California - Northern

[ronott1]

Quote: Thank you Shantih for the pictures!

It is great to see my babies. I am so happy that they get to live with you. That Marans boy is too nice to go into a stew pot!

Ron

 

[zooweemama]

Ok, it is official, My Pet Chicken is selling Legbars!


Dear Ron,

You've been clucking and clucking about Cream Legbars. You cluck on the phone. You cluck over email. You cluck on Facebook and on our blog. We've heard you! Beautiful blue Cream Legbar fertile hatching eggs are now available. Quantities are limited, so act fast! (And for those of you who want chicks and juvenile Cream Legbars, just hang in there a few more months...)

Ron

Woohoo!

 

[zooweemama]

Is that 75 PER EGG or 75 per 6 eggs??? Holy tamole.


To sooth myself, here are some pics Not professional quality like some people here




marans ESCAPEDDD! and checking out the new digs.




CL girls, debating if they can reach the Ivy

edited by staff

haha The great escape! The other night I put all the chickens up. Night fell. My son came in, Gramma told me to go catch Copper he was running around the outside trying to get it in. I felt so bad. I always look around for stragglers and there weren't any. I wonder where he had been hiding? Oh he is a Marans too! haha

 

[zooweemama]

Monday night - raccoon
Tuesday night - raccoon
Wednesday night - oppossum

Thursday - go to Walmart and buy more cheap canned cat food, apparently it works!

Deb

WOW Impressive!

 

[egg-lady]

Ok, it is official, My Pet Chicken is selling Legbars!


Dear Ron,

You've been clucking and clucking about Cream Legbars. You cluck on the phone. You cluck over email. You cluck on Facebook and on our blog. We've heard you! Beautiful blue Cream Legbar fertile hatching eggs are now available. Quantities are limited, so act fast! (And for those of you who want chicks and juvenile Cream Legbars, just hang in there a few more months...)

Ron

If I had a incubator. that is very tempting

 

[chiqita]

Your Marans boy is nice to everybody but broody hens and My head rooster. He has a fetish for girls with babies, luckily the next batches of broodies will be moving into Silkieland and not completely free ranging with the big girls. Both of your girls are laying now, tiny little eggies. Should be ready for incubating by the heritage festival, I can bring some if you a re going. They are a welcome addition beacuse right now ALL of my other Marans girls are broody except Plank, who has only been laying for about 2 weeks.

We were going to name him the Dauphin in honor of a certain french prince that had the same proclivities. Orlando, the CL boy is SOOO loud ( we named him after Orlando Bloom for the floppy comb to go with the floppy hair he used to have) We have been putting them together in the evening till we get an extra coop built ( putting them in with the grow outs was NOT a success) and the girls just hang their heads in shame when he starts to go off, so embarrassed, its hilarious. They are QUITE a tight little family. Mario has been trying to Woo them with black soldier flies, but it hasn't worked yet, they still wont come up to us for treats. The little crested girl ( liv) is so cute, she is my favorite.

Did we ever figure out how old they are, anyway?

 

[ronott1]

Your Marans boy is nice to everybody but broody hens and My head rooster. He has a fetish for girls with babies, luckily the next batches of broodies will be moving into Silkieland and not completely free ranging with the big girls. Both of your girls are laying now, tiny little eggies. Should be ready for incubating by the heritage festival, I can bring some if you a re going. They are a welcome addition beacuse right now ALL of my other Marans girls are broody except Plank, who has only been laying for about 2 weeks.

We were going to name him the Dauphin in honor of a certain french prince that had the same proclivities. Orlando, the CL boy is SOOO loud ( we named him after Orlando Bloom for the floppy comb to go with the floppy hair he used to have) We have been putting them together in the evening till we get an extra coop built ( putting them in with the grow outs was NOT a success) and the girls just hang their heads in shame when he starts to go off, so embarrassed, its hilarious. They are QUITE a tight little family. Mario has been trying to Woo them with black soldier flies, but it hasn't worked yet, they still wont come up to us for treats. The little crested girl ( liv) is so cute, she is my favorite.

Did we ever figure out how old they are, anyway?

The Marans are 22 weeks old. The Cls I am not sure about. They are from the second hatch, which I started a week before the first CLs hatched, since only two were developing the first time. When I get access to my hatching binder I will look up the dates to be sure. I am pretty sure Orlando is why Animal Control was called. It does seem like the little ones are the noisiest....

You are going to be at the heritage festival on Tuesday? I would love to get some hatching eggs from them. Let me know which day and I will take it off from work.

I am looking forward to going. Also, I love the Bee hive in the picture with the Marans!

Bye,

Ron

 

[CALI CHICK]

Hi Everyone,
Our family is moments away from leaving on a long overdue vacation. We will be going to South Dakota (Mt Rushmore,etc) and Wyoming (Yellowstone). I have a chicken sitter here and just handed him over a long list of instructions...........

I hope everything goes OK while we're away. By the way, my house sitter is from Lincoln and has grown up with chickens and other animals.

I am SO looking forward to sleeping in past 6:30.

What have all of you done with your chickens while you go away? Or, do you just never get a vacation?

I'm back home in California!

We saw some beautiful places and had some wonderful adventures (like boulder-ing, hiking and shooting) but it's great to be home.

I am really sad that one of my silkie chickens died Sunday morning (26th). BB was found dead in the coop when the sitter was getting the cockerels out (to take in the house at 6:30 AM). There wasn't any blood or injuries to her so I'm guessing she was egg bound? I wish I had been home to observe her...We might have noticed something because we are often outside with the chickens. She had only layed about 10 eggs in the previous two weeks. Her first egg was layed on August 9 and the sitter said she had layed 2 eggs at the begining of our vacation (around the 20th and 21st) but hadn't layed any since. The other 10 chickens (6 large fowl and 4 silkies) were all perfectly fine, fortunately. Our other blue silkie, Mysty Blue ironically gave us her first egg this Wednesday. It had a lot of blood on it so I gave her a soaking bath and put A&D ointment on her vent. Then I gave her some scrambled eggs with spinach, garlic and olive oil for breakfast. Now we are worried about Mysty Blue becoming egg bound. What are the signs of a chicken being egg bound?

Oh, Buffy, our Buff Orpington is broody again so I put 4 of BB's eggs under her..........just in case they are fertile! Might as well give Buffy something to sit on. The 2 silkie cockerels are crowing and starting the mating dance but we haven't actually seen them mate. It would be awesome if BB left us some fertile eggs before her death.

Has anyone ever had a pullet attack them? Our 17 week old Welsummer, Ginger, ran up to my son today and pecked and scratched him with her claws and beak. It was really strange. She does not attack me and has never done this before (our vacation). We wondered if Ginger was upset because he hasn't been around to give her treats (mealworms) or if it was a pecking order thing?

It's really nice to be back in beautiful California which cannot be beat for its forests, lakes and rivers. And, I sure missed my BYC friends.

 

[lawatt]

It is shaping up to be quite the country menu

I'm just glad I haven't been forced yet to decide what to do should I catch a cat, neighbor's or feral. We do have a couple that hang around. They can't get to any of our birds currently, but they would certainly "take out" chicks or even adult seramas or quail.

Deb

just an interesting note, i've got two cats that are voracious predators, little Henry has been known to catch as many as 3 gophers in a single hour -- and i'd never trust baby chicks around either cat -- but they are turning out to be great with the chickens, haven't lifted a paw to swat or chase any of them, not even the two light sussex chicks when they were only 6-7 weeks old so more cat-snack-sized. in fact, the two cuckoo marans have started chasing Henry, as a game, rather than the other way around!

someone pointed out to me, early in my chicken adventure, that barn cats have been coexisting with chickens for centuries...

here's my other cat, Sophie, hanging out with the two silver pencilled rocks i got from Cheryl:

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Can you drop off the dead one to UCD? It is free and you will not have to guess what she died from.

Mine earlier this month was like that and it was Mareks Cancer. Yours is a bit young for that but you never know.

I checked for egg bound once, but it wound up being mites. It is mite season too. There are so many things going on.

Necropsy is free and a great way to see what happened and what the general health of your flock is.

Let me know if you need the contact information.

Ron