Colorado

[Aacre]

Welcome, gretabee! How exciting for you and your husband! I love the planning stages of chicken anythings!

 

[Latestarter]

Hi everyone! Just joined BYC. My husband and I live in Colorado Springs. We are just getting started with chickens. We will be getting 5 baby chicks the week of June 23rd! Right now we are building a coop and collecting all the necessary items for the brooder. We have never had chickens before so....it'll be an interesting adventure!

Greetings Gretabee!

and the Colorado thread! Congrats on becoming a chickeneer!

I got my first ones two weeks ago tomorrow. They are quite fun!

Enjoy all the preparations, and always plan for more.... you'll soon learn about chicken math!

 

[Pozees]

Judi,

That's great about the Ameraucanas. I have a dozen BBS eggs in the incubator. I can't wait until Day 7 to candle! Did you get a rooster from Doc too? What color is he?

I got a black male and blue female from her, they are really nice. I have a blue and 4 black chicks growing out right now, as well as a lavender from a shipped egg.

I finally get to join the chick train instead of reading about them...., my psycho broody hatched out 3 babies (Mountain Mutts) and I got to clean out her nest and give them chick feed and a proper sized waterer and NOT pull back a bloody stump as evidenced by my typing this.

Yay!!!

Hi everyone! Just joined BYC. My husband and I live in Colorado Springs. We are just getting started with chickens. We will be getting 5 baby chicks the week of June 23rd! Right now we are building a coop and collecting all the necessary items for the brooder. We have never had chickens before so....it'll be an interesting adventure!

Welcome!

Greetings Gretabee!

and the Colorado thread! Congrats on becoming a chickeneer!

I got my first ones two weeks ago tomorrow. They are quite fun!

Enjoy all the preparations, and always plan for more.... you'll soon learn about chicken math!

I'm happy to see you are enjoying your new adventure It takes no time at all to learn chicken math, eh? LOL

 

[Mtn Margie]

Welcome, gretabee! How exciting for you and your husband! I love the planning stages of chicken anythings!

x2 Yes, WELCOME!

Greetings Gretabee!

and the Colorado thread! Congrats on becoming a chickeneer!

I got my first ones two weeks ago tomorrow. They are quite fun!

Enjoy all the preparations, and always plan for more.... you'll soon learn about chicken math!

2 x 2 = 16(00)

 

[Pozees]

2 x 2 = 16(00)

LOL

 

[samsr]

Welcome Gretabee, to the Colorado thread and to owning chickens. They are great fun to have around. I got into them about two years ago with just six and now have 20. Chicken math happens fast.
I have a serious problem on my hands here with my chickens. It seems that someone has put something in the waterer and now I have four broody hens, LOL. The eggs in my incubator are due this weekend. I may just have to slip a few under my cochin, who is the last to go broody, and let her hatch tem out a bit prematurely. It sure would be nice to get some eggs out of these broodies. I have gone from 9 to 11 eggs a day to 6 or seven. Does anyone have any eggs that they want hatched? I have four live incubators going. LOL

 

[trsturself]

Hi everyone! Just joined BYC. My husband and I live in Colorado Springs. We are just getting started with chickens. We will be getting 5 baby chicks the week of June 23rd! Right now we are building a coop and collecting all the necessary items for the brooder. We have never had chickens before so....it'll be an interesting adventure!

Welcome! I second everyone's comments about chicken math. We planned to have 4, went to pick them up and ended up with 5 chicks. Now 1 1/2 years later we have 15 (we are allowed 6) and are moving out to 5 acres so we can have more!

I finally get to join the chick train instead of reading about them...., my psycho broody hatched out 3 babies (Mountain Mutts) and I got to clean out her nest and give them chick feed and a proper sized waterer and NOT pull back a bloody stump as evidenced by my typing this.

Yeah!

x2 Yes, WELCOME!

2 x 2 = 16(00)

LOL! Exactly!

 

[Euarto Gullible]

Hi everyone! Just joined BYC. My husband and I live in Colorado Springs. We are just getting started with chickens. We will be getting 5 baby chicks the week of June 23rd! Right now we are building a coop and collecting all the necessary items for the brooder. We have never had chickens before so....it'll be an interesting adventure!

 

[Pozees]

Welcome Gretabee, to the Colorado thread and to owning chickens. They are great fun to have around. I got into them about two years ago with just six and now have 20. Chicken math happens fast.
I have a serious problem on my hands here with my chickens. It seems that someone has put something in the waterer and now I have four broody hens, LOL. The eggs in my incubator are due this weekend. I may just have to slip a few under my cochin, who is the last to go broody, and let her hatch tem out a bit prematurely. It sure would be nice to get some eggs out of these broodies. I have gone from 9 to 11 eggs a day to 6 or seven. Does anyone have any eggs that they want hatched? I have four live incubators going. LOL

It's that time of year. I have a group of 3 Silkies in one pen sitting on nothing but one another, and in another I have a Silkie hen on some Ameraucana eggs. Trying to get the group of 3 to quit. If they're still at it this weekend I'll boot them all out to a run for the day and see if that helps. It's my understanding giving them chicks or cooling their bellies are the two things that will break them, and this particular group of 3 I don't think will raise chicks. I let them hatch eggs over the winter and they wouldn't bring the chicks off the nest. By the time I knew some had hatched 2 had died. They can incubate, but that's it, and I'd just as soon have them laying.

 

[maggiemo]

Welcome gretabee!
Congrats on your hatch Margie. I have Wendell's egg that are supposed to hatch Friday. My broody is super nice, she lets me look at the eggs and pet her and lift her off the nest to move her to food and water when I worry that she isn't eating. I hope she continues to be nice if any eggs hatch.
If none do I'll be looking for day old chicks!

Oh boy, chicken math....I swore I wouldn't get more than 12 when I started 3 years ago. I have 28 and nine eggs under a broody right now.
I have had lots of birds try to go broody and I just put them in a wire dog kennel in a covered run area attached to the coop. I give them food and water and a pole to roost on. I leave them for 3 days. They have no where to nest they can only roost or eat or drink. It has broken every broody I have tried this with and they don't try to brood again. At least not yet.