California - Northern

[chiqita]

local cheap incubator, listed in livermore/pleasenton
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/app/3786707839.html

 

[chiqita]

local cheap incubator, listed in livermore/pleasenton
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/app/3786707839.html
and here is one for ron.. 800 eggs!

 

[chicksnthestiks]

Just found this picture of me when I was 4

. The love started young!

Awww, I thought you were going to say it was your daughter.

 

[tommysgirl]

Totally cute!

Just found this picture of me when I was 4

. The love started young!

Holy Crow!!! That'd be a lot of chicks! So Ron, you have said you live in town but did you also mention a ranch? A ranch where thousands of chickens of dozens and breeds can roam freely and happily?

local cheap incubator, listed in livermore/pleasenton
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/app/3786707839.html
and here is one for ron.. 800 eggs!

 

[ronott1]

Totally cute!
Holy Crow!!! That'd be a lot of chicks! So Ron, you have said you live in town but did you also mention a ranch? A ranch where thousands of chickens of dozens and breeds can roam freely and happily?

My Oldest Daughter has a friend that has an egg business. He has three mobile coops, the big kind that sits on a truck axle. The 400 chickens in the three coops are moved to different farms and fields in the Winters area. The one I visited is on a an organic Farm while another one is in a Fig Orchard. He sells the eggs in SF Bay Area stores and cannot keep up with the orders for eggs.

I am helping him get some Heritage and cool egg laying breeds and in exchange I get things like Lamb Shoulders and etc. along with a place for the Roosters to live. He was very impressed with Chema, The EO Basqeue Rooster that I hatched last year. His current roosters are little bitty hatchery birds. Wait until he sees one of those HRIR Roosters in two years.... I also get to breed a bunch of Basque, HRIR, Blue Egg Layers and at least one of the Penedesencas this year. Next year I will be able to breed from the best of this years hatchlings.

The first batch of Basque hatch this weekend.

 

[GallusGirl]

Do chickens really hate the wind, or is it just me?
Yesterday was overcast and gray, no wind, and I swear, every time I put the chickens into their coop within seconds they were frantically trying to get out and race around the yard. I had them out for HOURS and I had to lure them back in with treats when I needed to do other things (being Sebrights in a cat-heavy neighborhood with hawks nesting in a pine tree on the edge of the property, they are only allowed to free-range under supervision, although they do have fresh grass and dirt in their coop). Today it is a lovely temperature, mild breeze, and the chicks are stubbornly refusing to leave their coop at all! They'll come out, take a treat, and then run straight back in! I opened the side door to the chicken house and Lux decided to lay in the little patch of sun INSIDE instead of sun-bathing in the lovely grassy yard like a normal chicken! They aren't sick or anything...I think they're just selectively lazy.

 

[tommysgirl]

a Question for those of you who sell eggs:

What are your best logistical tips for eggs for the table? I would be selling to people who work in my school district and with my husband. I think I will have about 24 hens this time next year give or take. We eat about 2 doz a week most of the year. Also what do you charge?

Also for hatching eggs is it ethical to sell Backyard Quality purebred hatching eggs as long as you are clear that it is what you are doing?? I have no plans to show though I may want to work with a heritage breed just for my own satisfaction and enjoyment at some point.

I have a pair of Breeder Chocolate Rocks, a hatchery Partridge Pullet and will have a yet to be determined number of SPR which ARE high quality from Deb's flock .

I also plan on having a BYQ Delaware roo in with my current flock of Dels and Australorps and Red Stars and all of my new girls.

Just want to make sure I do things on the up and up and that people don't expect more than they will be getting from me when I sell eggs.

 

[chrisiscoolr]

Hey guys, so today I need to go to Bradshaw Feed and Pet Supply to pick up some feed for my turkeys poults, they're 4 weeks old, and I was wondering what type of feed should I get them because and what brand is best. I'm fairly new to raising birds poultry. I was also wanting to raise a pet chicken nad i want to know what chicken breeds are the best pets. I want to get a bird that will love me and want to cuddle and will know its my baby.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

You can see that Nelly does approve of having a "sheep" on her head.

Much easier to keep track of them when they're sitting on your head!

Very cool pic.

 

[chiqita]

Turkeys need high protein. Really need it. The only option around me is pheasent feed.

Before this week I would have said silkies all the way. But these seramas are sweet. Nutmeg wants to live inside. I don't know if all seramas are like that however.

Hey guys, so today I need to go to Bradshaw Feed and Pet Supply to pick up some feed for my turkeys poults, they're 4 weeks old, and I was wondering what type of feed should I get them because and what brand is best.  I'm fairly new to raising birds poultry. I was also wanting to raise a pet chicken nad i want to know what chicken breeds are the best pets. I want to get a bird that will love me and want to cuddle and will know its my baby.