California - Northern

[Gomes Bantams]

Sorry Gomes..........I didn't see your post....WELCOME.......I live in Turlock practically right next door. Who is your 4H leader? Are those Sussex in your avatar picture?? I specialize in Large Fowl Dual Purpose but have Silkies for fun too. My grown son raises fancy pheasants & Yokohama Chickens & soon to have Shamos.
Karen in Turlock

Ok so my 4-H leader is Karen(ironic?)
My avatar is my trio of Columbian Wyandottes.
Oh and I want to buy some marans hens from you. I would just like two.
And if you'd ever like some hatching eggs or chicks, just tell me.

 

[chiqita]

I am so jealous! none of mine have gone broody yet and supposedly BAs will. I do have a Dorking and they are supposed to go broody but CapayValleyChick(Hi Kim) says they do not go Broody very reliably for her.

My Barred Rocks have shown no indication of Broodiness. I do have a Cherry Egger RIR that sits on the nest for a long time and sqwaks at me when I lift the nest lid. She keeps getting off of the nest though.

I am really hoping the Dorking will go Broody. She is17 months old or so.

What is your secret?

Ron

Edited to Correct Spelling. Ron

find people that are going nuts because their chickens are going broody, ninja said chickens, wave chicks at them, profit.

Mind you none of them ever had HAD eggs to sit on before, so they were horrible at actually sitting on the eggs. They kept stealing more and more they couldn't fit under them( one silkie hen stole 23... it was a MOUND of eggs under this tiney thing she had to get up to turn them so I started taking them from her). So i had a lot of foot and leg problems with those eggs. But Sparkles, the greedy chicken, kept taking chicks for the first week . I had to bring her inside where the incubator was( storm left water too close to her broody coop), and she would go NUTS clucking at the peeping and hurl herself at the sound until I gave her all the chicks. She even tried to get at the quail babies.

I hopeing next years breeding hens are not quite as broody as this lot so i can get some eggs next year <<.

 

[ronott1]

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Thank you for the tips. I really only want one Broody. I am sorry you have so many this year. You probably won't have as many next year.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Thank you for the tips. I really only want one Broody. I am sorry you have so many this year. You probably won't have as many next year.

How much longer till the pene eggs hatch...

 

[zooweemama]

hooray, home from meeting Cheryl at the Omelet Ranch (thanks, Cheryl!) with my two lovely silver penciled rocks -- haven't quite decided on names yet, but trying to get them settled in inside their separate-but-equal pen within the coop's run:




they are just about the same size as the other three (daisy the australorp is still a good bit smaller), but with HUGE feet -- and so far one of the rocks has had a few through-the-bars stand-offs with one of the bossy marans (ethel), but no major trouble. they're so wonderfully beautiful!!




off to take two handfuls of spinach to the gang...
laura

Gorgeous!!

 

[zooweemama]

I have so many broodies in my HQ egg flock, that the girls still laying are using the floor of the coop. No room in the nests. My BO has literally turned into bones, skin and feathers. She refuses to leave the nest for more than a few minutes per day. She has been sitting now for 6+ weeks. I'm going to have to set up a broody buster cage for her. The other three boxes have a RIR, a cuckoo marans and a BA. No one has eggs and I have no plans to give them any!

Deb

Awww. Wow!

 

[zooweemama]

Hi! I'm new to this thread. What's up?. Does anyone live in or near Denair? Just want to feel welcome.

Hello! Welcome to the thread! I've never heard of there. I am from Redding.

 

[ronott1]

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They go into lockdown tomorrow morning. Day 21 is between Friday and Saturday! I am getting very anxious.

Quote: Amy Beth, I am posting a couple of pictures of my Barred Rocks. They are Al and Lilith:



Nice Big Girls!

 

[ronott1]

This is a picture of my two best Basque Cockerels.



This one has pullets in the picture:

 

[debs_flock]

Does anyone know who carries these pens? I can do an internet search, but of course it's easier if someone already knows who sells them.

ETA - I was looking at them when we were at The Omelet Ranch, but I didn't think to ask about them at the time. I suddenly find myself in a position I could use something like this.

Thanks,
Deb