San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[MissusC]

Tomorrow (4/20) from 10 am to 1 pm, we are having a little festival for Earth Day at our fledgeling community garden in Mira Mesa. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the chicken community will be represented with a booth/table, but I would love it if any of you could stop by and support our little effort.

We will be having kids activities (build a pinecone bird feeder, make a paper pot and plant a seed, as well as bubbles, sidewalk chalk etc) at no cost, there will be a solar cooker demonstration and build (kits available for purchase) and composting information. It is going to be a small event, but the more the merrier!

We are located at 8081 Mira Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92126 (Mira Mesa Blvd & Regan Road - across Regan Road from Souplantation). There is a big dirt lot on the corner, you can't miss it!

Thanks for your support and I hope to see you all in the garden!

Elizabeth
(Community Relations!)

 

[jules4fun]

Sad sad sad day on the farm today. I went up to milk the goats and my mastiff Maya didn't come out to greet me like usual. I
went over to her dog house and she was laying on her bed outside of it sleeping- and not breathing. Maya died last night in
her sleep. I have never ever in my life just had a dog drop dead like this. She was acting fine except for limping a little from
a cut pad on her foot, she was just up and chasing coyotes two days ago. She didn't eat much dinner last night but that's
kinda normal for her since we free feed her she doesn't wolf it down. I just don't know what happened. She was all up to date
on all her vaccines, de-worming, everything else. She seemed fine and healthy in every way. I've heard that Mastiffs can have
heart problems, but we had her heart checked by the vets when we got her and no murmurs and she used to go hiking and
running with us all the time. She loved dogs beach. She was only 3 years old. RIP Maya, we loved you.

Cari, I'm so sorry about Maya passing. A wonderful gentle giant of a dog, she will be missed. Jules

 

[alisar]

White Mountains Ranch, how are your Dorkings doing? I remember you said you were working on coloreds, I forwarded your website to Herloom Heritage, she's working on coloreds too.

 

[UrbanMamaHen]

Hi everyone,

I have a bunch of chicks hatched this week that are a cross between brown leghorn hens and a lavender Ameraucana roo. Please PM me if interested. I would love to swap them for some fertile Welsummer eggs, or homemade stuff. I plan to be at the meet up next week and could bring them then.

 

[Phage]

OK so that all you new "super bator" owners know.... those cabinets are super super dangerous.

Thank to mine I now have gazillion chicks to bring to the meet-up...... HELP - someone needs to cut off the plug!

Can't wait till next Saturday

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

White Mountains Ranch, how are your Dorkings doing? I remember you said you were working on coloreds, I forwarded your website to Herloom Heritage, she's working on coloreds too.

We weren't able to get our coloreds, so we ended up getting mixed colors, and out of 24 eggs only 2 hatched, and I lost them both to coyotes when we moved- we moved the dogs and goats one day and all the poultry the next day, and just in 1 night we had a coyote come in and get almost all of our olive eggers and both dorkings. Also, being on the Heritage Thread and other Dorking sites, it seems that most breeders have given up on the Coloreds and are now working on the Silver-Grey, and they say that if there is any chance for that breed to survive we need to focus on the one that is out there, meaning the Coloreds might be lost for good. =( I would be very interested in talking to Heirloom Heritage if she was able to get them!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I wanted to thank everyone for your condolences for Maya. She truly was a gentle giant and she will be missed. We have decided not to do a necropsy and to use the money towards another LGD pup to help replace her. Please let me know if any of you know of any LGD pups available, preferably Anatolian, or short haired Pyrenees. Thank you.

 

[ozexpat]

We weren't able to get our coloreds, so we ended up getting mixed colors, and out of 24 eggs only 2 hatched, and I lost them both to coyotes when we moved- we moved the dogs and goats one day and all the poultry the next day, and just in 1 night we had a coyote come in and get almost all of our olive eggers and both dorkings. Also, being on the Heritage Thread and other Dorking sites, it seems that most breeders have given up on the Coloreds and are now working on the Silver-Grey, and they say that if there is any chance for that breed to survive we need to focus on the one that is out there, meaning the Coloreds might be lost for good. =( I would be very interested in talking to Heirloom Heritage if she was able to get them!

SoCal Dorkings has coloreds.

I was expecting 24 silver greys from Dick Horstman for my last trip but he let me down then refunded the money. I will try again in fall

 

[OffGridMAMA]

...

Happy to officially announce....

Our next MEETUP will be held in three weeks on Sunday, April 28th from 1pm-? At our little homestead in Valley Center. (Please pm me for address as this is a public forum).

Potluck lunch I will provide a table with cups/plates/utensils, etc. And chips/salsas/ salad. Please bring enough for your family and a bit more

You are welcome to bring your chickens, arts, crafts, other wares to sell.

Please bring your lawn chairs, pop ups, and other tail gating accessories I have a few picnic tables and seating for about 20.

I'd like to have a raffle too please pm me with prize donations!

Very kid friendly, have a big playground and sports equipment

Can't wait to meet you all!

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Less than two weeks away

Oz will host an incubator workshop!
Phage will offer a pair of cream legbar chicks for the raffle!
I will offer a mixed dozen of purebred hatching eggs (heritage rir, Swedish flower, splash marans, silver penciled rocks) for the raffle!

Yaaay!! Hope you can make it!

Next Sunday can't wait to see you and your chickens!

 

[perchie.girl]

OK I am going to try to make the meetup.

I will bring as many Welsummer eggs as I can collect. I have about fifteen Wellie Hens, and three Roos I know those eggs are fertile.


I also will collect Wellie/silkey and Wellie/Araucana cross eggs. NO guarantee if they are fertile or which ones are which. But if its a Wellie/Araucana cross then the chick hatched should be an Olive egger right?


I also can bring some Guinea eggs too.

I will be very very interested in Oz's incubator workshop.

deb