Canadians check in here....

[Ali_Howard]

Hi Mama Hen, We have family in the Gulf Islands. Over here in the Okanagan with black copper marans and malines.
QUOTE="Mama Hen to 4, post: 22470198, member: 233072"]
Salt Spring Island BC Canada here~!
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[Ali_Howard]

Wow, what an amazing colour!

QUOTE="CowGirlMomma, post: 21872601, member: 551857"]
I've never heard of hedemora before! I'd love to have crested legbars some day! Right now I'm trying to re-home the 15 week roos from my July hatch. Yes, the blue egg is from my blue ameraucana (Bernice). One of my polish girls is a mix... she just started to lay a blue/green egg. I bought some hatching eggs so I could get some

Hi there! Thank you!
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[Ali_Howard]

Originally from the island. What are bovans? We raise black copper marans and malines.
QUOTE="MattyBowman, post: 21739722, member: 549733"]
Hello everyone! What are these cheekans all aboot, eh? Victoria, B.C. here! Cheers to the Canadian flock.

Have a small flock of Bovans.

Current project: clearing some land to make a new improved duck run!
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[Ali_Howard]

Wow, small world. My mum used to work on Saturna and we still have family in the Gulf Islands. Now in the Okanagan with black copper marans and malines. What do you have?
QUOTE="Kris5902, post: 21743221, member: 526696"]
Nice tractor! And “Hi” from Saturna...
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[Ali_Howard]

We’re in the Okanagan, but grew up near there and travel home to the island (barring COVID). We raise black copper marans and malines.

QUOTE="Spanishearl, post: 21520095, member: 277176"]
I posted a few years back, but I've moved, and would love to know if there's anyone near Campbell River, BC!
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[Ali_Howard]

Haha. I love this list.
We’re in the Okanagan and have black copper marans and malines.
QUOTE="ChelsisChooks, post: 21411748, member: 542469"]
Hi! From the Lower Mainland of BC! I have been using this forum to find so much information! As a new (2 months in) member of the crazy-chicken-lady club I have much to learn! First lesson (that I had to learn the hard way) was to pace myself! I have 27 birds right now including chicks.
3 Australorp
1 BCM
3 Ameraucana
2 Gold Laced Wyandotte
2 Black Sex Link
1 Olive Egger
4 BBS Orpingtons
2 Silver Laced Polish
6 Bielefelder
1 Barnevelder
1 Rooster (that was suppose to be a pullet)
1 Easter Egger
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[Ali_Howard]

Hey. We’re near you. Closer to Salmon Arm. We have black copper marans and malines. What do you raise? QUOTE="SarahBC, post: 21277400, member: 539021"]
Kamloops, BC!
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[Ali_Howard]

Hi. We’re from BC, too. We have black copper marans and malines.

Hello from Surrey BC! Our house and city regulations dont allow us to keep chickens on our property, so instead we have a small covey of 5 coturnix quails ( mainly as pets!)
My parents plan to one day get a little farm in Langley or Chilliwack someday and keep some chickens! Nice seeing some people from Canada on here!

 

[Ali_Howard]

Hi. We’re about an hour north of you. We raise black copper mar and and malines. What do you have?

Hi everyone! We are in Kelowna, BC!

 

[Ali_Howard]

Brr! I used to live up there. Stay warm and enjoy la nina. We’re in the Okanagan with black copper marans and malines. QUOTE="Castlemaid, post: 21155584, member: 535946"]
A thread just for us Canucks! That's great!
I'm about 50km south of Prince George, near Hixon. I bought a home on acreage back in November, and it came with chickens and muscovies. Having a lot of fun learning all about home poultry, and enjoying the magnificent eggs.
Typical Canadian story: Household water is on a cistern, with water being trucked in. There is an old well with a hand-pump on the property, and previous owner told me in all his years of living on the farm, the hand pump has never frozen up, no matter how cold it got, and that is what he has been using to get water to the chickens daily, as it is near the coop. The water is a dark yellow, so I won't use it, but that is what was being used for the livestock they had.

Well, we've had brutally cold extended weather, in the -20's to -30's for over a month solid, and yes, the hand pump froze up. I had run out of household water and couldn't get any delivered because of too much snow - the water truck didn't want to risk coming all the way out to the boonies and get stuck. So . . . I took my wood splitting axe and hacked a hole through a foot of ice in the duck pond, and got the chicken water from the pond! Of course, had to re-open the hole on a daily basis, but the birds got water, and despite the cold, they were happy and laying pretty regularly.

Now that the snow is melting they seem to prefer drinking out of snow-melt puddles - I think they got a taste of "wild" water, LOL.
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