California - Northern

[ronott1]

I use this stuff in the coop all the time. It works great, & it composts really well - my 4-ft tall gigantor zucchini plants really like it.



yknow, I've tried to see the blue in blue birds, but they always look grey to me. My uncle and son are color-blind... I wonder if I have some sort of partial color-blindness..

They do call grey blue but go to greenfire--the blue Bresse really look blue.


Thank you for using GroceryListMaker.com!

http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/american-bresse/

 

[gryeyes]

My house silkie, Sparkle, has hatched four more chicks from flock eggs I let her brood.

My Easter chicks (Speckled Sussex and a variety of Orps) are totally integrated into the flock although they still coop up in their mini-coop at night. In a pile. No real roost bars... So they start by roosting on the coop and pen, then eventually move inside it. I don't have to move them.

My three Toulouse gosling girls are SO big at less than three weeks of age! They own the deck, where I set up their self-serve brooder and a small kiddie pool for them.

I have watered the garden. I'll turn on the misting system attached to the perfola a bit later.

I won't be outside much today. Heat and I are not friends - I wilt at 80 degrees.

 

[ronott1]

My house silkie, Sparkle, has hatched four more chicks from flock eggs I let her brood.

My Easter chicks (Speckled Sussex and a variety of Orps) are totally integrated into the flock although they still coop up in their mini-coop at night. In a pile. No real roost bars... So they start by roosting on the coop and pen, then eventually move inside it. I don't have to move them.

My three Toulouse gosling girls are SO big at less than three weeks of age! They own the deck, where I set up their self-serve brooder and a small kiddie pool for them.

I have watered the garden. I'll turn on the misting system attached to the perfola a bit later.

I won't be outside much today. Heat and I are not friends - I wilt at 80 degrees.

Accuweather says it is 84 at 9:14am..110 is the prediction now too!

I hope the power stays on today! Yesterday was miserable with that 4 hour outage....

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Accuweather says it is 84 at 9:14am..110 is the prediction now too!

I hope the power stays on today! Yesterday was miserable with that 4 hour outage....

no good. 4 hours without power.close the windows and the blinds/curtins and turn the fans on.
we have no ac but generally its not a issue

 

[PetRock]

Accuweather says it is 84 at 9:14am..110 is the prediction now too!

I hope the power stays on today! Yesterday was miserable with that 4 hour outage....

www.weather.com says it is 86 in Antioch right now with a high of 96 predicted. They were way off yesterday! They said the high was 96 but I saw 101 but my friend a couple miles away had 113 in the shade! I wonder whose thermometer was off?! They must be taking the reading right down by the waterfront. I need to find a new weather site!

Accuweather says that the temp right now is 71 with a high of 102 predicted. I can guarantee that it is a lot warmer than 71 out there. DH and I are working out there trying to get the second level of the quail pen finished so we can divide the quail into 2 groups. They scalped one little one this week. We have 19 young bobwhites in a 4 x 8 ft pen and I guess that is too crowded for them.

 

[ronott1]

Originally Posted by ronott1


Accuweather says it is 84 at 9:14am..110 is the prediction now too!

I hope the power stays on today! Yesterday was miserable with that 4 hour outage....


no good. 4 hours without power.close the windows and the blinds/curtins and turn the fans on.
we have no ac but generally its not a issue

I should have had one of my daughters fan us...It was cooler inside though. Of course I had to do chicken chores and had not place to cool down after.

I still had a great hatch!

 

[tommysgirl]

You should know soon--watch the wattles. If they start growing and turning pink, then a pullet.
Ray is a Del crossed with a Production red?

Ray's daddy was a barnyard mix and his mama is an Australorp.

So cockerels grow pink combs and pullets grow pink wattles??

did you see this Ron? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/grd/3847987793.html

 

[gryeyes]

Accuweather says it is 84 at 9:14am..110 is the prediction now too!

I hope the power stays on today! Yesterday was miserable with that 4 hour outage....

www.weather.com says it is 86 in Antioch right now with a high of 96 predicted.  They were way off yesterday!  They said the high was 96 but I saw 101 but my friend a couple miles away had 113 in the shade!  I wonder whose thermometer was off?!  They must be taking the reading right down by the waterfront.  I need to find a new weather site!

I use www.intellicast.com on the PC, but it has an application for iPads, so I have downloaded the app and it is quite accurate; a lot of the farmers around here use it. Try it out!

Great forecast information, maps shows precip, tornadic rotation, squalls, and you can even check it for earthquakes! Moon phases, sunrise, sunset.. I love it.

 

[ronott1]

Ray's daddy was a barnyard mix and his mama is an Australorp.

So cockerels grow pink combs and pullets grow pink wattles??

did you see this Ron? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/grd/3847987793.html

I might have! I hope not though...

Pullets will have small yellow combs and either no wattles or very small yellow ones. Cockerels will have larger yellow combs that start to go pink at about 6 weeks. Wattles often start out as a pink line at a very young age.

Pullets often do not get pink combs and smaller pink wattles until closer to point of lay. A couple of weeks before POL they will suddenly get bigger combs and wattles. They will also turn bright red just before laying.

I am talking about Australorp types with straight combs. BAs get big combs too. If the Rooster parent had a big comb too, then you most likely have a pullet at 6 weeks.

A picture from the front that shows good comb and wattle detail will really help.

BTW, feather color is meaningless with crosses like this. They are not like Easter Eggers where red on the wings equals a cockerel. If Ray JR was a Basque, it would be 100percent pullet just based on the reddish orange color.

 

[ronott1]

I use www.intellicast.com on the PC, but it has an application for iPads, so I have downloaded the app and it is quite accurate; a lot of the farmers around here use it. Try it out!

Great forecast information, maps shows precip, tornadic rotation, squalls, and you can even check it for earthquakes! Moon phases, sunrise, sunset.. I love it.

Thank you for the link! I will check it out.