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[Sylvester017]

She is so cute!!!! We started off with six silkie and Cochin and our poodle, a predator and an unexpected liver hemorrhage has left us with three, including a black smooth silkie!
We Love our breeder but she has moved even further away than she was before all the way up in Northern California and we'd love to just make an easier trip of getting chicks this time!
After doing some looking around I'm suddenly found myself in love with d'uccles, now I'm on the lookout for them too. Thank you for your amber waves advice I had forgotten about that hatchery and will go check them out right now !

Losing birds really sucks. I'm sorry about your losses. I lost a couple larger hen breeds this summer exacerbated from our brutal SoCal heatwaves. I can usually receive shipped birds up to July and sometimes up to first week August -- but THIS year our heatwaves started first week June and my breeder and I mutually agreed not to ship my new bird until late Sept because we didn't want to lose the juvenile to possible USPS mishandling in the heat. Your little smooth Silkie is a Cochin mix -- gotta be a real doll with those 2 breed mixes in her! I was offered Silkie/Cochin mixes before but I love the fluffy "fur" of pure Silkies w/ their fuzzy crests and beards -- because of the wispy "fur" the pure Silkies seem to do better in our heatwaves than the smooth-feathered breeds. D'uccles and Seramas are so cute. I was looking into the Olandsk Dwarf because of their calmer nature as a bantam but then I was gifted my first two Partridge Silkies 6 yrs ago and have been "hooked" on them ever since

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[Sylvester017]

Sorry to hear about your losses. I lost one hen on Father's Day due to heat and laying stress on a 108-109°day and she was disabled with a broken leg that never healed properly. All my other chickens did okay.

Weird about the fading. I have many large black chickens (2 Australorp, 1 Jersey giant, 1 Cochin, 3 mixes), a couple of black polish and a black Silkie. They all free range together all day every day. None of them have had any fading issues with their feathers.

I don't have fading/staining issues with any colors except the all-black or all-white chickens. All-black turns to rusty/red every summer and it isn't until next molt before the pretty new shiny black feathers come back. For a few weeks in winter they stay a pretty black. Once our heatwaves hit again I watch those pretty black feathers fade away. We had a White Leghorn who would get stained, dingy yellow, from her summer foraging and had to wait until Fall molt to see her pristine shiny new feathers again. Personal preference, I won't chance any more all-black or all-white feathers for my backyard. So far, Blue, Partridge, and Cuckoo, have been our best backyard varieties.

 

[Calichicken2015]

I have a Dr. Z (Zabihi) too at the Duarte-Azusa Animal Hospital -- very 1st office visit usually free but any meds are add'l cost. My Dr. Z is in Duarte at corner of Las Lomas and Huntington Drive and has been my chicken vet for a few years -- park rangers bring him injured wildlife of all kinds plus he's had experience working in the poultry industry. There is another all-animals vet in Covina near the Metrolink station that I have to find out if they might see chickens too. If Dr. Z goes on vacation his intern vets don't do birds and I want to line up a backup vet. I suppose pure avian vets are very good but I found most of them in our area or OC too pricey -- especially the Pasadena ones.


Don't know what San Bdno mtn area you're in since that's a vast area but our Dr. Z at the Duarte-Azusa Animal Hospital (cats/dogs/exotics/birds) is another to add to your list of vet contacts. He's been seeing my chickens for a few years. He doesn't refer patients that need surgery -- he performs his own surgeries.

Thank you so much! I am in a little town outside of Lake Arrowhead

Its beautiful living, but nothing much on the mountain other than gas station, grocery store ect!

 

[Calichicken2015]

This is sad but sweet.
Chick that was euthanized, my vet and staff returned her to me in this little box.

Oh, poor baby! I'm sorry you lost her. But what a wonderful vet staff to do that for her. I had a rooster returned after a necropsy and I was holding my breath before opening the box only to discover they had cleaned him, put him back together and positioned him as if he was sleeping, head tucked under his wing.

It's good to know during times of loss and sadness that there are people out there who care, people who don't even know you. I'm glad you found a good vet. And I'm sorry for your loss.

So soryy for both of your ;losses

But that was so SWEET for your vets to take care of your feather babies so well

They are so near and dear to our hearts

 

[Phage]

This is sad but sweet.
Chick that was euthanized, my vet and staff returned her to me in this little box.

That is so sweet!

Why did you take the chick to the vet?

 

[Skalabs]

We LOVE her!!! I hatch chicks in my classroom every year and just fell in love with her.

I'm a teacher, too! Are there other teachers here? Wouldn't mind hearing how you all integrate chickens into the content areas.

 

[Phage]

Thank you so much! I am in a little town outside of Lake Arrowhead

Its beautiful living, but nothing much on the mountain other than gas station, grocery store ect!

Ohooh are you up where they do the music and summer camps?

 

[ElRinconcito]

Hello I am new to BYC and I am located in Riverside. I am currently looking to start breeding Bantams but specifically looking to have sebright. I am looking for golden laced sebright hens in my area for sale. Can anyone ppimr me in the right direction? I have tried Craigslist but with no success. Thanks in advance.

 

[Amelia Egghart]

Hello I am new to BYC and I am located in Riverside. I am currently looking to start breeding Bantams but specifically looking to have sebright. I am looking for golden laced sebright hens in my area for sale. Can anyone ppimr me in the right direction? I have tried Craigslist but with no success. Thanks in advance.

Hello and welcome!

I can't recommend a breeder but I can say I see quite a few for sale come spring, more golds than silvers. So if you're patient for a few months you'll have a good selection to choose from.

 

[irfxr]

I'm looking for some too ! Maybe we can help each other...