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Hi I live in long Beach It's nice here lots of good weather can see the fireworks at Disneyland and a mile to the coast
 
thomas001111 said:
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ll I'm thinking of raising chickens again lived in the country as a kid and had chickens in 4 h
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Hi. Welcome to BYC!
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Yep lots of good weather in So Cal.

Sounds like you have lots of experience with chicks and such. Hope you enjoy them again. 8 is actually a lot of hens for the city, they must not know how much hens love to sing and cackle.
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My neighbors all enjoyed hearing my girls and eating their eggs when I lived in the city. Especially the old timers who had farm experiences when they were young.

Are they still selling chicks at your feed stores down there? All of ours have quit for the season. I don't use it, but if it was important to me... I would consider using a no crow collar to keep a roo and be able to hatch chicks.

I also loved the Barred Rock in the beginning. Started my second flock with nothing but. Then discovered I actually like being able to tell them apart and they are kinda bossy. So have moved to keeping many breeds. Even though you like bantams and they lay smaller eggs, they also take up less room and resources (feed). So you crack a few extra eggs when you have to follow a recipe, no biggie. Just get what you enjoy and you will be happy. Plus, you can always adjust if you decide you want something different.
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Ah, I remember the warm Christmases wearing shorts and T shirts... Good times! And how much fun to see Disney's fireworks all the time for you.
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spurrer said:
Hello from Alabama! I never thought I would like California but my son moved to SF as a traveling nurse, met another nurse and had two children with her and got married in that order. Things are sure different from when I was growing up in the fifties. She was a California girl born and raised in Sacramento. He is now a nurse anethisist and she has her masters in nursing. In August they had another little baby boy. We went to see them and I really liked SF. I walked across the golden gate bridge and waded in the Pacific Ocean. My sister lived in Eureka and we went there among the redwood trees and I fell in love with a town called Trinidad right on the coast. I tried to talk her and my husband into selling our homes and buying one there. But she got sick and they moved to San Diego to be near their children.We went sailing in the bay and I wanted to go under the bridge but the water was too rough. Where in Ca do you live?
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I to am a Ca girl, my hubby is a nurse, and we live 2 hours north of Eureka. Trinidad is definitely a beautiful area if you can handle the rain, and we handle it better than the heat and tons of jerks in So Cal. Much different than what we call San Daygo for sillyness.... but I completely understand wanting to be near the children especially if someone is sick. The terrible access to good medical care this far north of SF would be the main reason not to stay here. However... 2.5 miles is the farthest distance to the beach from my house. I can often here waves crashing and sea lions barking and I ONLY paid $121k for my 1800 square foot house on 1 acre with a barn and fenced. And when I lived in So Cal, my AC bill was $600 per month 4 to 5 months a year. With the lowest bill being $150. Now I pay more for groceries and gas then when I lived in the central San Joaquin valley and the fruits and vegies are lower quality.... But I LOVE IT HERE! Your family sounds lovely and blessed as well!
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My son lives about 14 blocks from the beach off Hwy 1. I think that is the hwy that goes up the coast. He lives in the sunset district. They rent a two bedroom house with a backyard the size of a postage stamp and the front yard is the sidewalk. They hope to buy the house and build another bedroom but don't know if they will ever be able to afford it . They make good money but it takes so much to live there. I think my son would like to go somewhere else, he said he didn't want to raise his kids on pavement but his wife will not leave. She has so many friends, some she has known for years. They take the kids to parks and they hike down on the beach somewhere there is a waterfall. They go to the baseball and football games. So the kids are going to be okay. It's just that my son was raised in a small town on an acre of wooded land and would like his kids to do the same. He certainly wouldn't be able to make the same salary here in the south.
I remember seeing yellow snails when I was at my sister's house. I made pictures of a beautiful pink house in Eureka and a lumber store that had paintings of men working that look real. They have a lot of paintings on the building there. If I lived in Ca I would want to live up north like you do. Also there were blackberry vines all over the place. We went to a place that used to be a lumber camp and everyone ate at a table and the food was served in big bowls. My sister had lived there for over 30 years and didn't want to move but she had non-hodgkins and something else that I can't pronounce that is like cancer of the bone marrow. But so far she is doing well. Hasn't had to take chemo. Just some very expensive meds. Her address was Bayside. I am sure you are familiar with all these places. I envy you the weather. It is still 92 degrees here in Ala.
Do you have those huge rocks in the ocean? That looked so strange to me. Here in Ala on the gulf coast we just have sugar white sand and sand dunes and sea oats.
You certainly got a good deal on your property. How many chickens do you have? Do you have other animals?
 
spurrer said:
My son lives about 14 blocks from the beach off Hwy 1. I think that is the hwy that goes up the coast. He lives in the sunset district. They rent a two bedroom house with a backyard the size of a postage stamp and the front yard is the sidewalk. They hope to buy the house and build another bedroom but don't know if they will ever be able to afford it . They make good money but it takes so much to live there. I think my son would like to go somewhere else, he said he didn't want to raise his kids on pavement but his wife will not leave. She has so many friends, some she has known for years. They take the kids to parks and they hike down on the beach somewhere there is a waterfall. They go to the baseball and football games. So the kids are going to be okay. It's just that my son was raised in a small town on an acre of wooded land and would like his kids to do the same. He certainly wouldn't be able to make the same salary here in the south.
I remember seeing yellow snails when I was at my sister's house. I made pictures of a beautiful pink house in Eureka and a lumber store that had paintings of men working that look real. They have a lot of paintings on the building there. If I lived in Ca I would want to live up north like you do. Also there were blackberry vines all over the place. We went to a place that used to be a lumber camp and everyone ate at a table and the food was served in big bowls. My sister had lived there for over 30 years and didn't want to move but she had non-hodgkins and something else that I can't pronounce that is like cancer of the bone marrow. But so far she is doing well. Hasn't had to take chemo. Just some very expensive meds. Her address was Bayside. I am sure you are familiar with all these places. I envy you the weather. It is still 92 degrees here in Ala.  
Do you have those huge rocks in the ocean? That looked so strange to me. Here in Ala on the gulf coast we just have sugar white sand and sand dunes and sea oats.
You certainly got a good deal on your property. How many chickens do you have? Do you have other animals?
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Wow it sounds nice there. I live in Michigan not far from the state capital
 
Hi drumstick diva
Your right the learning center is a great place lot of information
it's great place to get caught up with everything lot to learn there.
 
@spurrer I understand both sides of your sons' predicament.

Yes we have those cool rocks and a couple of light houses. They were different than any beach I had been to before. There is one place that has a tiny water spring coming out of the side of the bluff right onto the beach. Blackberry vines would take over my property if I let them, but I got 2 goats this year and can now see fences at the property line for the first time in 2 years. We also have 1 coastal redwood and some Sitka spruce trees.It is nicely wooded, but lots of maintenance. Yes. I enjoy the murals as well. I have 48 chickens, 2 goats, 3 rescue dogs.

I am sorry that your sis has some medical issues.

@thomas001111 I also have enjoy the learning center. It has been so helpful! When are you actually going to get your girls? Have you decided Where you are gonna get them from yet?
 
48 chickens! how many eggs do you get a day? Do you sell your eggs? my neighbor sells hers for 2.00 dollars a dozen. I was buying from her but she was always out so I decided to get two chickens myself. I get two eggs a day which is more than we can use so I share with my brother and neice. A friend kept 20 goats in our pasture and they had 15 kids. He had to move them because of the coyotes. Do you have coyotes? I worry about hawks . I would like a dog but we live on a busy highway and fear one would get run over. Do your chickens pay for themselves in eggs. I figure my eggs should cost about 40 dollars a piece after all the money I have spent on them for food and making and buying a chicken coop but just the pleasure of having them is worth it . I need to go right now and change their water. I put a jug of frozen water in the bucket for them so the water stays cool. It is very hot here.
 

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