California - Northern

[sewandgrow]

Who, me??? We spent yesterday afternoon moving and setting up breeding pens at the farm. I think that my Pita Pintas are going to end up going out there but I need to make a better pen for them. None of the ones we have are good enough for them!

Debi. did I Pm you offering to loan you some kennels I am not using? Would they work for you. I have ones with roofs & some with wire tops.

Saw this on Facebook.

Too funny.....Does that mean you get venison if the deer don't read???? LOL

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?

Kim, check with Jules @fortyfivefarm she has LF & bantam Sumatras. I fed my flock the pgeon grit before. I can't remember why but I think @Lotsapaints recommended it when we were having our feed mixed in bulk.

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.

I was sprouting BOSS for the K but let it go too far so now its greens. I am going to feed it to them like that.

 

[capayvalleychick]

Frizzle cochins will most def Go broody.

Where do I find a breeder? Any in Nor Cal? Should I ask on FB?

 

[AlpineButterfly]

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.

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.

I know that carousel! When I moved up to the Bay Area, I lived in San Jose, and bought a bike from Trailhead Cyclery in Cambrian Park Plaza. But that was in '98.

 

[CackleJoy]

Hello everyone! I hail from the Bay Area. I'm just starting out - getting things ready to build our coop/run and we'll be getting peepers in May!

I've already learned so much from this thread - it moves FAST. Looking forward to learning more

Welcome!
It's true, we are a chatty bunch

Glad to have you

 

[AmyPaperlady]

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I've been asked to let someone else name at least one. I'm thinking about it

Of course, the whole reason behind the food names was to theoretically make it easier if we theoretically decide to retire the girls to freezer camp. At this point, I think I'd have a full-on rebellion on my hands (especially over Quiche, who has been unofficially renamed by my 10-year-old and 5-year-old as Keisha and Queen, respectively. She's either near or at the bottom of the pecking order...) Since we're getting 4-5 eggs a day (with an occasional 3 egg day every other week or so) out of 5 hens, it doesn't look like anyone'll be retiring soon, anyway.

I'll post pictures once I've finished their pen this afternoon. It's just as well I couldn't finish--my husband picked a bantam mix, so the feeder and waterer would've been too high, since I was basing the measurements for mounting those on our older girls. Heck, the bigger one looks smaller than our others, so she probably would've been stretching a bit, too.

Yep.

 

[chiqita]

@ Flowers of Abba ... does the marans with a spot on its head look like a chicken? I just found out guinea/chicken crosses do happen. I did not think that was possible.. thats a bird with a barring gene..

 

[ronott1]

@ Flowers of Abba ... does the marans with a spot on its head look like a chicken? I just found out guinea/chicken crosses do happen. I did not think that was possible.. thats a bird with a barring gene..

Oh yes!

It is rare but does happen. They are sterile though.

 

[Audio51]

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We went to one, but haven't made it to any others. (I think it was the first one). It's a long drive nowaday for us and I get so stressed when I go back to the Bay Area. You can actually see the expressions on peoples faces change the closer you get to there. and feel the "get off the road becasue I won it" attitude. I haven't been to San Jose since the last of my siblings moved to Penn Valley a couple of years ago.

I think I found your sister in the 1963 Memini if she was a freshman. If she still has hers, Ron was a Junior that year. I couldn't find her in the 1966 one. That was when he was a Senior. Ron did actually jump the construction fence to get the bricks.....but don't tell anyone...

 

[casportpony]

@ Flowers of Abba ... does the marans with a spot on its head look like a chicken? I just found out guinea/chicken crosses do happen. I did not think that was possible.. thats a bird with a barring gene..

Oh yes!

It is rare but does happen. They are sterile though.

That and they don't live long. Same with peafowl guinea crosses...

-Kathy

 

[Audio51]

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It's amazing how small the world is!!!!