Colorado

[Pozees]

Oh my word! My friend who lives in Pinecliff just sent me her neighborhood newsletter. Apparently there is a lost Rooster roaming around.
Pinecliff is near I-25 and Garden of the Gods. Near the Sunbird Restaurant. anyone?? anyone??? I can't remember anyone in this forum that
lives near there...

LOST ROOSTER LIVING IN PINECLIFF:

Pinecliff neighbors have reported seeing the rooster in this photo living behind homes off Point of the Pines Dr. He is a beautiful (& reportedly loud) domesticated rooster. His owners are no doubt looking for him. Please let us know if anyone can help him find his way home.

Looks like a young, well bred RIR to me. Hope his owners discover his whereabouts!

 

[WendyGeisler]

I am worried about that rooster. No roosters allowed in the city, I wonder if someone just "let him go" instead of finding him a new home.
Sad, my friend said that no one has been able to catch him.

 

[trochefarm]

My Reds just do NOT like fresh bedding in their house/nests. They had scratched all of the old bedding out into the run area, and the floor of the house and nests were bare. So I added some clean straw this morning. You'da thunk the sky was falling! They are "pithed" and they're letting the whole neighborhood know!

 

[wsmith]

Well, this is sort of a good news - iffy news post. I came home to see two new chicks with the Silkie family, which I initially thought were a pair of Cream Legbars. The female was tiny and lethargic, the male was a bit livelier but seemed to be struggling a bit, so I set up a small brooder and added vitamins to the water in there, and took them out of the pen and put them in the brooder, where I got a better look at them. The chick with the spot on its head isn't a CL ... it's an Abe baby!!!

Then a bit later when I went to check on them (both perked up) I heard new-hatchling cheeping in the pen, and there was an even tinier CL chick, too young to be out from under Mom, in the middle of the pen among the hens, none of whom seemed concerned enough for my comfort, so I took that one out as well. It also appears to be a pullet, but very, very tiny and questionable closure at the umbilicus. The CL eggs should not have hatched at all, the Post Office had them from Wednesday through Monday, and I did not think ANY would hatch. Thank goodness for broodies I am not convinced the last to hatch (tonight) will survive, but will do my best.

I will decide in the morning whether to give any or all of them back to the hens. The first two, as I said, seemed to have perked up with a few beak dips in the vitamin water, the last was really too new to even do that, it was still doing the belly crawl, so I'll try dipping its beak in the morning prior to deciding where it will spend the day.

The hen on the remaining eggs is sitting tight, so I am hoping there will be at least a few more chicks hatching. I sold all the Silkie chicks in the pen this morning, so the only other youngsters in there are the two SLW hatched from Greathorse's eggs - I had considered keeping a couple of the Silkie chicks, but decided it was going to be better for any of these eggs that hatch to decrease the population. Once this current clutch of eggs hatches or doesn't, the hens will raise whatever chicks they have and then hopefully resume laying. I strongly prefer having the hens raise the chicks, just had the sense the three I saw tonight needed help to survive. I may have jumped the gun, they might have been fine without intervention, but I was disinclined to take chances with these precious babies. It will be all I can do not to go out every hour with a flashlight and check on them overnight

So, Wendell, you're a Grampa again Will try to get pics tomorrow, time permitting.

YAY!!!!!

Single or rose comb? If it;s a rose comb, I'll trade you for a single.....LOL I have three single combed chicks

 

[Minchi]

My Reds just do NOT like fresh bedding in their house/nests. They had scratched all of the old bedding out into the run area, and the floor of the house and nests were bare. So I added some clean straw this morning. You'da thunk the sky was falling! They are "pithed" and they're letting the whole neighborhood know!

You seen my picture? That was the look I got last time I cleaned my girls coop. I have it on my phone and tell people I have angry birds on my phone. They will walk in, walk out and give me glares. At least it is a mostly quiet annoyance but I wonder if any chickens like clean bedding.

Lol, Forgot I changed my avatar.

 

[wsmith]

So I go out to the brooder coop yesterday afternoon and take some time to be with the little ones and do some eval....

Out of the 4 Dom chicks out of Abe and his girls so far, 3 of the 4 are single combed. Not really happy about this. If it were one out of the 4 that would be OK, but 3?

They are all healthy and active, eating well too. This weekend they will have more access to outside, though it may take a little while for them to get used to the new environment. Pretty sure two of the single combed birds are pullets, which will either be sold as layers or go to the freezer.

 

[Minchi]

So I go out to the brooder coop yesterday afternoon and take some time to be with the little ones and do some eval....

Out of the 4 Dom chicks out of Abe and his girls so far, 3 of the 4 are single combed. Not really happy about this. If it were one out of the 4 that would be OK, but 3?

They are all healthy and active, eating well too. This weekend they will have more access to outside, though it may take a little while for them to get used to the new environment. Pretty sure two of the single combed birds are pullets, which will either be sold as layers or go to the freezer.

Aww, you have been having a hard time with these guys. Hopefully this last hatch will have better results for you.

 

[trochefarm]

You seen my picture? That was the look I got last time I cleaned my girls coop. I have it on my phone and tell people I have angry birds on my phone. They will walk in, walk out and give me glares. At least it is a mostly quiet annoyance but I wonder if any chickens like clean bedding.

Lol, Forgot I changed my avatar.

LOL! Angry birds! I love it.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Mine seem to like clean shavings. They either go in and scratch like they are trying to find the old stuff underneath or they just look around like they have never seen it before. Silly birds.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Mine seem to like clean shavings. They either go in and scratch like they are trying to find the old stuff underneath or they just look around like they have never seen it before. Silly birds.

Mine seem to like new stuff as well. In fact it is hard to dump out the bags and spread them because the chooks are in the middle of everything and I am doing good to not step on them! I have just gotten into the habit of dumping a couple of big piles and letting them move it around. Much less stressful for us all!