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Bummer! So sorry to hear about the demolition of your flock.

Dogs are a problem, but when they're your family's dogs whatcha gonna do?

Huskies are DIGGERS, btw. I hope the reinforcements takes that into account.
 
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All of the adults in my flock got wiped out by a dog, my juveniles survived because they were in a separate aviary. Since then my son had a secure chain link fence installed that should keep his husky outta my chickens! Have I mentioned I don't have much use for huskies? My wife has been trying to rebuild my stock and has got me 4 cream legbar pullets and 1 roo from the San Diego area, then 1 CL roo, 2 CL pullets, 2 Blue orp pullets, 2 Lemon Cuckoo Orp pullets, and 1 Lavendar Orp pullet from Fallon.




Above is the CL Roo from Fallon

CL pullet from CA

CL pullet from Fallon

CL Roo from CA





Above are more angles of the CL Pullets from Fallon

One of the Blue Orps

A Lemon Cuckoo Orp

The Lavendar Orp

Lemon Cuckoo Orp



Both of the Lemon Cuckoo Orps

The other Blue Orp




The above two shots are the lag one of the blues and one of the CL from Fallon
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The difference between the two CL pullets is pretty interesting! As far as coloring, CA pullets look much more correct. Pretty crazy how the breeds can easily be changed, especially one that's not quite regulated yet. You need a black Orp Roo from me to breed with your blues and then I will buy some of your pullets for breeding ;).
 
I have these 4 silkies 1 black, 1 lav, and 2 white. They are all DNA sexed male. I have a few bucks invested in them already. I do that because I want my flock a certain way and don't want to spend money raising birds that will not be in the flock for the long haul. I most likely will be keeping one of the white roos. The rest are open to possible trades or different offers.
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This is the dad for the white birds...
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I hope everyone is ready for the storms that are coming. AZ is getting hit hard and the flooding is more crazy than normal. Button up those coops and get ready for the water and possibly hail. Stay safe everyone!
 
Max, so sorry to hear about your loss! That really sucks. I know you put a lot of time, effort, love and money into your flock. The new birds are great but what do have left in your juvie flock? Loving the 2 golden cuckoo pullets I hatched out from your eggs this summer. Finally, success! Maybe I should keep the boy around for awhile more and share some eggs back? Let me know before mid-October and the boy will live to make the return trip to Vegas.
 
Tumbleweed, I also love the crested cream legbar pullets I got from you. They have grown up beautifully and I'm waiting not-so-patiently for their first eggs. They totally look ready.

Hope everyone else is well. This is actually the first I've even been onsite since June. The weather here in the mountains is starting to get crisp and I have to cover my squash plants nightly. The trees are beginning to turn yellow, orange and red and the feathers are starting to fly in the chicken run.

Eta: will post pics ASAP.
 
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Hi all! This expat from LV has been busy out in the Land of Enchantment building a coop and pressing cider. Yep, gone country.

VegasChick - I've discovered there's a BIG difference in hatching at LV's altitude and up about 3000 more. It has been dismal at best. Not a single Wheaten Marans to my name. In fact out of 70+ eggs set (CCL, Welsummer, Wheaten Marans) it was only the mutt chickens that hatched, thrived and gave me females (7 pullets). I did hatch out a whole slew of nothing but male Welsummers.... Wild odds even for a Vegas gal. Anyway, I've got 3 RSL's (RIRxSLW), 1 RSL (RIRxCCL), 1 OE of indeterminant sex ("Pat"), 1 TJ chick (looks like an Austra White), and one supposed Cream Legbar that has the oddest coloring ever, so I'm assuming that perhaps I got a mislabeled egg. In contacting the Seller, she insists it's a girl chick.



The incubator worked great, btw. Held steady temp and humidity. I think it's a lack of oxygen and the porosity of eggs from a lower elevation that don't mix....that and the USPS brutally handled my eggs, many prescrambled.

Anyway, I thought of y'all often as the weather out west has been making headlines here. Hope everyone's safe and well. October...the best weather month is on the horizon!
 
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Had to laugh as a group of our Albuquerque police officers came out to Las Vegas to have lessons from Metro on how to be better officers. I thought Metro was a little trigger happy until I got out here. Wow! And then COPS started filming here again and things just got whack... I believe a sound tech got shot. oops
 
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This Roo has been taken. Thank you 702Marine

iHi everyone,

I have a black orpington rooster that I purchased from Tumbleweed the week after Easter. He is free! There is nothing wrong with him, we just ended up with one rooster too many. :) Personally I would eat him but my fiancee is a big softie and doesn't want me to do him in. I've been feeding him unmedicated, organic, non-gmo feed. He's a beautiful boy for breeding or he's fairly large and would make an excellent meat bird. If you are interested please call or text me @ 702-606-5303.

 
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hoping some of you wise ones can help me out... I will need to take pictures tonight. but here is the gist i got a seabright hen 2 years ago, she's been laying consistantly. last year we got 2 rhode Island red chicks. we got them friendly and sharing our one small coop. well the heat got to one of the RI and then last fall the other one disapeared. we clipped their wings regularly but the only thing we came up with was that she just flew out and wandered off. we never found her. in february we got 3 more chicks, 2 americuanas, and 1 buff orphington, after we moved to a new house with higher fences. we used to just let them roam our back yard but the mess was getting out of control we bought the coop they had at costco like 2x the size of our previous one (which we still have). we did all the same things to get the 4 introduced and to play nice but my little seabright is just the biggest bully ever. lately we've been trying to get them used to the big coop because we want to keep them contained. We have a pot belly and every attempt we have made to make them a pen they can roam out side the coop he destroys trying to get to them and their food. so we are still trying to come up with a better plan for that. well ever since we put them all in the big coop no one is laying actually the now 9 month old chicks haven't laid their first eggs yet. but my bantam that was laying 1 every other day consistantly has stopped. i think its because she prefers to lay in the little coop. so suggestions? right now i'm thinking just separating them permanently until we can come up with a pen idea and then they only come together in the common area but still they can each have their own coops. anyone else have to deal with mischevious other pets getting into the pens?
 

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