San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[ChickenRfun257]

Ill be there with about 70 chicks for sale but will be busy showing my wife will be in charge of selling.

 

[dfdesigns]

Phage, you are not kidding about this being a wildlife weekend. Today's topper for me was finding a dead OWL in my pool! I've had gophers, moles, mice and rats drowned in there before, but this was my first owl. It was actually quite sad.

I may have some various birds for sale at the meetup; I will have to wait and see how things sex out in the next few weeks! I'm going to be solo again that weekend, otherwise I'd volunteer to go stake out a site for us. I'm not sure how long Alex will last, so I'm going to have to plan my time carefully.

 

[RHRanch]

Looks like a gopher snake to me. It's definitely a constrictor as you can see by its head. All the poisonous snakes in the US, except coral snakes, are pit vipers and have a heart-shaped head.

Actually, I think it was a glossy snake. (Changed my mind. LOL) Heres a series of pics: http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/a.e.occidentalis.html

And heres a great site with pictures of San Diego snakes: http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/snakespics.html

 

[DonaldFan]

Ill be there with about 70 chicks for sale but will be busy showing my wife will be in charge of selling.

What kind of chicks are you selling?

 

[Phage]

I should be at the meet-up

and may bring chicks:
- cream legbar pairs,
- swedish flower hens
- ameraucanas
- olive eggers
- cuckoo marans
and probably project chicks including blue egg layers: cream legbar x wheaten ameraucanas, leghorn and brabanter.

Also have some pea fowl eggs cooking if anyone is interested, but they are not due to hatch until after the meet-up.
Holy COW I am meant to be cutting back on hatching

 

[All-American-Chick]

I posted a thread on random ramblings to help name the farm.
I need a name and cant think of one
please help by putting your thoughts here.
thank you
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/667537/i-need-a-name-for-the-farm

 

[desertdarlene]

Someone came to the lake and dropped off several Pekin ducks this weekend. When I came along, this female was with Louie the gander and two male Pekins and she could hardly walk. Her back was also all bloody. I thought, at first, that Louie had hurt her, but I think he might have been protecting her because he seems to get upset when the males gang up on the females. When I went to pick her up, he stretched out his neck at me, but let me do so.

I moved her to another place at the lake away from the males, but she got really upset and began looking for me in the road and parking lot. Then, I moved her to another spot and the last I saw her, she was resting in the shade in the tree and seemed to be at peace, but she seemed to perk up when I talked to her.

Is there anyone here that can take her in? I'm sure I can catch her again. I don't think she's eaten much in the last day and doesn't seem interested in bathing. I carried her around a lot and she didn't poop on me at all. She can walk a little bit, but not much. Otherwise, I will have to leave her there, she is too loud for me even to take home for a couple hours, plus the manager said that I absolutely can't bring her there at all not even for a second.

Here is a picture of her. When I held her, her legs were really hot, but they seemed cooler the second time I carried her around.

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[Compost Girl]

I'd love to go to the meetup, with a few suggestions:
1. No raffle. I went to the meetup owning six chickens. One raffle, six "you won!" fertilized Wellie eggs and a month later I had 23 and a second coop.
2. No one brings chicks. At all. See#1 above.
3. Now that I think about it, maybe it would be better if no one talked to each other. At all. See #1 and #2 above.
4. Who am I kidding. I will be at the meetup. I will participate in a raffle, if there is one. I will bring small baggies of flax seed, DE and kelp to donate to the raffle, if anyone might like those. I will not bring a carrier, or my nephew, and hope it is enough to save me from my doom.

 

[perchie.girl]

I'd love to go to the meetup, with a few suggestions:
1. No raffle. I went to the meetup owning six chickens. One raffle, six "you won!" fertilized Wellie eggs and a month later I had 23 and a second coop.
2. No one brings chicks. At all. See#1 above.
3. Now that I think about it, maybe it would be better if no one talked to each other. At all. See #1 and #2 above.
4. Who am I kidding. I will be at the meetup. I will participate in a raffle, if there is one. I will bring small baggies of flax seed, DE and kelp to donate to the raffle, if anyone might like those. I will not bring a carrier, or my nephew, and hope it is enough to save me from my doom.

LOL..... I have a Carrier..... and am a REALLY goood enabler.... hee hee. Oh and you can borrow it that way I wont go home with anything.

I may even get to go. Moms Radiation treatments will be done by then and I will be back on a normal schedule for running to and fro from my house in the desert.

deb

 

[Phage]

I'd love to go to the meetup, with a few suggestions:
1. No raffle. I went to the meetup owning six chickens. One raffle, six "you won!" fertilized Wellie eggs and a month later I had 23 and a second coop.
2. No one brings chicks. At all. See#1 above.
3. Now that I think about it, maybe it would be better if no one talked to each other. At all. See #1 and #2 above.
4. Who am I kidding. I will be at the meetup. I will participate in a raffle, if there is one. I will bring small baggies of flax seed, DE and kelp to donate to the raffle, if anyone might like those. I will not bring a carrier, or my nephew, and hope it is enough to save me from my doom.

So young and so optimistic.........

Sigh,
I will bring a spare carrier.........