California - Northern

[chiqita]

Omg I need a new name for ebony 2.

This morning she kicked BOTH mothers out and had all the chicks and all the eggs and was making mad noise trying to imprint them.

She has already gone broody twice this year but she has not hatched anything. She runs cold and her eggs don't develop.

Any ideas?

 

[highcountrybell]

ive always come here for info, but hadn't signed up. glad I finally did! trying to figure out how this whole forum thing works and replying .... is there a spot for trying to figure out the sex of a 3 month old hen ?... well maybe not a hen

 

[Kaylish]

Chico huh????? I got my very first BCMs from Chico.......Big Boy, my avatar is one of the 4 roosters from those 6 chicks. He will live his life out here with us. We drove from Turlock to pick them up & I have never been sorry.

Pretty excited, these are our first non-hatchery birds and they all have such personalities! They all came from NorCal Chickens; seem to be growing faster than the hatchery chicks we had last spring. Sure hope one of the roos end up as pretty as your Big Boy!

 

[mendocinosunris]

had to pass this along...

 

[sewandgrow]

just chiming in to confirm, I used the casual carpool system (as a rider, not a driver) for years to commute from Oakland to SF -- fantastic system, works for everybody. glad to know they have something similar set up in Houston!

Laura, Where in Oakland did you live. I lived there for years, but was happy to leave there & move to the country. Other than the heat I like it sooooo much better here......LOL

 

[lawatt]

Laura, Where in Oakland did you live. I lived there for years, but was happy to leave there & move to the country. Other than the heat I like it sooooo much better here......LOL

I spent seven years living in the neighborhood that's between Piedmont Ave & Grand Ave, after 8 years in SF -- we used to joke that it was "Baja Piedmont," down at the bottom of the hill below the much wealthier neighborhood of Piedmont -- but it was perfect for the casual carpool, as all the Lexuses and Mercedes would come swooping down the hill from Piedmont, pick up us scruffier types in the lowlands, and then swoop off to SF.

I actually miss living in a real urban area in some ways, although i'm not complaining about where i landed in Sonoma Co. -- once I got the job at SSU, the commute from Oakland was brutal, so I spent a couple of years living on a boat in San Rafael, then rented a place near Sebastopol, and finally found my lovely house up here on Sonoma Mtn.

I love either city or rural -- what i dislike is suburban.

 

[sewandgrow]

ive always come here for info, but hadn't signed up. glad I finally did! trying to figure out how this whole forum thing works and replying .... is there a spot for trying to figure out the sex of a 3 month old hen ?... well maybe not a hen

WELCOME.................... A picture would be a great help. Are you able to do that?

 

[sewandgrow]

Pretty excited, these are our first non-hatchery birds and they all have such personalities! They all came from NorCal Chickens; seem to be growing faster than the hatchery chicks we had last spring. Sure hope one of the roos end up as pretty as your Big Boy!

Thank you..........I have a great affection for him. He is docile & good to his girls & as close to SOP as I have.

 

[sewandgrow]

I spent seven years living in the neighborhood that's between Piedmont Ave & Grand Ave, after 8 years in SF -- we used to joke that it was "Baja Piedmont," down at the bottom of the hill below the much wealthier neighborhood of Piedmont -- but it was perfect for the casual carpool, as all the Lexuses and Mercedes would come swooping down the hill from Piedmont, pick up us scruffier types in the lowlands, and then swoop off to SF.

I actually miss living in a real urban area in some ways, although i'm not complaining about where i landed in Sonoma Co. -- once I got the job at SSU, the commute from Oakland was brutal, so I spent a couple of years living on a boat in San Rafael, then rented a place near Sebastopol, and finally found my lovely house up here on Sonoma Mtn.

I love either city or rural -- what i dislike is suburban.

If I am right @wolftracks is very familiar with that area & even worked at the Clairmont Hotel.

 

[chiqita]

I spent seven years living in the neighborhood that's between Piedmont Ave & Grand Ave, after 8 years in SF -- we used to joke that it was "Baja Piedmont," down at the bottom of the hill below the much wealthier neighborhood of Piedmont -- but it was perfect for the casual carpool, as all the Lexuses and Mercedes would come swooping down the hill from Piedmont, pick up us scruffier types in the lowlands, and then swoop off to SF.

I actually miss living in a real urban area in some ways, although i'm not complaining about where i landed in Sonoma Co. -- once I got the job at SSU, the commute from Oakland was brutal, so I spent a couple of years living on a boat in San Rafael, then rented a place near Sebastopol, and finally found my lovely house up here on Sonoma Mtn.  

I love either city or rural -- what i dislike is suburban.

My grandparents lived in piedmont! They bought a house in the 50s that was very antiquie then and positivly ancient when they sold. They both had kids when they got married and forsaw the need for metric tons of space. They were right we can't all meet anyome too many digits in the family.

We got to see thw whole neigherbood gentrify as I was growing up. You could tell the whole story in pets I say.

Thank you..........I have a great affection for him. He is docile & good to his girls & as close to SOP as I have.

This makes me miss dear departed louie.