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[GibsonFamilyFarm]

I know it's June now, but are do you still have any chicks/chickens? I'm close to your neck of the woods.

I don’t have any chicks available but I have naked neck/cream legbar cross hens available. They are just over a year old.
I’m trying to sell that whole flock. 5 cross hens, 1 naked neck and a cross rooster.

 

[TinyRaptorMomma]

I don’t have any chicks available but I have naked neck/cream legbar cross hens available. They are just over a year old.
I’m trying to sell that whole flock. 5 cross hens, 1 naked neck and a cross rooster.

I wish the naked necks didn't freak me out xD It gives me anxiety, like I instantly think they're ill or injured, even though I know 100% they aren't.

 

[GibsonFamilyFarm]

I wish the naked necks didn't freak me out xD It gives me anxiety, like I instantly think they're ill or injured, even though I know 100% they aren't.

Haha I totally understand.
I just sold my lavender Orpingtons yesterday. I don’t know if I’ll have any others available. I am thinking of hatching out more frosts this summer. They are pricy and not autosexing.

 

[TinyRaptorMomma]

Haha I totally understand.
I just sold my lavender Orpingtons yesterday. I don’t know if I’ll have any others available. I am thinking of hatching out more frosts this summer. They are pricy and not autosexing.

That's totally fair! Well, I'll keep an eye out to see if you end up with others available later on =]

 

[BYChaymarket]

Haha I totally understand.
I just sold my lavender Orpingtons yesterday. I don’t know if I’ll have any others available. I am thinking of hatching out more frosts this summer. They are pricy and not autosexing.

Hello @GibsonFamilyFarm - Just popping in to say hello and that I am also in Chatsworth!

 

[icebergchicken]

Hi! Looking to rehome 3 Orpington Chicks in Southern California. About a month old. One is a Rooster and the other two are hens.

 

[TinyRaptorMomma]

Hi! Looking to rehome 3 Orpington Chicks in Southern California. About a month old. One is a Rooster and the other two are hens.

Where in SoCal are you?

 

[icebergchicken]

Where in SoCal are you?

I'm in West Los Angeles

 

[GodLovesU]

If anyone is free rehoming I have a thread where you can post an ad here!

 

[jewelg]

RUN EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE - DECEMBER - LOS ANGELES

Hello, hello!

We are prepping for a move to the East Coast and will be looking to get rid of a lot of our chicken set up:

- kids climbing dome wrapped in hardware cloth (the shape of a dome provides maximum sq ft w/ minimum footprint)

- open air walk-in coop with roosts: it's worked very well for us within a fully fenced backyard. If you have tenacious predators though - eg. coyotes, raccoons - you would probably want to replace the chicken wire walls with hardware cloth, and make a better roof.

- small pre-fab coop (bought in 2020) with a small run space underneath. Has a bit of a leak in the roof. We added some extra roosting space inside.

If you're interested, could you let me know and we can set up a discussion or a visit?

Full disclosure: We did have a hen test positive for Marek's in a necropsy. Our vet's opinion is that unless you started with serious bio-security and kept it up, and know for sure that the finicky vaccine was administered exactly right (right temp, time, age, dosage), everyone's chickens probably have Marek's. All our chicks were vaccinated, and we still ended up with Marek's in our flock. Because it's spread by dust and dander, all of our set up probably carries the virus. So know that, too, if you're considering...

thanks!

- Jewel

Our method:
We connected all of this with chunnels (chicken tunnels) - one tunnel out of the side of the small coop branches into two sections, one leading to the dome and one leading into the walk-in coop. The screendoor of the walk-in coop opens up so the chickens can free-range and the humans can go in to replenish food, water, etc. You can also close the chunnel at the small coop to make it into a hospital coop. When we do that, the other hens grump about it for a bit but eventually just roost in the open-air walk-in coop. We've put a temp nesting box in there when we've needed it.