California - Northern

[Chooklet]

Hi there everyone, long time no see! Except for Chiqita, who I saw earlier today and it was SOSOSOSOSOSO great to see her but horrified to hear about the predator attack last month. I miss you guys a lot. I have been working my hiney off (well not really, just working a lot, but my hiney is still there, following me around wherever I go). My company just finished a big (for us) IPO. Not like Google or Twitter, but still a big transaction that has consumed most of my time for the last few months.

I had to stop, take a hard look at what I was breeding, and make some tough choices. I decided to stick with my bantam cochin calico and blue calico projects and let go of the Olandsk and the Japanese right now. It was so hard to decide to let these go, but I just haven't been able to spend the kind of time that the birds need and deserve on/with them. So, I am sad, but I know that it is the right thing to do. I still have a few pairs of juvenile olandsk and black mottled Japanese left, so if anyone if interested let me know! I also have some nice serama cockerels, and a goofy frizzled serama lawn ornament available, along with a lot more bantam cochins from my projects.

I am excited about the calico projects though, and hatched out the second generation of blue calicos in September. I have no idea whatsoever what they will end up looking like, but right now they are awfully cute little feather footed fluff balls!

So did everyone have a good summer?

 

[ronott1]

Hi there everyone, long time no see! Except for Chiqita, who I saw earlier today and it was SOSOSOSOSOSO great to see her but horrified to hear about the predator attack last month. I miss you guys a lot. I have been working my hiney off (well not really, just working a lot, but my hiney is still there, following me around wherever I go). My company just finished a big (for us) IPO. Not like Google or Twitter, but still a big transaction that has consumed most of my time for the last few months.

I had to stop, take a hard look at what I was breeding, and make some tough choices. I decided to stick with my bantam cochin calico and blue calico projects and let go of the Olandsk and the Japanese right now. It was so hard to decide to let these go, but I just haven't been able to spend the kind of time that the birds need and deserve on/with them. So, I am sad, but I know that it is the right thing to do. I still have a few pairs of juvenile olandsk and black mottled Japanese left, so if anyone if interested let me know! I also have some nice serama cockerels, and a goofy frizzled serama lawn ornament available, along with a lot more bantam cochins from my projects.

I am excited about the calico projects though, and hatched out the second generation of blue calicos in September. I have no idea whatsoever what they will end up looking like, but right now they are awfully cute little feather footed fluff balls!

So did everyone have a good summer?

Welcome Back!

It has been a busy summer with lots of little chicks hatching and getting bigger and bigger!

Good luck down sizing!

 

[Chooklet]

Welcome Back!

It has been a busy summer with lots of little chicks hatching and getting bigger and bigger!

Good luck down sizing!

Thanks Ron. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to be at a poultry show when you are trying to downsize? I practically had to smack myself in the head repeatedly to keep from picking up new breeds! Lots of wonderful birds available for sale. I am actually quite proud of my restraint - I will need to stop at the outlets in Livermore on the way home and buy myself a reward! (one that doesn't cluck, crow, or take up coop space...)

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Ron. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to be at a poultry show when you are trying to downsize? I practically had to smack myself in the head repeatedly to keep from picking up new breeds! Lots of wonderful birds available for sale. I am actually quite proud of my restraint - I will need to stop at the outlets in Livermore on the way home and buy myself a reward! (one that doesn't cluck, crow, or take up coop space...)

That is the hard part about going to shows! Good Job not buying any new ones.

 

[juststruttin]

Hi there everyone, long time no see! Except for Chiqita, who I saw earlier today and it was SOSOSOSOSOSO great to see her but horrified to hear about the predator attack last month. I miss you guys a lot. I have been working my hiney off (well not really, just working a lot, but my hiney is still there, following me around wherever I go). My company just finished a big (for us) IPO. Not like Google or Twitter, but still a big transaction that has consumed most of my time for the last few months.

I had to stop, take a hard look at what I was breeding, and make some tough choices. I decided to stick with my bantam cochin calico and blue calico projects and let go of the Olandsk and the Japanese right now. It was so hard to decide to let these go, but I just haven't been able to spend the kind of time that the birds need and deserve on/with them. So, I am sad, but I know that it is the right thing to do. I still have a few pairs of juvenile olandsk and black mottled Japanese left, so if anyone if interested let me know! I also have some nice serama cockerels, and a goofy frizzled serama lawn ornament available, along with a lot more bantam cochins from my projects.

I am excited about the calico projects though, and hatched out the second generation of blue calicos in September. I have no idea whatsoever what they will end up looking like, but right now they are awfully cute little feather footed fluff balls!

So did everyone have a good summer?

Dyann,
Great to see you back!!! OMG, your Cochin chicks are tooooo cute! Looking forward to getting together soon.

Deann

 

[AmyPaperlady]

If you get birds at a show, do you have to quarantine them separately, or can you quarantine them all together?

 

[Chooklet]

If you get birds at a show, do you have to quarantine them separately, or can you quarantine them all together?

If you buy them from different sellers then it is safest to quarantine them separately. If you don't have the facilities to do this then at least quarantine them from your flock, so that if one of them is sick you don't end up infecting the rest of your flock. I use separate broody coops, except that I don't buy birds anymore right? I am selling birds, not buying birds. OK, so I used to use separate broody coops (small coops that I would use when letting a broody hatch & raise chicks) for quarantining, whether the birds came from a show, a friend, or a rescue.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

That makes sense.

Hm, maybe we'll have gotten the greenhouse by February, so I can quarantine there as well as the garage. Or maybe I'll gamble on there being day-olds or hatching eggs, if I have someone broody...

Sheesh, talk about counting your chicens before they're hatched--I'm not even ready to get my first birds quite yet

 

[Chickengirl1304]

If a bird has cocci is it contagious? Or does it just get passed through infected poop? I have a few chicks I got from someone and they're puffed up and sneezing, and scrawny. I just started corid today. They're seperate but I'm worried about the rest of my chickens though.

 

[The Sheriff]

I was thinking about Chooklet the other day!

I hope Miss Molly is ok too.

I had an email from Molly a few days ago. She is doing ok. Taking some time to take care of herself.

Mary