California - Northern

[fowlman01]

I'll always love the Old English. It has been years since I had them. I've been looking over them in my spare time lately. Compromise eggs for antics, lol.

This could be a Dutch bantam. OEGB don't have white ear lobes.

Walt

 

[fowlman01]

hey walt, im getting new birds from strombergs and their lines are from urch? including the phoenixs are these good lines or?

the birds im getting are: more easter eggers, black langshans partridge cochins,red jungle fowl,russian orloff and white sultan. any tips or adivce about them?

I don't think Urch does EE's. I don't know how it is now, but Strombergs used to get eggs and chicks from many sources. I dropped shipped eggs from here with their label in the 70's. Why don't yu buy the birds directly from Urch? Then you know that you will have good APA type birds...if you care about that. In any event the Urch birds will come directly from him and there will be no question of their origin. Urch has good birds.

Walt

 

[95030chick]

need two new interviews. the other two never responded.

info needed to know: some about prop 2 (humane treatment of battery hens)

after that please answer these questions:

1. Will this law really change how chickens are/will be treated?

2.What will happen with taxes if they are used to build new facilities?

2.Will this law really be able to make a difference?

4.How will this law effect the economy?

5.Will this effect all of California or only areas near the facilities?

6.What about out of state import of eggs?

7.Will the law effect backyard chicken owners?

8.If the law effects other states will it effect their economy as well as ours?

9.What plans are in effect if there were to be a disease breakout?

10.How is this law flawed (if at all)

thank you in advance

 

[Sylvester017]

Well, the guy from The Chicken Fountain gave me an idea for "cleaning out the valve" that didn't work and he has not responded to my email saying that idea didn't fix the problem. So at the moment I am pretty ticked off and disappointed. If I wanted a waterer I had to check and manually refill, I could have spend $10, not $80.

I just spent over $200 to get a couple BriteTap Chicken Waterers with 2 corresponding RubberMaid jugs and a few extra velcro suncovers for the BriteTaps. My Silkies always head for the underside of treats or vitamin drops when we offer them so I think they'll get the hang of drinking from the bottom of the water nipples. I settled on this style of nipple waterers so that they're portable to move around the backyard to keep in the shade depending on the season of the year and angle of the sun rays. And it will keep the water clean from my sloppy chickens and keep the wild birds out of the water! We got tired of cleaning chicken water 2-3 times a day -- how can only 3 hens make such a muddy mess? And there was always the stupid wild bird poops floating in the water - Ugh! Or worse yet finding some hyper hen had knocked over the waterer while we were gone! The RubberMaid Brite Tap jugs hold 2 gallons of water but we'll probably only put a gallon in each jug (for just 3 chickens) and change it out only once every 3-5 days instead of the 2-3 times daily cleanups now. The BriteTap jugs can either go on a cinderblock free-standing or strapped to a wall. There's a handle on the jug but I don't think it would hang very straight using just the jug handle. People make/assemble their own nipple waterers but we're power-tool challened so having a BriteTap already assembled and ready to plug into a ready-made jug was the answer for us. If these work as great as we hope we'll order a couple more.

 

[sol2go]

I just spent over $200 to get a couple BriteTap Chicken Waterers with 2 corresponding RubberMaid jugs and a few extra velcro suncovers for the BriteTaps. My Silkies always head for the underside of treats or vitamin drops when we offer them so I think they'll get the hang of drinking from the bottom of the water nipples. I settled on this style of nipple waterers so that they're portable to move around the backyard to keep in the shade depending on the season of the year and angle of the sun rays. And it will keep the water clean from my sloppy chickens and keep the wild birds out of the water! We got tired of cleaning chicken water 2-3 times a day -- how can only 3 hens make such a muddy mess? And there was always the stupid wild bird poops floating in the water - Ugh! Or worse yet finding some hyper hen had knocked over the waterer while we were gone! The RubberMaid Brite Tap jugs hold 2 gallons of water but we'll probably only put a gallon in each jug (for just 3 chickens) and change it out only once every 3-5 days instead of the 2-3 times daily cleanups now. The BriteTap jugs can either go on a cinderblock free-standing or strapped to a wall. There's a handle on the jug but I don't think it would hang very straight using just the jug handle. People make/assemble their own nipple waterers but we're power-tool challened so having a BriteTap already assembled and ready to plug into a ready-made jug was the answer for us. If these work as great as we hope we'll order a couple more.

I have one in a coop and that flock really likes it. I don't like cleaning the tube the nipple waterers are secured in, so I try to keep the whole system in the shade to reduce cleaning cycles.

 

[EZFarms]

okay so long story short i had to learn a lesson the hard way. woke up this morning to m on silkie and polish dead and both of my seramas. i think it was due to cold but just as a precaution i bought DE earlier and put it on the birds and around the coop and now im looking for new seramas since they were my show birds. ive already messaged OCseramas and a few other people but anyone have any good serama owners? (im going to ask in the american serama thread as well)

 

[EZFarms]

I don't think Urch does EE's. I don't know how it is now, but Strombergs used to get eggs and chicks from many sources. I dropped shipped eggs from here with their label in the 70's. Why don't yu buy the birds directly from Urch? Then you know that you will have good APA type birds...if you care about that. In any event the Urch birds will come directly from him and there will be no question of their origin. Urch has good birds.

Walt

well i was reading and it says their bloodlines are from urch/turnland i think


it can be opinion. thats what my english teacher is wanting us to use. there will be actual info in the paper but she wants opinions too

 

[lualshannon]

okay so long story short i had to learn a lesson the hard way. woke up this morning to m on silkie and polish dead and both of my seramas. i think it was due to cold but just as a precaution i bought DE earlier and put it on the birds and around the coop and now im looking for new seramas since they were my show birds. ive already messaged OCseramas and a few other people but anyone have any good serama owners? (im going to ask in the american serama thread as well)

Hi,

I am sorry to hear that you have been dealing with the demise of so many of your poor little birds. It is winter time, but, we have not had low enough cold temperatures to cause as many losses as you have had.

Perhaps, it will be good idea for you, and for the well being of your future birds' to take the dead birds' bodies to UCD., for autopsy, full biopsy, to find out what the root problem is before bringing in new birds into the same environment which may very well be infected.

RON, and the other well experienced chicken keepers/ breeders who are on this group can help you with how to go about shipping the bodies, or delivering them yourself to UCD., which is a very low cost process. Definitely much, much lower than the cost of the birds' suffering, their purchase price and daily care.

If you do not find out what the problem/s were which caused the death of your previous birds, you will not be able to fix, or cure it with remedies randomly found in the feed stores; specially, if you do not have previous experience. Also, it is not fair to the birds you will be bringing into your home if in fact there is a virus or bacteria infection. There is no reason to cause suffering to the innocent birds, and to yourself.

I really hope that some of you do chime in to help this young woman with her dilemma.

Lual

 

[EZFarms]

The seramas im sure were coldbut the polish im going to send off

 

[Hangtown Farms]

@hangtownfarms are you working with Wheaton pendensenca?

No sorry but I'd like too just need more runs. I have the others though