Colorado

[Pozees]

I was just trying to encourage more information about what the member will have available - I have no room or money for Ornamental Pheasants, though I do love to look at pictures of them

 

[suncatcher]

X2 I have never seen a pheasant in real life, nor anyone who breeds them!!!

 

[suncatcher]

Thought there might be some Aurora peeps here on the Colorado thread that did not see this......https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/467809/aurora-co-law-up-for-review-again-need-resources/50

 

[foothillsco]

One duckling needed.

Hi all. After two orders, I can't get 4 live ducklings to arrive at my house. In the first order which I shared with my sister, 2 out of 20 made it alive. On the second order, 19 of 20 made it alive. I'm now at 3 khaki campbells.

The company I'm ordering from owes me 1 more duck, nothing more. However, to send 1 duckling, they need to fill the box with other chicks for warmth. Neither me or my sister want 11 male chicks or whatever size box they use to ship.

I think I'm pretty much on my own for getting this last duck.

Which brings me here. Anyone want a bunch of male chicks or have 1 female duckling to sell me?

I live in Littleton but would drive 2 hours if needed to get one. I would prefer another khaki campbell but I'm not too picky.

 

[Percheron chick]

Who are you ordering from?

 

[samsr]

I lost a hen last night. I believe she was egg bound. We tried to get the egg to pass to no avail. Poor girl. She was one of my RIR. Her eggs did always look a little strange. I have one of her daughters also. She lays the same strange looking egg and i believe was egg bound earlier this spring but she was able to get through it. I have not hatched any more of either hens eggs because this seems to hereditary. I guess i will see how long her daughter last.
I told my oldest daughter last night that the hen probably wouldnt make it through the night. Now to tell yhe youngest daughter.
I know this is just part of raising chickens. But it is hard for the kids to understand this part of the life cycle. I pulled some tail feathers to give the girls to remember her by. I sure am glad that i have 24 eggs in the incubator as a distraction for them.

 

[Ashdoes]

Hello all. I have a cream legbar Roo that needs a new home. We have two, and the main one will not let this second boy even walk without attacking him.
This boy did get frost bite, so he's missing his comb tips. He carries the blue egg gene, so breeding him to different breeds will get you different colored eggs. Breeding him to silver laced, or barred hens will also give you chicks that are sexable at hatch. Pm me any questions.

 

[yawningreyhound]

Hi Colorado! How about this wind? I thought it would keep the birds inside, but NOOOOOO, they're out getting all blown to bits, traveling from one dust bowl to the next, hiding under low growing junipers, hunkering down behind the horse trough, I think they're so happy to be out and it not be 18below that this wind just isn't mattering. Thirty two degrees and I'm out sitting in the sun with them in the morning and not feeling cold. And it's 32!!!!!

We've gotten 5 eggs from the 5 hens in 24 hours!!!!!!

Does that mean everyone is laying? 3 eggs yesterday at about 3pm; one this morning in the coop; one at 10am.

Happy Dance.

One girl got her comb bit by another hen today. She actually had blood dripping down her beak which of course attracted everyone's attention! I'm so happy I saw it as I quickly shooed her into the coop from the run and got some supplies. I just chlorhex/saline'd it to clean it then I put quick stop on it. It just would not stop bleeding. The quick stop worked right away, the yellow became a dark dried blood color and no one paid her any mind. tonight I can't even tell which one had it.

If I ever had this to do over again, I might get 5 different birds. Try as I might, there's three who are so identical that I can't reliably tell them apart.

Now I'm trying to memorize the little marks on their combs.

Oh, and I did something I probably should've checked out here first: The pecked tail hen (with the frostbite I've been posting about) started to really object to the Peck No More; she'd walk away from me after I applied it and get all worried about her tail, looking at it from both sides...like it was bothering her now. And she was getting little fuzz feathers, too! So I wanted to keep trying.

So I took a black Sharpie and dotted in the bright pink parts of the tail, top and bottom.

It lasts 2 days. She didn't even look at herself when I was done. The way the stuff sticks to my skin, I figured this may be an option.

And no one is eyeing her tail anymore.

What IS it about red and chickens?

 

[Pozees]

Hi Colorado! How about this wind? I thought it would keep the birds inside, but NOOOOOO, they're out getting all blown to bits, traveling from one dust bowl to the next, hiding under low growing junipers, hunkering down behind the horse trough, I think they're so happy to be out and it not be 18below that this wind just isn't mattering. Thirty two degrees and I'm out sitting in the sun with them in the morning and not feeling cold. And it's 32!!!!!

We've gotten 5 eggs from the 5 hens in 24 hours!!!!!!

Does that mean everyone is laying? 3 eggs yesterday at about 3pm; one this morning in the coop; one at 10am.

Happy Dance.

One girl got her comb bit by another hen today. She actually had blood dripping down her beak which of course attracted everyone's attention! I'm so happy I saw it as I quickly shooed her into the coop from the run and got some supplies. I just chlorhex/saline'd it to clean it then I put quick stop on it. It just would not stop bleeding. The quick stop worked right away, the yellow became a dark dried blood color and no one paid her any mind. tonight I can't even tell which one had it.

If I ever had this to do over again, I might get 5 different birds. Try as I might, there's three who are so identical that I can't reliably tell them apart.

Now I'm trying to memorize the little marks on their combs.

Oh, and I did something I probably should've checked out here first: The pecked tail hen (with the frostbite I've been posting about) started to really object to the Peck No More; she'd walk away from me after I applied it and get all worried about her tail, looking at it from both sides...like it was bothering her now. And she was getting little fuzz feathers, too! So I wanted to keep trying.

So I took a black Sharpie and dotted in the bright pink parts of the tail, top and bottom.

It lasts 2 days. She didn't even look at herself when I was done. The way the stuff sticks to my skin, I figured this may be an option.

And no one is eyeing her tail anymore.

What IS it about red and chickens?

Instinct. Tells the flock to remove the weakened member to protect the flock. Pretty unsettling, I know, but that is how Mother Nature works. Sounds to me as if what you did, worked. I would have suggested Blu Kote if you had it, but the method you used worked, so no need to question it

 

[yawningreyhound]

Instinct. Tells the flock to remove the weakened member to protect the flock. Pretty unsettling, I know, but that is how Mother Nature works. Sounds to me as if what you did, worked. I would have suggested Blu Kote if you had it, but the method you used worked, so no need to question it

Blu Kote. Now you've got me looking that up.

Every day I learn something on this blog. Every S-i-n-g-l-e day!

And that Peck No More? I think it's actually soaked into my nasal membranes...will the smell ever leave me?