Norcal527
Songster
Good morning from the Sierra Nevada foothills! I was a former member here years ago but just signed back up recently and thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Michelle and I am what my friends and family affectionately call a crazy chicken lady!
I started my backyard flock in the Sacramento suburbs about 7 years ago! Obviously a small flock of 6 wasnt enough so once I moved I to the foothills I built myself a nice big coop (I'm handy!) And bought 18 more chicks. Well...as luck and nature would have it, a California black bear found my coop and my poor babies and ripped the wall down for his dinner. The lone survivors were my Golden Campine Robin and two chicks, a buff brahma and splash Abdalusian who earned the names Lucky and Miracle.
One electric fence later I was back up with a new flock who ALL made a work related move to Texas with me in 2014! In Texas I lost quite a few birds to predators since I was renting and there I started hatching my own eggs. When I moved back to Sacramento in 2017 my new husband and I initially moved to a chicken free area so I rehomed my flock with a kind Texan lady who works with disabled youths.
Living in the burbs only lasted a year...this country girl needs space! So last year we bought a 3 acre property in the Sierras about 50 miles from Sacramento where I work. Let's just say I went a little nuts and now am the proud mother of about 40 mixed layers (and a few boys in the mix)...5 Guinea keets of a week old...6 ducklings...4 goslings...and 60 breeder stock eggs in the incubators! I will be raising some beautiful Blue Partridge Brahmas, Silkies and Blue Isbars for hatching eggs and chicks.
So thats that! My husband and I are building a super coop for the layer flock and in the fall I will be working on some smaller breeding coops. In the future I'd also like to have a few Nigerian dwarf or pygmy goats and 2 mini donkeys!
I have a lovely husband, 6 year old daughter, 3 month old baby boy, 6 cats, 3 dogs, 100 gallon cichlid fish tank, and a ferret named Mr. Flashypants. I also work as a dispatcher for a large Police department in the area. Needless to say I stay busy but love my life!
Thanks to you all for all the knowledge I've gained throughout the years and I hope I can give some of that back!
I started my backyard flock in the Sacramento suburbs about 7 years ago! Obviously a small flock of 6 wasnt enough so once I moved I to the foothills I built myself a nice big coop (I'm handy!) And bought 18 more chicks. Well...as luck and nature would have it, a California black bear found my coop and my poor babies and ripped the wall down for his dinner. The lone survivors were my Golden Campine Robin and two chicks, a buff brahma and splash Abdalusian who earned the names Lucky and Miracle.
One electric fence later I was back up with a new flock who ALL made a work related move to Texas with me in 2014! In Texas I lost quite a few birds to predators since I was renting and there I started hatching my own eggs. When I moved back to Sacramento in 2017 my new husband and I initially moved to a chicken free area so I rehomed my flock with a kind Texan lady who works with disabled youths.
Living in the burbs only lasted a year...this country girl needs space! So last year we bought a 3 acre property in the Sierras about 50 miles from Sacramento where I work. Let's just say I went a little nuts and now am the proud mother of about 40 mixed layers (and a few boys in the mix)...5 Guinea keets of a week old...6 ducklings...4 goslings...and 60 breeder stock eggs in the incubators! I will be raising some beautiful Blue Partridge Brahmas, Silkies and Blue Isbars for hatching eggs and chicks.
So thats that! My husband and I are building a super coop for the layer flock and in the fall I will be working on some smaller breeding coops. In the future I'd also like to have a few Nigerian dwarf or pygmy goats and 2 mini donkeys!
I have a lovely husband, 6 year old daughter, 3 month old baby boy, 6 cats, 3 dogs, 100 gallon cichlid fish tank, and a ferret named Mr. Flashypants. I also work as a dispatcher for a large Police department in the area. Needless to say I stay busy but love my life!
Thanks to you all for all the knowledge I've gained throughout the years and I hope I can give some of that back!
We are glad you joined this flock!
