Nevadans?

Really tempting just dont think i want to got to grass valley. i want the brahamas i just dont have the space and the pullet seems to young my girls would beat her :(
 
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Seth is back from vacation! Welcome home!!
 
Hello all! I live up in Elko County though am pretty close to city limits. Luckily, we're considered to be in the county. And.. I'm going to be lazy & just copy & paste my New Member intro..

My husband has mentioned before about getting chickens to teach our son responsibility when he's older. Set him up to take care and tend the chickens and then possibly sell any excess eggs for a buck a dozen or something along those lines. He's only about 16 months now so he wouldn't be able to actively take care of them for a couple of years. I'm wondering if we should perhaps get chickens sooner than that and get them a little more established so its an easy transition for him to take over. I mean, he'd end up being in charge of watering, feeding and helping clean their coop and whatnot as well as harvesting the eggs. I've been doing some reading and I know it says they can mature to egg laying status in just a few months, some starting as early as 16 weeks or so. We live in a rural community sort of area so we'd be ordering the chicks online from someone when the time comes. I think I've kinda settled on Murray McMurray's Hatchery and have been looking at the Black and Red Stars as they're said to have gentle and calmer dispositions as well as being great egg layers.

So basically, any input/suggestions/ideas would be great!

Thanks!
 
Hello all! I live up in Elko County though am pretty close to city limits. Luckily, we're considered to be in the county. And.. I'm going to be lazy & just copy & paste my New Member intro..

My husband has mentioned before about getting chickens to teach our son responsibility when he's older. Set him up to take care and tend the chickens and then possibly sell any excess eggs for a buck a dozen or something along those lines. He's only about 16 months now so he wouldn't be able to actively take care of them for a couple of years. I'm wondering if we should perhaps get chickens sooner than that and get them a little more established so its an easy transition for him to take over. I mean, he'd end up being in charge of watering, feeding and helping clean their coop and whatnot as well as harvesting the eggs. I've been doing some reading and I know it says they can mature to egg laying status in just a few months, some starting as early as 16 weeks or so. We live in a rural community sort of area so we'd be ordering the chicks online from someone when the time comes. I think I've kinda settled on Murray McMurray's Hatchery and have been looking at the Black and Red Stars as they're said to have gentle and calmer dispositions as well as being great egg layers.

So basically, any input/suggestions/ideas would be great!

Thanks!
Welcome! these hens would be up in age and be on a laying decline by the time your son would take over, but that would give him chickens while you ordered a new set of chicks to be better producers and you could keep these current hens as they might still lay.
 
Hi, back from our vacation to Minnesota. We had a nice time with family and friends. The weather was great. Not too hot or humid. Up north it was in the 60s and 70s for highs and in the south in the 70s to low 80s and low humidity. Sometimes it can be quite uncomfortable there with the humiidity. My animals and gardens survived our absence. the neighbors came over to feed the cats and chickens and collect eggs. I have a tomato jungle in my raised beds. they have gone wild!

i really need to sell my australorp hen. I put her on craigslist again today. Hopefully I will have a taker this time.
Hi all. Just checking in....

The house in NM closed on the 15th and we got the keys the 16th and I've been here ever since retrofitting the place getting appliances in before getting furniture down here...It's going to be a long process before we're finally in here. Roses that have gone a couple of years without pruning are not a pretty sight and I'm doing my best not to get shredded. It's so nice working (and it is work at this point) in the garden in the morning and hearing horses clip-clop down the street in their morning rides. Off in the distance I can hear roosters!! I'm loving it.
I hope to join the next get together ( even though I'm technically in California ) But the birth of my grandson and my 40th birthday party had me running 24 hours a day this weekend. James Russell Anderson joined us at 5:22 on Sunday morning 7 lbs. 13 oz. and clear beautiful eyes! I'm so excited to be Nana Kandi
Aur cats Take care of all the cottontail rabbits at first it was sad but they caused so much damage in the garden that we got over it quickly. One of our cats even brings his left over to the dog run for our charcoal lab to share pretty funny turn of events.
congrats on your grandson and 40th!
Great news Peep but sad as well. I've never heard of the monsoons being so bad like you said, my friend lived in AZ for years and never had anything like it.I agree with ABBA, Prince Herbert.

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I met my new neighbor and guess what - she loves chickens!!!! Yay for me. I told her she will be hearing a rooster during the day mostly and I'll be bringing her eggs at times and she said she loves when she hears roosters and fresh eggs.

I went to the doctors today, yes, multiple ones. The skin disease is almost over she said I'm on the other side of this disease. The receptionist there says she has chickens and she was told you can't have roosters in Reno, she lives by Arlington. She wouldn't listen when I told her she can. Oh well. Liver doctor says I'm doing great and he will see me in SIX MONTHS instead of every 2 months. Yay!
that's good you have a chicken friendly neighbor! And that's great about your medical improvements.
Oh, I'm signing the contacts with "The Magazine" this week. I'm so excited! Now we have to buy me a new digital camera, since the last one didn't make it through Tough Mudder.
congrats! it will be fun to read your blogs on a national level.
Hey everyone!! i have been gone for awhile how is everyone?! I am starting a new siklie and frizzeled silkie project all are SQ and the goal is to get them to be very competetive for major breed and class wins! I lost my produduction red hen so I am in the market for some laying PULLETS. I recently took Champian RCCL at the CA state fair open(adult) show! Pretty good for a youth! How are all my old friends doing?
congrats on the show results.
Hello all! I live up in Elko County though am pretty close to city limits. Luckily, we're considered to be in the county. And.. I'm going to be lazy & just copy & paste my New Member intro..

My husband has mentioned before about getting chickens to teach our son responsibility when he's older. Set him up to take care and tend the chickens and then possibly sell any excess eggs for a buck a dozen or something along those lines. He's only about 16 months now so he wouldn't be able to actively take care of them for a couple of years. I'm wondering if we should perhaps get chickens sooner than that and get them a little more established so its an easy transition for him to take over. I mean, he'd end up being in charge of watering, feeding and helping clean their coop and whatnot as well as harvesting the eggs. I've been doing some reading and I know it says they can mature to egg laying status in just a few months, some starting as early as 16 weeks or so. We live in a rural community sort of area so we'd be ordering the chicks online from someone when the time comes. I think I've kinda settled on Murray McMurray's Hatchery and have been looking at the Black and Red Stars as they're said to have gentle and calmer dispositions as well as being great egg layers.

So basically, any input/suggestions/ideas would be great!

Thanks!
welcome!
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I would just jump in and get chickens now even though your son is still young. He will get used to being around them and then later he can help out. you'll figure out what breeds you like, etc. My kids are 6 and love the chickens. They are not super helpful yet, though as the water and food are too heavy for them but once they get a little bigger, I'll have them do more of the caretaking.
 
Hi all. Just checking in....

The house in NM closed on the 15th and we got the keys the 16th and I've been here ever since retrofitting the place getting appliances in before getting furniture down here...It's going to be a long process before we're finally in here. Roses that have gone a couple of years without pruning are not a pretty sight and I'm doing my best not to get shredded. It's so nice working (and it is work at this point) in the garden in the morning and hearing horses clip-clop down the street in their morning rides. Off in the distance I can hear roosters!! I'm loving it.

It is monsoon season here...more like a wrathful baptism! Thursday night was hellacious thunder and lightning that shook the house and the next night was an extreme weather event with winds clocked at over 80 mph (that's like a Category 1 hurricane), marble-sized hail fell (a deafening cacophony on the skylights), torrential rains (we got over 4 inches), battering winds and, of course, the power outage. I was on the computer checking out Doppler before electricity cut out and the color for our area of ABQ (Corrales) was an intense dark purple.....the far extreme of what Doppler maps will show. The house held up fine, but it was not a good night for leafy plants....The next morning found my yard was in tatters, leaf debris everywhere. In the grape arbors the grapes were stripped off the vine and all leaves either gone or shredded. What little fruit crop there was in the orchard is severely diminished now. My willow tree is nekkid. Luckily no trees toppled, but I am going to have to replace a lot of exterior flood lights. Wow! Intense. Parts of town flooded and roads washed out. Our neighbors now have a lake out in front of their house. At one point during the deluge I looked outside to see our cul de sac 6" deep in water and the other neighbor's construction remnants and garbage can floating downstream to the street.

Great neighborhood, though. The neighbors called me up in the midst of the storm to check up on me and assure me that this was not typical of monsoon season. They're also looking forward to the chicken coop. BIG coyote problem here, so will have to engineer Ft. Knox for chickens. Also a big problem is the cottontail rabbit population.... Yeah, the two problems kind of support each other. The vegetable garden is fenced, but laughably. I have found rabbit dens and tunnels everywhere...in one section of the garden it's hard to walk without sinking through the earth and into a tunnel. Any clues on how to remedy the rabbits? My husband suggests taking the greyhound in, but I'd like something a little more humane.

I'll be back in Nevada on Thursday....just in time for Shark Week! Cannot say I've missed the Las Vegas heat, but I've been sweating all the same.
I love a good storm - but that sounds pretty extreme! Still, I would have loved to have seen it.

I have a Ft. Knox for chickens Peep - have you ever seen the pictures of it? They are in my profile. Basically, I have to keep out everything on, above, and below ground. I have seen coyotes sitting in front of my pen yipping and my chickens just standing there looking at them like they are crazy! The main section of the run is built with 8 foot 4x4s dug 2 feet into the ground and 4 feet apart (so the run is 6 feet tall). These are tied together by 8 foot 2x4s and the entire top is chicken wire. The sides have 2x3x4 foot welded wire fence buried 1 foot deep. That is overlayed by 1/4"x3 foot hardware cloth, also buried 1 foot deep. And a 4 foot wide strip of chicken wire comes down from the top and overlays the welded wire to the top of the hardware cloth. The welded wire keeps coyotes out, the hardware cloth keeps nice, squirrels and snakes out. And the chicken wire keeps eag;es and hawks (yes, I have both) out with the added bonus of keeping wild birds and their diseases out of my feeders. You can kinda sdee what I'm talking about from these pictures.







I haven't been on in ages - been swamped at work. Things are not going well for our company so we are scrambling to cut costs and trying to fnd some way to boost our flagging sales. If things don't turn around soon I fear we will be out of business come New Year's Day.
 
I love a good storm - but that sounds pretty extreme! Still, I would have loved to have seen it.

I have a Ft. Knox for chickens Peep - have you ever seen the pictures of it? They are in my profile. Basically, I have to keep out everything on, above, and below ground. I have seen coyotes sitting in front of my pen yipping and my chickens just standing there looking at them like they are crazy! The main section of the run is built with 8 foot 4x4s dug 2 feet into the ground and 4 feet apart (so the run is 6 feet tall). These are tied together by 8 foot 2x4s and the entire top is chicken wire. The sides have 2x3x4 foot welded wire fence buried 1 foot deep. That is overlayed by 1/4"x3 foot hardware cloth, also buried 1 foot deep. And a 4 foot wide strip of chicken wire comes down from the top and overlays the welded wire to the top of the hardware cloth. The welded wire keeps coyotes out, the hardware cloth keeps nice, squirrels and snakes out. And the chicken wire keeps eag;es and hawks (yes, I have both) out with the added bonus of keeping wild birds and their diseases out of my feeders. You can kinda sdee what I'm talking about from these pictures.







I haven't been on in ages - been swamped at work. Things are not going well for our company so we are scrambling to cut costs and trying to fnd some way to boost our flagging sales. If things don't turn around soon I fear we will be out of business come New Year's Day.
sorry about that Ron.

I was in Nevada today. My kids have been in Boise for a week. My inlaws met me in Winnemuca today so I left at 4am drove 5 1/2 hours to turn around and drive back. I went and swaped some penedesenca eggs in Stagecoach outside of Dayton on the way back
 
I love a good storm - but that sounds pretty extreme! Still, I would have loved to have seen it.

I have a Ft. Knox for chickens Peep - have you ever seen the pictures of it? They are in my profile. Basically, I have to keep out everything on, above, and below ground. I have seen coyotes sitting in front of my pen yipping and my chickens just standing there looking at them like they are crazy! The main section of the run is built with 8 foot 4x4s dug 2 feet into the ground and 4 feet apart (so the run is 6 feet tall). These are tied together by 8 foot 2x4s and the entire top is chicken wire. The sides have 2x3x4 foot welded wire fence buried 1 foot deep. That is overlayed by 1/4"x3 foot hardware cloth, also buried 1 foot deep. And a 4 foot wide strip of chicken wire comes down from the top and overlays the welded wire to the top of the hardware cloth. The welded wire keeps coyotes out, the hardware cloth keeps nice, squirrels and snakes out. And the chicken wire keeps eag;es and hawks (yes, I have both) out with the added bonus of keeping wild birds and their diseases out of my feeders. You can kinda sdee what I'm talking about from these pictures.







I haven't been on in ages - been swamped at work. Things are not going well for our company so we are scrambling to cut costs and trying to fnd some way to boost our flagging sales. If things don't turn around soon I fear we will be out of business come New Year's Day.
Love the pics. I'm sorry about the business. I sure hope something turns around soon.
 

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