California - Northern

[liz9910]

So I came home from the feed store last night and 6 of my chickens were in my neighbor's front yard! Guess I forgot to close the side gate

 

[lsowens]

Love your chicken! Going to check out the auction today.

 

[zooweemama]

So I candled my duck eggs. All 11 are still growing and wiggling. I still have 1 goose egg developing. All the others were duds or stopped developing.

I have a staggered hatch. I have added 2 more goose eggs. For various hatch days.

I set a few bantam BLRW eggs and so far veining on them.

Last night I set a couple more of the bantam BLRW eggs, 3 Betty eggs (Gary has been mating her and I have to get rid of him so in hoping for 1 female love child offspring lol), 2 sizzle eggs that my bantam BLRW roo has been covering (sheer curiosity lol) ... At least with this addition I learned to save eggs up for a week and adding several rather than a couple here and there. Live and learn.

 

[ronott1]

Love your chicken! Going to check out the auction today.

Hi and welcome!

What kind of chicken are you bidding on?

 

[chiqita]

Welcome! No barnies here but I think papa brooder has blue copper marans. I still think fcbm s are more magestic and have the best eggs so that's what I got!

Hello!  I'm new to backyard chickens and new to incubating eggs...does anyone out there know about Barnevelders fertile hatching eggs in the Sacramento area?  I know Trisha up toward Redding, but wondered who else out there loves Barnevelders .  Currently, I have 3 Amercaunas, but am hoping to hatch some Blue Copper Marans and then in early May some Barnevelders.  I'm so excited to have found this site!

 

[tommysgirl]

Ok my husband says chickens are green light for go! So I know nothing about chickens except I want a Silkie but more as a pet and a breed of chicken that ideally has these traits: calm, docile, good layer, good mother, good table bird. I'm open to and looking for breed recommendations as well as hatchery suggestions. I'm also willing to go thru someone in my area from this site. I'm in Yuba City which is in Sutter County. Any and all help is much appreciated. Thanks a ton, I'm logging off for bed but will check in the a.m.

Your criteria are similar to mine I think Speckled Sussex and Dorkings sound like they will both meet your needs. Delawares meet everything except for the broodiness, they may go broody but aren't known for it. Australorps are also worth looking at. There are people on this thread who have all of the above

 

[Hangtown Farms]

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[chiqita]

OK I sound like a marans fanatic. But heritage marans are fantastic mothers and IMO the best eating I have had. Other then that I will say make sure to get calm birds if you get silkies and don't raise silkies with a lot of larger chicks. Silkies are fragile birds and can die if they get pecked in the head. If you are going to get silkies have a small coup and get bigger birds get silkies that do not have vaulted sculls.or showgirls they have a bit more spunk.

That being said basques buckeyes Dominique's marans are all duals I have heard great things about.

Ok my husband says chickens are green light for go! So I know nothing about chickens except I want a Silkie but more as a pet and a breed of chicken that ideally has these traits: calm, docile, good layer, good mother, good table bird. I'm open to and looking for breed recommendations as well as hatchery suggestions. I'm also willing to go thru someone in my area from this site. I'm in Yuba City which is in Sutter County.  Any and all help is much appreciated. Thanks a ton, I'm logging off for bed but will check in the a.m.

 

[PetRock]

chiqita, did you see the pics that I posted last night of the 2 CL (?) chicks that Monet picked out? So, do you think that they are CLs???

 

[chiqita]

The bresse eggs are getting lighter. My issue is I'm still getting shel less eggs every few days they eat a ton of oyster shell.

I freaked out too because they say white in the descriptions. But no one seemed worried about it so I calmed down.

It is much easier to reply on top of quotes on the phone. No multi for me in the phone anymore.

That's exactly what our eggs look like.  I didn't weigh them but I'll be sure to take my scale with me when I go to the farm later this week.  I saw 4 of them yesterday.  3 were small but the 4th one was bigger.  We are going to give them a couple weeks of laying before we set some for hatching.

Edited to say:  I love your scale!  Where did you get it???