California - Northern

[debs_flock]

It's snowing! Really snowing, not just faking me out with flakes that don't stick.

It's so beautiful!

You can have mine Linda, I'll pack it up for you. They closed down the County offices and my son just came to get my 4WD so he can get home (Cedar Grove).

Deb

 

[ronott1]

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There are a lot of people here that sell them and The distance is close enough that priority will go ground. If the eggs are packed correctly, they will do fine. PapaBrooder is in Redding and has just about every breed you would want. I bet he uses the Skyline method for shipping too. http://www.skylinepoultry.com/Packing___shipping_eggs.html

She does understand that the eggs will be expensive?

 

[chiqita]

We got hail! Did not feel like snow bt was impressive and loud.

 

[ronott1]

We got hail! Did not feel like snow bt was impressive and loud.

Watch out for Tornadoes then!

 

[gryeyes]

So exciting! We were getting snow in town too and now they're running tornado warnings across the screen! We live on a bluff overlooking the valley and watched the last one go by, it was quit an experience. I was bringing home chicks and ran out to the barn to put them in the brooder and couldn't get back to the house for 45 minutes while the tornado passed. Wind, rain, hail, lightening, thunder....very scary!!!! My husband was in the house videoing the tornado and answering the phone while everyone called to see if we were OK....when I got back in the house I was like "did you miss me? Wonder if I was OK?" LOL

I do love to watch snow fall. Do you have a nice red to sip on while you watch?

Whoa.... Tornado! Ack!. This is a very gentle snowfall. The ducks and geese are put there with snow on their backs. The turkeys are standing in the open people door to the coop, makijng little hooty, confused sounds. My two house pullets - which I put outside every day - were hiding under the patio table by the French doors and they scuttled inside as soon as I opened the door. They are now sleeping on the door of my recliner, tucked into the "loaf of bread" pose with their heads tucked under their wings. They love the heated Sunbeam throw.

A nice red, huh. I bet I do! Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Quote: I incubate at 40% and for the last two hatches it was perfect. I am using the humidity pump. It has a tank and a hose the moves water to a paper thing in the incubator the disperses the moisture.

Happy Chooks does not add any water at all until lockdown, which for me would be about 15% humidity. In the past when I went that low the chicks did not absorb the yolk--symptom of too low of humidity.

Get the humidity pump if you want to only open up the incubator to candle and add more eggs.
I had to laugh at this comment....I'm thinking, of course I want to candle and add more eggs!

 

[capayvalleychick]

Question, do you know anyone who sells heritage breeds up in Oregon between Eugene and Medford? My Aunt sells eggs and she wants to use heritage birds. She lost about 20 hens and 5 roos in one night a year ago. They have a new coop now but are still working on rebuilding their flock. The only heritage hatching eggs she could find locally were Delawares, but for whatever reason she was unhappy with the transaction. She says "technology doesn't like her" and doesn't use the computer much so I told her I'd look around for her.

If she wants someone local, you might ask on the Oregon thread. Zanna (on BYC) in OR has nice Dels.

The ALBC has a heritage poultry breeder's directory for members. http://albc-usa.org/
So does the SPPA. http://sppa.webs.com/
This list of Standard bred poultry breeders is open to the public: http://www.standardbreedpoultry.com/large_fowl_chickens_for_sale.php

 

[Happy Chooks]

There are lots of creative ways to add water to your bator without opening it. If you have a styrofoam one similar to a hovabator, you can use a bendy straw and a medicine syringe. Stick the bendy straw through a vent hole and let it rest on the wire. Then suck up water in the medicine syringe and hook it into the end of the straw and squirt.

For my brinsea, my friend Mary rigged it up for me when I bought hers. She connected medical tubing where the humidity pump goes in, then attached a syringe to the end. I pop the top on the syringe, pour some water in, then put the plunger Back in and squirt.

Both work really well.

 

[OR4-hmom]

There are lots of creative ways to add water to your bator without opening it. If you have a styrofoam one similar to a hovabator, you can use a bendy straw and a medicine syringe. Stick the bendy straw through a vent hole and let it rest on the wire. Then suck up water in the medicine syringe and hook it into the end of the straw and squirt.

For my brinsea, my friend Mary rigged it up for me when I bought hers. She connected medical tubing where the humidity pump goes in, then attached a syringe to the end. I pop the top on the syringe, pour some water in, then put the plunger Back in and squirt.

Both work really well.

I'm doing something similar with my LG, small tubing through holes in top through the wire into the reserviours underneath. I refill with syringes. I place sponges under larger holes in the top that i can squirt with the syringe.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Deerling, there are two shows going on up in WA. First one is March 30th, the next is April 19/20th.

Oregon sometimes hold Swap meets, usually twice a year but I haven't seen any postings so it is probably a few months off. I haven't been to one so I have no idea on heritage or just hatchery stock. Quite a few people bringing birds to the swap also show.