California - Northern

[fortyfivefarm]

What did Jules buy from Sherry?  I'm just nosy!  

Debi, I got a splash Sumatra hen of Sherry's and a black Sumatra pullet from Bridgett Riddle. Both are very much bugfree & apparently healthy. They are both lovely girls. I did all of their worming and dusting today to get them on my schedule and put them in the quarantine pens. I can't wait to pair them with my blue boy Blaine next month. Should be lovely babies.

The show was fun. My new-to-chickens friend had a blast & really enjoyed meeting Karen & seeing the many breeds. She's looking forward to our next escapade.

 

[PetRock]

Debi, I got a splash Sumatra hen of Sherry's and a black Sumatra pullet from Bridgett Riddle. Both are very much bugfree & apparently healthy. They are both lovely girls. I did all of their worming and dusting today to get them on my schedule and put them in the quarantine pens. I can't wait to pair them with my blue boy Blaine next month. Should be lovely babies.

The show was fun. My new-to-chickens friend had a blast & really enjoyed meeting Karen & seeing the many breeds. She's looking forward to our next escapade.

Very cool! I am looking forward to seeing pics of them. Hint, hint!

 

[fortyfivefarm]

I will work on that. Lol, you know how long it takes me Btw, my batch of the Pita Pintas are due tomorrow! I'll be glued to the incubator like it's the first time..

 

[PetRock]

I will work on that. Lol, you know how long it takes me

Btw, my batch of the Pita Pintas are due tomorrow! I'll be glued to the incubator like it's the first time..

Exciting!!! I never get tired of seeing chicks hatch!

 

[chrissyr]

I think a lot of people don't even realize the problem is Jays.  There have been multiple people posting the FB groups saying the  have an egg eater and don't know what to do.  They found a broken egg in the nestbox and assume it was the hens.  They don't even consider that it could be a jay.  But if someone mentions that possibility they sometimes say that they have seen them around

And they have  no other redeeming qualities.  They have a loud, obnoxious sound and are not even a pretty blue like Jays in some other parts of the country.  I have seen them raid other wild birds nests and eat the hatchlings.....

I caught them eating eggs when I thought for sure it was a hen. So I videod it to see who I'd need to cull. It was the scrub jays!
So when the two were goin in the duck nest hidden in the vines, I knew.
I didn't know it but even common house sparrows are brutal and will kill blue bird chicks (not scrub jays). Actually some other species too.
They are an invasive species and wreck havoc on not just the blue birds nest, but kill the adults gaurding it.
Kind of like raccoons. You think they're cute until they kill everything the can find .
So it doesn't surprise me they'd kill hatchlings of whatever they can find

 

[sewandgrow]

What did Jules buy from Sherry? I'm just nosy!

Sumatras, large fowl. Sherry lives in Patterson & Jules comes here to visit about once a month but we have never contacted her & she just happened to have birds for sale at the show.

 

[PetRock]

Sumatras, large fowl. Sherry lives in Patterson & Jules comes here to visit about once a month but we have never contacted her & she just happened to have birds for sale at the show.

My large fowl black Langshan trio came from Sherry. She has beautiful birds!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Debi, I got a splash Sumatra hen of Sherry's and a black Sumatra pullet from Bridgett Riddle. Both are very much bugfree & apparently healthy. They are both lovely girls. I did all of their worming and dusting today to get them on my schedule and put them in the quarantine pens. I can't wait to pair them with my blue boy Blaine next month. Should be lovely babies.

The show was fun. My new-to-chickens friend had a blast & really enjoyed meeting Karen & seeing the many breeds. She's looking forward to our next escapade.

Sumatra's are so elegant looking.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

I will work on that. Lol, you know how long it takes me Btw, my batch of the Pita Pintas are due tomorrow! I'll be glued to the incubator like it's the first time..

My pp are in lock down today. Transfered from the octagon to the Bator for hatch. I can't stop peeking for rocking!!!!

 

[ronott1]

UCD released this months CAHFS report. There was an interesting case int there. Notice that a flock of pullets that had been vaccinated for mareks had mareks kill a lot of the flock:

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