California - Northern

[Hangtown Farms]

I am on my way down to SanJose for my grandmothers 87th. I always feel a pitter patter of nervousness when it's time to leave these mountains . While makings instruction sheet for dh... ( He is working the weekend and will have to also do all the chores:-0 ) 2cats, one black lab puppy , 6 -8 weekers in the backyard and 13 - 2 weekers in the living room , 24 trader joes in the bater for humidity experiment !

A prayer would be appreciated ;-)

I'm thinking to reward my trip back home with a TRIO or something fun. Anyone on that route... (Hoping deb sees this , haha) home on Monday?
Sincerely,
Plays With Fire

I will have some crele eggs . not alot as I am shipping some but you can get them if you want

 

[chiqita]

Im IN San Jose, but I only have chicks and unsexed juvies the usual Marans and silkies and showgirls I have sexed quail sets!. I have a lot of Blue Orphingtons, however, and one lemon cuckoo. ( some of these suckers are sexable, but just the early boys) Walli's shipping in Plastic eggs gave me my BEST hatch from shipped eggs I have had yet. I'm trying to figure out where I could get a zillion of them. Plus I have a frizzled polish that's outside ready, she is QUITE the little stinker and wants more attention then she is getting.

My serama chicks died to the dust, I think they went down the same time as the quail. No more deaths since I fixed that however, so its a hard lesson learned but at least I figured it out.

I hope you ahve a wonderful time at the party, maybe we can have coffee or something. I am picking up a snazzy new rental car today so I'm not stuck at home all weekend.

 

[chiqita]

So, some of you may remember that my (I'm the aide) first grade class set eggs three weeks ago, today. We had a heck of a time with the temperatures in the borrowed incubator in the beginning. Thought we had fried them. Finally got it figured out and it held steady for a couple weeks. Then, on Thursday morning we came in and saw that the temps were down to 94, and had apparently been that way all night. Decided to let them warm back up and then candled them after school. Yeah! They were still alive.

Today, right on schedule, we had our first pip! One of the kids actually noticed it before any of the adults. Sometime in the late afternoon/evening it hatched. The teacher went back this evening and it was mostly dry. Two more have pipped, so we'll hopefully have more popping out tomorrow. Next year the teacher knows to set them on a Tuesday or Wednesday instead of a Friday!

I got to poke my head in all the other classes that were hatching chicks today. I never understood what you guys were talking about when you said e brooder was stinky. OMG! There was one that smelled like rotten fish from a couple feet away. Made me glad I had scrubbed out the base of ours when I took the turner out in preparation for lockdown.

Yay on the pips!

I use water in cups, not trays, so its less stinky. Of all the problems I have had, smell is not one of them. well, incubator smell.....

 

[debs_flock]

I am on my way down to SanJose for my grandmothers 87th. I always feel a pitter patter of nervousness when it's time to leave these mountains . While makings instruction sheet for dh... ( He is working the weekend and will have to also do all the chores:-0 ) 2cats, one black lab puppy , 6 -8 weekers in the backyard and 13 - 2 weekers in the living room , 24 trader joes in the bater for humidity experiment !

A prayer would be appreciated ;-)

I'm thinking to reward my trip back home with a TRIO or something fun. Anyone on that route... (Hoping deb sees this , haha) home on Monday?
Sincerely,
Plays With Fire

You're looking for a trio of....................what?

Wow, we should have been better organized, I have someone coming up from San Jose today for chicks.

 

[redriver]

Today, right on schedule, we had our first pip! One of the kids actually noticed it before any of the adults. Sometime in the late afternoon/evening it hatched. The teacher went back this evening and it was mostly dry. Two more have pipped, so we'll hopefully have more popping out tomorrow. Next year the teacher knows to set them on a Tuesday or Wednesday instead of a Friday!

I got to poke my head in all the other classes that were hatching chicks today. I never understood what you guys were talking about when you said e brooder was stinky. OMG! There was one that smelled like rotten fish from a couple feet away. Made me glad I had scrubbed out the base of ours when I took the turner out in preparation for lockdown.

Yay on the pips!

I use water in cups, not trays, so its less stinky. Of all the problems I have had, smell is not one of them. well, incubator smell.....

The two that had pipped, hatched. Five more have pips now! We have an informal competition with the other classes on hatch rates, and we are already beating one class! Looking really good to beat the other one, too. Thank goodness for calibrated thermometers.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

I say trio loosely because I am picky about my roo temperament ... I have only had Roos in leghorn, barnevelder, americauna, and a few EE . It's hard to get a good one and they mostly go for a long walk.

I have heard od and cl Roos are sweet "er" so I really want to try them out. But then the pita pinta have caught my eye... Well isn't that how we all end up with the chicken crazies?

Crele is the color? Not the breed? Or am I misunderstanding crele?

 

[lawatt]

hello all, i've been off-line much of the week but popping in here again -- the weed-whacker guy is here yesterday and today, and i can't tell which the chickens enjoy more, stalking bugs in the tall grass or pouncing on them in the cut grass!



and the last broody, Frances' sister Bella, is finally hatching her eggs -- she only ended up with six -- so far two birchen marans have hatched, sit waiting on the third plus three SFHs -- here's one baby peeking out:



the broodies have not had perfect success with their chicks, though -- all but one of Speedy's chicks were killed by someone in the flock before i got the enclosure arrangements sorted out, and i got word from my neighbors, who i gave Speedy & her last chick to, that the chick got gobbled by a fox & her kit last night. also several very small ones weakened and died, one of Daisy's chicks apparently got left behind on the floor of the run one night (all the others figured out how to follow her up the ramp) and got too cold and died, and most disturbingly, one of Eleanor's four-week-olds got pecked to death over a single day, in the morning she was fine and in the evening when i got home from work she was all bloody and barely alive, and was too badly injured for me to be able to help. all that plus some eggs that didn't hatch means i've ended up with fewer chicks than i'd first imagined -- which may be a good thing, in the long run -- but it has been a rougher first-time-hatching-chicks experience than i had bargained for. hopefully the girls and i will all get better at this!

happily, the remaining chicks are all looking great -- here is Daisy with her five cutenesses:



hope everyone has a lovely holiday weekend!

 

[Flowers of Abba]

Im IN San Jose, but I only have chicks and unsexed juvies the usual Marans and silkies and showgirls I have sexed quail sets!. I have a lot of Blue Orphingtons, however, and one lemon cuckoo. ( some of these suckers are sexable, but just the early boys) Walli's shipping in Plastic eggs gave me my BEST hatch from shipped eggs I have had yet. I'm trying to figure out where I could get a zillion of them. Plus I have a frizzled polish that's outside ready, she is QUITE the little stinker and wants more attention then she is getting.

My serama chicks died to the dust, I think they went down the same time as the quail. No more deaths since I fixed that however, so its a hard lesson learned but at least I figured it out.

I hope you ahve a wonderful time at the party, maybe we can have coffee or something. I am picking up a snazzy new rental car today so I'm not stuck at home all weekend.

Ill be in the "estates" by evergreen. I'm nervous to mention to the girls your frizzle polish!

You're looking for a trio of....................what?

Wow, we should have been better organized, I have someone coming up from San Jose today for chicks.

Forgot Campine! I hear they're good on food to egg ratio?

I suppose it depends on what's available ?

 

[debs_flock]

I say trio loosely because I am picky about my roo temperament ... I have only had Roos in leghorn, barnevelder, americauna, and a few EE . It's hard to get a good one and they mostly go for a long walk.

I have heard od and cl Roos are sweet "er" so I really want to try them out. But then the pita pinta have caught my eye... Well isn't that how we all end up with the chicken crazies?

Crele is the color? Not the breed? Or am I misunderstanding crele?

Yes, crele is a color. I think you slap crele onto any breed and it's gorgeous. CL are crele and I have several spare cockerels.

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Ah, campines.................one of my favorites. They are my absolute best layers, large to ex-large egg and nearly an egg per hen every day. Smallish bird, don't eat all that much. And beautiful to look at.

 

[ChickNmamma]

hello all, i've been off-line much of the week but popping in here again -- the weed-whacker guy is here yesterday and today, and i can't tell which the chickens enjoy more, stalking bugs in the tall grass or pouncing on them in the cut grass!



and the last broody, Frances' sister Bella, is finally hatching her eggs -- she only ended up with six -- so far two birchen marans have hatched, sit waiting on the third plus three SFHs -- here's one baby peeking out:



the broodies have not had perfect success with their chicks, though -- all but one of Speedy's chicks were killed by someone in the flock before i got the enclosure arrangements sorted out, and i got word from my neighbors, who i gave Speedy & her last chick to, that the chick got gobbled by a fox & her kit last night. also several very small ones weakened and died, one of Daisy's chicks apparently got left behind on the floor of the run one night (all the others figured out how to follow her up the ramp) and got too cold and died, and most disturbingly, one of Eleanor's four-week-olds got pecked to death over a single day, in the morning she was fine and in the evening when i got home from work she was all bloody and barely alive, and was too badly injured for me to be able to help. all that plus some eggs not hatch means i've ended up with fewer chicks than i'd first imagined -- which may be a good thing, in the long run -- but it has been a rougher first-time-hatching-chicks experience than i had bargained for. hopefully the girls and i will all get better at this!

happily, the remaining chicks are all looking great -- here is Daisy with her five cutenesses:



hope everyone has a lovely holiday weekend!

Well it sounds like you have had just about all the different experiences you can have with a broody - so you are ready for everything next time.

Bella is a very pretty bird, very apt name.

Sorry to hear about Speedy's chick, predators are really hard on chicks. Not only foxes, but also birds like Crows and Blue Jays will kill and eat a chick ... unexpected.

That is odd about the 4 week old.. usually by then they are fast enough to get away from the attacker. I would keep an eye on Elanor. Her un-relenting attacks on Speedy sounds like she may be more aggressive. Watch her around her chicks. Some mommies chase the chicks off when they get older, I think 4 weeks was about the age my mother's broody chased off all her chicks. The chicks didn't want to be chased off and kept coming back. She only pecked them once to send them running, but Elanor may have been responsible for the demise of all of Speedy's other chicks.. so she might not be as nice if she wants something to go away...

The one left behind by Daisy may have had something else wrong - usually the mommy will come back to get them if they are standing there peeping loudly enough. My Silkie mommy still can't go up into the coop to sleep because her 4 haven't figured it out the ramp yet and they stand at the bottom yelling.