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[Audio51]

In my news, my new silkie broody did break which is good for her health, no so great for her lonliness so I went back to the Petaluma KOA yesterday and picked up a friend for her, a little black sizzle who may be her daughter I am not sure. My original contact told me the broody girl had hatched a clutch before there are a bunch of birchenish sizzled roos in the pen. My first girl is silver the new girl is jet black. My original contact wasn't there yesterday and I am going to ask her but viewing our communication track record I have no idea if she will answer me Anyway she is super sweet. I thought I lacked the silkie gene too but apparently it was latent and is now full blown!

Good.....I am glad she will have a familiar friend.....

 

[capayvalleychick]

I want a broody hen! There are two breeds that I love, for their looks alone. I don't want to add to the breeds that I have, but I've been wondering if I could find a reliable broody hen in one of the breeds that I covet. That way, I could have a pretty chicken that has a purpose.

So... do Sumatras or frizzled bantam Cochins go broody??? Anyone have a broody one for sale? Can Sumatras be kept in a mixed flock or are they game?

I accidentally bought a bag of Pigeon Grit. It's not the same as chicken grit, it's more of a supplement with calcium etc. Anybody want it?

 

[PetRock]

I want a broody hen! There are two breeds that I love, for their looks alone. I don't want to add to the breeds that I have, but I've been wondering if I could find a reliable broody hen in one of the breeds that I covet. That way, I could have a pretty chicken that has a purpose.

So... do Sumatras or frizzled bantam Cochins go broody??? Anyone have a broody one for sale? Can Sumatras be kept in a mixed flock or are they game?

I accidentally bought a bag of Pigeon Grit. It's not the same as chicken grit, it's more of a supplement with calcium etc. Anybody want it?

My pullet who is going to live with KristyAnn is a sumatra mix and is a very committed sitter. We have a sumatra or sumatra mix hen at the farm and I keep hatching her chicks by mistake. They are very strong hatchers and strong chicks. Hopefully, the move won't break this girl of her broodiness. She was sitting on a wooden egg for a few days and then a week ago I gave her some Pita Pinta/Cream Legbar mix eggs. I left 2 fresh eggs in with her yesterday that will go with her today. My head hen gets the rest of the eggs since I gave them both eggs on the same day.

 

[Audio51]

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I know! I started with one and ended up with 4. The Marans that hatched chicks a few days ago seem broken though. I found one dead the next morning and one looking like it was in it's death throes from being chilled. I was able to revive it and it is doing great, but I took all 4 away from her. The Wyandotte raising the clutch that includes the Mottled AM is pretty much ignoring them now ( they are about 5 weeks old) and they seem to be well integrated into the flock. I do have one Marans on eggs set on 4/4 and another wanting to hatch, but she does not have any eggs under her. I haven't gotten a chocolate egg in quite a while since the only other FBCM is the one that seems to have damage to her paint pot. She lays basic brown eggs just like my Orphington hen.

 

[debs_flock]

My grandmother lived off of Foxworthy, I can't remember the name of the street, that was fifty years ago! Aloha, maybe?

When I went to Camden, we of course had to walk through the Plaza to get home. The long way around was by the bowling alley, it's always seemed "naughty" to walk through for a short-cut with all the loitering guys. In the one door, out the other side to cut off a few feet of sidewalk. When I was 16 and my GF and I decided to experiment with smoking, we went in there and bought a pack of cigarettes out of the vending machine for a quarter..................yes they were a quarter and yes you could buy them from an untended vending machine................I really am that old. LOL We then went and parked next to a park, sat in my car and smoked the entire pack in one sitting in a short time. I can't imagine that we even inhaled.

We used to stop often in the Five and Dime on the way home. One time I got home and realized I had accidently shop lifted. I had sat my binder down on a display counter while looking at something. Apparently when I scooped it back up, I had accidently scooped up a pair of baby socks. It was hanging over my arm and held in place by the binder. I was so terrified that I had stolen, I turned around and walked all the way back (at least a mile) and turned them back into the store with profuse apologies.

If I wanted to take the better short cut home, I cut through the other end of the Plaza, down by the medical offices. I remember there was something about that path (darkly shaded, quiet, the sound of the AC compressor) that scared the cr*p out of me. I always went through there quickly and rarely took that path. It always gave me the heebie jeebies, LOL

It would be a share if the carousel disappeared. It was an institution and figured prominently in our school yearbook.

 

[Audio51]

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I grew up in the Cambrian Park area of San Jose. Went to Cambrian Elementary (now condos from what I understand...) Dartmouth and Blackford Jr High and Branham High School.
I grew up in Cambrian Park, behind the Plaza Shopping Center. I lived on the corner of Wyrick and Berry. I went to Oster Elem, then Dartmouth, then they changed the lines so I went to Union in 8th grade. I then went to Camden High School, which has been closed since 1980.

I still have old spirit badges to beat your school during sporting events.

How odd, I've met people from SJ plenty of times, but never from the same neighborhood! My best friend lived on New Jersey, right off Camden.

I was probably there before you though, I graduated HS in '71.

We were born on Custer Drive near Foxworthy. My oldest brother went to Ida Price. Then we moved the Central Park Drive. Lived there for many years until my parents divorced, then lived in several other places in the same general area. Did you hear the Cambrian Plaza has been sold and may not be there much longer? I am hoping they at least save the carousel. We (along with most of the residents in that area, I assume) used to imagine the family up there was us...especially since I am a twin and that was what was being pushed around in the shopping cart. We used to go to the bowling alley and "Ben Franklin" back when it was essentially a penny candy store.
Forgot to say I still have some Spirit badges ands ribbons too! Our school mostly did ribbons. I graduated in '76, so you wer a little before me...but not much! My husband went to Camden too...her graduated in '66 so would not have been there when you went, but his siblings probably were. They were Judi, Erick and David Taylor. Have you been to any of the reunions? When they tore Camden down we snagged a couple of the bricks from the rubble so Ron could have a memento of his time there...

 

[casportpony]

has anyone used Ultra Kibble as a supplement does it help egg color?

sources of Vitamin K for chickens

Spinach ,
beans ,
??? any other ideas?

Lots of peafowl people feed Ultra Kibble and I feed mine leafy greens like collards, kale, spinach and alfalfa. Not positive, but I think beans need to be cooked first, but don't quote me on that, lol.

-Kathy

 

[debs_flock]

Forgot to say I still have some Spirit badges ands ribbons too! Our school mostly did ribbons. I graduated in '76, so you wer a little before me...but not much! My husband went to Camden too...her graduated in '66 so would not have been there when you went, but his siblings probably were. They were Judi, Erick and David Taylor. Have you been to any of the reunions? When they tore Camden down we snagged a couple of the bricks from the rubble so Ron could have a memento of his time there...

Twice I've gone to the All-Year Reunion picnic they hold on the athletic field behind the old gym. I graduated in '71, my sister in '68 and my brother in '62 Debbie, Cheryl and Gary Hill.

Wow, I would have loved to have one of the old bricks. I tend to pick things up like that. I just brought home a stone I picked up from Pembroke Castle in Wales. LOL, the stone was probably from putting out new paving stones in the last year...................but I can pretend. The original castle was built around 1054, so I'm going with that, LOL

And no, as I told my English host, I did NOT pry it off anything, that would be vandalizing.

 

[lizanne]

has anyone used Ultra Kibble as a supplement does it help egg color?

sources of Vitamin K for chickens

Spinach ,
beans ,
??? any other ideas?

I looked it up. It says dried plumbs (prunes?) have the highest vitamin K of the fruits. Also Oregano, and cloves. Brussels sprouts, Swiss Chard (I guess it has lots of vitamin K), any kind of leafy greens.

 

[chiqita]

I want a broody hen!  There are two breeds that I love, for their looks alone. I don't want to add to the breeds that I have, but I've been wondering if I could find a reliable broody hen in one of the breeds that I covet. That way, I could have a pretty chicken that has a purpose.

So... do Sumatras or frizzled bantam Cochins go broody??? Anyone have a broody one for sale? Can Sumatras be kept in a mixed flock or are they game?

I accidentally bought a bag of Pigeon Grit. It's not the same as chicken grit, it's more of a supplement with calcium etc. Anybody want it?

Frizzle cochins will most def Go broody.

The first house I remember living in was on hester in the rosegarden district.