California - Northern

[Flowers of Abba]

Thanks for the welcome everyone.

ChickNmamma- I gave away my barnie flock a little over a year ago along with some hatchery project birds. Our rental house was sold on a short sale.

Now we are in escrow ! I have welsummer eggs coming in the morning. My bater is all set just waiting for them. Later this month my daughters have permission to swoop on leghorn, EE,maybe a silkie.... So blessed to start over!
Flowers

 

[Hangtown Farms]

we had crazy wind. some snow I hear today.
blew over some 25 gallon bamboo.

 

[ronott1]

we had crazy wind. some snow I hear today.
blew over some 25 gallon bamboo.

That is some high wind. Did your netting stay on ok?

 

[UrbanChickenSF]

Also a brave girl!
yes! its two, two, two eggs in one!

With gusto!

Yum!!!!!!!!!! It always feels like a bonus!

Yes! 2 in 1 special edition.

Thanks y'all!!!

I'm still slowly learning the obvious.

 

[Ali707]

Good evening everyone! Welcome Flowers! I am new to the thread also and I don't feel like I should welcome anyone yet! it isn't my place. But what he heck. Everyone here IS nice.

Anyway, just sharing some frustrations with the whole calibrating the thermometer thing. It didn't occur to me that a brand new incubator that says it will tell you the temperature and humidity would be inaccurate. So I set the quail eggs that came with it without realizing I need to figure it out.

So now I have two additional thermometers (I haven't actually bought any yet). And I have no idea which is right. I did the ice water test with the digital meat thermo and it read right on at 32 degrees.

I have an acu right weather humidity one and that one I didn't do the water test because I don't think I am supposed to submerge it.

The acu right one I have had in the incubator for a couple of days now at egg level and it reads 1 degree less than the hovabator. The meat thermometer reads a couple of degrees less, but I don't have a way to verify which one is actually right. The acu weather one is designed to measure the ambient air temperature and he meat one is designed to be stuck in something so may not be reading the air temperature correctly.

It sounds like if I run right out and get another new one I can't be positive it is reading correct either.......?

Who knew after all the reading and helpful information on here I still wasn't ready! Glad these are the quail eggs and not my chicken eggs

 

[ChickNmamma]

Thanks for the welcome everyone.

ChickNmamma- I gave away my barnie flock a little over a year ago along with some hatchery project birds. Our rental house was sold on a short sale.

Now we are in escrow ! I have welsummer eggs coming in the morning. My bater is all set just waiting for them. Later this month my daughters have permission to swoop on leghorn, EE,maybe a silkie.... So blessed to start over!
Flowers

It is hard to give away your flock. I left mine behind when I moved up here, with my mother. Two weeks later I took them back. I have not been without chickens since - I hate store bought eggs!

Buying a house is exciting, congratulations! I am glad you will be able to get back into chickens. The EEs and the silkies are both good calm birds. I don't have leghorns - so I don't know much - but I hear they are standoffish and flighty. Of course, it might just be hatchery birds too

 

[threadgeek]

So, I emailed a guy about calling his hatchery ee's ameraucanas. he emailed me back saying he took pictures off the Internet and they all said Ameraucanas so I am full of it. I found that both hilarious and disturbing in so many ways....

When Mario worked for a shipping company ( he was the backup for the schedule's and the guy who did the daily schedule was a slacker so he did it a LOT) there was this one guy who was never happy with when his things were getting wherever. He used to yell "UNACCEPTABLE!!! THAT IS A BANANA" ( he was a Vietnamese guy shipping bananas, don't ask) in this crazy voice, and it became an in joke ( he wouldn't deal with the other guy AT ALL so would call Mario at all hours at home) Now we yell " UNACCEPTABLE! THAT IS AN EE!" in honor of the insane Ameraucana people.

And welcome flowers! we are all cool people with great names so you will fit right in!

I had something exciting to say to threadgeek, too, but for the life of Me I cant remember what it was or what I was responding too...

suck a slacker!

I was at the feed store today and looked at their chick shipping schedule. Of course "ameraucana" was on there... when I read your story I thought of the expressions on everyone's faces if I had yelled "UNNACCEPTABLE! THAT IS AN EE!". It was a busy day there and this is kind of a small town, it would get me a great reputation for sure!

Thanks for the welcome everyone.

ChickNmamma- I gave away my barnie flock a little over a year ago along with some hatchery project birds. Our rental house was sold on a short sale.

Now we are in escrow ! I have welsummer eggs coming in the morning. My bater is all set just waiting for them. Later this month my daughters have permission to swoop on leghorn, EE,maybe a silkie.... So blessed to start over!
Flowers

I'm sorry too that you had to give up your birds... but congrats on the home and woot for a new flock!

I've waited YEARS to be able to have chickens and I am SOOOO happy now. My first batch of chickies hatch on the 24th, its so exciting!

 

[Nikon]

That's where I am. I think I am right off Hwy. 20 but it's 6 miles off!

Oh oh! More awesome people in my area! Nevada County?

 

[Nikon]

Now this seems like a good thread with very nice chicken people! I think I'll stay and listen for a while...

Is anyone near the Sierra Nevada mountains. I'm on top of them ;-)

Flowers

Love the Tahoe area! We are down the mountains from you near Grass Valley.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

That is some high wind. Did your netting stay on ok?

It was not secured down so it moved all over. I will fix it this wek. I still need to cut it to size and secure it better.