Nevadans?

[sherylreno]

Well my move may be going in a direction I didn't want to go. Putting a bid on a house u North near the Oregon border. BUUUUUURRRRRR! Looks like there or towards Vegas. How's that for drastic differences? I like this house. Needs work. There's a barn, an acre, garage with a storage loft and the house is good sized. Thing is I don't really know anyone outside the Bay Area and up there it is going to be even more lonely, but it would at least be MINE! I don't know what I want to do. I think I'll be taking a road trip with a couple of my daughters and my SIL.

Small communities are always good to live in. They take care of their own. I have several friends up there. You will have snow to deal with but even if you moved here you would have snow too. I pray you find something you will fall in love with the moment you see it.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Kim, it's not like it's particularly warm here... or that the economy's that great... but people are desperate to sell their houses. And if you moved here, you'd have at least a dozen people waiting to help you carry stuff into your house.

I'm still giggling from yesterday. While sitting at church, I opened up a notebook to show Russ the names I've collected for this year's future chickens. You know, all following the same theme we apply to our chicken names. Then my husband said, "Well, the minorca and the turken are mine, so I'm going to name them Strip and Finger." I was trying so hard not to laugh during church. It's bad enough this chicken is going to be butt-ugly from hatch. Now she's going to be named Finger.

 

[SunnyDawn]

I keep trying to talk Kim into moving here. However if you like the casinos it might not be the best choice.

OK, I did it! After much back and forth (I have so many chickens coming already) I have finally decided to order 25 of the white crested black polish from Strombergs. I'm hoping a different hatchery will result in a few pullets at least. Steve wants this color so bad, even though we have other varieties coming from Pam in the not too distant future, he really wants these adorable polish. I think we are officially headed to the loony bin with all these breeds coming! Oh well. If you're going to go off the deep end this is a great way to do it.

 

[sherylreno]

Oh wow Sunny! I think you are going to need to move to 25 acres to have enough room for your flock.

Something I learned from the Stockton show is the hen determines the sex of the chick. To get girls you would mate an older hen with a cockerel. If you mate an older hen with a rooster you'll get more roosters.

It's worth a shot I think.

 

[wolftracks]

The thing there that has be is, the house is over 2900 sqft,, but the price is under 50k. I wish I could find something around here like that. It's not pretty but it has potential, 1 acre, a barn and a shabby garage with a loft. But my family is all out here and I know whith their scheduals I'll never see them. Anyone in the family that could help me do work won't be around to do that. If I get stranded, I'm just plain stranded. I hate to move too far. I hate to take Dakotah out of his high school where he's comfortable and where they are working with his IEP to help him take advantage of his VA benefits for college and the first place in a few years where he actually has friends. I just need to move and can't really aford much, but I'm so tired of paying rent and what I can afford in that puts us in bad areas and pays someone else's mortgage payments. We were in a nice area here when we moved out from the Bay. Then find out the woman we're buying out house from had pocketed the money and the house went to auction. Found out with a knock on the door that day after it sold. Then a temp place and then another temp place, THIS, and then he died before we could close on the house. It had an acre also, but it was a lot more and soo nice. Now I'm so stuck. I need space and something cheap. I want that house, but I don't, so I'm stuck in my mind too.

 

[wolftracks]

OH and Sunny!!! Before I had to give up my last flock, I raised WCBP! I loved them ans I miss them so much. They were so much fun and unlike what some say, lay lots of eggs. Just be ready to count your chickens at night and have lots of batteries for your flashlight. Bill and I would go out at dark and look all over till we found them all and ut them on a roost. If they were in the yaer and it starting getting dark, they just dropped and went to sleep. Dingy, but pretty.

 

[Peep_Show]

Angeleyes 1820

Hopefully you're in Las Vegas and not Henderson (which is the southern LV valley.) A more thorough answer to your question can be found if you go to the link field here: Forum Nav:
From there, read the Topics... I think under Raising Backyard Chickens they have "Local Chicken Laws and Ordinances" which you can click onto the link and enter your info and -- voila! -- you have information about chicken-keeping rules for your city. (I say I hope you're not in Henderson because it's onerous at best). Once you get the local laws, then make sure your HOA is good with raising chickens. The latter will probably be more of a problem than the former as the City cops have better things to do than bust chickens, whereas the small minds of an HOA would probably go out of their way to persecute you if all was not by the book.

However, as an aside, on the CLUCK Coop Tour last year an awful lot of the coops were being kept under renegade conditions.... If you have good neighbors, it shouldn't be a problem. Just make darn sure there's no smell, flies, rodents or roos.

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Hey! I'm not getting notifications either. Whazzup wit dat?

 

[SunnyDawn]

Yeah that's a toughy. You need to get the heck out of there but being that far away from any support network would be super tough!!!

There is a house listed not far from here for $87,000 and as long as it's been on the market they might take less even. The problem is it's not finished. New build and the owners ran out of money. It's on 10 acres and there is an area above the barn that is livable, until the house is done, but I have no idea how much work it needs to finish it and I also don't know about the services the local school's provide. Nate loved North Valleys but he is pretty social and gets along well with most folks.

Here's the link,
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/15645-Panhandle-Rd_Reno_NV_89506_M29322-76817

It's 1,636 Sq Ft with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. The kids would be bussed to school cause we are out in the sticks. But it's peaceful and quiet. You can expand your search from that site to look at the entire reno area. Just make sure you don't move far away to a place that will throw fits about your chickens. No one out here cares. You can have as many as you want. Also Dayton and surrounding areas (south of Reno) might have some pretty good deals.

Modesto is only about 3 and a half hours from Reno (with no traffic of course) and the kids could visit easier. Where we are is another 40 mins past that though. So that would be a 4 hour and 15 min drive for them. I think that's an easier run than to the Oregon-Calif border but still a tough run during a winter storm.

 

[SunnyDawn]

OH and Sunny!!! Before I had to give up my last flock, I raised WCBP! I loved them ans I miss them so much. They were so much fun and unlike what some say, lay lots of eggs. Just be ready to count your chickens at night and have lots of batteries for your flashlight. Bill and I would go out at dark and look all over till we found them all and ut them on a roost. If they were in the yaer and it starting getting dark, they just dropped and went to sleep. Dingy, but pretty.

Oh great!!! I could have frozen chickens before I'd find them. Well these little guys better know how to put themselves to bed or they will be coop only birds every time we have to be out after dark.

Actually Steve usually likes to go out every night and count them anyway. So I guess it wouldn't be that big a deal. Genny has that one little splash that won't put herself to bed. She has to go out every night to make sure she gets to bed.

Speaking of coop only birds I must have kept my marans in the coop for too long before I started letting them out. I keep opening up the door for them but only 1 roo comes out regularly. Course it is still pretty chilly out here. I open the big door cause the pop door isn't quite finished (should be this weekend) so maybe they figure that's enough nature for them and decide to stay inside. Run is well reinforced now. DH says it looks like a prison. lol

I don't know what's up with the notifications Peep. I read on a thread covering this issue that it might be our email servers. Some folks had success with opening a hotmail account for BYC. I don't think that's my issue though cause mine didn't act up on the Jan 24th(?) date like everyone elses. At that time I was still getting them all. It's only been a week or so I haven't been getting mine. It's strange cause I still get a few coming through just fine.

I don't want to have to mess with another email account. I already have too many and I hate those accounts that fill up if you don't delete everything often enough.

 

[2seth2]

I actullay think there is a site for that.