California - Northern

[liz9910]

Oh no! Glad you saved her! Well that's an odd place to pick up another chicken for your flock! :yiipchick

Now I have to find a place to quarantine her for a month lol

 

[ronott1]

These are the fly Babies chicks along with Horstman RIRs and a Partridge Rock.

The HRIRs are slow feathering. One on the left and on on the right. The Partridge Rock is in between the RIRs and the Wheaten Pene is looking away from the camera.



The Wheaten Pene is looking at the camera. The Partridge Pene is in from looking to the side.



Partridge Rock--It might be getting the black coloring of a Cockerel.



It looks like I have a Breeding trio from the Horstman RIRs. Check out the comb and wattles on the Wheaten Pene on the right looking at the camera...

 

[lawatt]

Look what I found walking along the Jack Tone on ramp in Ripon this morning! Silly chicken have no idea how she got there....luckily she squatted so I could save her from being hit on the freeway!

good job scooping her up! and this necessitates that i tell the story of my sister's pet chicken:

as backstory, you must understand that my dad is a biologist who does field work every summer at a field station high in the Rocky Mountains -- my parents actually met there -- and we spent all of my childhood summers there. the lab is at about 9,500 feet in elevation, just on the western side of the Continental Divide -- it's actually an old silver mining town from the 1880s that went bust after 4 years of existence, and is incredibly remote. when i was a kid, there was no telephone, no radio/tv reception, many of the cabins used as housing for researchers and students didn't have any indoor plumbing, etc. very wild place. here's a photo to give you the idea:



so back in the summer of 1976 (i think, maybe '75?), my mom & sister had been out on a hike with some of our neighbors, and driving back, past a place called Emerald Lake (at about 11,000 feet, on a jeep road), they came across a chicken. she was an RIR, walking along the road in the middle of absolutely nowhere, from a chicken's perspective. they managed to catch her in a paper Safeway bag, and brought her back to the lab, and she became my sister's pet chicken -- and quite a fabulous one! she learned to come when you called her name, would eat wasps, chase cows -- and most fascinating to us (who knew nothing about chickens), she appeared to be a jewish chicken, as she laid an egg every day of the week except saturday, without fail, all summer long.

we couldn't bring her back to the Bay Area with us at the end of the summer, so we left her with the lab's caretakers -- who kept her through most of the winter, i think, letting her live inside their cabin once it started snowing (this valley is often snowed in from October to May) -- and they reported that she often caught mice for them. I think she was eventually given to a friend who lived in the nearest town.

so hang on to that chicken! she could be a special one!

 

[Miss Molly]

First morning without our little cockerel crowing to begin the day.  He wasn't loud but we miss his song .  I woke up about 4 am.  By 5 I gave up sleeping more and threw open windows and started the whole house fan.  The coolness energized me.  I greeted our 3 pullets, causing them to bail out of the coop in anticipation of treats.  Fun to wake them up.  Got to the farmer's market about 7 am, a bit ahead of some stalls but plenty to pick from.  I got a small watermelon to give the girls - my first time freezing anything for them.  I sectioned it and froze 5 small hunks with the rind on.  Do they eat the rind?  (This melon had very thin rind). Have one more run out to do, then hope to hunker down until a family BBQ later this afternoon.  My nephew and his new bride are flying in today and the BBQ is a meet and greet, thankfully a small gathering so we can eat indoors.  Feel sorry for my brother-in-law pressed into service at the grill, but someone has to do it .  Wishing everyone a good day.         

 

I'm sorry you had to rehome him.. I wish you ended up with all pullets

Have a wonderful day!

 

[lizanne]

Look what I found walking along the Jack Tone on ramp in Ripon this morning! Silly chicken have no idea how she got there....luckily she squatted so I could save her from being hit on the freeway!

Go you!!!

There is a little EE that has been hanging out in back of a grocery store, that I deliver mail too at work. I've tried to get her a couple time, but she is was too fast for me. She might belong to one of the houses behind the store, but I always see her in the back parking lot. I've rescued cat's and dogs at work, but never a chicken.

 

[ronott1]

good job scooping her up! and this necessitates that i tell the story of my sister's pet chicken:

as backstory, you must understand that my dad is a biologist who does field work every summer at a field station high in the Rocky Mountains -- my parents actually met there -- and we spent all of my childhood summers there. the lab is at about 9,500 feet in elevation, just on the western side of the Continental Divide -- it's actually an old silver mining town from the 1880s that went bust after 4 years of existence, and is incredibly remote. when i was a kid, there was no telephone, no radio/tv reception, many of the cabins used as housing for researchers and students didn't have any indoor plumbing, etc. very wild place. here's a photo to give you the idea:



so back in the summer of 1976 (i think, maybe '75?), my mom & sister had been out on a hike with some of our neighbors, and driving back, past a place called Emerald Lake (at about 11,000 feet, on a jeep road), they came across a chicken. she was an RIR, walking along the road in the middle of absolutely nowhere, from a chicken's perspective. they managed to catch her in a paper Safeway bag, and brought her back to the lab, and she became my sister's pet chicken -- and quite a fabulous one! she learned to come when you called her name, would eat wasps, chase cows -- and most fascinating to us (who knew nothing about chickens), she appeared to be a jewish chicken, as she laid an egg every day of the week except saturday, without fail, all summer long.

we couldn't bring her back to the Bay Area with us at the end of the summer, so we left her with the lab's caretakers -- who kept her through most of the winter, i think, letting her live inside their cabin once it started snowing (this valley is often snowed in from October to May) -- and they reported that she often caught mice for them. I think she was eventually given to a friend who lived in the nearest town.

so hang on to that chicken! she could be a special one!

She looks like a cinnamon Queen.

Way your Sisters a Deep dark Mahogany RIR?

 

[ronott1]

The Blue and Black Australorps are 12 weeks old.

 

[lawatt]

She looks like a cinnamon Queen.

Way your Sisters a Deep dark Mahogany RIR?

i'm afraid i was only 8 or 9 years old at the time, so i have NO idea -- don't know that we have any color pictures of her, either.

and your australorps look fabulous!!

 

[Alli Lea]

Hi all! I've been gone for a while getting a job and such but now I need your help! I have a broody hen (buff orphington-Wyandotte cross) who I would love to give some fertile eggs to. I was thinking a half dozen eggs of some sort of LF laying / dual purpose breed. Anyone have something like that near Woodland or Davis?

 

[ronott1]

i'm afraid i was only 8 or 9 years old at the time, so i have NO idea -- don't know that we have any color pictures of her, either.

and your australorps look fabulous!!

A Black and White would show conformation.

If you can find one please post it. It would be great to see a picture of a Foundling RIR