California - Northern

[ronott1]

Ron... Looks like the Bobs is working...I just gave my birds another round of Bobs..

Amy Beth...you always take such wonderful pictures. Those English Buff Orpington are beautiful. I'm looking to get some eggs for hatching. Who did you get them from. I have every color of English Orpington except Buff... Are these the Leghorns Ron hatched? Very nice looking ladies.

I am giving all of them B.O.B now. I found a Quart bottle on Amazon for $16.00. It comes straight from Southland Organics, but is less expensive to get it from them through Amazon. I also started giving them Kelp granules and am putting some DE in their food. I had a softer egg from one of the last week which does not surprise me since they often do that to me when they start back laying again. At least I have had no leather ones lately. I am very impressed with the BOB and even with it turning the water black, the chickens drink a lot of it!

I should probably put this into a separate post, but it looks like my 4 week old and the two OEs(Marans x EE) eat less of the Kings Feed Natural than they do of the flock raiser. There must be something better in the King Feed nutrition wise. Just my observation and the King feed grower I have does have Soy. They did not have the Non-soy this week.

The two White Pullets in the picture are the TJs leghorns I hatched. The one on the right is going to lay an egg soon too.

 

[juststruttin]

Got a new toy

I am planning to turn it into a chicken coop once the field drys out enough for me to drive into the field. LOL

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Is there a local vet that will do a Coci test for you? At the same time, they should be able to test for worms.

After the 5 to 7 days, you are supposed to go 1/2 dose of Corid for another 5 to 7 days.

Ron

 

[zooweemama]

Waititout.....these two are do dang cute. What breed is the little Speckled chick?


Happy Chook...48 weeks and she gives you a huge egg to start...right on! Beautiful egg.


Ron... Looks like the Bobs is working...I just gave my birds another round of Bobs..

Amy Beth...you always take such wonderful pictures. Those English Buff Orpington are beautiful. I'm looking to get some eggs for hatching. Who did you get them from. I have every color of English Orpington except Buff... Are these the Leghorns Ron hatched? Very nice looking ladies.


Jason... Looks like you have been very busy. Congratulations on your new place. I bet the kids are loving the snow. Are you staying at the new place yet?

Thanks!! I actually don't have any English Orps, just American. But have been told my older ones are rather large and puffy to be America in PMs. My black girl is a BCM x English Black Orp. I think the dad carried the blue or chocolate gene? All my Orps came from Heaven Sent. My 4 big girls came directly from Don Chandler. He sent them to her, she sold off her extras. They weren't his line- he was adding fresh blood into his pool I think he told me. I would have to go see my emails to verify. I need a good Buff Orp roo. The one I have is not up to par, but it's all I have right now. I have 2 pullets and the 1 roo directly from Heaven Sent- her line. The pullets have gotten nice comments for head shape and form. My big girls (from Don that some sometimes mistake for English) get oohs but critique for large head and unattractive combs. I'm trying to learn. LOL! I am hoping to get a couple more Buffs this Spring and going for a nice roo. I like the ladies I have right now personally. My breeding standards will be with SOP in mind BUT what will be more important to me is the utility of the breed. I tried to buy the best I could afford so I could impose my standards- good to great egg laying, hardiness, calm temperament and decent table bird. Coming into this I understood that some of the breeders breed to SOP and do not necessarily for hardiness, egg laying ability etc. It's all about form for many of them. I love the form but also the multi-purpose use of them in my backyard.

But honestly so far they are laying extremely well! 5 eggs a week or so. The ones I got from Deb's line- began laying around 24-26 weeks. The ones that came to Deb via Don didn't lay until 32 weeks or so. I want to get a couple more chicks from Deb so I can try for a decent cock. I am amazed how large the Orp cocks get. Goodness! So tall. He is bigger than my Marans roo!

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Any of you fellow northern Californians selling black copper marans chicks or pullets?

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Everyone got oatmeal this morning, it was 19° when I got up. I was just informed that the water in my canning kitchen is frozen. Going to be one of those days.

It was just 37F this morning here..

 

[ronott1]

Quote: The Accuweather App said it was 33 with a real feel of 21 this morning. Today is the second time this year that the heat is on in my Office.

Brrrrrrrr

 

[OR4-hmom]

Sorry to hear you're feeling sick, hubby has been fighting bug for almost 2 weeks.

Water is still frozen. It's now 26° out there.

 

[zooweemama]

Any of you fellow northern Californians selling black copper marans chicks or pullets?

www.heavensentranch.com She does. That's where I got my Marans and Orps.

 

[zooweemama]

Our pond is frozen every morning now. It's funny watching the geese and ducks ice skate when we first let them out. Picking up my LONE hatchling from Jeff today! Whoop! I gave him 12 Buff eggs and only 1 hatched. It looks like one of the baby daddies is either my bantam BLRW or my FBCM. hehe Apparently my lone Orp roo didn't make it there in time. I think I am buying an Orp and a Marans chick each for company. Go baby chicks!