laying yet and I don't have any current photos of them (very old photo).


I do also have one or two extra BC Marans roos.

Deb

 

[juststruttin]

So glad to have a little break in the weather. The amount of water we've been getting is pretty incredible and most of my coops got flooded. I could not figure out how the stalls got wet (some of my coops are horse stalls) but then I realized the water was coming up through the floor boards. Darn gophers must have tunneled in creating a channel for the water to come in. Drats.... Not sure what to do about this

but I changed all the bedding and hope we have a couple of dry days.