California - Northern

[Hangtown Farms]

We would love to move up to your area! Every time we go to visit our friends up there, we start looking for houses to buy.

theres plenty for sale

 

[PetRock]

theres plenty for sale

We have seen several possible ones. We need to get things together around here so we can sell and move. We are also looking for a job for DH up in that area. He currently works in Santa Cruz and that would be too far of a commute even for the weekend.

 

[PetRock]

I'm hoping to bring some barnevelders and a few welsummers to show.

I'm looking forward to seeing your birds, too! My two Wellies have started laying again after their molt. I love the color of their eggs!

 

[chiqita]

Your right. large has a severly deformed foot and serama has extremly short legs. shorter then all the others

Seremas do have a tendancy to die, when they are tiny. The freeze uer quickly too, its jsut a hard breed to keep alive even in ca weather.

Thanks @PetRock and @HappyChooks I was looking for help online and was afraid it might be a prolapse. You two reassured me! So far the little cutie is doing fine. I just have her isolated, with a stuffed animal and a heat lamp. She burrowed into that stuffed animal and was comforted by it. I just squirted more vetricyn on the sac and it is clearly drying out. It does not look as obviously vascular as it did yesterday. Later today when I offer food and water I will give it another shot of ND but it is getting around beautifully and chirping enthusiastically. I hope I can give her back to Norma but am thinking it may be a better bet to give her to Gracie Belle who is a silkie super broody and is hatching on New Years Day. Any thoughts? @chiqita ? or anyone else

I hope you all had wonderful Christmases if you celebrate it and wonderful Hanukahs if you celebrate that. And if you celebrate neither I hope you enjoyed yourself too! We had fun around here with lots of family, food, gifts and College Basketball. My Gaels beat Santa Clara yesterday and take on the Dons tomorrow.

DH and I spent the 20-22 over in Fort Bragg for my b-day. It has become a tradition. It is so nice to get away and it forces me to get my act together well before Christmas Eve.

So Norma's final count is 3, counting the one in the house. One Yellow with brown smudges, one little penguin....maybe a pure Langshan?? and the one in the house who is black on yellow. I am very happy with the outcome. Norma is happy and we have a manageable number of chicks running around.

My DD who is looking for work in the dog training/handling world had an interview for a company in the city who uses beagles to sniff out bed bugs.

It sounds like it could be interesting. keep a good thought for her please! Thanks.

See how much they are moving around when they little one is ready to go back. ideally you put it with the original mother before its a week old. Might even just put her in at night so they bond and take her back out later.

 

[sol2go]

We would need to carry around name signs saying BYC MEMBER or put on a name tag lol

okay, I'll be looking for that =)

 

[sol2go]

Happy late birthday!!! That sounds like a fun tradition! We spent the 21-22 in Placerville with my best friend. Unfortunately, I didn't have my act together and spent the 23-24 scrambling to get everything finished for Christmas.

I'm glad that some of the eggs hatched and Norma is happy but wish that the percentage had been higher. I would love to see pics of them! The possible dads are my two black Langshan cocks and my big brick Rhode Island Red. The possible moms are a much more varied group made up of BBS & white Langshan, Pita Pinta/Cream Legbar mixes, Pita Pinta/Langshan mixes, 1 RIR hen, 1 barred rock hen, 1 red production hen. The flock is a combination of our layer flock and our breeders who are on winter vacation. I need to find some time to build another breeding pen or two and get set up for this next year's breeding.

Do you have the entire flock together when they are on winter vacation? Do you find that the roosters are competing for the hens and stirring up trouble?

Does anyone move breeding roosters back and forth between a rooster run? i.e. keep all the roosters together except when in a breeding pen?

As you might guess I've tried a few things and am still looking for a long term solution…or maybe there is no such thing as a static housing situation with chickens...

 

[sol2go]

Name tags are a good idea. We usually arrange a time to meet for lunch.

Yep, hoping to see you as well!
I agree here, I don't help them hatch. I have in the past and have had to put them down.
They have to make it on their own here.
I'm hoping to bring some barnevelders and a few welsummers to show.

We will be showing ducks, geese New Hampshire large fowl, Ko Shamo's and other bantam chickens.

Walt

thanks for the info, at least I know where to start looking =)

 

[EZFarms]

chiquita so far the 5 i have left are doing great they are chirpy. and moving around. mama and babies are inside where its warm

 

[sol2go]

This was the 2014 Pacific poultry breeders association Junior exhibits this past year. Although the junior exhibits looked small, the adult exhibits filled a Cosco sized pavilion. So, bring walking shoes and water!



Here were a few great looking birds we saw being shown in the main pavilion:

White-faced Black Spanish, Looking dapper (I believe that was what he was called.)


Belgian Bearded Du' ucle Mille Fleur.... feeling a little spotty


I was talking to this OEGB, and she ran up and listened carefully. When we walked away, she screamed at me for leaving her. Really would have loved to take her home with us.



I do have some other shots of different breeds from this show if anyone is interested in seeing a certain breed. However, my battery went out by the time we made it over to the Ko Shamo.

Thanks for the post!
I suppose seeing a Ko Shamo in person is the best anyways =)

 

[chickee]

Missed this before! Thanks Chickee! it looks like it is on its way to doing just that. Any memory of how long it might take? Is there something in Bag Balm that makes it good for unabsorbed yolk sacs?

Glad to hear the chick is doing well

Originally Bag Balm was developed for milk cows with mastitis. It works well for infection and inflamed skin conditions. I think it was around three weeks before the sack completely hardened and dropped off. I have not used the Vetricyn but it sounds like it is working just fine.