California - Northern

[chiqita]

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

-Kathy

Im not sure how else the ting cold get a spot on its head. hopefully im wrong!

 

[alibra]

@caychris
  Debi's experience is pretty similar to most of ours.  We start out in chickens with hatchery birds then see breeder versions and go "WOW"  love our original flock but have found both aesthetic and moral reasons to go with breeders instead.  You are close enough to a bunch of us to choose your next chicks from some great breeder stock.  Even if you have no intent to show..I don't.  You can get beautiful culls from breeders.  I will have lovely Dels at some point from  @capayvalleychick
got a kick out of the fact that I also strapped in my carrier carrying my chickens.  So glad you found a source for incubation.  Where?

I made a friend at the elverta feeds store

 

[debs_flock]

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...

Yeah, it's quite a long drive down there for me. My sister and I both live here in the foothills now. I've been here since the late '70's and my sister and her family since the early '80's. My parents and brother all moved here too, but all three of them have now passed away.

If any of your family overlapped with my brother, they probably would remember him. He was a well known mischief maker!

Yes, my sister would have been a freshman in '63, long brunette hair, probably bangs. Next time I talk to her, I'll have to see if she knew your brother. She and I only overlapped one year. She was a senior when I was a freshman.

And I know how you feel about going to the Bay Area. The main reason I go down there now is to go to the SFO airport. I tense up around Candlestick and have to pry my white knuckles off the steering wheel by the time I get there.

When I drive in from the 580 direction, I can't believe the changes. DH has a daughter in Walnut Creek and I have friends in south SJ, so we do go down about once per year or so.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Guinea chicken crosses:
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Guineas/BRKGuinHybrid.html

-Kathy

 

[debs_flock]

Wow, those guinea x naked neck crosses look like vultures!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I made a friend at the elverta feeds store

Good tell her I have been waiting for brown red eggs for far too long lol

 

[Audio51]

Quote: Ron was pretty mischievious too......He played a little football, but was mostly into wrestling. He went to Humboldt State on a wrestling scolarship and was a first alternate for the Olympic team one year. I think my oldest brother was class of '69 and the other one was class of '74. We moved up here in 1986 with our 2 kids. I go back to San Jose now and I am completely lost in a lot of areas. The last place we lived before coming up here was right over behind Good Sam Hospital (both my kids were born there). There was a big fight over the property right next to the hospital because the old lady who had lived there forever had done a living will and and gave ownership of the property to one of her sons as long as she could live in the house until she died. Then the city finally decided it was time to activate the imminent domain for where they put the new highway (85?) and the property became more valuable to him becasue of it's proximity. He was trying for force her out so he could sell. The property was eventually sold but we moved before it was resolved so I don't know if he was successful or she finally passed.

 

[alibra]

Rooster problems :'(
...I've had Hercules, my big English orpington, for about a year. He's about 20 months old, & has always been very mellow. Never caused any problems.

Today, I was feeding, and I threw him some food and I noticed he was following me, & I actually said out loud, "what are you doing Herc? I already fed you!"

I went into the coop to get eggs and he hits me! I don't know if he was trying to mate or fight me. He bit the hell out of me!

Don't judge me but it really hurt my feelings....there was a half empty beer can on the ground so I threw it at him along with the food bucket and he flew/ran away... Then I finished my chores while holding a big net.

Why would a 20 month old rooster attack/mate me out of no where?

 

[casportpony]

If you hand raised him that's probably why... Seems when I raise mine they don't learn proper respect. Right now I have a few aggressive males (one duck, one rooster and one peacock), all have one thing in common, me, their mommy.

-Kathy

 

[SilkiesForEver]

5 babies out! I lost two, so that makes 5 eggs to go.

I have to say though, I'm shocked; these chicks are ridiculously strong and rambunctious. They are already attempting to jump out of the brooder.