California - Northern

[PGRanch]

Anyone else have a very windy night last night? Its still pretty windy. I don't like the wind at night.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I didn't notice anything - and we have LOTS of trees, so bad wind storms usually wake me up.

Congrats to those of you that have calendar pictures in the running. I just voted myself - should be a great calendar!

 

[Miss Molly]

Yes, congratulations to those of you with pics entered in the calendar. how do I vote...

I had a lady come pick up twenty roosters last night. It's always hard.... but really needed to happen...

 

[ronott1]

Yes, congratulations to those of you with pics entered in the calendar.

how do I vote...

I had a lady come pick up twenty roosters last night. It's always hard....

but really needed to happen...

This was easy to find last night:



Voting is simple:

1. Go to this link: http://crowdflower.com/judgments/mob/138976
2. Enter your email address (this is to help our system try to make sure you don't get the same images over and over again)
3. Rate the image from 1-5 (5 means it is one of your absolute favorite pictures!)

 

[Miss Molly]

Thanks Ron, just voted. WOW! Great pics!

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Ron, just voted. WOW! Great pics!

Yes, this is going to be a great Calendar! Good luck to all with pictures entered

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Quote: Hope the fixed the part where you HAD to rate every photo. It said on the main page that you could vote on as few as 5 but it wouldn't let you go to the next page until you rated every pic. And they're saying it's not a big deal that there are duplicate pics on the last page but seems to me those pics are getting twice the votes so they'll have to take out the votes for them from every voter.

Anyway, I love, love, love my 2012 Calendar and can't wait for this one.

PGRanch, no wind here....and I would have known since I was up until 3am with insomnia! Even after a sleeping pill! But I love the wind! We live on a canyon and I love those blustery days.

Those of you who sent chickens off for necropsy, how long did it take until you heard from them and how did they contact you? Was it email, followed by a snail mail letter or just the snail mail letter? I shipped the chick on 10/10. Now that I've got all the coops fresh, clean and winterized I want to move the remaining three in the grow out pen that's right next to the layer coop so everyone will get use to each other and they can move in before winter.

Miss Molly, 20 roosters!

Sure must be quiet around there. When my husband complains about all the boys I'll just tell him you just sold 20 so imagine how many Miss Molly has! I'm not so bad with 5 (not counting the babies). I sold two over the weekend and one was one of my favorite.....I always regret those for a few days and then I appreciate that I have one less roo crowing!

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Gah! It been a long time since i have been on here. So.... how is everyone?

 

[tls_ranch]

Oh sorry its not new

But if you want it your more than welcome to it.

Thanks,
I think I'll need the single stall boxes. I either need to ship a single cockerel or 2 little ones. A big box probably won't work. Gas is so expensive it's cheaper to ship than to drive. Unless anyone is willing to do a "chicken train" going from Redding/Red Bluff area to Concord/Bay Area in the next month or so?

Trisha

 

[zooweemama]

Talk to me. So the sick chickens I had...no longer 'sick'. While they have been separated from the rest the ones that rattled when they breathed- have completely gotten better. Rattles are completely gone. I am still processing the cockerels - I have already have 5 'keepers' and only like 14 females- my ratio is already jacked lol. (need more hens! haha)

Anyway...I had a female, one of my FBCM who was breathing very poorly. Acting low. Not doing well and had a minor limp. Now she is acting very chipper, more pronounced limp but she is vigorous and breathing just fine. The one cockerel that we had dubbed Wounded Knee also has recovered for the most part. He still has a slight offness in his gait but at one point he was walking on his knees. He is now walking normally (just a slight offness that is generally seen when he gets bumped hard or steps into a dip). He is also still getting processed. But I am just struggling with the female- she is far too small to process so she would get culled and that's it. But I have not treated the chickens with any kind of medical intervention whatsoever. And they are all getting better (at least it sure seems like it! Breathing issues gone, lameness seems to get bad before it mostly corrects itself).

Should I still cull the pullet or would you wait and see? I am impressed that although these chickens (nearly all of them (affected by the mold) are the FBCM only 2 of the Orps were affected during all this) are recovering on their own without intervention on my part. The males are still goners as I do not need any more males- but that female could lay eggs darn it! LOL I hate the fact that despite her limp (Wounded Knee's was horrible for a time, walking on both knees and now he walks nearly normal!) she is actually doing wonderfully.

I did toss in a male Orp with all 'meat chickens' that was not sick because I only planned on keeping 1 male Orpington but since I plan to actually breed my Orpingtons- I think I should keep 2 Orp roosters - because if something happened to the one Orp roo I have now- I would have NO Orpington rooster. Not good.

Thoughts on my pullet- watch her, ruthlessly cull her? If I cull her- I need to do it asap because watching her fight her way back to good health is really getting to me. LOL

And I have to add that all the healthy ones that have been living with the sicks ones never got sick and I have had no new sicknesses (except the breast blister which is unrelated) of this type since cleaning and treating my coop and installing a roost and poop board.