California - Northern

[lmrickert]

Any Ideas What Breed Chicken This Might Be?

 

[poult]

I'm a child of the drought, so my life has always been influenced by it. I have high efficiency everything. I turn off taps when I brush my teeth or scrub a pot. I have no lawn. Aside from my Meyer lemon tree, everything in the garden is drought tolerant natives or Mediterranean (and my garden is only 10' x 6'; rest of the yard is patio or chicken space.

I have rain barrels. I put a 5G bucket in the sink/tub when waiting for water to heat up and use that in the garden or to flush the toilet.

I'm thinking about switching laundry detergents so I can use the grey water in the garden. I'd also LOVE to get a grey water shower system that I could then reuse in the toilet and garden, but so far I haven't found one that works for my situation and is legal here (which is OUTRAGEOUS!).

I use under 30G a day, which puts me waaaaaay under the norm, even here in the Bay where our usage is already the lowest in the state (or it was last time I looked).

Oh no I hadn't started a garden this year but I am growing a few morning glories.Is there anyway do you think you can check your well to see how much water is left?

 Where are you located?   I am in the eastern foothills in Paradise.  We have not had strict water regulations here because we have your own water supply (Paradise Lake/Magalia Dam), but we have been reducing even without restrictions.  I used to wash down my bird flights (I rise finches outside) weekly, but cut back to once a month with sweeping in between.  For their health, I have to wash the flights at least monthly since bird poop sticks to everything worse than chicken poop!)  Shorter showers, Letting it "Mellow", water once a week instead of 3 times.  As much of our landscaping is on drip as possible.  The problem I have with the new requirements is that many people have already cut back significantly over the last few years and now they are being told to cut back even more.  There does come a point where you really can't cut back any more and stay healthy.   It seems more reasonable to allot a certain number of gallons per household or person. 
Does the Baytril stay in the chickens system permanently?  I can see a long withdrawal (-6-8 weeks or so), but permanent seems extreme. I did have time to read all the linked documents, but did not see anything right off the bat that indicated it stayed in the system for the life of the chicken.

We live in a very thickly wooded area sorry I don't want to get very specific.Wow yeah you can only cut back so far I hope your birds will be ok without the weekly washing.

Chrissy in tracy has them. I have blanked on her handle lol
we gave up on the lawn and garden this year. Our other big deal is we use bath water to flush. That saves a lot.

That's good.

I don't know where you live but here in Turlock we are concerned. They cut our pasture irrigation in half last year & tripled the price this year. I told my husband I am totally willing the let the lawns go if necessary. We do have a vegetable garden & fruit trees that I want to maintain and favored areas in the yard with plants. We are watchful more than ever. We have a high water table here but I know a couple not too far away that lost their wells last year.

Yes we have a well and it's never gotten low enough to worry it pumps a lot of water.

 

[casportpony]

I found this antibiotic table from a UK site quite useful:

Source: http://www.octagon-services.co.uk/articles/poultry/gamebirds.pdf

Of course it's always best to work with a veterinarian to pick the best antibiotic for your situation.

-Kathy

 

[chiqita]

I'm a child of the drought, so my life has always been influenced by it. I have high efficiency everything. I turn off taps when I brush my teeth or scrub a pot. I have no lawn. Aside from my Meyer lemon tree, everything in the garden is drought tolerant natives or Mediterranean (and my garden is only 10' x 6'; rest of the yard is patio or chicken space.

I have rain barrels. I put a 5G bucket in the sink/tub when waiting for water to heat up and use that in the garden or to flush the toilet.

I'm thinking about switching laundry detergents so I can use the grey water in the garden. I'd also LOVE to get a grey water shower system that I could then reuse in the toilet and garden, but so far I haven't found one that works for my situation and is legal here (which is OUTRAGEOUS!).

I use under 30G a day, which puts me waaaaaay under the norm, even here in the Bay where our usage is already the lowest in the state (or it was last time I looked).

The gray washing water is great we do that when the mists go away for the fruit trees.
I get a clothes clear at costco of all places that is safe. You do have to run water down occationly to make sure your pipes don't back up. thats when you wash your really dirty crap or use bleach or whatever.

[quote"tommysgirl" url="/t/25/california-northern/60870#post_15072443"]More Advice needed re my two broodies that need chicks

So I have found a CL clutch due to hatch on friday. If I were to go there I would buy 2 of her CL pullets and 4 or so  other chicks from the feed store.  I would prefer to not go the feed store route but I want  3 or 4 chicks per broody and at 25.00 each  2 CCL pullets are all I choose to afford...Where I live it will be hard to resell them for what they will be worth when they are older..

I have also found a woman in Ft Bragg who has Blue Isbars and some Isbar mixes but those babies are already 5 and 6 days old.  Philosophically I would rather go with her but I am worried that the chics will be too old to successfully graft them .   I might not pick them up for another 3 days.

I can't do both in one weekend.  For one set I travel South and for the other North West.  Both trips between 1.5 and 2 hours one way.

I am leaning toward the younger chicks because CL are on my list to add this year and Isbar are not also because they will be more likely to graft successfully which is the entire point of getting chicks in the first place.
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i think the chicks are likely to graft either way but if you want cl get em imo. You could get 2 boys for free likely!

 

[tommysgirl]

I think I would go with the younger chicks since they are already on your list. A second trip to get something you are not really looking for seems silly.

i think the chicks are likely to graft either way but if you want cl get em imo. You could get 2 boys for free likely!

Thanks both of you for confirming what I already want to do. @chiqita she is charging 10.00 for the boys

 

[Flowers of Abba]

[quote name="chiqita"
i think the chicks are likely to graft either way but if you want cl get em imo. You could get 2 boys for free likely![/quote]

Speaking of cl boys.... THE one we took home is one handsome ladies man.lol he wasted NO time. I have to get a picture with his flock. I love my pp boy but the cl has MANNERS with his ladies. So funny to watch him at breakfast and rounding them up at night. Thank you for him.

 

[chiqita]

Thanks both of you for confirming what I already want to do.   @chiqita
  she is charging 10.00 for the boys   

Wow!! You can charge a ton for a nice older boys but babies??? You gotta admire the hutzpa.

[quote name="chiqita"
i think the chicks are likely to graft either way but if you want cl get em imo. You could get 2 boys for free likely!

Speaking of cl boys.... THE one we took home is one handsome ladies man.lol he wasted NO time. I have to get a picture with his flock. I love my pp boy but the cl has MANNERS with his ladies. So funny to watch him at breakfast and rounding them up at night. Thank you for him.[/quote]
It comes from having like 9 other roosters over you! My boys learn to be polite. Its like urban planning for roosters.

 

[tommysgirl]

I am encouraged by those of you who have roosters sharing space. I want badly to keep my Langshan mix boy that I hatched from an egg I got from @PetRock He is the one who had the unabsorbed egg sac. He is just about 3.5 months old and isn't crowing or anything and the other boys aren't mean to him. Are there any tips for making it work?

 

[tommysgirl]

Wow!! You can charge a ton for a nice older boys but babies??? You gotta admire the hutzpa.

haha yeah, to be fair that is what she was asking for 3 week olds and she may charge less for newer ones. Do you have CCL?

 

[chiqita]

I am encouraged by those of you who have roosters sharing space.   I want badly to keep my Langshan mix boy that I hatched from an egg I got from @PetRock
 He is the one who had the unabsorbed egg sac.  He is just about 3.5 months old and isn't crowing or anything and the other boys aren't mean to him.   Are there any tips for making it work?

Introduce him as young as possible. So the head boy schools him but does not feel the need to do damage. And have space for running. So much running at my house.....