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[Exotica]

congrats, Ashley I hope they are all healthy

Thanks Art!! I do too! Luckily, the weather's been beautiful here and around 75-80 highest! I really hope I can sell off these chicks.. There's no way I can have this many but I guess if nobody buys them, I'll just keep them all. My last resort is probably Craigslist!

 

[Sylvester017]

I just joined BYC and live in Aguanga, CA (SE of Temecula) and raise Marans, Ameraucanas, and Swedish Flower Hens as well as a bunch of Guinea fowl and Wild Turkeys that run around the ranch and also a flock of Muscovy Ducks. I am researching geese and interested in Nene or possibly other quieter geese.

Do you raise your ducks and chickens for Show, for eggs, for pleasure, or? Are your Ameraucanas of the APA/SOP of the 8 accepted colors, or are they the Easter Eggers?

 

[DebbieSkinner]

We raise the chickens for fun and utility (eggs, meat) and sell/barter some hatching eggs and chicks to others. We enjoy the chickens a lot and they compliment the homestead life we are trying to lead by living organically and using permaculture here on our small ranch. No, we do not show or breed for show. I have some EE as well as Ameraucanas and are not keeping them separate (about 30 in the flock). I should I written EE not Ameraucana I guess as we are not selecting for show even though some of the stock is/was show stock. We keep about 30 or so SFHs and French Marans also in separate flocks. Muscovies are for bug/pest control along with our flock of guinea fowl and wild turkeys as well as for the table.

 

[UrbanFarmOC]

RIP Black Bean ("BB"). Yesterday, I thought she was about to lay her first hopefully-green egg (she was 25 weeks/ 6 months old), but a couple of hours later, I found her dead in a nest box. She was a Favacauna (SF x Lavender Am) from our first batch of broody-hatched babies (raised by our sweet SFH). I suspect she was eggbound and died from the complications thereof. ::sigh:: However, we want to know for sure in case it's something else that can affect the rest of the flock. So after I found her, I high-tailed to the CAHFS lab in San Bernadino to get her necropsied and made it 15 minutes before the office closed. Whew.

My SO and I accept that things like this are part of life and chicken-keeping, but when it happens, it's still a bit shocking, isn't it? My fear whenever one of ours passes is that she died of something we did or could've prevented...the necropsy report will tell us soon. Either way, I hope she didn't suffer too much.

 

[evitachu]

RIP BB....although she's just a chicken, she is a pet and part of the family. I now can relate.

 

[clucklady]

So sad. I'm sorry.

I live right beside the University there. Are you my neighbor?

 

[leilanio]

Oh I am soooo sorry for your loss. I love my ladies and they are part of the family and BB looks like a sweet gal.

 

[artblueggwanter]

so true , I lost 2

 

[UrbanFarmOC]

So sad. I'm sorry.

I live right beside the University there. Are you my neighbor?

No. I'm in NOC, 1.5 hours away

 

[UrbanFarmOC]

Oh I am soooo sorry for your loss.  I love my ladies and they are part of the family and BB looks like a sweet gal. 

Thanks