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[Amelia Egghart]

Hi all! I thought I'd introduce myself since I'm rather new to BYC and chicken keeping in general and I'm in San Diego! It's nice to see so many of my "neighbors" on here! These are my 3 girls. I got them a couple of weeks ago and am head over heels! I have instantly become a card-carrying member of the crazy chicken lady club! :-D

Hello and welcome! There's a few of us San Diegans on here where did you get your ladies? Looks like they already know who gives out the treats.

 

[Jessimom]

Hi all! I thought I'd introduce myself since I'm rather new to BYC and chicken keeping in general and I'm in San Diego! It's nice to see so many of my "neighbors" on here!

These are my 3 girls. I got them a couple of weeks ago and am head over heels! I have instantly become a card-carrying member of the crazy chicken lady club! :-D

Welcome!!! You have some very beautiful girls!!

I'm several hours north of you, but I am trying to go back to a reasonable amount of chickens. I let chicken math take over and things got a bit out of hand. Beware of chicken math!!

 

[chickencrazy21]

I got the dreaded notice. I want to fight to keep my roo. My neighbors dogs can bark all night long but i cant have a roo? There has to be a way to keep him. My heads gonna expload from googling. If i have to pay for some breeders licence or aomething i will. Anyone have ideas? I dont want to get rid of my crested cream legbar roo. Im in west covina california.

 

[Amelia Egghart]

I got the dreaded notice. I want to fight to keep my roo. My neighbors dogs can bark all night long but i cant have a roo? There has to be a way to keep him. My heads gonna expload from googling. If i have to pay for some breeders licence or aomething i will. Anyone have ideas? I dont want to get rid of my crested cream legbar roo. Im in west covina california.

Ugh. What does your specific zoning say? It took a while for me to find mine and even then, there was a separate form for animals and an another for roosters. I read that you can register as a zoo, a farm or animal rescue if those are allowed. Those have different allowances in San Diego at least. But I don't think there is much you can do. It also says construction materials stored on property, so maybe make an effort to organize what can be seen from the street, block all view of chickens and try the rooster collar? Good luck :-/

 

[Leihamarie]

Hello and welcome! There's a few of us San Diegans on here

where did you get your ladies? Looks like they already know who gives out the treats.

Hi there! Yay, a fellow San Diegan!! I got them in Lakeside from IB Crazy Coops. I was going to get my chicks from a hobby breeder in Alpine (all rare/ heritage breeds) but she sorta disappeared off the face of the planet all of the sudden. Ah well, it all worked out cause I have these 3 beauties and they're common, but perfect for me.

Yeah, they are 3 little beggars is what they are, lol!!! I was a little nervous about getting 6 week olds and not day olds from a bonding standpoint but they were REALLY receptive within a couple of days (it did take some serious mealworms and soldier fly grubs) . 2 weeks later and they talk to me when I call them, they follow me to whatever side of the run I'm closest to and they hop up in my lap to take a snooze or see what I might have to give them that's tasty, lol!

What I am finding absolutely FASCINATING is how their trust in me is developing. It's really something only you guys would get. I texted a g/f of mine my jubilation that they now try anything I cluck over and offer in my hand and she responded "you're clucking now?? lol!"

Like today they ate a fall gold raspberry. They wouldn't even TRY it from my hand a week ago! Their trust that what I offer them from my hand is good to eat is SUCH an honor to me. Doesn't mean they eat everything I offer... sometimes they wipe their beak on my shorts after trying something I offer, lol! The point is they at least TRY it now. When I got them they were hesitant to even try the mealworms I offered. I know partly they will get bolder as they get older but still, it's a huge win to me!



here's my copper comet wondering what I might have that's better than what the other two got, lol!


anyhoo... I am now a crazy chicken lady. I am also a crazy dog lady and a crazy cat lady. I own it with pride. :-D

what type of chicken is your avitar? She is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

 

[perchie.girl]

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San Diegan here.... Welcome from the high desert near Boulevard.

deb

 

[Leihamarie]

Welcome!!! You have some very beautiful girls!!

I'm several hours north of you, but I am trying to go back to a reasonable amount of chickens. I let chicken math take over and things got a bit out of hand. Beware of chicken math!!

Thank you!! Yes, I'm over the moon about them (clearly, lol!). I have been warned about chicken math. I may fall victim to it at some point, but I'm pretty limited in my space now. I AM planning to add a black copper marans and an olive egger to the flock but since I have no intention of processing any of the 3 that I have, I'm going to wait a couple of years to stagger their laying. Also I'm planning to have one of my 3 hatch and brood them so I figure it would be courteous to give them enough time to grow up and figure out all of the chicken ins and outs first before asking them to teach the babies. Of course... if I'm gonna add 2 to the flock, I really SHOULD add 3 since I wouldn't want to leave a singleton in case something happened to its buddy, which means I'd definitely need to order at LEAST 8 fertile eggs if I take hatch rate and hen/roo ratio into consideration... ;-D

 

[Leihamarie]

San Diegan here.... Welcome from the high desert near Boulevard.

deb

Hi Deb!

You're not too far away from my parents in East County!

 

[Amelia Egghart]

Thank you!! Yes, I'm over the moon about them (clearly, lol!). I have been warned about chicken math. I may fall victim to it at some point, but I'm pretty limited in my space now. I AM planning to add a black copper marans and an olive egger to the flock but since I have no intention of processing any of the 3 that I have, I'm going to wait a couple of years to stagger their laying. Also I'm planning to have one of my 3 hatch and brood them so I figure it would be courteous to give them enough time to grow up and figure out all of the chicken ins and outs first before asking them to teach the babies. Of course... if I'm gonna add 2 to the flock, I really SHOULD add 3 since I wouldn't want to leave a singleton in case something happened to its buddy, which means I'd definitely need to order at LEAST 8 fertile eggs if I take hatch rate and hen/roo ratio into consideration... ;-D

...and so it begins.... LOL!

I just got two marans from a breeder in Ramona. Will let you know how they lay once they start. They have some flaws, but he knew I wanted pets, not SQ.

My avatar is Grumpy Gilligan back when she was a pullet. She's still grumpy and looking a bit like a rat since she's picked on and someone picked out her beard! Can't wait for her to molt and go back to her normal fluffy grumpy self! she says "thank you" by the way. She's an Easter Egger from Cackle Hatchery. Of all the EEs I've seen, Cackle seems to have the best variety of colors. They ship to a feed store up here in north county in the spring if you want to drool over the rainbow of chicks.

Speaking of drooling, were you by chance looking at Secret Hills Ranch? They had some amazing looking birds and suddenly dropped out of chickens and went full time into horses

I was going to check out a guy in Lakeside (East County Zoo) but wanted bigger pullets right away and found the Ramona guy the same day (All Things Chicken). I'll post with how they turn out. His place looked clean and the birds so far are clean and seem healthy but they're in lock down away from my others for a month at least.

And yes, totally fascinating! Not what I expected at all. I'm able to use parrot training techniques to train them with visual and audible commands. Freaks out people walking by when I call them each by name and have them fly up and land on my shoulder! the rooster has by far been the best to train. You can see him figure things out. So cool.

Cluck away! You aren't the only one

 

[sol2go]

Welcome!!! You have some very beautiful girls!!

I'm several hours north of you, but I am trying to go back to a reasonable amount of chickens. I let chicken math take over and things got a bit out of hand. Beware of chicken math!!

Hi, are you on LAUCE also? If you were looking for information on hatching TJ eggs - Phage on BYC, as well as others, has specific information on that.