California - Northern

[juststruttin]

First no, nothing is heated.

Breeds (see my signature line, LOL)

Campine (golden & silver)
Isbars
RIR
Lakenvelder
Marans (BC, blue & lavender)
New Hampshire
Polish (WCB, tolbunt, white in LF)(SL in bantam)
Olandsk Dwarfs
Plymouth Rocks (Barred, Silver penciled, Columbian - in LF)(Barred & black - in bantam)
Legbars (Cream & White)
Serama (smooth & frizzled)
Silkies
Showgirls
Icelandics
Cochin (BBS in LF)(Columbian in bantam)
Brahma (buff bantams)
Iowa Blues
Araucana (although I only have a couple of gorgeous lemon blue boys left, all the girls have been moved in with the marans to make OE)
Leghorn (white & exchequer)
Bresse (black)
Orpington (jubilee, crele, lavender, chocolate, black - in LF)(chocolate & black - in bantam)
Turkeys (slate, RP & black)
Geese (American, African & Chinese)
Ducks (Call, silver appleyards, welsh harlequins, Cayuga, silky, pekin, runner)
Quail (coturnix & bobwhite)

There's also a few odds and ends, tomaru longcrowers, kraienkoppe, jersey giant, etc.

I think that's everybody..........I was doing a mental stroll through the pens.

Oops, ETA - Ameraucana in BBS & lavender.

How do you like your Isbars? I am getting hatching eggs shipped to me that I won in a Swap and no nothing about them. They do sound interesting. How are their temperaments?

 

[juststruttin]

Wow that is a lot! I want CCLs

I'm expecting some chicks today! And deb is checking if she has some older ones for me

First no, nothing is heated.

Breeds (see my signature line, LOL)

Campine (golden & silver)
Isbars
RIR
Lakenvelder
Marans (BC, blue & lavender)
New Hampshire
Polish (WCB, tolbunt, white in LF)(SL in bantam)
Olandsk Dwarfs
Plymouth Rocks (Barred, Silver penciled, Columbian - in LF)(Barred & black - in bantam)
Legbars (Cream & White)
Serama (smooth & frizzled)
Silkies
Showgirls
Icelandics
Cochin (BBS in LF)(Columbian in bantam)
Brahma (buff bantams)
Iowa Blues
Araucana (although I only have a couple of gorgeous lemon blue boys left, all the girls have been moved in with the marans to make OE)
Leghorn (white & exchequer)
Bresse (black)
Orpington (jubilee, crele, lavender, chocolate, black - in LF)(chocolate & black - in bantam)
Turkeys (slate, RP & black)
Geese (American, African & Chinese)
Ducks (Call, silver appleyards, welsh harlequins, Cayuga, silky, pekin, runner)
Quail (coturnix & bobwhite)

There's also a few odds and ends, tomaru longcrowers, kraienkoppe, jersey giant, etc.

I think that's everybody..........I was doing a mental stroll through the pens.

Oops, ETA - Ameraucana in BBS & lavender.

How do you like your Isbars? I am getting hatching eggs shipped to me that I won in a Swap and no nothing about them. They do sound interesting. How are their temperaments?

 

[juststruttin]

Wow that is a lot! I want CCLs

I'm expecting some chicks today! And deb is checking if she has some older ones for me

You will love the CCL!! Hope you have a great hatch.

 

[juststruttin]

The chickens are tearing up the nesting boxes. Kicked out the woden egg two days in a row down into the coop shavings everywhere. Do they not like pine shavings as nesting material? No eggs yet. The OE squats sometimes when you let her though and the EE comb is turning red almost overnight.

Try grass hay and top that with shavings. The hay makes it harder to kick the shavings out. When they scratch the shavings go under the hay. I have one coop of girls that have OCD and are determined to kick all bedding out of nest. They hay lasts longer.

 

[BCollie]

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Thank you! It's the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

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You don't need lessons to get off automatic. I have never taken a single lesson in photography, but I'd like to think I take some very nice pictures. Just do research online, if you can't afford lessons, that's what I did. Research proper exposure, how to balance ISO, aperture(f/stop) and shutter speed. Learn about the rules of composition, including the rule of thirds. Learn about DOF(depth of field), and how it relates to your aperture.

The lens I bought is the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D.

Quote: Me too! Thanks! I love miss Nelly, she's a big help!

 

[BCollie]

Love your pics!! Beautiful birds, beautiful shots!

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Thank you!

 

[juststruttin]

I have some Barnies that are 11 weeks old. Some are missing their back feathers and some aren't. Could it be a molt this young? They had the feathers at one point. I just don't know if the others are pecking them or what?

Yes, chicks molt their down and grow in their adult feathers. This usually happens simultaneously, but breeds that are slow to feather will occasionally have bald spots under their wings right down to the tails. They heads and shoulders are usually okay.

I use blue kot (caution; it will stain your birds purple so use on dark birds only) on the birds that are slow to feather otherwise their pin feathers stick out like a sore thumb and become an attractive nuisance which can cause other chicks to learn to feather pick (bad habit). I have had the same thing happen to Marans and Favorelles which appear to also be slow feathering breeds also.

 

[juststruttin]

I actauly don't think they issue permits to shoot them, at least in california. It may be on the books, but loook and see how many were issued in the last 5 years...

If the bob cats is killing your animals you can get a "deprivation permit" from Fish and Game for bob cats but not lions. BTW the permit is super easy to get infact its not really even a permit, its more like permission that they give you over the phone. I was shocked at how easy it was. I saved the message from our warden since it was not written permission. Fish and Game will ask you to call them and tell them the sex and weight of the animal once "deprivated".

We got a permission to "deprivate" a bob in 2011 after a bob cat killed 35 of my chickens. I had a change of heart and put a roof over the run instead. Our property backs up to thousands of acres of farm land so killing one bob cat seems silly since there must be hundreds more. If I lived in the city limits and had a rouge cat coming into my yard I think I may have opted to deprivate.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

Black Oil Sunflower Seeds. I get them from Walmart in a 25#bag. TSC(Tractor Supply Center) has them too. They are good for giving them fiber and oil for laying eggs. It also helps the Australorps to be nice and Shiny Blue.

Thanks Ron! Off to water.

 

[juststruttin]

it is so interesting to see the different replies people get from fish and game over this stuff! I may have gotten such.. vehement responses from them because we are in San Jose mebby?

I was told that bobcat would be removed or trapped in our area 95 minutes after hell froze over, and once hell had applied for the proper permits. They actually laughed when we asked about trapping, as if Id asked for a tax credit or something.

Clearly if you talk to other areas they find the idea less amusing and more feasible. The fact that you can call a trapper is awesome! around here they only issue permits one month a year, and never when they could have kits.

Government it, cant live with it, cant kill it...

You need to call Fish and Game directly. Local agencies (human societies etc..) don't have the authority to give permits.