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[wolftracks]

Got lots of babies hatching these days so thought I'd share what's hatched so far since yesterday




Seth how is your hatch???? Haven't heard what you got.

 

[Peep_Show]

Awwwww... Cute, cute, CUTE!

 

[eggxelent]

Got lots of babies hatching these days so thought I'd share what's hatched so far since yesterday




Seth how is your hatch???? Haven't heard what you got.

Adorable!

 

[sherylreno]

I was saved today. I was speaking with John about my hens still being broody, I have 2 of them still, and he told me to get some chicks and put them under them. I told him no one has chicks that I know of right now so he said to check out the feed stores and I did and lo and behold they're out, whew! And now I'm seeing Kim's beautiful chicks and I'm thinking boy I could drive down there and get a couple. I don't dare be doomed. lol

Bella went to a ranch the other day, she started picking on Amanda and I couldn't figure it out. She kept acting like a rooster finding food for Bridgette and tell her to eat. She was so cute but then she jumped on Amanda and started picking on her head. Didn't know what to do with her, she's been so great for so long. My friend with the ranch has 2 bantam chicks but she put Bella in her own area and Bella jumped over the fence and in with the chicks and started playing mommy with them. I guess she really wanted Amanda's chicks but Bella never went broody or if she did she didn't show it at all. No signs at all.

 

[wolftracks]

I was saved today. I was speaking with John about my hens still being broody, I have 2 of them still, and he told me to get some chicks and put them under them. I told him no one has chicks that I know of right now so he said to check out the feed stores and I did and lo and behold they're out, whew! And now I'm seeing Kim's beautiful chicks and I'm thinking boy I could drive down there and get a couple. I don't dare be doomed. lol

Bella went to a ranch the other day, she started picking on Amanda and I couldn't figure it out. She kept acting like a rooster finding food for Bridgette and tell her to eat. She was so cute but then she jumped on Amanda and started picking on her head. Didn't know what to do with her, she's been so great for so long. My friend with the ranch has 2 bantam chicks but she put Bella in her own area and Bella jumped over the fence and in with the chicks and started playing mommy with them. I guess she really wanted Amanda's chicks but Bella never went broody or if she did she didn't show it at all. No signs at all.

I have more hatching now. This box is getting full, so I have to start setting up something MUCH bigger. But I have eggs due to hatch through the 16 and then starting from scratch, so I'll have tiny ones for a broody.

 

[pigtail21]

NNPFA poultry Swap is this Saturday @ Feed World 9-1pm. We will accept unwanted Roosters for $5. Should have an assortment of hens and chicks there. I have 2 ducklings a blue Swedish and a black Swedish cross.

I will have a limited amount of hatching eggs available too. All purebred good exhibition stock.
Bantam breeds - Columbian Rocks, Nankins,Seramas and dark Cornish.

Standard breeds - Sussex (Coronation and Light)

$15 for 6 eggs.
Just depends on what I have collected the past 4-5 days.

 

[chicharomirinda]

sorry i haven't been on in quite awhile. it's been super busy at work. my colleague took a job in san francisco so I'm on my own at my center. still within the university of course but I have to do all the work myself. a bit stressful....

anyway, i caught up a bit but i'm sure I missed some good posts.

so my day really took a turn for the worse today when I picked up my mail at the mailbox and found a letter from washoe animal services. Yes, that day has arrived. a neighbor has filed a noise complaint. "chickens are clucking all times of the day" The burden is on that person to prove it. Of course, I don't know for sure who that person is but I'm guess it's grumpy neighbor behind us. I think they should have to put their name and address in when they file the complaint. So I am feeling quite down about it. I used to really enjoy my chickens but ever since last year when he talked to my husband, it has been a little less enjoyable and I do not feel very comfortable in my own yard. I guess my immediate plan is to try to sell more chickens. i had been taking my time about it.


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Hey guys, I lost one of my darling EEs a week ago and I only have one other blue layer that is not laying right now. I really wanted to downsize my flock but my egg buyers really enjoy the colored eggs...
I am looking to buy a couple green/olive/blue layers and maybe a Marans or two. NO CHICKS. I do not have enough time to care for babies right now

so sorry about your EE. I need to sell some.due to reasons mentioned above. I have a lavender and a black/lav split that are a year, an EE or 2 that are 1 1/2 yrs. If I get desperate, then i also have a GC Marans which lays a lovely darker brown egg and i have the blue wheaten and buff x wheaten ameraucanas but they are not on the first cut list at this point.

Thank you for your advise...but I lost her tonight. We had company and we were sitting in the yard, when my granddaughter picked her up and brought her to me. She seemed very listless and all of a sudden she fell back and died in my arms. It was so sad she was our favorite. We had her in a little house up close to the house because the other birds were always picking on her. We brought her back from being very sick from them picking on her. She was getting fat and happy. We can't figure out what happen to her. She quit laying a couple of days ago and we think maybe she was egg bound. Her name was Sweetpea, because she was so sweet and lovable. She will be missed terribly .

so sorry

Hey guys! Very exciting news. DH & I went on a vacation and got a BIG souvenir. We're in the throes of escrow now on and you can be sure I checked and double-checked if chickens are allowed. (They are!) Coop would go out by the veggie garden. It's got a mega well, so lots of irrigation for the orchard and small vineyard and lawns. We're rather stoked because this was one of those "in your dreams" homes that I lusted after on-line (an actual cookbook chef/philanthropist had built it and its monster kitchen) that was priced waaaaay out of reach...but the present-day elderly owners bought a house in CA closer to their kids/grandkids and didn't want to continue paying mortgage/gardener/staging fees. They had dropped the price drastically (still in the uncomfortable zone) and we bid a ways under what the next major price reduction would've been. It was accepted. Wow!

It's a bit of an older home (30 years), but all the bells and whistles and move-in ready....not like some of those "Yep, we've got projects!" houses we had toured that would've needed renovation or didn't quite fit.

Guess who's going to become a major hatchaholic now? AND an actual garden.... Ahhhh...... At last.

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that place looks great! congrats! how fun for you.

Hello all, it has been a while. I actually do stop by and see what folks are up to from time to time. I just don't have time to post much.
I have spent the last year keeping bees. The chickens not so much any more. They cost far to much to justify keeping them here in town.

Anyway I wanted to let you all know that after a year our first honey is coming in. Pure local honey is hard to find. And we do nto have a lot of it or do we expect to get a lot of it. maybe a couple hundred lbs this year from 3 maybe 4 hives. Iwanted to give the folks I know fist shot at getting some as well as give you the chance to tell any of your honey eating friends about it. We pricve it at $6.00 (going rate right now is $8) no matter the volume. We have 1 lb bottles that we added the cost of the jar to for $7. We will also fill a jar you supply and charge just the weight of the honey.

I also was wondering what ever happened with the farmers market idea from last year. I was thinking I could throw in some bottles of honey with that effort if it ever got off the ground.

Anyway nice to see you all. a lot of new faces in this thread. Welcome to everyone.

that's great your beekeeping is going well.

Got lots of babies hatching these days so thought I'd share what's hatched so far since yesterday




Seth how is your hatch???? Haven't heard what you got.

cute little chickies!

 

[Lacy Blues]

sorry i haven't been on in quite awhile. it's been super busy at work. my colleague took a job in san francisco so I'm on my own at my center. still within the university of course but I have to do all the work myself. a bit stressful....

anyway, i caught up a bit but i'm sure I missed some good posts.

so my day really took a turn for the worse today when I picked up my mail at the mailbox and found a letter from washoe animal services. Yes, that day has arrived. a neighbor has filed a noise complaint. "chickens are clucking all times of the day" The burden is on that person to prove it. Of course, I don't know for sure who that person is but I'm guess it's grumpy neighbor behind us. I think they should have to put their name and address in when they file the complaint. So I am feeling quite down about it. I used to really enjoy my chickens but ever since last year when he talked to my husband, it has been a little less enjoyable and I do not feel very comfortable in my own yard. I guess my immediate plan is to try to sell more chickens. i had been taking my time about it.

I'm sorry to hear about your neighbor troubles. I've had plenty of my own. If you don't have any roosters you should be able to fight this thing and win it.

Go to Radio Shack and get yourself a measuring device for sound, I can't remember what its called. They'll know what it is. It measures sound in dB levels. In the package is a chart that gives normally acceptable noise levels all the way up to intolerable. Find out exactly how loud your clucking hens are. I'll bet its well within the acceptable range. Also, if you can prove how many birds you've sold since he first notified you of a problem, that will help. Take pictures of your clean pens/birds to show the judge. Isn't there an allowable number of hens you can have? If you're within your rights, and you can prove that they are not as noisy as he may claim, you should be good to go.

I've been to court over my birds, when I lived in California and I won my case with this information. I was within my allowed number of birds and I could prove they were not as noisy as the neighbor claimed. Right to Farm is on your side.

If he has to prove your birds are too noisy then you should still be ok, let him try, but in the meantime, arm yourself with what you can. Know the laws of your specific residential zone. "Chickens clucking at all times of the day" is not a noise violation. You have rights, you'll need to fight for them.

I wish you the best of luck.

 

[chicharomirinda]

I'm sorry to hear about your neighbor troubles. I've had plenty of my own. If you don't have any roosters you should be able to fight this thing and win it.

Go to Radio Shack and get yourself a measuring device for sound, I can't remember what its called. They'll know what it is. It measures sound in dB levels. In the package is a chart that gives normally acceptable noise levels all the way up to intolerable. Find out exactly how loud your clucking hens are. I'll bet its well within the acceptable range. Also, if you can prove how many birds you've sold since he first notified you of a problem, that will help. Take pictures of your clean pens/birds to show the judge. Isn't there an allowable number of hens you can have? If you're within your rights, and you can prove that they are not as noisy as he may claim, you should be good to go.

I've been to court over my birds, when I lived in California and I won my case with this information. I was within my allowed number of birds and I could prove they were not as noisy as the neighbor claimed. Right to Farm is on your side.

If he has to prove your birds are too noisy then you should still be ok, let him try, but in the meantime, arm yourself with what you can. Know the laws of your specific residential zone. "Chickens clucking at all times of the day" is not a noise violation. You have rights, you'll need to fight for them.

I wish you the best of luck.

thanks for the tips. I was thinking it would be good to do some documenting myself re: noise and times as well as selling birds. I have been proactive in selling any particularly loud birds and any roos I rehomed as soon as they started crowing--even kept my silkie roo in the house at night until I found him a home. I will try to sell off more birds this week. On the animal services web page I found more info than in the letter I got. that page is geared towards those making a complaint . it says to give the person you complain about time to react to the situation after receiving the first official notice. it says about a week. then they can file a second notice which is called the Final Notice. and give them another week to react to that. if there is a 3rd complaint, then a sergeant would review the case but the complaining person has to provide sufficient documentation. ok, I need to go to bed and stop stewing.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Ugh what a nightmare Elizabeth! People are awful, I know you stay on top of only keeping quiet birds. "Clucking at all times of the DAY" REALLY??? Some people I swear. I feel like at a reasonable noise level anything goes in the daytime. And chickens are definitely a reasonable noise level. People need to realize that when you don't like your neighbors or find something annoying about them then you MOVE. It sucks but that's my view on it. If it were night time noise or like using a bandsaw all day everyday then I'd get it but complaining about hens is just ridiculous. Now IM angry for you!

Yes I would love to take your colored layers. I'm sorry it has to be this way though!