California - Northern

[ronott1]

Hi all,
Just started checking this thread again, great to see so many posts. Our chickens had a bad year. We lost many to a group of stray dogs that had to be tracked down and caught. A friend just gave us four EE chicks to add to our now small flock of BO, WCBP, and 2 EEs. Starting over is hard. I don't have any broodies to do the hard work for me. My two boys are enjoying it though.

Welcome Back!

We are very chatty here and I love it!

 

[debs_flock]

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Linda, at some point we are going to have to meet. We live about 20 minutes apart, if I remember correctly, we have nearly the same Bday, we retired at almost the same time and we both love the Oregon coast.............

How are the baby goats doing Molly? Dangit, I can't stop thinking about them!

And all the duckling people have me thinking about ducks too.

Tried turkeys - they are too high maintenance. (meaning dumb as a box of rocks) They will NOT go in to roost at night! But I still miss them, super sweet and would follow you anywhere.

Kelly, we let our turkeys out to range every day, at around 3:00, we just walk along behind them and they all run back into their covered pen. No fuss!

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Jason, let me know. I can meet her at "our" place in front of Lee's. Better for me would be in the morning Thurs/Fri, or most any time on Saturday/Sunday. I'll just put in as many as I have room for. I have an incubator full of eggs locking down tomorrow, so I should have quite a bit of room. Make sure I know which are the freshest. If I leave some out it might as well be the oldest ones. Let me know for sure and I'll bring along your chick. She's a tall leggy thing.

 

[PetRock]

Hi, All!!! Monet and I are back in California after spending a week helping with my sister's girls while she had surgery. It was special to be there with them but we sure missed our chickens and I was happy to see them this morning!

My sister is doing fine and is thankful that the tumor is gone! After removing it, the doctors changed the status from stage 0 to stage 2 because it had grown so much in the past 2 weeks and had some aggressive characteristics. The lymph nodes were clear so she will probably not have to have radiation but may need to have chemo. The pathology report won't be in for a few weeks and once it is in, the doctors can decide where to go from here. I was very impressed with her doctors and the hospital.

We got back in Oakland late last night. Our first day back home in California was sure eventful. All of my chickens were fine but someone hacked into my eBay account and charged my PayPal account for shipping for 35 international packages. It was a huge amount of money and I didn't have enough in my PayPal account to cover it so PayPal took the money from my bank account. When I went to pay a bill this morning, my bank balance was at $0!

Talk about a shock! Thank God that I caught it on the day the charges were to go through! My credit union was able to reverse the charges and put a block on my account so PayPal couldn't withdraw the money again. I spent all morning and part of the afternoon on the phone with PayPal and eBay. I think that I talked to 6 different eBay customer service representatives working out of India. Talk about frustrating! One operator had me void all of the shipping labels and change my password. 2 of the packages were already in transit so I was unable to void them. They were shipped from Banks, OR and Azusa, CA. I have my money back but I'm sure that this isn't the end of the problem! Someone will have to eat the $55.40 in postage for the 2 packages that were mailed but they better not try to make me pay for them!

All I wanted was a nice relaxing day with my chickens. I just poured a glass of wine and I'm headed off to watch some mindless TV! Have a good evening!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Linda, at some point we are going to have to meet. We live about 20 minutes apart, if I remember correctly, we have nearly the same Bday, we retired at almost the same time and we both love the Oregon coast.............


Kelly, we let our turkeys out to range every day, at around 3:00, we just walk along behind them and they all run back into their covered pen. No fuss!


Jason, let me know. I can meet her at "our" place in front of Lee's. Better for me would be in the morning Thurs/Fri, or most any time on Saturday/Sunday. I'll just put in as many as I have room for. I have an incubator full of eggs locking down tomorrow, so I should have quite a bit of room. Make sure I know which are the freshest. If I leave some out it might as well be the oldest ones. Let me know for sure and I'll bring along your chick. She's a tall leggy thing.

I will ask her in a bit when she gets home. I need a new bator and I need one bad. R-com 50 coming soon.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: Later in the afternoon Thurs/Fri would be okay too, I just have something going on mid-afternoon both days.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Later in the afternoon Thurs/Fri would be okay too, I just have something going on mid-afternoon both days.

I think my wife has to get the car in but would love to get these set. I am getting crele eggs out my ears. I want to test hatch some white empordanesa as well so I may try those in mine.
the 2 eggs that hatched where 2 of the three I set. All the ones from the show

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Wormed the chooks today.

I was drawing outside and conveniently one of my Leghorns came up to me, looked at me, and pooped a poop with a worm in it right in front of me. They know who to contact when they have an issue.

 

[liz9910]

Wormed the chooks today. I was drawing outside and conveniently one of my Leghorns came up to me, looked at me, and pooped a poop with a worm in it right in front of me. They know who to contact when they have an issue.

That's one smart chicken!

 

[MrsMoonCat]

Hi, All!!! Monet and I are back in California after spending a week helping with my sister's girls while she had surgery. It was special to be there with them but we sure missed our chickens and I was happy to see them this morning!

My sister is doing fine and is thankful that the tumor is gone! After removing it, the doctors changed the status from stage 0 to stage 2 because it had grown so much in the past 2 weeks and had some aggressive characteristics. The lymph nodes were clear so she will probably not have to have radiation but may need to have chemo. The pathology report won't be in for a few weeks and once it is in, the doctors can decide where to go from here. I was very impressed with her doctors and the hospital.

We got back in Oakland late last night. Our first day back home in California was sure eventful. All of my chickens were fine but someone hacked into my eBay account and charged my PayPal account for shipping for 35 international packages. It was a huge amount of money and I didn't have enough in my PayPal account to cover it so PayPal took the money from my bank account. When I went to pay a bill this morning, my bank balance was at $0!

Talk about a shock! Thank God that I caught it on the day the charges were to go through! My credit union was able to reverse the charges and put a block on my account so PayPal couldn't withdraw the money again. I spent all morning and part of the afternoon on the phone with PayPal and eBay. I think that I talked to 6 different eBay customer service representatives working out of India. Talk about frustrating! One operator had me void all of the shipping labels and change my password. 2 of the packages were already in transit so I was unable to void them. They were shipped from Banks, OR and Azusa, CA. I have my money back but I'm sure that this isn't the end of the problem! Someone will have to eat the $55.40 in postage for the 2 packages that were mailed but they better not try to make me pay for them!

All I wanted was a nice relaxing day with my chickens. I just poured a glass of wine and I'm headed off to watch some mindless TV! Have a good evening!

Debi, that is good news about your sister. Hopefully she won't need the radiation. I'm sure she was so comforted having you there.

On another note, that SUCKS about your account. What a pain! It is awesome though that you caught it just in the nick of time. Enjoy that glass of wine and welcome home

 

[CALI CHICK]

Does anyone sell goose eggs for cooking in the Sacramento area? I have a friend looking for some. Thanks