California - Northern

[ronott1]

I think today was the first day the legal ones could be sold. They get kind of loud over this wat on the 4th. I swear some of it is dyn-o-myte!!!!

A kid modified the legal fire works here--They charged him with a felony and tried him as an adult.

I would have been in so much trouble if I was growing up now.....

 

[liz9910]

A kid modified the legal fire works here--They charged him with a felony and tried him as an adult.

I would have been in so much trouble if I was growing up now.....

Lol Ron! The fireworks I don't like are the ones that sound like a stick of dynamite blowing up, wakes me up in the middle of the night.

 

[juststruttin]

So I have an opinion question to ask you.

I have been rehoming Roosters via Craigs List, and I try to make sure they don't go to anyone for any nefarious purpose, but you can only go by what a person says.

I have at least 5 more Roosters and probably a couple more that I am a little more attached to and I am finding it more difficult to give them away. Should I wait until they are older and see if I have an issue with the nieghbors, or should I just find homes for them now? Is it easier to find homes for them at 9 weeks or when they start to crow?

Here is one of the Wheaten's and he is so pretty already.

Thoughts?

When I re-home roosters on CL I ask the person to send me photos of their coop and run. I never hear from most people again. The people who are ligit are more than happy and often proud to send photos. They also go into great detail about their flock. I think the people who love to bragg about their flock are the best candidiates. Stay away from the people who are really vague.

The sad truth is, most of the roosters will be processed and I am okay with that. I take comfort in knowing that they had a great life although short. The poor little hatchery roos don't get that opportunity. My biggest worry when rehoming roosters is that they will be used for cock fighting, bird dog training or sacrifices so I try to screen to the best of my ability.

Good Luck

 

[Flowers of Abba]

Lol Ron! The fireworks I don't like are the ones that sound like a stick of dynamite blowing up, wakes me up in the middle of the night.

We have warmed up to the fact that fireworks are Completly banned in the basin... Then I realized how silly!- we listen to avalanche control detonations all winter. Rattles the windows and knocks pictures off the wall! I guess you get used to the way things are? After the angora fire and having everything important loaded up in trucks waiting to see which way the fire would move over the ridgeline-my perspective on forest fires has changed. I sound like smokey the bear!

 

[lawatt]

When I re-home roosters on CL I ask the person to send me photos of their coop and run. I never hear from most people again. The people who are ligit are more than happy and often proud to send photos. They also go into great detail about their flock. I think the people who love to bragg about their flock are the best candidiates. Stay away from the people who are really vague.

The sad truth is, most of the roosters will be processed and I am okay with that. I take comfort in knowing that they had a great life although short. The poor little hatchery roos don't get that opportunity. My biggest worry when rehoming roosters is that they will be used for cock fighting, bird dog training or sacrifices so I try to screen to the best of my ability.

Good Luck

thanks for this insight, Deann -- I'm almost decided that I'm not going to keep my two araucana roos (they are SO gorgeous, one gold duckwing and one black-brested red -- but everything i read about trying to hatch araucanas is daunting, and as a possible first-time breeder, i suspect it would be deeply frustrating), and have been waffling about how best to proceed...

 

[lawatt]

and a quick thanks to both Molly and Deb on this list -- i've arranged to get some silver campine eggs from Deb for my latest broody, and yesterday, after Molly mentioned that she needed to reduce her flock, i spontaneously drove up I-80 to collect four lovely isbar & isbar/marans crosses from her. SO great to meet you in person, Molly, and thank you both for stoking my chicken addiction even further!

 

[tommysgirl]

OK so Beakface and I are locked in a battle of wills and I am not winning. She hates the broody pen and refuses to sit on the golf balls in there and rushes me in an effort to escape. So I chalked that up to a learning experience and decided to give up on the broody business and try to break her by denying her access to "her" nest. All day yesterday she was locked out of the coop and forced to range. When she went back to the nest at night I moved her back to the broody pen. Let her out this morning and she is right back on that nest. There she sits.

So she is totally disrupting laying in the coop, growling stealing eggs etc. so really can't have her in there for 3 weeks. The alternative is to go pick up a couple of chicks and stick them under her tonight or continue to try to break her. It has been a full week now of her being broody and she hasn't broken.

DH says the chicks are a good idea!! It seems like the simplest way to have her be done with this.

I had no idea a hen could be so darn stubborn. I would like to change my request for a lot of broodies to "A lot of broodies who do what I say."

 

[OR4-hmom]

Last night was the first night since February that I haven't had birds in the house. Everyone is outside, better fire up the incubator right? DH was surprised when he came home from the coast and there was no brooder box in the laundry room.

He asked why I split up the chicks in the new tractor I built. Had to tell him they were quail-not chickens, can you tell he humors my craziness?

 

[liz9910]

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Wow that is crazy! Guess the people in my neighborhood only have M-1000's but it scares me every time.

 

[lawatt]

OK so Beakface and I are locked in a battle of wills and I am not winning. She hates the broody pen and refuses to sit on the golf balls in there and rushes me in an effort to escape. So I chalked that up to a learning experience and decided to give up on the broody business and try to break her by denying her access to "her" nest. All day yesterday she was locked out of the coop and forced to range. When she went back to the nest at night I moved her back to the broody pen. Let her out this morning and she is right back on that nest. There she sits.

So she is totally disrupting laying in the coop, growling stealing eggs etc. so really can't have her in there for 3 weeks. The alternative is to go pick up a couple of chicks and stick them under her tonight or continue to try to break her. It has been a full week now of her being broody and she hasn't broken.

DH says the chicks are a good idea!! It seems like the simplest way to have her be done with this.

I had no idea a hen could be so darn stubborn. I would like to change my request for a lot of broodies to "A lot of broodies who do what I say."

i don't know whether this is helpful at this point, but i had much better success just leaving my broodies alone & letting them nest in the laying boxes -- but i also provided some additional temporary laying boxes for the other girls, complete with fake eggs to give them the idea -- worked out pretty well.