California - Northern

[lawatt]

Souds like Jason will be joining too!!!!

i have a bunch that are due to hatch next tuesday, if all goes well -- so count me in.

 

[chickee]

I have two hatches due March 8th and March 11th

Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas, Golden Cuckoo Marans, Olive Eggers and Khaki Quail/Khaki x Dun Cuckoo d'Anvers. All of them are spoken for except for some of the d'Anvers.

I will have eggs available for the Easter Hatch-a-long

 

[ronott1]

I have two hatches due March 8th and March 11th

Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas, Golden Cuckoo Marans, Olive Eggers and Khaki Quail/Khaki x Dun Cuckoo d'Anvers. All of them are spoken for except for some of the d'Anvers.

I will have eggs available for the Easter Hatch-a-long

I have a bunch due on the 8th and then on the 14th.

You will have some amazing chickens. Do you already have Ducks?

 

[chickee]

I have a bunch due on the 8th and then on the 14th.

You will have some amazing chickens. Do you already have Ducks?

Hey! We will be hatching together!

I don't have ducks, but I sure would like some call ducks! No room for them right now

 

[lizanne]

I have pips!!! . Day 21 isn't until tomorrow, but 4 out of 6 eggs have pipped, and the other 2 are rocking.

 

[Audio51]

Hello! I'm new here and I live in far northern CA, near Eureka.
Does anyone else live in the area? I'm trying to find people to talk to about how to find/buy older pullets/young hens locally. And just to chat with, of course!

Welcome. Kaikadragon!

. I'm not quite as far north as you...or as far west. I am in Paradise, near Chico. Hope you are able to find some good birds close by!

 

[Audio51]

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You are definitley in!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Thanks to everyone who asked this...I am not sure. I went out to check about 3 hours later and it was lying in the middle of the coop cold and lifeless. It must have been there when I checked earlier?? Could it have become cold enough to die in just 3 hours? It was in the mid 40s. sigh... I thought giving it to a her would be best and I guess sometimes it is clearly not this time.

I am comforted by the thought that this little one was lonely and it spent its last night under a warm feathery body cuddled with a friend.

So sorry.

Well I wonder why it did not stay under the broody.. 40's is kind of iffy for temps for a new one, but should have been fine if it stayed under Mom. Maybe a brooder light in the coop too if you ever have to do it again.

I am a little worried about my broody with 9 eggs under her all due to hatch Friday...right when the cooler wet weather is due to start. I am thinking about swapping out the eggs under her with infertiles and then giving her back the chicks when they are a few days old..

You have more chances of the hen rejecting them if you remove them from her for a few days. Give her an area of her own and let her do her momma thing. I've had a lot of broodies and only had 1 bad one that squished her eggs/chicks. (an English Orp)

Tomorrow I will have a pen available for my 3 cockerels. How do you finish a boy for processing? I have heard that you pen them. My boys are used to ranging but I want to do this right. Thanks

You can let them roam up until processing if you like. I don't think there is a right/wrong way to do it. Just withhold feed the morning of processing. (do not withhold water)

so I have a empty and freshly cleaned Genesis and a bunch of eggs hmm. I think I all put as many black penedesenca and silver ameraucana/penedesenca eggs as I can

Sounds like a plan!

Anyone know what breed of chicken this is? Her owner would like to know...any ideas?

http://www.bcrescuenc.org/bcrncnewsletter/chickens.htm

EDIT: I mean the small chicken, not the larger ones.

I was going to say Old English Game, but....................

It looks like a Phoenix

I'll defer to Walts judgement.

 

[Audio51]

I have pips!!!

. Day 21 isn't until tomorrow, but 4 out of 6 eggs have pipped, and the other 2 are rocking.

Woo Hoo!!!! Mine are going into lockdown today.

 

[Audio51]

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The ones I just added for my friend will be due the 14th too! Sounds like we all have a severe case of hatching fever!!!