California - Northern

[ronott1]

Quote: call 541-223-5640(new number--the old one is having quality problems) and ask if there is an open drop in your area. You then contact the local drop coordinator and ask if you can join. They will give you details for where and when the drop is picked up.

This is from their website:
We are delighted you are interested in learning more about Azure Standard, and hope you will become a customer with whom we can develop a trusting and long-standing relationship! This guide is designed to answer all of the questions you may have as a person who is brand new to Azure and the way we operate. Throughout our website, you will also find tips, useful information, and over 9,000 products available to you. Of course you are encouraged to contact the Azure Customer Service Department at any time. Sometimes a quick phone call is the easiest way to get an answer! Or, if you prefer to send an email, we will respond as quickly as possible. Just go to the Contact Us tab.
GETTING STARTED
Azure Logistics and You– It’s Simple!
Families, a group of neighbors, friends, a buying club, a retail outlet, or even just an individual can order and receive Azure products. All you have to do is:
1) Become a customer—takes less than 3 minutes and it’s FREE! or
*Click Here to sign up online, or call Azure Customer Service at (541) 467-2230 (Retail outlets must call)
2) Join a local drop point or develop one (if applicable).

• Drop points, or drops, are pre-determined places on delivery routes where products are delivered, and each one has a unique number. For a truck to stop at a particular location, that drop must have a total minimum order of $550 (or more, depending on location), and each individual must have a minimum order of $50.
• If there is not already a route with drops established in your area, we would love to get a route going to your community. In the event we are not yet ready to develop a route in your area, we will keep your contact information for future reference as we consider new routes.
• To find the closest drop to you, or to establish your own, simply call our Customer Service Department. Let the representative know you are- or would like to become, a new customer and either want to find a drop point or would like to become one. He or she will guide you through the initial process.
• If you live, work, or regularly travel through the Moro or Dufur areas in Oregon, you can also choose to “will call” your order, and pick up from those actual locations.
• It is easy to become a customer online, but you will need to contact us directly to establish a new drop point.
• If you wish to join an established drop point, you will be given the contact information for the local coordinator who will give you the drop point number, and tell you when and where to pick up your order.
• Once you join a drop point and have a personal identification number, you are then an official customer.

 

[lawatt]

Azure Standard is a company that sends a delivery truck along routes on a 4 week schedule. Maybe others near you might know better if there is an existing drop near you. You cwould have to meet a larger minimum purchase to order by yourself each month,but you don't have to order every month. They now have at least 4 different organic and soy-free (3 are corn-free, too) feeds.

If you are ordering with an existing drop, your individual order only needs to be $55 or more. If you have to set up a new drop, you have to meet a $550 minimum, but you will likely know other people who would benefit from shopping in this way. We order organic rice, beans, etc in bulk. I also get a good portion of our smaller groceries from them, including almost all of our body care items (toothpaste, deodorant, soap).

I am happy to help you, if you give me a better idea about where you are.

thanks, i will send PM!

edit: aha, Ron has filled in more details. thanks to you both! i'm technically located in Penngrove, which is just north of Petaluma, just south of Santa Rosa; my actual house is way up here near the top of Sonoma Mtn (and i teach at Sonoma State) -- will call to see if there's a drop-off nearby!

 

[ronott1]

Hello all i see that some of you have hens that are laying eggs already is this normal for everyone ?

A relative has a few hens and none are lating yet is it the food or weather they are loose sknce he has a huge yard an feeds chicken scratch

Yes! mine are starting back up(those without lights) Others are starting to get eggs again too.

The hours of daylight are increasing now!

If you need to worm yours, now is the perfect time too.

 

[lawatt]

Hello all i see that some of you have hens that are laying eggs already is this normal for everyone ?
A relative has a few hens and none are lating yet is it the food or weather they are loose sknce he has a huge yard an feeds chicken scratch

mine literally just started laying yesterday for the first time. i've found two more so far today, so it seems to be a trend!

 

[OR4-hmom]

Bitter/sweet day here. Candled eggs this morning (all brown eggs), couldn't see much of anything so desided to open one up.

I picked one that had been sitting on my counter for a couple of days before going in the incubator. I had been turning them often and temp was pretty constant and this hatch is all experiment to me.

Cracked it and it was developing. Feel bad for opening it up but I now know I haven't cooked them yet. Have to work on a better candler.

 

[ronott1]

Bitter/sweet day here. Candled eggs this morning (all brown eggs), couldn't see much of anything so desided to open one up.

I picked one that had been sitting on my counter for a couple of days before going in the incubator. I had been turning them often and temp was pretty constant and this hatch is all experiment to me.

Cracked it and it was developing. Feel bad for opening it up but I now know I haven't cooked them yet. Have to work on a better candler.

I have the high intensity Brinsea.

You can get two of the brightest led flashlights and use one on the bottom and one on the top.

Good luck!

 

[Americangame]

Thanks for the reply ill see if we get any eggs within the next week or so excited for the time change

 

[chiqita]

687 pages since i left!! I wonder if ill be able to read it all lol
Hi Everyone!! Happy New Year!!
Finally Im back from Ohio. Glad to be back!
It must have rained alot thé Ranch is à big puddle.

But im Glad to be back from thé frigid 20 degrees and snow stormy weather.
How is Everyone?
Mike

WB! yes it rained like the dickens here, and its been cold too! everything around here is rimmed with frost in the morning, and I'm having to make sure the 9 week olds sleep with each other and don't leave anyone alone. They can learn to be independant at a later date.
Quote: Ideally I'm trying to keep them looking tall and puffy faced like a really cute ee but black and a little more round in the pullets, and of course, olive eggs. My first f2 hatched for the hatch a long. It HAS HUGE long legs and meaty thighs and a tiny tiny body. Somehow its clean legged, not sure how that happened with 2 feather legged parents. Ill assume it will get em later, just not a ton.
Now to read more thread! I meant to hit multi but did reply instead so I posted too early.

 

[chiqita]

Hello all i see that some of you have hens that are laying eggs already is this normal for everyone ?
A relative has a few hens and none are lating yet is it the food or weather they are loose sknce he has a huge yard an feeds chicken scratch

I just started getting a few eggs, all from the unlighted chickens go figure. However if you are just feeding them scratch, they may not lay. Scratch does not have enough protein for chickens, they need an actual feed. But sometimes people just call all chicken food scratch, so if that is the case, ignore me.

Bitter/sweet day here. Candled eggs this morning (all brown eggs), couldn't see much of anything so desided to open one up.

I picked one that had been sitting on my counter for a couple of days before going in the incubator. I had been turning them often and temp was pretty constant and this hatch is all experiment to me.

Cracked it and it was developing. Feel bad for opening it up but I now know I haven't cooked them yet. Have to work on a better candler.

We got a 400 lumes LED mini flashlight off amazon for 9.95. Takes regular batteries. We then got some pipe parts from osh 1/2 in female ( nothing inside, if it has lines it wont fit) and then whatever size your eggs are 3/4 or 1 in or bigger or smaller for quail male part. You stick the flashlight in the female part, and the egg on the male part, and it works better then any other candler Ive seen. can see into Marans eggs, but the olive eggs were tough, had to wait a week before I could see development. But I saw some veining in the Marans. That's not easy. It works SUPER well and I can adjust it to any size for any egg for about 75 cents per size.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

thanks, i will send PM!

edit: aha, Ron has filled in more details. thanks to you both! i'm technically located in Penngrove, which is just north of Petaluma, just south of Santa Rosa; my actual house is way up here near the top of Sonoma Mtn (and i teach at Sonoma State) -- will call to see if there's a drop-off nearby!

Laura, if you find a drop near us, would you please let me know. I have a neighbor who might be interested as well. Thought I might be able to start a new drop, but read through the info at the Azure site and found that I am not situated properly (too far from freeway, no storage, no turn around for truck, total fail!).

Thanks!
Lynda