Nevadans?

[Flowers of Abba]

My front yard has over 12 feet of snow on either side of the driveway. SOMEONE COME AND SAVE ME........

oh, but summer will be here shortly. Well...... maybe the snow will be gone in the end of June....

How did I end up here?

 

[evonne]

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lol.. my little brother's name is tim and i think i'm the only one that calls him timmy... that made me giggle....

there's IFA (inter mountain farmers) on industrial... to the south, i don't know the cross street, but if you go to warmsprings and las vegas blvd where boot barn is, then go west on warm springs, you'll turn right on industrial just over the little overpass thing... then it's not to far to the north of there... will be on the left hand side coming that way....

there's also a feed store on north nellis, but i really wouldn't reccomend it.. i went in there once and swore i'd never go back... the condition of the birds they keep there really scared me....

if you're just looking for feed, some of he walmarts actually carry some livestock stuff too... i know there 2 out here on the north end of town... one ticked me off tonight... no chick starter, or sweet feed.. UGH... will have to go to the otehr one tomorrow.. lol....

if you find something else, or find a walmart out that side that has chicken food will you post?? i'd love to know a place on that side of town to send my hubby when he's out that way for work...

 

[Humbrd]

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I am using 1" plastic mesh. Found it at the hardware store. It's just like chicken wire except it's plastic so it's lighter and less expensive. We clipped several runs together with "hog rings" (used for attaching the tension wire to the top and bottom of a chain link fence) about every 10". A 48" wide x 50' long roll in black cost about $13 at Lowe's. I don't know how it will hold up under the sun but it's done fine in the wind & snow. My dad always used chicken wire on the unshaded parts though. He also used climbing vines and trees to shade the birds in the summer. That way the pens were all open in the winter so the birds had plenty of that warming sun. I've been thinking about planting some grapes or Virginia creeper outside the pens here. Good luck.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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That makes perfect sense.
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Even in summer when it's a hundred degrees? My DH teases me that I am a lizard because I love it when it's 90 degrees or more outside and I holler every time he turns the air conditioner on. I tell him that lizards are cold blooded and my normal temp is above average so his comments make no sense. I do love lizards though. They are so cool! No pun intended

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I feel for you! I wonder all the time how a low desert rat like me ended up in snow country and we don't get near as much snow as you get! Hurry spring thaw!!!

I made another high country newbie mistake. I started all my tomato plants 4 weeks ago and guess what? They are growing out of their little pots and it's still way too cold to plant them. So now I have to put them in bigger pots and shift them back inside every night.

After 5 years I should have this down by now but it's never consistant here!

 

[SunnyDawn]

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I plant virginia creeper in and around my pens. The chickens love it!

 

[ke_ben]

Just a clarification on my last post about the free birds; the physical appearance, breed or mix there of, and sex of the birds that you wish to swap are not important. As long as they are healthy and full grown he doesn't care. So if you want a new bloodline or new breed to add to your flock this is your chance. You can swap your extra rooster (or hen), or that one that just isn't working out, and bring in some new/younger/different blood/breed to your flock. You just have to act fast and let me know.

Good luck to you folks up north for weather this week. The forecast shows some 80's this week here. Have a great week all.

 

[Penturner]

Yeah SD, I start felling the first sign of being Hot at about 90 degrees. I can stand 110 fairly well but notice not as well as i did when i was younger. Plus we only get a hand full of those days anyway. Now yesterday afternoon started getting pretty nice, but it still has that little to much edge on the chill for me. My wife went to get me some staples yesterday and could not find them anywhere. she came back home and we both started looking online and sure enough, nobody carries them in store here. You gotta be kidding me. a package costs less than $2.00 and then I would have to pay shipping and wait a week for it to get here. So off the dearly beloved goes to buy a new stapler thinking of course they put a pack of staples in there right? gets home and nope no staples. so Now I am the proud owner of two very nice staple guns and still no staples. Ugh! will try again today cause I work for the State and today is my mandatory Furlough day. We do this for the fun right? keep reminding me of that.

 

[Peep_Show]

Hi there, Nevada Folks!

I just joined BYC yesterday. I've lived in Henderson for about 6 years now, the far east and south of the "B" on the hill. Love chickens and adore hatching....just getting back into hatching now after about a decade of my chicken fever being in remission. We started out in the country with thousands of acres of desert in our backyard, but the boom growth and BLM land swaps have now developed us into the suburbs. Thank goodness the construction craze has subsided with the recession....It was noisy!

I have a 16+ y.o. incubator...probably a LG as the small thermometer says "Miller" on it, but there's no identifying marks on it anywhere. In spite of all the nay-saying about LG quality, it has hatched faithfully and well....especially goose and duck eggs. Found it under my Mom's house the other day filthy dirty and with rodent gnaw marks on it, but it brought back fond memories and I thought I'd dust it off. So...cleaned and disinfected it, gave it a new wafer and new windows (the old ones were yellow/brown with age) and popped some new digital thermometers into it. The "Rat Bator" still works and is holding a steady temp. Got some nothing TJ's eggs in it now to calibrate it, but if they're fertile will let them hatch.

Someday would like to get fancy Brinsea (and someday would like to move back into the country), but cannot justify the expense right now.

Anyway, I just wanted to say "Hi" to y'all!

 

[evonne]

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WooT!!!!!!!!! another "vegas" person

if you need eggs, i have bantam cochins that are laying hit and miss right now, but EE and EE mixes that are going strong... the entire last hatch had peacombs, so a good chance for green eggs out of any of my eggs... hens are EE's Barred Rocks, Leghorn, and RIR
the BR are not in with the EE roo at the moment, but can be and would have fertile eggs within a few days.. i get 2-3 a day from the 3 of them, on average 2-3 greens a day, one white, and a couple light tan/terracotta...
but like i said, with my ee roo, a GOOD chance that even the brown eggs will lay green, and from what i understand, the leghorn dilutes the green so the chicks from that cross would garry a light almost white greenish or blueish egg...
if any of that sounds interesting, feel free to email me...
also have a few cicks that are 3 weeks old, and a BUNCH of the bantams getting ready to hatch... 9 pips in the bator right now, out of 18, and another dozen under a broody EE.. lol.. really, i don't need this many chicks.. lol...

 

[SunnyDawn]

OK. I can't stand it that Ke-ben is going to give away those wonderful quality birds. I wish I were closer! I have a BR that is the most obnoxious thing ever!!! She lays a bumpy egg, is always the loudest thing in the yard (by far). Tries to trip me whenever I step outside because she is begging for a treat. When I do give treats I always throw them to the furthest hens and everyone but "Obby" (short for obnoxious) has figured this out! They will come running when they see me but they stay a few feet away knowing that the treats will fly further out rather than closer in.
I don't think the 7 and a half hour drive is worth it to trade Obby away but I'm tempted! I know it's irrational but I'm still tempted.

Hi Peep_Show! Welcome to BYC and to the Nevada thread!!! Good to have you here! The only complaints I've heard about the LGs is that they need a new wafer now and then and it sounds like you've covered that. Good luck with your hatch!

Penturner you sound like me when it comes to heat tolerance. I would rather be too hot any day than too cold. I do feel the heat more now than I did when I was young but I still prefer it. I'm a complete baby about the cold. But I was born and raised in the low desert (So Cal & Arizona [Tucson area]) so it makes sense. My Mother was born and raised in Douglas Arizona so she should be the same but she's the opposite of me. My kids are the opposite of me and so is my DH. Even in the summer they all try to freeze me out with air conditioning!