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[Minchi]

Your realtor should have asked if you want animals and want kind. We bought a house last year and I absolutely said I want to be zoned for chickens and I wanted a strong well.
They don't want to waste their time or yours.
Tell you realtor everything on your wish list and order of importance.

He knows just not his job to look in to that... I wish that was told to me. So anyone in Parker who can tell me chicken safe areas. If I found some land that would allow roos I would so take that Silver lace.

 

[chlskt]

Good luck, I have serama and have yet to hatch an egg. I've had them get to full grown in the egg, but either pip and die or just not pip at all. I've had them since october. I'm thinking about selling my birds, just not happening for me.

Anyone in the Longmont area that is interested in Serama's or Chinese Blue Breasted "Button" Quail?
I have an incubator that is just gathering dust and I would like to hatch either Serama's or Buttons if I can find anyone who would like the chicks. Please pm me if you are interested and in which bird and maybe we can talk about a great deal...super inexpensive chicks. Let me know.

also anyone having experience incubating Serama eggs that would like to offer a few tips?

thanks all

 

[jime]

He knows just not his job to look in to that... I wish that was told to me. So anyone in Parker who can tell me chicken safe areas. If I found some land that would allow roos I would so take that Silver lace.

I don't live in Parker, but is the city I do most of my grocery shopping and on the way there is plenty of areas where you can see chickens. I will say you have to look a bit on the outside of the city. My road on the south is Elizabeth and 10 acres allows 30 chickens /fowl (Elbert county) the north is Parker and my friend has 40 acres and he is allow any number of animals is a different county, I don't know what will be with 10 acres in Parker.
I live 10 minutes away from Parker maybe you should look around here. Well I guess all depends where you or significant other work, my husband works in Greenwood Village and takes him 35 minutes to go there in the morning and 45 in the way home.

 

[jime]

wow I just research the douglas county animal regulation and it allow lots of chickens.So you will be good to g in Parker I guess next will be the HOA in your area, don't look in Amanda Pines, 3 ears ago we were looking there and really nice houses and lots nut the HOA are really close.

 

[Pozees]

Good luck, I have serama and have yet to hatch an egg. I've had them get to full grown in the egg, but either pip and die or just not pip at all. I've had them since october. I'm thinking about selling my birds, just not happening for me.

Are you using an incubator or a broody hen? Just asking because my Cochin has recently gone broody and I've given her 4 eggs (2 RIR and 2 Black Silkie) to try, so far she is sticking like glue to those eggs, I make sure she gets off the nest each day but she's doing a great job. If she hatches and raises the chicks well, and/or if any of my Silkies go broody in the next few weeks, if you want I can try putting some Serama eggs under one of them to try hatching that way.

If in incubator, are you adding water the first 18 days? I am trying dry hatch now because I had such poor results adding water prior to day 18. I have seen humidity staying around 40% with no water in the reservoir. Time will tell whether this improves hatch rate. All are shipped eggs so far.

I put the two eggs that were in the box with my shipped Silkie hens into the incubator yesterday, collected two more today that I am holding a few days hoping to collect 8-10 for a fuller hatch, these will be my first home bred eggs to go into the incubator. If one or more of the new hens go broody I will happily give her eggs to hatch, but right now they are still settling in. Pics will do them no justice right now, at least some are in the midst of a molt. Went out this morning to feed, and had to turn lights on to see what I was doing. For the first time in many years I heard a rooster I own, crow It was a deeply satisfying moment.

 

[trochefarm]

wow I just research the douglas county animal regulation and it allow lots of chickens.So you will be good to g in Parker I guess next will be the HOA in your area, don't look in Amanda Pines, 3 ears ago we were looking there and really nice houses and lots nut the HOA are really close.

Unfortunately, that isn't necessarily true. Believe it or not, in "incorporated" Parker they are still not legal. There are many "illegal" birds, though.

Ask your realtor to help find something in "unincorporated" Parker. You still may need to deal with HOA's, though.

 

[dennarahl]

Unfortunately, that isn't necessarily true. Believe it or not, in "incorporated" Parker they are still not legal. There are many "illegal" birds, though.

Ask your realtor to help find something in "unincorporated" Parker. You still may need to deal with HOA's, though.

ditto. Just because the county allows it doesn't mean the city/town will. You might look at addresses in Franktown, which is on the southern edge of parker, or Elizabeth, which really isn't that far from the main part of parker (10 minutes maybe).

 

[Minchi]

I don't live in Parker, but is the city I do most of my grocery shopping and on the way there is plenty of areas where you can see chickens. I will say you have to look a bit on the outside of the city. My road on the south is Elizabeth and 10 acres allows 30 chickens /fowl (Elbert county) the north is Parker and my friend has 40 acres and he is allow any number of animals is a different county, I don't know what will be with 10 acres in Parker.
I live 10 minutes away from Parker maybe you should look around here. Well I guess all depends where you or significant other work, my husband works in Greenwood Village and takes him 35 minutes to go there in the morning and 45 in the way home.

Hubby works in the tech center he wants Parker but the deer creek area has a convent and HOA that are both strict. The pinery is the same. I am looking at Elizabeth just outside Parker at most.

wow I just research the douglas county animal regulation and it allow lots of chickens.So you will be good to g in Parker I guess next will be the HOA in your area, don't look in Amanda Pines, 3 ears ago we were looking there and really nice houses and lots nut the HOA are really close.

Thanks for this hint about Amanda pines. I think it is going to take us some time to find the right place. Gonna love living in a hotel.\




Thanks everyone, if anyone thinks of any zoning information for Parker, Elizabeth, frank town, castle rock, sadila, or monument let me know. Right now those are the areas we are focused.

 

[pichuris]

Great we find an area we love, new houses on 1.5+ acres, near to my husbands work. Get ready to make an offer and find out that they only allow cat or dog and only 2. What is the reason of 1.5 acres if you can't have animals. I feel awful I would sacrifice my girls (even though I love them) to give my husband everything he wants but it would make him miserable knowing I gave them up. Is it wrong of me to expect my relator to look in to zoning before we get to the making an offer stage, I called the city and found this out.

Be sure you both love what you are getting into. Don't just settle you may latter regret. So be very open with your realtor about what you want that's what you are paying him/her to do. Once you start looking for a house things change about what you want after you start. You are realizing what you can't have or can have. So its ok to change what you want. Do you want to move again? If not is this your dream home? Can you live without that particular thing? Good luck.

I received my dozen "blue breeds" eggs from MyPet Chicken today. This is what I received:

Blue Splash Marans - 5
Blue Andalusians - 2
Blue Ameraucana - 3
Blue Orpingtons - 3


These are the "Blue Breed" eggs.

Yes, if you add them up, we received 13 eggs. They must send a baker's dozen! I was kind of bummed that I didn't get any BLRW. That is what I was really after. Oh well, these will be fun. It's going to be a hard 24 hours waiting on the eggs to rest before I fire up the incubator again! I have another dozen eggs going in with them. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I have a dozen eggs from a full blood Black Copper X Olive Egger, Blue Copper Rooster X Blue Copper or Americauna, and Black Copper X Americauna[/FONT] or Olive Egger.


These are the barnyard maran eggs.


I have 16 chicks that are a few days old plus these 25 eggs. If I can get another successful hatch of 12-16 chicks I will have a bunch of chickens and only room for 10. Would anyone be interested in any roos that might come of this series?

I'd love to try some of these roos so be sure to let me know. If you get any. ;-)

 

[jgurshtein]

Gorgeous bird! I'd take him if I could have roosters.

I still have a Silver Sebright Roo I need to get rid of if anyone is interested.