California - Northern

[casportpony]

They look very nice and happy to be out of their shell!

Cute, lol!

-Kathy

 

[lizgarf]

Hi Northern Cal peeps!
I am a once-in-awhile lurker here in Oakland and could use some help rehoming some lovely BCM cockerels (pure and crossed), broody-hatched by a team of 3, and fathered by a beautiful roo, hatched from a Papa's Poultry egg last year. I placed an ad on BYC and craigslist this week, but response has been slow so far. If anyone has suggestions for how to find homes, please let me know!!

Here is my byc ad, pasted in:

I have some 10-week-old cockerels, broody hatched 8/23-27. The eggs were from my own hens and fertilized by my BCM roo, Desi. Two cockerels are pure BCM, and the others are really nice crosses - one with a dark brahma, one with a bantam frizzled cochin (Diego is not frizzled but might carry the gene), and one from an unknown bantam breed, probably mostly sebright. Desi and Lucy (the mom to the two pure BCM cockerels) were broody-hatched from eggs I bought from Papa's Poultry, so they should be breeding quality cockerels. All my chickens are fed organic feed from Modesto Mills and free-range daily.

My chickens are my pets with benefits, and my hope is these boys will find good homes where they can range regularly and have some lady friends to look after and when it's time for them to move on, that they go peacefully.
I won't ship, but I could potentially travel to a reasonable distance from Oakland for the right home. I'm thinking $10 for the pures and $5 for the crosses or best offer for a good home.

Here's papa Desi:


Here are the boys:
Brahmaran Brian (dark brahma mama is a lap hen and my favorite of the flock):



BCM/Bantam frizzled cochin cross, Diego (copper bits coming in. I suspect he'll look like a smaller fluffy blue copper marans. He's extra sweet and friendly and might make some frizzled babies):


Black Copper Marans Cyrano (Cy):



BCM Louie (Lu):



BCM crossed with lovely bantam, probably mostly sebright, Frankie. (When Frankie was 2 days old, I rescued him from being pecked to death by his over-the-top broody mom who seemed to think he was too tiny. I gave him to another broody who was sitting on the unhatched BCM eggs abandoned by the other broodies and ran to the store and bought liquid bandage. He survived and healed really well, though he has a little scar like a headband from where the skin on his head was torn open. He's a super sweet little guy, and I'm so bummed he's a boy!)

 

[ronott1]

The new issue of CAHFS news is out. There is a new avian diagnostician in Turlock and pox is in the poultry section.

 

[ronott1]

Hi Northern Cal peeps!
I am a once-in-awhile lurker here in Oakland and could use some help rehoming some lovely BCM cockerels (pure and crossed), broody-hatched by a team of 3, and fathered by a beautiful roo, hatched from a Papa's Poultry egg last year. I placed an ad on BYC and craigslist this week, but response has been slow so far. If anyone has suggestions for how to find homes, please let me know!!

Here is my byc ad, pasted in:

I have some 10-week-old cockerels, broody hatched 8/23-27. The eggs were from my own hens and fertilized by my BCM roo, Desi. Two cockerels are pure BCM, and the others are really nice crosses - one with a dark brahma, one with a bantam frizzled cochin (Diego is not frizzled but might carry the gene), and one from an unknown bantam breed, probably mostly sebright. Desi and Lucy (the mom to the two pure BCM cockerels) were broody-hatched from eggs I bought from Papa's Poultry, so they should be breeding quality cockerels. All my chickens are fed organic feed from Modesto Mills and free-range daily.

My chickens are my pets with benefits, and my hope is these boys will find good homes where they can range regularly and have some lady friends to look after and when it's time for them to move on, that they go peacefully.
I won't ship, but I could potentially travel to a reasonable distance from Oakland for the right home. I'm thinking $10 for the pures and $5 for the crosses or best offer for a good home.

Here's papa Desi:


Here are the boys:
Brahmaran Brian (dark brahma mama is a lap hen and my favorite of the flock):



BCM/Bantam frizzled cochin cross, Diego (copper bits coming in. I suspect he'll look like a smaller fluffy blue copper marans. He's extra sweet and friendly and might make some frizzled babies):


Black Copper Marans Cyrano (Cy):



BCM Louie (Lu):



BCM crossed with lovely bantam, probably mostly sebright, Frankie. (When Frankie was 2 days old, I rescued him from being pecked to death by his over-the-top broody mom who seemed to think he was too tiny. I gave him to another broody who was sitting on the unhatched BCM eggs abandoned by the other broodies and ran to the store and bought liquid bandage. He survived and healed really well, though he has a little scar like a headband from where the skin on his head was torn open. He's a super sweet little guy, and I'm so bummed he's a boy!)

They look very nice!

I hope the find a nice home.

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Hi Northern Cal peeps!
I am a once-in-awhile lurker here in Oakland and could use some help rehoming some lovely BCM cockerels (pure and crossed), broody-hatched by a team of 3, and fathered by a beautiful roo, hatched from a Papa's Poultry egg last year. I placed an ad on BYC and craigslist this week, but response has been slow so far. If anyone has suggestions for how to find homes, please let me know!!

Good luck rehoming them! I'll be having the same problem in a few months with however many cockerels I end up in my batch of Orpington chicks.

 

[EZFarms]

so its that time of year. i have an infestation of lice again on both flocks any ideas hpw to get rid of them

 

[ronott1]

so its that time of year. i have an infestation of lice again on both flocks any ideas hpw to get rid of them

Dust them or use liquid pyrethrin or permectrin on them two times and a week apart.

Or use ivermectin or frontline(plain). ivermectin still works for lice and mites and needs to be applied two times a week apart too. Frontline is applied monthly.

 

[EZFarms]

Cant afford any if that till atleast the first. anything i can do until then?

 

[ronott1]

Cant afford any if that till atleast the first. anything i can do until then?

A can of dust from Wamart or similar is the lowest cost treatment for them.

something like this:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Garden-Guard-535860-1Lb-Garden-Guard-Insect-Shaker-Can/37571839#about

It is a bit over $10.00 for it.

 

[casportpony]

Cant afford any if that till atleast the first. anything i can do until then?

Get some poultry dust, it's about $6.00.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/y-texreg;-gardstarreg;-garden--poultry-dust-shaker-can-2-lb
It looks like this:



-Kathy