Mama ‘n Me Bootique Farm

08/28/2024

👀 Captions - Comment “Taken” under individual photo to claim.

08/26/2024

Tell me your have bougie birds without telling me you have bougie birds…I’ll go first!

08/26/2024

I do love these little monsters. While I’m packing up egg and Elector PSP orders, we’re also counting bears, doing flash cards and reading. In the other room, Ruby is helping Gibson with his math 🥹♥️

I’m a proud mama.

08/26/2024

Transparency post - about me, my life and thoughts.

This weekend was a hard one. I was initially so excited because my hubby took the kids out of town and I was left to maintain the house. What I discovered was quiet gives me a lot of time to think and process the things I don’t have time to when I’m playing superhero.

On Saturday, we lost some of my favorite growouts from my Mottled pen - during the day, to a predator. I assume they were pulled through the fence while we were having an open house, but I’m just not sure. If someone opened the run and accidentally let them out - even bigger UGH (this was a recent thought as I was still digesting this morning).

Our home continues to remain on the market -76 days to be exact. We’ve dropped our price $70k and it now priced WELL below market. We draw in large groups of people who seem to also be struggling securing financing. Our bills and expenses continue to grow and pile (while I’m over here buying and hatching birds, because let’s face it, they just make me happy 🤣). And because of our relocation limbo, I have been homeschooling the kids via an online charter school. Let me tell you. I am not a teacher.

What we DID determine during this homeschool process was and is extremely valuable. Gibson (6yo) has a confirmed processing delay. It’s something I’ve been pursuing with the school district since early Kindergarten. But because he’s a smart boy, they just kept leading me on and making me feel like I was “overreaching.” Thank God for doctors. Where our public school teachers have now MISERABLY failed both my Ruby (8yo) and Gibson, their pediatrician team heard my concerns. We are now working with speech therapists and have some additional resources to pursue to work towards his cognitive and emotional development. Because, let’s remember, “SMART” has nothing to do with the way our brains work and process.

I want to feel joy and hope, so badly. Today I will do my best to seek it in the little things.

08/22/2024

Chick Talk: 1st Round of available Pet Quality 🐥s

𝔸𝕍𝔸𝕀𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕃𝔼 𝟞/💲𝟜𝟝 & 𝟙𝟘/💲𝟟𝟘
♥️Red/Buff 18
🤍White (Recessive) 18
💙BBS (Blue, Black & Splash) 24

08/22/2024

Let’s do something different & a little fun today!
📢Introducing : Chicks ‘n Chat
Tell me something unrelated to chickens about yourself. I’ll go first ⬇️⬇️⬇️

08/22/2024

Two buff chickadees fresh out of the oven 🥹 One NN and one regular silkie. 5 lil toesies, vigorous and noisy. AND THEY ALREADY HAVE NAMES, so don’t ask if they’re available. 😂

08/21/2024

08/21/2024

As some of you know…Beacon Grayson is my chicken wife. Both of our spouses have accepted this relationship 🤣

I am in full support of anything the public chooses from given options and will be a participant! Please like, share and spread the word for this wonderful cause! Let’s show the beautiful side of our silkie community 🥰

08/20/2024

💥💥💥💥🅵🅻🅰🆂🅷 💥 🆂🅰🅻🅴 💥💥💥💥
______ PET QUALITY SILKIE 🐥 B📦XES ______
>>>> BBS, White, Buff/Red - No Satins/NN

08/12/2024

Have you ever 🅿️UR©️H🅰️SED 𝘽𝙄𝙍𝘿𝙎 𝙊𝙍 𝙀𝙂𝙂𝙎 from us before? Drop a 📸 in the comments of your favorite and be entered to
W!N 🥚🥚🥚 (drawing 8/18)‼️

08/12/2024

https://mamanmebootique.etsy.com

CHECK OUT MY OTHER MERCH HERE ⤵️

Shop We’re a family farm that specializes in handmade items! by MamaNMeBootique located in El Cajon, California. Top shop for gifts. A buyer bought a gift from this shop and gave it a 5-star review!

08/12/2024

‼️ ℍ𝔼ℕ'𝕊 • ℂℍ🥚𝕀ℂ𝔼 (ᴏʀ) 7️⃣🖐️ for ᴛᴡᴇʟᴠᴇ‼️

08/10/2024

Remember this toy? What happened when the arrow lands on the rooster?

😂The answer to the burning question asked over and over, provided to us by good ‘ol Fisher-Price since 1965 even if you lived in the city.😂

08/10/2024

✅ Candy Corn Project Rockstars

08/09/2024

What are you up to, friends? I’m about to start blow drying a makeshift trough full of chickens

08/05/2024

𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝 𝕄𝕆𝕋𝕋𝕃𝔼𝔻 𝔹ℝ𝔼𝔼𝔻𝕀ℕ𝔾 ℙ𝔼ℕ𝕊

⭐️Chocolate Mottled C**k (Sexlink Offspring)
- Black Mottled
- Black Split Mottled
- Black Split Mottled
- Black Split Mottled Frizzled Satin NN
- Blue NN

⭐️Blue Mottled C**k
- Blue Split NN
- Black Split
- Blue Satin Frizzle
- Blue Split NN

⭐️Mauve Split Mottled C**k
- Chocolate Split Mottled
- Chocolate Split Mottled
- Black Split Mottled (P)
- Chocolate Split Mottled Satin

⭐️Black Split Mottled C**k
- Chocolate Split Mottled
- Chocolate Split Mottled
- Mille Satin (P)
- Mille Split Satin (P)

08/04/2024

My splash maran

07/21/2024

Just wanted to pop on here and open up discussion regarding MY OPINION on vaccines for chickens.

Today, I got a news alert regarding a detected Newcastle outbreak in Brazil. Since California borders Mexico, I have NO DOUBT there will be a soon-to-be Newcastle uproar (even if it doesn’t make it to the States).

So what rabbit hole does that take me down? Researching vaccines that I’ve already previously researched 😑🤣

Like the Mareks vaccine, the Newcastle vaccine only suppresses symptoms of the (sometimes) deadly disease - neither vaccine prevent infection or its spread. They are designed to prevent death within one’s own flock. There is value in that.

So where does that leave me? Continue on, with unvaccinated birds. Breeding towards hardiness the best I can. Do some of my birds get sick from time to time? Yes. Do I treat them? Honestly, and this may be an unpopular opinion, rarely. If they’re presenting with signs of chronic disease, then they are not genetically fit for my flock. Has that cost me time, money, and heartache? Absolutely. Do I judge others for vaccinating? Absolutely not. Especially for those that show.

Here’s to keeping our flocks healthy, hardy, and loved in our individual ways 🥰

07/18/2024

07/15/2024

❣️GONE❣️
6 𝕊𝕋ℝ𝔸𝕀𝔾ℍ𝕋 ℝ𝕌ℕ Mottled ℂℍ🐥ℂ𝕂𝕊 - 👀 Comments ⬇️

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07/12/2024

❣️GONE❣️
3 𝕊𝕋ℝ𝔸𝕀𝔾ℍ𝕋 ℝ𝕌ℕ Candy Corn Satin ℂℍ🐥ℂ𝕂𝕊 - 👀 Comments ⬇️

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07/11/2024

I have what appears to be 5 extra (autosexing) French Cuckoo Marans pullets that will be available. These come from exhibition lines and should lay between a 6-8 on the color chart. They will be 2️⃣0️⃣/ea and available in 1 week.

07/08/2024

‼️‼️‼️‼️ℂ𝕆𝕄𝕀ℕ𝔾 🔜 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝‼️‼️‼️‼️
OPAL LEGBARS, OLIVE & APPLE EGGERS

07/04/2024

07/02/2024

It’s bug season, friends! I have Elector PSP available - makes 1 gallon constituted. No egg withdrawal, safe for all ages. 💲2️⃣5️⃣ (includes priority 🚢ing from 92019).

06/28/2024

Anyone out there looking for a logo? I have one that can be screen printed/modified that I worked on and wasn’t what the farm was looking for!

06/28/2024

LEUKOSIS IS A SILENT KILLER

To prevent it, breed from 4 years old hens. Older hens are resistant.
Leukosis is a virus that changes the immune cells (bursa) so that they do not work properly.
If a chicken has leukosis, it will die. There is no cure. Chickens that are four years old do not get it. This raises an important question about the age of a breeding bird. Four years old means that the bird has survived almost every disease that could kill it. Most chickens can easily live from seven to ten years or more, depending on their size (bantam or large) and how they are reared.

Leukosis is not a single virus, but a group of 'retroviruses'.
Most birds die young, but others die when they are about to become adults, and even two or three years later 'just like that', up to the age of four. You can happily breed from them the first year, especially show breeders who only show pullets and cockerels (young hens and c***s under 1 year old).
They look happy and healthy but there is a silent killer inside them, infected but not yet dead. You can buy such a bird.

Infected hens put the virus in the egg, the chick is born infected. Infected chickens spread the virus through their faeces, and depending on their immune system, they can live and shed the virus until they die from it, up to the age of 4. Leukosis attacks the immune system. They catch every disease that flies around once it starts.

It looks like this: they get sick, you treat them, they get better, just a week or a few weeks later it starts all over again, or some other infection, including bacterial. The death from leukosis is slow, the chicken 'wastes away', is often said, they become ‘drier’ and skinnier until they are a walking skeleton.
The bird may have chronic diarrhoea, but not necessarily, or normal droppings, then watery, then normal again.
You don't understand the strange health condition that jumps up and down.
The chicken becomes increasingly sad, lethargic and weak, and has difficulty standing on its feet and keeping its balance.
You can treat them for everything, but nothing lasts or really helps.

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Leukosis is preventable and not necessary: breed from older hens. Four years is the general age at which chickens cannot get leukosis. Breeding from pullets or young hens of 1 to 1.5 years is not a wise idea and everyone is free to be unwise.

If you lose birds for any reason on the brink of adulthood, or if their health is poor until they give up, they may have leukosis. Older, immune hens will lay better and bigger breeding eggs and their chicks are bigger, stronger and immune to leukosis if their mother has survived her first 4 years.

There is not much you can do about leukosis once it has infected your bird(s). However, you can prevent it from spreading by breaking the chain of continuing infection. Also, it is not super infectious, you can clean the coop with Halamid, Cid 20 or any other disinfectant and prevent bacterial infections in your birds so that their immune systems are not challenged. You can control mites and some blood-sucking flies that can carry the virus.

As long as you breed from young hens that are invisibly infected with leukosis, which they pass on to the next generation of chickens, the cycle of dread is perpetuated. If you know you have this silent killer in your birds, it's best to put them down before they get any worse, to give them a better quality of life for as long as it lasts.

Avoid leukosis by breeding wisely, this is best for the birds and your mood and wallet too (if you plan to treat). Leukosis next to CAV is one of the reasons why breeders give up, it is very depressing to lose birds before their time. Especially in breeding you always need backup (great) grandparent birds, and if you can't keep several generations alive, well... Reconsider your breeding strategy.

Of course, there are always people who don't care if their birds die young or suffer, they only breed from the pullets that survive and get rid of them before they get sick. Keep in mind there are sensitive and less sensitive breeds in regards to leukosis, similar to Marek and other diseases. When bred for disease resistance, the chance is small your chickens are infected.

In any respect, healthwise, the older breeding birds are most valuable, they are the jewels in the coop. Try to get older birds when you are starting, IF you can buy them.

End of updated leukosis story.

Asked google how contagious leukosis is for other chickens: https://www.pirbright.ac.uk/viruses/avian-leukosis-virus
How contagious is leukosis subgroup AVL-A to other animals: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39980-y
There are leukosis tests, for example: https://www.idexx.com/en/livestock/livestock-tests/poultry-tests/idexx-alv-ab-test/