California - Northern

[SunnyDawn]

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Oh shoot, I planned on waiting a year so I could sow a cover crop of crested wheatgrass and give it time to stabilize but these little guys take so much less feed I am really tempted to get one or two now and just sow the acreage they are not on and supplement feeding in the meantime.
Could you pm me with a price for these little ones or for the steer only if that is all you are selling? You are selling them as weaners or bottle babies? I'm ok with bottle babies btw. We raised an angus bull calf when I was young and I still remember (vegens, cover your eyes) how delicious he was! He was also forever getting out and terrorizing the neighbors. They didn't know how gentle he was but I bet these guys wouldn't be nearly as hard to handle.

 

[gpamela3499]

I would like to rent an incubator for a small public charter school in The San Francisco Bay area or is there somewhere that does loaners for schools.
The future chicks have been provided and they will have a home after birth.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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When I did this for my students we built a homemade one. We got directions off the web. I just searched homemade incubators. Course if you already have the eggs then time is of the essence.

 

[capayvalleychick]

OMG! I don't know how fast this winds are blowing but they blew my mobile coop 50 feet into the fence! The coop is made out of a travel trailer. I can't move it myself. My husband moves it with the tractor. I'm trying to get a hold of him.

Kim

 

[cherylcohen]

yikes. crazy winds here to gardena tree in enormous ceramic planters smashed to ground

hope your babies are ok - I'm putting wind protection down there in a bit for the young ones

 

[SunnyDawn]

Oh no! I thought it was just us. I keep checking the coop to make sure it is still there. It is awfully heavy but we have it raised up on blocks and were planning on using tie downs for the fierce winds we get here but the winds beat us to it. Hope it stays put!

I hope everyone else's chooks are ok!

 

[jeremy]

A few pictures today of my English Orpington hens that have finished or are almost done with their molts.

Elizabeth.

Two shots of Vivi.

Thelma, the best shot I could manage. She's just finishing her molt, her tail and cushion are still growing back in.

 

[CowgirlJules]

I think my new chain link turkey pen is about to sail away. I hazed all of the turkeys into the coop and locked everyone in. They're all freaked out.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Looking on the weather map some of you folks in the Bay Area are getting winds as bad (or even worse in a couple spots) than we are up here in wind prone North Reno! Scary! We didn't have a lot of special wind precautions built into our buildings, etc when I lived there. Here we have a lot of procedures we follow routinely for the high winds cause it's normal. There we never worried about it. You folks take care!

 

[jtaylormade]

Horrible here in the Northbay too...we lost about 4 eucalyptus trees in 30 seconds....something told me to move the cattle out of that pasture today. Thank goodness cause the 60 foot trees smashed our no climb fence and several railroad ties like none of it was ever there. I'm hoping it wont look be as bad in the daylight as it sounded in the dark, also hoping no more go down....Thankful all the chickens are nestled away, they werent happy with me - like it was my fault the wind was so bad, they were grump at me all day!