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Nuescolina said:
Hi,
I am new to BYC, we just moved into this little farmette just over a year ago. Every house we looked at, my partner asked our realtor: "where are the chickens going?"
We are in the process of redoing a large playhouse/small shed that a friend of ours gave us this past year. Its super cute, needs some modifications for the chickens but we are super excited. I'm sure I'll be asking a lot of questions about the redo, I already asked a hatchery question today.

I have grown up around chickens and work at a place with chickens, so not unfamiliar to the care and husbandry involved, but have never owned my own.

I work as a professional horse trainer, and we are trying to create our own fairly self sufficient farm north of Los Angeles. The whole place is torn apart right now, so getting the chicken run and chicken coop up and running will be a fun accomplishment and finally feel like we are making progress! We just had electricity run to the coop and water!

We enjoy traveling, scuba diving, skiing, horses, and, in non COVID times, concerts and the opera. We have two small dogs- a chihuahua and a chihuahua cross, both rescues.

Glad to be here!
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Hi! I'm in LA! You don't happen to want a rooster for your farm do you? Click my name and take a look at my cockerels I'm trying to rehome. Poor guys are literally getting ready to be stew meat or animal feed soon, and I feel really bad about it, but I cannot have 9 roosters.
 
Nuescolina said:
Hi,
I am new to BYC, we just moved into this little farmette just over a year ago. Every house we looked at, my partner asked our realtor: "where are the chickens going?"
We are in the process of redoing a large playhouse/small shed that a friend of ours gave us this past year. Its super cute, needs some modifications for the chickens but we are super excited. I'm sure I'll be asking a lot of questions about the redo, I already asked a hatchery question today.

I have grown up around chickens and work at a place with chickens, so not unfamiliar to the care and husbandry involved, but have never owned my own.

I work as a professional horse trainer, and we are trying to create our own fairly self sufficient farm north of Los Angeles. The whole place is torn apart right now, so getting the chicken run and chicken coop up and running will be a fun accomplishment and finally feel like we are making progress! We just had electricity run to the coop and water!

We enjoy traveling, scuba diving, skiing, horses, and, in non COVID times, concerts and the opera. We have two small dogs- a chihuahua and a chihuahua cross, both rescues.

Glad to be here!
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Hi! I am new to the forum as well! I am going to be ordering six fertile silkie eggs to hatch. Unfortunately I can only keep two. I want my kids to have this great experience (we used to have 2 chickens but one recently died) but before I go down this rabbit hole I wanted to find a farm near Los Angeles that I could take a couple silky chickens to. Do you or any of your neighbors need extra baby chicks (free)? They would be the cute fluffy kind. They are obviously not born yet but I’m just covering all my bases. Kate
 
Hi Los Angeles area chicken keepers. I just hatched some Opal Legbar chicks from eggs I bought from High Valley Hatchery. She said she got her original stock from Candace Waldon. Anyways, I have 2 female chicks to sell. They are adorable to my eye, but I would like to breed these birds and I had them tested and they came back homozygous for the recessive "white" egg gene. I'm told that means they will lay beige to light brown eggs. And when breeding legbars, you want the eggs to be on the blue spectrum.

Still, I think they will make a nice egg layer for someone's flock. They should look like a cream legbar, but white with gray/salmon barring undertones. They are 11 days old now, and the little differentiation on their heads where the crest will form can already be seen. Photos attached.

Let me know if you are interested in either of them. I'm asking $15 for each. TY. Right now they are in my house under a heat plate, not braving the heat wave outside, eating nonmedicated feed Scratch and Peck crumbles.

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