California - Northern

[2seth2]

For those of you going be sure to Stockton be sure to go to the discussion and presale thread!

 

[ronott1]

For those of you going be sure to Stockton be sure to go to the discussion and presale thread!

Thanks!

What are you selling?

 

[ronott1]

I see! you are selling Serama mixes! Liz needs some of them now.....

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Lowes has 10 10 (that might be 12x12) kennel cover kits On sale for 40 bucks right now in store.

I too love Cirque d coop.
I'm still debating on the mareks. So far the Conclusion I have come to is to leave the batches of chicks I intend to keep and vaccineate the ones I'm selling as pets locally.

You can find them at the K9 Kennel Store in Utah or from their online store. They build them. The default is a flat top that is too low to stand up in; the aviary top can be substituted for extra money, and then you need bo make or buy a canvas top. We also bought the digging protection and found that it had a gap where it joined the body of the coop that we filled in with 2"x2"s because the electric fence we put around the base and top proved to be a hassle - we were using a day/night sensor to control it and the control wound up getting rained on. We're only this fancy to keep the neighbors out of our hair.

The problem is that the Cirque des Poulets was very expensive. It is 8' x16' with two raised beds for dusting and hiding out. I'm going to take one out and lower the house to the ground. Originally they had one raised bed for dusting and I had long roosts across the other for them at night - but when winter hit we decided to put a house in there. Note that we have the chicken tractor standing next to the Cirque des Poulets. We built I because we hope to soon retire to our place in Nevada and we needed something we could disassemble and take over there, something that wouldn't upset certain neighbors, and heavy duty for withstanding both the Coyotes in Nevada - and for the dogs that some neighborhood jerks at the California place turn out the minute animal control goes off for the night. It seems that some people find an excited, agitated dog happy to see them difficult to deal with right after work - so they kick them loose so the confused dog that feels like it has just been thrown out of the pack can vent its anger and find amusement on its own.

I need to see if I can find the pictures I took of the "Dog Safari" the police conducted in our yard some years back. I walked into the front yard to my car, heard a very disturbing pure aggression growl, looked over at the neighbor's driveway and saw a very heavily muscled dog the size of a Harlequin Great Dane. I dived into the car and went about my business; when I came back the beast from hell was still in the neighborhood, so we called the police.

The next thing I knew, Animal Control was in front of the house (I think that normally animal control is off on weekends, so they must have called him in), along with a member of the SWAT team with a real selective fire (capable of fully automatic operation) rifle, a patrol street supervisor, and what looked like the entire patrol shift, weapons drawn.

It turned out my description of a very large, black, muscular, unneutered, aggressive dog matched the description given for a dog that had attacked a woman and her Golden Retriever while they were walking in the are; the Golden was apparently critically, if not fatally wounded while attempting to defend its companion.. The Fido from Hell was apparently considered a possible match for some other adventures in canine violence.

I came out to talk to the police because the dog had disappeared down the street. While I was talking the supervisor told me to go into my house now - it seemed Fido from Hell was coming up on me from behind and to the side. My husband and I went inside; when we noticed the volume of weaponry, we opted for theinterior hall well away from any exterior walls.

We heard a lot of shouting and we couldn't resist taking a good look. From the front window we saw that Fido from Hell had charged the officers and now had been hit with a tranquilizer dart. Fido wisely backed off. Unfortunately, he made a beeline for a gap between our house and the front fence and headed straight under our camping trailer. The police followed and fired another dart and Fido fled into the tall weeds that were in the back of our yard at that time. The cops came through, tranquilizer gun, machine gun, and pistols at the ready. They started joking about being on a "Dog Safari" to relieve the tension. Fido raised up and the cops fired a third dart since Fido seemed very awake and about as pleased to see them as a King Cobra is at being stepped on.

Fido finally went down in a few minutes and stayed down. We loaned the police a wheelbarrow when we discovered they had no equipment for moving an animal that large. A day or so later we found a tranquilizer dart under our camping trailer.

The police reported the dog as a "pit bull" although the animal shelter, my husband, and I disagreed. It seemed to be a cross of something like a Great Dane with a pit bull and maybe some other ancestry was in there. The dog was beautifully conditioned and, while it had no apparent fight scars, it apparently had been trained to be extremely aggressive. Poor thing was eventually put down, unclaimed by its owner. The general consensus was that this animal had been heavily conditioned and trained to be extremely aggressive in order to guard a drug house, a gangster lair, or some other criminal enterprise.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

anyone know Catalan ?

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Most breeders breed for immunity.

Some will still die from Mareks cancer. The immunization does not stop active mareks.

Where do you have the genotype testing done? How do you trial them for immunity?

Cornell bred the K and C strain Leghorns that had only a 3% or so death rate from Marek's.

The immunization does prevent tumor growth in most cases and it has to be done on the first day of life.

 

[ronott1]

anyone know Catalan ?

@ChickenCanoe might be able to help.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

We set up the Cirque des Poulets so I can manage it despite having vertigo attacks from Meniere's disease.

I have rodent proof treadle feeders that I use for feeding them; and I have two rather inexpensive low pressure watering bowls connected to the house hose bib. I use the British type of grit and oyster shell stations. It's pretty easy to monitor and maintain. The bottom of the run is covered with coarse wood landscaping chips - I clear them out once a year or so and put them around our fruit trees in the back and our native plants in the front.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

@ChickenCanoe might be able to help.

I spoke to Guy yesterday. I messaged him on the Penedesenca yahoo thread as well. I know he knows someone that does. I have about 30 pages to translate from Professor Francesch at the University of Barcelona that has info on the history and Spansih standard for the Penedesenca and Empordanesa.

 

[ronott1]

I spoke to Guy yesterday. I messaged him on the Penedesenca yahoo thread as well. I know he knows someone that does. I have about 30 pages to translate from Professor Francesch at the University of Barcelona that has info on the history and Spansih standard for the Penedesenca and Empordanesa.

He has been quite busy lately. I am sure he will get back to you soon.