California - Northern

[ronott1]

Hi! I'm new to BYC! I'm in the city limits in Woodland but I'm already having problems with "chicken math". LOL. I only have two partridge rocks right now but as soon as they go broody I'd like to give them each some chicks to raise. Maybe three each. Oops. That's double as many chickens as I'm allowed to have.

Hi Alli!

AC does not really care about the numbers. They told me I had to get rid of my Roosters but said nothing about the Hens! Just do not go too far over the limit.

What breed do you want? I can raise them up to 6 weeks and am hatching like crazy right now. Crele Penedencas go into lockdown tomorrow(I may want all of those pullets though). Bresse hatch next Friday. I will be hatching Heritage RIRs and Black Australorps next month.

I also have 11 week old Cream Legbar x Crele Penedesencas that could go outside now. They will lay Olive colored eggs.

 

[redriver]

The Weather Service did not admit that California had Tornadoes until recently. When I lived in Corning(moved in 1992 to Woodland), There was a Tornado in between Vina and the Sacramento River. It ripped off an awning and damaged the roof on a Mobile home. It was not an official tornado because they did not believe one could be there. Vina had a Tornado yesterday, 30 miles north of Chico...

There was also one way back in the late 80s at the Chico Airport that ripped planes from the chains they use to tie them down. Still not called called aTornado...

The advent of portable cameras changed that--it is hard to say there was no Tornado when the video clearly shows a funnel cloud touching down!

I was driving up I-5 once, down by Coalinga and Lemoore, when the radio started beeping the emergency broadcast that there was a tornado warning. That was the first and only time I've heard a real emergency broadcast and it scared the crap out of me. The weather ended up so bad that I couldn't see the vehicles that I knew were in front and behind me. Pulled off the freeway to wait it out.

A friend who lived in Lemoore ended up losing his fence because of it. Luckily it was not a big one.

 

[Alli Lea]

Hi Alli!

AC does not really care about the numbers. They told me I had to get rid of my Roosters but said nothing about the Hens! Just do not go too far over the limit.

What breed do you want? I can raise them up to 6 weeks and am hatching like crazy right now. Crele Penedencas go into lockdown tomorrow(I may want all of those pullets though). Bresse hatch next Friday. I will be hatching Heritage RIRs and Black Australorps next month.

I also have 11 week old Cream Legbar x Crele Penedesencas that could go outside now. They will lay Olive colored eggs.

I'm looking for friendly hens who are good egg layers. Australorps and RIRs were both pretty high on my list. I'd love to have them as day old chicks but if my hens don't cooperate, I may take you up on that offer.

You seem to be raising a lot of chickens! Do you live in city limits?

 

[ronott1]

Quote: I do but I do not keep a lot of the ones I hatch. I am a bit over the limit but not too much. I am going to take older ones to the small animal exchange in Orange Vale when It starts up. I am working on getting Heritage instead of Hatchery breeds. The Australorps I am going to hatch are not hatchery stock. The Heritage RIRs are likewise nothing like the hatchery stock. They are very friendly.

The Boys go as soon as they crow now!

 

[juststruttin]

Holy Moly,

I go away for 4 days and come back to 331 new posts in the forum. You guys have been busy. I will likely skim forum (mostly for pictures LOL ), but doubt I can read them all. I hope everyone, and their flocks are doing well!!!

I came home in time to see my bators popping. I have lots of eggs hatching right now. Some of the eggs include eggs I picked up at the show from Papa Brooder, Chooklat and Debsflock. Thanks guys!! I have not opened bator yet, so not sure which eggs have hatched. The wait is killing me.

 

[redchicken9]

Hi,
Just curious, anyone here involved in call ducks or sebastapols? I have a pond and have succumbed to the neighbors mallards and recently I purchased a black indie pair. Now I'm considering other additions. If you do ducks or geese, what are you favorites and why?
Thanks!

Spring is in the air!

 

[WaterKat]

Hi other California Chicken-lovers,

I've been a member of BYC for almost a year, but don't post much (hardly at all). But, since I'm rather excited about my soon to arrive baby chicks, I thought I'd post here, and maybe in the Rare Breed area. I will have 10 Golden Lakenvelder pullets, 10 Silver Campine pullets (& two cockerels) along with 5 Barred rocks very soon

Unfortunately, my original flock - I RIR, 1 White Star, 1 Buff Orpington, and 2 Barred Rocks fell victim to nasty possums

The chicken enclosure has been hardened, lighting improved, and other defensive mechanisms investigated.

 

[zooweemama]

Hi,
Just curious, anyone here involved in call ducks or sebastapols? I have a pond and have succumbed to the neighbors mallards and recently I purchased a black indie pair. Now I'm considering other additions. If you do ducks or geese, what are you favorites and why?
Thanks!

Spring is in the air!

I have 21 ducks currently and 6 different breeds. I have 1 pair of Brown African geese.

For ducks I have Pekin, Buff, Fawn & White Runners, 1 black production quality Runner, Welsh Harlequin, Golden 300s and my precious Silver Appleyards.

I love each breed for it's own thing. I like the calmness and rich brown feathering of the Golden 300s. The Pekins are SO soft and goofy. The Buffs are calm and mind their own business and are pretty. The Runners are SO cute with their upright waddle and flat faces. The Harlequins are small, compact egg laying foraging machines that are just gorgeous. Those are all hatchery quality. My Silver Appleyards come from a breeder and I eventually would like to be down to just them. Maybe some Pekins (they are really just goofy things- we enjoy them). The breeder I get my Appleyards from breeds lovely Sebbies. I thought about them but then hung up that idea- their gorgeous feathering would get hammered in our muddy fall and winters and then dusty and brown and tattered in our desert summers.

 

[zooweemama]

I think this is what my sick little chick has/had.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/mushy-chick-disease-yolk-sack-infection-omphalitis

Her bum is a funny color. She still acts very healthy but it says it can go on a while.

 

[OR4-hmom]

The Weather Service did not admit that California had Tornadoes until recently. When I lived in Corning(moved in 1992 to Woodland), There was a Tornado in between Vina and the Sacramento River. It ripped off an awning and damaged the roof on a Mobile home. It was not an official tornado because they did not believe one could be there. Vina had a Tornado yesterday, 30 miles north of Chico...

There was also one way back in the late 80s at the Chico Airport that ripped planes from the chains they use to tie them down. Still not called called aTornado...

The advent of portable cameras changed that--it is hard to say there was no Tornado when the video clearly shows a funnel cloud touching down!

I was working for Butte County when Oroville got hit, can't remember the exact year, believe it was the first one actually deemed as a tornado. Since it ripped the roof off the jails cafeteria, that might have been the reasoning. I called home after everything had calmed down and DH had no idea what had happened.