California - Northern

[ronott1]

The rules are here: http://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_007.htm#ep198129

They have to be hatched within 24 hours do be shipped as day old chicks. Then they jump to adult birds with different requirements.

Ship them as day olds. The boxes and cost is a lot lower.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

On rare breeds auctions, every other auction says chicks will be 1-3 weeks old when shipped.

 

[Lucie Blume]

[/quote] I am trying to specialize in Heat Hardy Breeds. It gets hot for a lot of the summer here.
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Hi Ron,

Icelandics are very hardy as are Basques. Don't know if that fits with your breeding plans....

And thanks for the lead on Frizzles. I am in touch with Chiquita.

Best to you.

 

[Lucie Blume]

Hello all,

I have a handsome naked neck roo that needs a new home. We have enough roosters right now. When we got her/him from the local feed and seed, all the birds were sexed. Well, apparently not. Our Susan turned out to be a boy named Sue.

He is handsome and well formed, though I can't speak for breed standards. He has a great temperament and gets along in the coop despite the number of roos we have. ( Some of them are silkie roos, so they don't count as potential trouble makers.)

However, he is large bodied as in huge. And very amorous. He practically smothers our legbars and every other hen he has an eye for.

He's a good boy who needs a home with a large bodied flock. He'd do a great job as rooster and keeper of the flock. Our flock is too mixed, and like I said, we have some roosters, like a large Icelandic. I don't want them to begin to fight because it is difficult if not impossible to change that behavior in a roo once it begins.

Rather long winded, but there it is my fellow norther Californians.

Thanks for reading!

 

[ronott1]

I am trying to specialize in Heat Hardy Breeds. It gets hot for a lot of the summer here.
[/quote]

Hi Ron,

Icelandics are very hardy as are Basques. Don't know if that fits with your breeding plans....

And thanks for the lead on Frizzles. I am in touch with Chiquita.

Best to you.[/QUOTE]

I am on Stellas Social club. Stella is an Icelandic and a lot a Icelandic owners are on there.

Thanks for the suggestion! They may be a bit flighty for the City though.

 

[Lucie Blume]

I am on Stellas Social club. Stella is an Icelandic and a lot a Icelandic owners are on there.

Thanks for the suggestion! They may be a bit flighty for the City though.

Flighty? The Icelandics or the Basqes? The Icelamdics yes, in my limited experience. They are beautiful, wid-like foragers, always wanting out of the coop.

The Basques we have are mellow. Don't love being handled by us. But not flighty in my experience.

You say you live in the city. Is there a limit as to how many birds you can have? Are you allowed a roo?

 

[ronott1]

Flighty? The Icelandics or the Basqes? The Icelamdics yes, in my limited experience. They are beautiful, wid-like foragers, always wanting out of the coop.

The Basques we have are mellow. Don't love being handled by us. But not flighty in my experience.

You say you live in the city. Is there a limit as to how many birds you can have? Are you allowed a roo?

I have Basque hens and they are great and calm. Icelandics are supposed to be flighty.

I am allowed to have hens. I keep Roosters in the country by Winters. I am working with an egg farmer there. I also keep Roosters at Kim's place in Guinda(Thanks Kim!).

I have Partridge Penedesenca, UofA Blues, Amelias(Cream Legbar X Crele Penedesenca) and Australorps for heat hardy breeds.

I have a pen of UofA Blues in a breeding pen in Winters now. Lights were added yesterday so I hope to have eggs to hatch from them soon. I am working on The egg farmer to set up a couple more breeding pens so that we can get more going this breeding season.

For the White egg layers, I plan on ordering La Fleche--they are supposed to be heat hardy too.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I am on Stellas Social club. Stella is an Icelandic and a lot a Icelandic owners are on there.

Thanks for the suggestion! They may be a bit flighty for the City though.

Stella is only part Icelandic, she wandered into Mary's yard as an adult and adopted her. She is only part Icelandic because she lays a green egg. But she is what got Mary interested in Icelandic chickens, and her quest to get them started.

Mine are not flighty, but they are escape artists and can get over a 6 ft fence easy.

 

[Lucie Blume]

I have Basque hens and they are great and calm. Icelandics are supposed to be flighty.

I am allowed to have hens. I keep Roosters in the country by Winters. I am working with an egg farmer there. I also keep Roosters at Kim's place in Guinda(Thanks Kim!).

I have Partridge Penedesenca, UofA Blues, Amelias(Cream Legbar X Crele Penedesenca) and Australorps for heat hardy breeds.

I have a pen of UofA Blues in a breeding pen in Winters now. Lights were added yesterday so I hope to have eggs to hatch from them soon. I am working on The egg farmer to set up a couple more breeding pens so that we can get more going this breeding season.

For the White egg layers, I plan on ordering La Fleche--they are supposed to be heat hardy too.

What a wonderful mix of breeds you work with.

Do you foresee a time, perhaps, when UofA Blue chicks might be available? And the Penedesenca. They lay that dark brown egg, yes? I would like a few of those. Basques a great breed. I had a local friend who imported and bred them. At the moment, he is taking a break. The old world birds are very different then more modern bred. Reminds me of how dogs, if left to go feral, will develop certain traits and a distinctive look.

I wish you success with your work.

 

[lawatt]

just reporting in: spent the last hour or so watching the 4-week-olds start to explore their new home -- they apparently made it through their first night outdoors (and without their EcoGlow) just fine, and with the help of a few small strategically-placed treats, have found their way down the ramp & to the floor of their run -- now dustbathing in the sunshine. very cute -- although it remains to be seen whether they can remember their way back UP?