California - Northern

[HighStreetCoop]

Jeff (Papa's Poultry) is so awesome.

I'll second that! I just ordered my first chicks (with a delayed delivery until I have a firm coop delivery date). He walked me through the various Orpington options and was really patient with all my N00B questions as I tried to decide on a variety/mix. I'm RIDICULOUSLY exited.

 

[SpringPeeper]

Quick plug if anyone is interested. I am running a 25% special of all hatching egg and chick orders that ends monday at midnight...likely a bit longer as I'm not likely to stay up to midnight to actually change all the prices. Link is in my signature if you are interested. As I have my NPIP testing coming up I am trying to sell almost everything that I've hatched as I won't be able to add them to my NPIP flock until next year if they are under 4 months when I get tested. Trying to get a gap between emptying the barn of grow outs and the next round of chicks so I can do a deep clean and start fall fresh!!! So, if you are looking for chicks, make me an offer!! I also have about 8-10 quantity of 6-8 week old sexed pullets available: orp project colors (I think a red, a mottled with some leakage, a black, and I can't recall the other colors), i have an EE pullet, a rhodebar or olive egg laying rhodebar pullet (escaped early in the grow out so since I don't know what it is for sure saying both), and a few more I can't recall right now. Asking $12 for those sexed pullets. it's a steal compared to what I sell them for normally but I have to reduce my numbers.

I'm also considering finding buyers for a quad of MF leghorns, possibly a quad of salmon faverolles, and possibly a rooster and 4-5 speckled sussex hens. If you are interested in any of those shoot me a PM. I don't want to let them go but I just need more pen space.

I'm also considering abandoning my lavender marans project. I have a pure lavender pen currently. Egg color needs quite a bit of work but you can always breed a good looking lavender to a nice black copper to get the deep rich egg color.

Just thinking out loud and wanting to reduce numbers so I don't have to test so many birds in October.

Quoting so I remember to try to butter my husband up in the morning.

 

[dldolan]

Hi Ya'll.  I have not been on BYC for awhile so I thought I would stop in and say Hi!   Hope everyone is having a great summer.   

DeAnn! Look what I've been doing! Each little bantam cochin hen has five chicks. (Three/ten are from the trio!) First-time fertility check 75%! Plus some ordered for more variety... Also the Red Ranger/Sumtaler X girls laid first eggs this week!

 

[ronott1]

DeAnn! Look what I've been doing! Each little bantam cochin hen has five chicks. (Three/ten are from the trio!) First-time fertility check 75%! Plus some ordered for more variety... Also the Red Ranger/Sumtaler X girls laid first eggs this week!

They look very nice!

 

[Happy Chooks]

So it would seem I have a cockerel. I heard what sounded like a weird sounding cat screeching, and my step dad said he heard the same thing this morning. It came from the chicken coop area. It is one of the BLRW, how do I tell which one it is though? All 3boyish ones look the same

Do you have pictures of them? Or you can hang out near the coop and watch them.

First crows generally sound like someone murdering a trombone. Or a kazoo.

I have a question...Is there anything wrong with snapping the neck of a bird before cutting it's neck? Seems like a MUCH more humane way to do it since all it would be is someone holding the bird and the other person taking about one second to quickly snap the neck...instead of slitting the throat and letting it bleed until it dies, could we snap it's neck and THEN hang it and slit it's throat to let it bleed out? That way there is absolutely zero suffering...I'm a vegan so this is going to be very hard for me, but I know there's not enough homes for all the roosters in the world so he will serve a purpose feeding my parents and siblings.

There are a lot of opinions on that method. I do know you have to do it right for it to work. If you are serious about processing, start looking in the Meat Bird section.

DeAnn! Look what I've been doing! Each little bantam cochin hen has five chicks. (Three/ten are from the trio!) First-time fertility check 75%! Plus some ordered for more variety... Also the Red Ranger/Sumtaler X girls laid first eggs this week!

Cuties!

 

[OR4-hmom]

I'll have to check the health food grocery here--the closest TJs is in Medford, which is 2 hours away, and I believe that OR4H-mom has already reported that that one doesn't have fertile eggs... If I weren't so dead-set against more light brown layers right now, I could just go to the farmer's market--the Alexandre Dairy Kids sell their eggs here (logically enough, since the dairy is just over that-a-way). They run Australorps, New Hampshire Reds, and Rhode Island Reds in with the cattle.

I suppose I could actually ask around here about eggs--I'm pretty sure one of the other moms involved with my elder's soccer team is involved with 4H, because she had to miss a game because she had to help slaughter unsold birds after the fair.

Hi Amy, good memory you have there. No fertile eggs at the Medford TJ's and our local whole food store Gooseberries looked at me like I was crazy. (I am, but they don't know me well enough to judge.)

Getting tired of the smoke up here, it's drifting up from the July and Happy Camp fires. Orange sun and moon have lost the novelty. It's unusually hot for Sept., we are looking at upper 90's for the rest of the week.

 

[caychris]

Hi Amy, good memory you have there. No fertile eggs at the Medford TJ's and our local whole food store Gooseberries looked at me like I was crazy. (I am, but they don't know me well enough to judge.)

Getting tired of the smoke up here, it's drifting up from the July and Happy Camp fires. Orange sun and moon have lost the novelty. It's unusually hot for Sept., we are looking at upper 90's for the rest of the week.

Anyone have a Winco close they also have Fertile eggs

 

[Hangtown Farms]

am off this week time to get caught up around here.
My wife traded a photography session for another coop now my bantam Brown Red Ameraucana can have a proper house haha.

another quick note we just had a 5 minute down poor. had to run out a cover the chicken food though one was in a spot near a roof and was soaked.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Anyone have a Winco close they also have Fertile eggs

I'll have to go and check them out next time I get to Medford.

 

[OR4-hmom]

am off this week time to get caught up around here.
My wife traded a photography session for another coop now my bantam Brown Red Ameraucana can have a proper house haha.

another quick note we just had a 5 minute down poor. had to run out a cover the chicken food though one was in a spot near a roof and was soaked.

Sounds like a "Special Treat" day. I usually forget where I left the feed bucket and end up with the hose spraying into it, the birds don't mind when I leave my mind behind.