California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

I raise Icelandics





They come in every color

Oh Deb lucky you. They are the COOLEST! Sitting on my hands for the moment but if you have culls this year let me or eggs for sale I will be in touch when/if I get a broody...weird sentence but you see what I mean

 

[debs_flock]

Oh Deb lucky you. They are the COOLEST! Sitting on my hands for the moment but if you have culls this year let me or eggs for sale I will be in touch when/if I get a broody...weird sentence but you see what I mean

I can certainly see extras boys.

I currently have three adult roos and about 10 cockerels growing out, LOL

 

[chiqita]

Congrats!

Woot!

Thank you for sharing your pictures. These cheered me up after my horrible afternoon (see story below...) Yeah!! A few weeks ago I told a story about seeing an adolescent bobcat stalking my hens but my DH scared it away before it had a chance to do anything... well, I wasn't so lucky today. I got complacent because I hadn't seen it since and was getting lazy about sheparding the girls around the yard (DH hasn't put up the chicken run yet). Luckily I was sitting inside where I could half watch the chickens and I heard a screach, I looked up and a bobcat grabbed one of the girls and ran up the hill. I ran after him yelling and he dropped her. I was sure she was going to be dead but she was just in shock. She has at least one huge gash on her neck, I'm sure there is a matching one on the other side. I put her in a pen inside the coop and am gathering the courage to clean out the wounds per these instructions on post #6: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/723550/large-flesh-wound-new-pictures-added Tomorrow I'm going to try to locate some penicillin G, I really hope they have it at our feedstore. I'm mad at myself for getting lazy, this didn't need to happen.

I just hope I can help her get better.

Bobcats are tough. I have lost someone to them every year. The 8 foot fence is nothing to them. Tractor supply sells a spray on pain reliever for chickens. It might help. I hope she gets better! We finally had a 100% hatch! I'm hoping we finally ave the smoker bator down now that my teams are correct. I'm running it between 99.5 and 100.0 since it seems more stable there then 99.0 and 99.5. So my 2 broody marans have chicks. After all the exploding eggs and almost 1.5 months of waiting they are very grateful. Silkie chicks look so tiny next to floppy comb!

 

[ronott1]

Quote: for sharing these pictures! Icelandics are so nice looking- I love the variety.

 

[tommysgirl]

I can certainly see extras boys.

I currently have three adult roos and about 10 cockerels growing out, LOL

Oh wow! Wish I could take your boys but we have the one roo already and I have a hatch or 24+ being set on the 5th so I may a cockerel posse here as well.

 

[capayvalleychick]

That big old RIR was mine, he's not yet a year old, still has a lot of growing/filling out to do.

Did you see the blue cochin pullet? My bird also.

She won Champion Asiatic, so was up on Champion Row for Best in Show.................not that she got it, she's just a baby, LOL The JG & BO were Ch. & Resv. Ch. Large Fowl.

Isn't it funny... I picked your BR out at the Stockton show as one of my favorites and now the RIR. I like your taste, obviously! Congrats on your win!

Do you have long, red blonde hair? I saw a woman around the show ring that I wondered if she was a BYC. Was that you? I'm blonde and had on a navy blue tshirt with jeans.

I have medium/long dark brown hair that's always a mess. I was wearing a hot pink polo shirt. I thought you guys might recognize me from the lamb pic that I posted recently. I think that I would recognize you from your avatar, but I didn't see you. I was too mesmerized with looking at the birds!

I woke up with poison oak all down my arms Friday so I ditched the sweatshirt most of Saturday. If you saw a greyhound on Friday, that was me with him.

See, you ladies had me looking for sweatshirts and it was too hot to wear one.

Sorry about your poison oak. I did see a lady holding a gray pup on Saturday, but it wasn't a greyhound.

Sorry to have missed you all, Trisha too. Maybe next time.

 

[ronott1]

Good ol' Balthazar


Malcolm and Buffle


Our Partridge Cochin roo. We call him Dino-Baby right now. The Polish in the background is one of Clementine's special girls. She's so sweet, Clementine named her Cotton.


Ducks! Rapunzel ripped off her back toenail yesterday. I put corn starch on it and it stopped the bleeding. Seems fine today.


Ms. Coulter, the Sultan. She's a weirdo, but I kind of like her.


Much loved SLW Huckle.


Our cat, Scout, hanging out on the dirt pile with the chickens.


Malcolm in time-out for throwing dirt clods at the chickens, but BO roo Gilbert is visiting him anyway


More chickens mob the hill and chase Scout off (she's in the top right corner)


Colombian Wyandotte, Anne





Iorek Byrnison is kind of ridiculous looking, but he broke up a squabble today. He's going to be a good roo.

Deerling: Cute chickens!

PetRock: Before I made my second Urban Predator brooder I had one I made from a card board box. That big old cat likes to sleep on the brooder and weighing in at over 20 pounds, he fell in one night.

Luckily no chicks were smashed and he did not eat any of them either....I do shoo him off of the brooder when I see him though.....The Rubbermaid plastic holds up much better than card board.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Did anyone out there bring the cocopop frizzle serama? That was another bird that got Mariah's attention for a breed she usually doesn't care for. Must say he got my attention also I have no idea how many pictures she took of the RP turkey, evvery time she went by he was displaying and booming.

 

[capayvalleychick]

So we treated for cocci per Ron's instructions (thanks again!) and Alice seems the same. Still very docile, puffed up and pale.

I've had a new chick owner emailing me about a health problem with her chicks. The symptoms sounded like cocci. Tests at the lab determined that it was e coli infection. So keep that in mind if sick chicks don't respond to the cocci meds.

 

[capayvalleychick]

Pictures?

Bresse First egg:



Not bad for a first egg! 33G

This is the Bresse that laid her first egg today:




It was easter, so who couldn't resist a Lamb and the Lion picture:

Really nice pics!