Nevadans?

[americanvalkyrie]

I imagine horses aren't any more expensive to keep up than cars are.

Yeah I'd trade a horse for a car. Mine is way too expensive!

 

[RulerOfTheSkies]

A bazillion polish bantams, a frizzled cochin, a porcelain De`ucle, etc

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Hey Sheryl, if I let one of my broodies hatch out some duck eggs, do you think one of the ducks would take over as mom? Or would it be better to take the ducklings inside to raise them? (I'm not going to do it until it's warmer.)

 

[2seth2]

Chickens:
amercuanas
showgirls
wyandottes
welsummers
marans
Thungarians
favorelles
cochins
polish
d'uccles
hamburgs
bantum brahamas
isbars
barvelander
silkies
andlusians
campians
rosecomb rhode island
Spizthauben
rosecomb bantums
orpingtons
eygptian fymaioas
leghorns
lavendark
new hampshire red
rock
pendesca
olive eggers
sussex
sultan
and that is just the starting chickens

 

[2seth2]

remeber i would have personal assitants to clean and feed them

 

[chicharomirinda]

hello. hope you all have a happy new year! my parents are here for a week visiting. It's been busy but good.

good question, sunny! It's fun to think about what animals would you have... I would like more chickens since there are many other breeds I'd like to try. I also think alpacas are cool and then I could spin their hair (not sure what you call it) to make nice yarn. I love horses so I'd have a few of those to go riding. Also some turkeys, maybe small goats.

I have puppies!!!!


Cash and Tango

I have them housebroken and now I', going to find them some great people who will train and socialize, socialize, socialize......Long story why I bought them, but I did it to find them NON Gang homes.Well I bought one and then my daughter Vanessa went back for another one. She got the one I didn't buy, because I didn't want to get attached. CASH! Not that I don't want to keep Tango, because if I lived somewhere with a lot of room I would, but since we're CITY now, only 2 dogs. At least that they can see.

congrats! so cute.

Look what I got last night!!!!!!!



Budgies! So far their names are Blizzard ( The white one) and Emerald ( The green one).
Sorry for the dark picture, but I think the flash would freak them out. ( They are shaking like leaves in a storm)

Fun!

Yay! I finally got some eggs!

It's only been about 6 weeks or so since my last ones.

congrats! i'm sure you really enjoyed that omelet.

Chicken picks, anyone?

Feeding frenzy! Of course, Original is queen of the feeder.

Paella, my splash andalusian. Her comb is so big that her head is constantly cocked to the side. Kind of like a teenager who needs a haircut, but it's not cool, so they keep trying to peek under their hair. She needs comb reduction surgery, or something.


Paella, twisting her head to the side to eat:

This is Peking, one of the Welsh harlequins I got from Craigslist. The other one is a lot more golden.


Remember Pot and Pie, my two adopted mixed chicks that I gave to Sour to break her broodiness? For awhile I thought Pot might be a rooster. I think we're safe!

Pie:



Pot:

Very nice looking flock.

Happy New Year to Everybody!

We stayed up late (for us old folk) to watch the fireworks on the Strip from our back porch and decided the view was better (and warmer) in the living room on the TV. It was COLD! The fridge's weather station thingie is predicting snow today, which I find incredible considering there's not a cloud in sight.

Anyway, stepped outside at 9:00 this morning and was amazed at the stillness.... Guess everyone's sleeping it off.

Wishing everybody a healthy and prosperous 2013.

p.s.
This was on the NYD Hatch Contest thread and it was just too good not to share....

that's nice you could see the fireworks. In one of our apartments years ago we could see 3 fireworks displays --sparks, the hilton and Reno. We were spoiled. Now we're too far away to see anything and hate to venture out into the crowds and traffic.

The silkie will be fine, though. She's figured out how to snuggle up beneath cochin and brahma fluff, and the bigger girls have figured out that it's to their benefit as well.

My silkies do that too. they are pretty funny. they say, "pecking order? what pecking order??" and then stuff themselves between a buff orp and an australorp.

HI! How fantastic finding fellow chicken farmers in Nevada. I live in southwest Reno - Urban Farmer.
At this time we have 6 chickens:
Bard Rock "Brosia"
Buff Orphington "Popcorn" This group is 6 months old
Aurucana "Egger"
Silver Wyndotte "Nevada"
Swiss Autralop "Charlotte" This group is 3 1/2 months
Rhode Island Red "Misty"
Two homemade coops - Will send pics, hopefully they can be integrated soon.
My little Misty is not feeling too well today - Brosia has a runny poop issue, I need a good chicken doctor. Who do you Northerners recommend? I am so attached to my girls can't imagine anything happening to them. Great layers, but have slowed in the past month with the cold snap. Don't blame them OY!
Ok - headed back outside into the coop to sit with my younger ones, make sure Misty is comfy. Looking forward to getting to know my fellow farmers and Nevadans (and close Californians)
Julia xoxo

welcome!

remeber i would have personal assitants to clean and feed them

that would be essential!

 

[SunnyDawn]

Dreaming is free and hope only costs a (lottery) dollar.... Sunny, you asked the question that takes me off to my Happy Place.

IF money were not an option and there was helpful labor available, oh yeah, a cute hobby farm with goat barn for the Nigerian dwarf goats and a dedicated milk room (for cheese making), some sheep (for meat, mainly), a cider orchard, veggie garden, art house/shed for my studio with a picture window to look out on the set up, lots of sunflowers and other flora, and of course chickens -- Cinnamon Queens, an assortment of Marans, BLRW, TJ's, Australorps, perhaps an EE or two, some light Sussex and Columbian Wyandottes (just love white and black chickens) -- and turkeys (Heritage breeds, like Bourbon reds). If keeping a roo were okay, then definitely some breeders in the Marans pen and red and barred-gene whites for making my own sex-links. It would be nice to have a separate cookhouse set up with a giant pantry and canning kitchen, freezer (for meat and veggies) and fridge for farm produce storage and for pilsner carboys (beer making....)

Much as I like them, not sure I'd do the horses again even with help...a lot of work and a quick way to a broken heart as they're so darn fragile for being as big and powerful as they are. Such noble sentient creatures. But, then again, if the grandkids wanted a pony or two I'd probably change my mind. My ex in-laws had emus that were a lot of fun as chicks, but not so much so when they got to be big opinionated birds.

And, of course, lots of (under)dogs underfoot.... We're big into rescues, especially those that don't get picked first for adoption (too big, too old, too fuzzy, wonky legged). (Hey, who am I to claim perfection?) We may have brought home what somebody views as damaged goods, but ultimately we got the BEST deal in town!

Love it!

I have my plans for an artist's loft already finished. I need 2-3 large trees for mine since it is a tree house loft. I want to be ready when the Universe smiles on us.

Yeah I'd trade a horse for a car. Mine is way too expensive!

I'm not a rider since I've always had allergies to horses but now that my allergies are so much better I can't help but think how fun it would be to live somewhere where I could have the option of riding a horse into town instead of driving. It's a romantic idea anyway.

A bazillion polish bantams, a frizzled cochin, a porcelain De`ucle, etc

I love my frizzled cochin! She is just precious! DH would love more polish.

Chickens:
amercuanas
showgirls
wyandottes
welsummers
marans
Thungarians
favorelles
cochins
polish
d'uccles
hamburgs
bantum brahamas
isbars
barvelander
silkies
andlusians
campians
rosecomb rhode island
Spizthauben
rosecomb bantums
orpingtons
eygptian fymaioas
leghorns
lavendark
new hampshire red
rock
pendesca
olive eggers
sussex
sultan
and that is just the starting chickens

Haha! That's the way to think. Dream big!

remeber i would have personal assitants to clean and feed them

Absolutely a must for me too.

hello. hope you all have a happy new year! my parents are here for a week visiting. It's been busy but good.

good question, sunny! It's fun to think about what animals would you have... I would like more chickens since there are many other breeds I'd like to try. I also think alpacas are cool and then I could spin their hair (not sure what you call it) to make nice yarn. I love horses so I'd have a few of those to go riding. Also some turkeys, maybe small goats.

that's nice you could see the fireworks. In one of our apartments years ago we could see 3 fireworks displays --sparks, the hilton and Reno. We were spoiled. Now we're too far away to see anything and hate to venture out into the crowds and traffic.

I love alpaca yarn. It is so soft. Not itchy like sheep's wool.

I bet the kids love having their grandparents around! We got to see the fireworks from the Aces stadium on NYD right after midnight. They were awesome!!! The dance is very close to the stadium.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Love it!

I have my plans for an artist's loft already finished. I need 2-3 large trees for mine since it is a tree house loft. I want to be ready when the Universe smiles on us.

Oh, good news (probably.) I don't know if I told everyone... my dentist friend, who has Garden #3 that I've done for two years now, offered me a room in his building RENT FREE! This will probably happen in February. The building is walking distance, right beside the gym and the grocery store. I can walk home between clients and check on the chickens and the garden. AND we can move our bedroom into my old home office, and move Joe out of the hallway.

The hallway will probably be used for storage BUT I can try to hang daylight-balanced lamps in there and put my easel in there, and guard it with booby traps to keep it mine.

 

[sherylreno]

Hey Sheryl, if I let one of my broodies hatch out some duck eggs, do you think one of the ducks would take over as mom? Or would it be better to take the ducklings inside to raise them? (I'm not going to do it until it's warmer.)

Hi Missy. Ducks are just like chickens, if they're not broody then they won't accept them and may hurt them. I would do what I did last year with my broody, let her hatch them and raise. I had to take them away from her because her scratching instinct was so bad once all the ducks hatched she was kicking the ducks because they couldn't get out of her way fast enough. But she did a great job while she had them. It was so much easier this way.


Sunny, I posted the message I received when I clicked on the link you posted earlier. It wouldn't let me go to the recipe page. I would love to help out as an editor too if you need me. I need to put some recipes in here as well. We have some good ones.

Everyone have a great day. I'm off to work again.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Oh, good news (probably.) I don't know if I told everyone... my dentist friend, who has Garden #3 that I've done for two years now, offered me a room in his building RENT FREE! This will probably happen in February. The building is walking distance, right beside the gym and the grocery store. I can walk home between clients and check on the chickens and the garden. AND we can move our bedroom into my old home office, and move Joe out of the hallway.

The hallway will probably be used for storage BUT I can try to hang daylight-balanced lamps in there and put my easel in there, and guard it with booby traps to keep it mine.

I was wondering what was going on with that office. CONGRATULATIONS!!! That is super exciting!!!

Hi Missy. Ducks are just like chickens, if they're not broody then they won't accept them and may hurt them. I would do what I did last year with my broody, let her hatch them and raise. I had to take them away from her because her scratching instinct was so bad once all the ducks hatched she was kicking the ducks because they couldn't get out of her way fast enough. But she did a great job while she had them. It was so much easier this way.


Sunny, I posted the message I received when I clicked on the link you posted earlier. It wouldn't let me go to the recipe page. I would love to help out as an editor too if you need me. I need to put some recipes in here as well. We have some good ones.

Everyone have a great day. I'm off to work again.

Have a great day at work. I'll go check out the link and try to see what's going on there. Has anyone else had a problem viewing this page?