Cream Legbars

[sol2go]

Nice!
It's finally fall here!

Right?!
That's what we call a heavy overcast with some fog...=)

 

[estamets]

Right?!
That's what we call a heavy overcast with some fog...=)

It was like 50 degrees last night. I needed a sweater. Brrr!

 

[sol2go]

It was like 50 degrees last night. I needed a sweater. Brrr!

My nieces were all excited to break out the sweaters and scarves - which they wore with shorts...

...since Fall and Winter are the green season here, my CLB's and feathered friends are happily grazing on anything that sprouts.

 

[ChicKat]

My nieces were all excited to break out the sweaters and scarves - which they wore with shorts...

...since Fall and Winter are the green season here, my CLB's and feathered friends are happily grazing on anything that sprouts.

funny - I used to laugh when I first moved to California to see wool winter coats in department store windows.... I guess I also kind of laughed at Dallas when I saw people bundled up in the same cold weather gear that Michigan, Ohio and Illinois wore - (well nearly LOL)---

It's all very relative. I think maybe the temperature differences are what get us -- but I sure envy you Californians your beautiful climate...

Has anyone ever heard of the plant 'Dwarf Bolivian Wandering Jew' Someone was telling me of how much their chickens liked it.

It was at Lowe's last year and it really does live up to this billing:
http://www.onalee.com/catalog.php/o...Vine_Itsy_Bitsy_Inch_Vine_Callisia_repens_Gre

i put it in the coops hanging high enough that the chickens could only trim it. I have one big full pot that came from cuttings just thrown on the pot - and my chickens are going crazy for it today. I wonder if they could overdose. I guess since tonight is freeze night they all need to come indoors-- but I wonder if anyone else has used it for chicken forage...... A little off topic but picturing sol2go's chickens grazing brought it to mind. ;O)

 

[dretd]

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Ahh, temperature differences indeed! It was 61 degreees Monday morning, the polar blast rushed in and things chilled down very quickly to 15 Monday night and it was -1 this morning with 4 inches of snow and still snowing. A few of the Cream Legbars refused to seek shelter (they are free ranging in my backyard) and I could only grab the lower ones out of my apple tree. Two were perched there over night and are still there this morning. It looks like the male may lose the tips of his comb but the blade so far is not frozen. I think the main problem is that they didn't get a gradual shift in weather to help them adjust. Looks like my Wellie roo fared the worst with the top half of the blade and points looking like a gonner. So there goes the idea of showing him, sadly.

When I was a kid, cousins visited from El Paso and had to put sweaters on. It was a beautiful 70 degree evening which means shorts weather to me. So definitely what you are used to for sure!

Pretty plant. I would never have thought to hang it so they cant get to the base. I usually just put large planted pots in the runs for them to snack on and dig in. Good idea!

 

[estamets]

funny - I used to laugh when I first moved to California to see wool winter coats in department store windows....  I guess I also kind of laughed at Dallas when I saw people bundled up in the same cold weather gear that Michigan, Ohio and Illinois wore - (well nearly LOL)---

It's all very relative.  I think maybe the temperature differences are what get us -- but I sure envy you Californians your beautiful climate...

Has anyone ever heard of the plant 'Dwarf Bolivian Wandering Jew'  Someone was telling me of how much their chickens liked it.

It was at Lowe's last year and it really does live up to this billing:
http://www.onalee.com/catalog.php/o...Vine_Itsy_Bitsy_Inch_Vine_Callisia_repens_Gre

i put it in the coops hanging high enough that the chickens could only trim it.  I have one big full pot that came from cuttings just thrown on the pot - and my chickens are going crazy for it today.  I wonder if they could overdose.   I guess since tonight is freeze night they all need to come indoors-- but I wonder if anyone else has used it for chicken forage......  A little off topic but picturing sol2go's chickens grazing brought it to mind.  ;O)

I had one in a pot. I called it 'Moses.' The chickens devoured Moses before I had a chance to decide where to plant him.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Ahh, temperature differences indeed! It was 61 degreees Monday morning, the polar blast rushed in and things chilled down very quickly to 15 Monday night and it was -1 this morning with 4 inches of snow and still snowing. A few of the Cream Legbars refused to seek shelter (they are free ranging in my backyard) and I could only grab the lower ones out of my apple tree. Two were perched there over night and are still there this morning. It looks like the male may lose the tips of his comb but the blade so far is not frozen. I think the main problem is that they didn't get a gradual shift in weather to help them adjust. Looks like my Wellie roo fared the worst with the top half of the blade and points looking like a gonner. So there goes the idea of showing him, sadly.

We had the same story here in MT. Beautiful and unseasonably warm and then bam! Last night was below zero and 3 degrees when I was out schlepping unfrozen water and breaking ice for the horses who are not in their winter pasture yet.

The chickens have barely left their coop for two days. I was trying to see my roosters comb this morning and I "think" he may have made it without frostbite. That large comb is going to be on the losing end at some point though. I have two hens in the basement because they decided to molt and lose nearly every feather on their little chicken bodies right before this hit. They never would have made through last night.

 

[Kaylish]

I have 6 CL chicks on their way.
4 girls/2 boys. Looking forward to joining in the conversation here.

Congrats on the chicks! and Welcome!

It was like 50 degrees last night. I needed a sweater. Brrr!

LOL! Me too!

My nieces were all excited to break out the sweaters and scarves - which they wore with shorts...

...since Fall and Winter are the green season here, my CLB's and feathered friends are happily grazing on anything that sprouts.

I love it when the green starts coming back - and the chickens sure do too!

 

[sol2go]

Hi @Kaylish, I pop into the NorCal thread, although it is impossible to keep current with all the posts!

@ChicKat thanks for the plant/snack suggestion, I'll look that one up.

To everyone who had a sudden chill, hope your chickens adjust quickly to the next season! As ChicKat said, temperature changes are all relative, it must be very difficult to relate to such a dramatic swing!

@dretd, do they just get too cold to relocate back to the coop? Mine are very stubborn about their routines... I have heard a vet say that when exotic birds become too hot they shut down and don't drink even though that would be the appropriate response.

Here's my hen Spot (she's more like a dog) craving something green to eat (she jumped straight up). While she is not a CL, I have noticed the CL's and Ameraucanas really do search out the greens.
If they are not eating grape leaves, they are devouring the leaves of the passionfruit vine (Liliko'i?) - maybe @Brada Puhi could tell me if that is a typical chicken snack in Hawaii? (I couldn't find anything that said it was unhealthy).




Meanwhile, I have some new CL boys, here's one straight comb, let's hope he's double for cream =)


Here's another juvenile with a straight comb.


and an old guy =)

 

[ChicKat]

Your Spot is a character. lol

Nice chicken pictures. I like your new guys too.