California - Northern

[Meg2000000]

Amy Beth - How are your new EE's doing?? Can't wait to see pictures. Congrats!

Ron - I'm on pins and needles! Can't wait for you to get home and update us on the hatch!!

 

[ronott1]

Good Morning Northern Californians!!

Hey Ron just want to show you a picture of your baby boy you gave me.... My nephew named him Drae'




He is doing Great! Does what he's supposed to and shows me respect! Love that guy!

Why did you not want him anymore? Was there some trait or something specific that just wasn't what you were looking for?

He been mating with my RIR and GSL hens. I have lots of eggs. I would really like to get some of those eggs hatched... Do you have any interest in hatching any for yourself? It looks like you've got your hands full with some pretty awesome rare breeds. That's way cool!
If you are interested, I'd love to get you some of these eggs.....

This thread moves really fast, but I still read. All of your birds are really impressive. And some of your coops are mind blowing! I live seeing the different types of birds/setups chicken lovers in the area have going on.

Anyway, hope you all are having a wonderful morning!



Oh quick question, kind of poll I guess.....
What are some of the most highly sought after breeds of chickens for our area? From what you've heard or what you like. Just would like your opinions! Thanks!

Thank you for sharing the picture. He looks good!

I live in town and have to hide my roosters since I am not supposed to have them here. I will be keeping Basque and Cream Legbars for now. Later I may be keeping Penedesencas.

He was a very nice boy for me. I am happy he is doing well for you.

I will let you know if I decide to hatch some eggs from him later.

Ron

 

[ronott1]

Amy Beth - How are your new EE's doing?? Can't wait to see pictures. Congrats!

Ron - I'm on pins and needles! Can't wait for you to get home and update us on the hatch!!

I just got home from getting the EEs to Amy Beth and visiting my Mom. The Quad Runner is starting! I fixed it!

10 Basque and 4 Pita Pintas have hatched. No Pennes. 1 more Basque has a big pip. I may have to intervene. One Basque is not doing well--Falls over on it's back. That one is under the eco glow and I will check on him soon. I may need to get some chick saver to him.

1 more pip in a Pita Pinta egg.

The first ones out:

 

[clio]

Hi All,
This is from another chat group I belong to ... I've also posted this on the Bay Area BYC forum ... I plan to register for the class on Monday, on a P/NP grade or as "audit" ... NO more exams if I can avoid them !
Daphne/Clio

--- In [email protected], "dfamini" <dfamini@...> wrote:
>
> The Santa Rosa Junior College Agriculture Department is proud to announce that Poultry Husbandry (AnSci150) course is being offered THIS FALL SEMESTER.
>
> I need your help. This class currently has 13 enrolled students. If we don't get to 20 students by Aug 20th the class may be cancelled and not offered again for many years.
>
> This will be a comprehensive and hands-on class covering all aspects of chicken husbandry.
>
> Topics will include:
> Poultry Handling and Restraint using the SRJC's layer flock(s)
> Poultry Housing and Construction (with an option of building a 50 layer starframe house in class)
> Layer Evaluation (Examination to determine length and duration of egg production)
> Incubation
> Egg Grading including Candling
> Brooding and Chick Husbandry (including chick vaccination)
> Meat Bird Husbandry (including the raising of broilers on campus with Salatin style chicken tractors)
> Broiler Processing
> Layer/Broiler Economics (focusing on the small farm/Farmer's market size operation)
> Poultry Parasites and Control
> Chicken Necropsy
> Wound Management/Chicken First Aid
> Biosecurity and Infectious Disease Control
>
>
> Full Details below:
>
> For Fall 2012 the Section Number is 0254.
> The course is AnSci150, 3 semester units, Tuesdays 1-4pm, Starts Aug 21st ends Dec 18th.
>
> This is your chance to learn, explore, and participate in all aspects of the delightful world of chickens. This will be a comprehensive overview of the poultry industry at all scales: small/backyard flock, mid/small-farm flock, and industrial scale agriculture.
>
> The primary instructor will be Dr. Dan Famini. Dan is a third generation Sonoma County poultryman, a practicing veterinarian, and an instructor in the SRJC Ag Department. Please email dfamini@... with any questions.
>
> This class is at the SRJC's Shone Farm campus (off River road in the Santa Rosa/Forestville borderlands) on Tuesdays from 1-4pm.
> Actual hands-on management and evaluation of the birds and facilities will be the foundation of learning. At the farm we have two layer flocks (50-100 birds each) in both a hoop house and pasture/egg-mobile husbandry models. Addionally, we will have at least one round of broilers, tentatively planned to be raised in a Salatin style chicken tractor model.
>
> Depending on student interest, other on-site poultry activities and/or fieldtrips to existing operations will also augment the existing curriculum.
>

 

[Meg2000000]

I just got home from getting the EEs to Amy Beth and visiting my Mom. The Quad Runner is starting! I fixed it!

10 Basque and 4 Pita Pintas have hatched. No Pennes. 1 more Basque has a big pip. I may have to intervene. One Basque is not doing well--Falls over on it's back. That one is under the eco glow and I will check on him soon. I may need to get some chick saver to him.

1 more pip in a Pita Pinta egg.

The first ones out:

Adorable! Keep going little guys! I hope the weak Basque is ok. If anyone can save it you can! Thanks Ron

 

[ronott1]

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The egg that had the big hole in it but had made no progress still had a live chick in it. I gave it more time and went to the evening service at church. It was still the same when I got back, so I pulled the egg out and carefully began getting it out. The poor guy was up side down!

They will never get out of the shell that way. The head was stuck in the small end!

I got the guy out and cleaned him up a bit and he is back in the incubator recovering. He looks so tired. I will keep an eye on him.

The one on its back looks a little bit better. I got it to drink some water. You never know with these. sometimes there is a nerve disorder they get. Falling backwards is a bad sign.

Oh, and the fifth Pita Pinta is zipping!

Ron

 

[MonsterClucker]

Thank you for sharing the picture. He looks good!

I live in town and have to hide my roosters since I am not supposed to have them here. I will be keeping Basque and Cream Legbars for now.  Later I may be keeping Penedesencas.

He was a very nice boy for me. I am happy he is doing well for you.

I will let you know if I decide to hatch some eggs from him later.

Ron

Oh ok. Very understandable.
what variety of basque hens are you keeping. I really want some of this variety. Spanish Basque is my nationality. My father was born there and my mother is Sicilian.
I never knew there was a rare breed of chickens from the Basque region.
Mtafather was born near Pyrenees and I know that's where they breed those big great Pyrenees dogs for sheppard hearding and protection.

Anyways. I was looking today at green fire farms website who claims to have this variety marrandunDo you know if they ate reputable? They charge $20 per chick for these.

They also have blue partridge brahama chicks for around $200!!!

Greenfirefarms.com

 

[ronott1]

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Greenfire Farms is where most of these rare chickens come from. The Basgue I have are the Marraduna. I bought the hatching eggs from skyline Poultry. I will be hatching some of mine this Fall and should have some hatching eggs too. I will have to set up some type of marketing system, but I can't talk about prices or selling them here because that has to go in the auction thread on this site. I saw a sales post pulled the other day. Look for a link in my signature when I set that up.

I can't bring myself to charge too much for the chickens. I think it's because my Mom's family was Catholic. I go to a Baptist Church but I still feel guilty if I charge too much.

The 5(almost 6) Pita Pinta chicks are from Spain too. They are one of the breeds that the University Professor preserved in the 80s. I do not know all of the names, but there is one that looks like a naked neck turken too. My guess is that they would all do well in Northern CA.

Ron

 

[ronott1]

The sixth Pita Pinta just hatched. I got a couple of pictures of the ones that hatched earlier. It will be fun watching these guys grow and change. They are going home with Megan tomorrow.

This is what they look like on Day 1:



The Pita Pinta chicks are the ones with the stripe on their backs. The Marraduna Basque is a camera hog.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

The sixth Pita Pinta just hatched. I got a couple of pictures of the ones that hatched earlier. It will be fun watching these guys grow and change. They are going home with Megan tomorrow.

This is what they look like on Day 1:



The Pita Pinta chicks are the ones with the stripe on their backs. The Marraduna Basque is a camera hog.

super cool. very pretty birds.