California - Northern

[Kaylish]

The property next door is for sale. Great price for 20 acres. Chicken friendly neighbors!

http://www.movoto.com/guinda-ca/16520-county-road-56-guinda-ca-95637-102_13039323/

Pretty but on the market for a year? Either it's overpriced for the area or there's something wrong with it.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Here's the Redfin listing:
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Guinda/16520-Road-56-95637/home/49728279

-Kathy

 

[ronott1]

Pretty but on the market for a year? Either it's overpriced for the area or there's something wrong with it.

I is far away from work, Stores and etc. It would be perfect for someone that wanted to retire far away from everything.

 

[caychris]

I is far away from work, Stores and etc. It would be perfect for someone that wanted to retire far away from everything.

Would need to learn a lot more about the land and what could be farmed or leased to farm on it.

 

[capayvalleychick]

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Is this the people with the Guardian Alpaca?

LOL, no - this is on the other side (north) of us.

I have used Ivermectin drops with great success. Kills the lice and the eggs don't hatch later. At the same time, I also give them all new bedding & litter sprinkled liberally with poultry dust to avoid new infestations.

Ivermectin works in the bloodstream, so only kills blood sucking lice. It will not kill feather eating lice. You have to treat those topically, with dust or dip etc.

Pretty but on the market for a year? Either it's overpriced for the area or there's something wrong with it.

It's normal for this area. Capay Valley is very remote, very rural. Summers are very hot. You have to love it here to live here and the majority of people have to commute to work. It's also difficult to get a loan for 20 acres. Legally, rural residential is classified as 5-10 acres. Farms/Ranches are over 100 acres. The type of mortgage for either would be from different types of lenders. Acreage in between does not have a classification, and there are very few lenders that will make a loan for those size properties. All this makes it difficult to sell this type of property. The seller and the realtor for this listing are also known for being difficult to deal with. But, do a comparison, you won't find other properties with what this one has to offer in this low of a price.

 

[capayvalleychick]

Would need to learn a lot more about the land and what could be farmed or leased to farm on it.

Ron's right. We are 30 miles from the nearest grocery store. No fast food, no chain stores, no malls. Guinda has a small corner store, a post office, a fire station and a small family restaurant. Unfortunately, Cache Creek Casino is 6 miles away.

The valley does have many of the largest organic farms in this part of the state. and a true agricultural atmosphere. Nobody would ever think about complaining about roosters crowing out here. Everyone has chickens.

The organic farmers will usually lease land from property owners but the soil on these parcels is not as fertile. You can grow oat hay on it and the owners are leasing the fields out now to a farmer who grows hay on it. Before that, they raised beef cattle, in partnership with some friends and they were making a bit of income from that.

 

[casportpony]

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I've already said it doesn't work for me, so I'm not trying to argue, but I thought you all might be interested in an experiment I did where I soaked a paper towel in it, took some feather lice off a hen and placed those lice on the paper towel. Part of the towel had a puddle of ivermectin and those lice that went for a swim died almost immediately, but those that walked around on the wet ridges lived.

Had a horse with lice and it took care of those, but I guess horse lice must be blood suckers?

Interesting links:
http://parasitipedia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2449&Itemid=2716
http://parasitipedia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2540&Itemid=2816

-Kathy

 

[chrissyr]

I tried ivermectin on several birds topically, orally and by injection and it didn't work for me.

-Kathy

I have used Ivermectin drops with great success. Kills the lice and the eggs don't hatch later. At the same time, I also give them all new bedding & litter sprinkled liberally with poultry dust to avoid new infestations.

I'm thinking they may be feather mites since frontline didn't help. I honestly don't know what is what in the bug world. Poultry dusted the boy , couldn't get the girls to see if DE helped yet. Will tonight.
I will be dusting every one in every coop but didn't see problems on the others in other coops.
They were on some skin but seemed to be on lots of feathers.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: I tried ivermectin on several birds topically, orally and by injection and it didn't work for me.

-Kathy
Ivomec works well for me, but as said above it only works systemically, so it wouldn't work with feather lice It needs to travel through the blood.

For feather lice, you'll need a dust or a dip.

 

[debs_flock]

I just finished processing 38 birds in two hours and fifteen minutes.

DH does the kill and I do the rest.

Before you think I'm wonder woman, I'll admit they were quail.

A whole lot faster to do.