Colorado

[laceykins]

Greetings @laceykins
! and welcome to the Colorado thread. I saw you asking about buff orp bantams... I ordered large fowl BOs from a hatchery that arrived the end of May. Though most of them are indeed full sized, I ended up with 3 that are bantam sized idunno ) or somewhere in between... they are featherweights. I am getting eggs from the BO's (in general) and am not sure if the 3 are laying or not... If not, they should start any time. They are very friendly and they run to the coop door to greet me and get picked up every time I go out there. They also jump into the nest boxes any time I open the (external) access door to check for eggs and try to come out with me.

If you also wanted to produce fertile eggs, my Bravo BO roo is very handsome, friendly and I would be willing to let him go as well with a couple of pullets.  Anyway, let me know and if you're interested we can try to work out details. BTW, I agree with what others previous have said... they are flock animals and the minimum I'd consider is 3. (4 is better just in case something happens to one).

Great to know! I won't be ready for my chicks until February or March, but then I'd love to get three, day or two old chicks. Let's definitely keep in touch!

 

[Ashdoes]

What camera are some of you using, to view coops and barns?

 

[uzisuzuki]

My friend kerstiens is local and has bantam chocolate orpingtons. That is her byc member name.


My dr said I have a bacterial infection with this flu crud going around plus chickens.

Amazon just delivered a smashed french press.. which leads me to decide against getting shipped eggs. If they broke borosilicate glass, what would happen to eggs? I am upset over this broken coffee press.. I would be much more so if it were svart honas hatching eggs.

I hope you start feeling better soon! I started feeling sick yesterday and it has turned into some kind of raging stomach bug that makes me feel like I'm trying to turn myself inside out. I kinda forgot there were other ways/types of not feeling well besides accident related injuries!

Also, does your friend sell any of her dwarf olandsk? Because that is a bird I didn't know I needed until just now. So. Cute.

 

[Ashdoes]

I hope you start feeling better soon! I started feeling sick yesterday and it has turned into some kind of raging stomach bug that makes me feel like I'm trying to turn myself inside out. I kinda forgot there were other ways/types of not feeling well besides accident related injuries!

Also, does your friend sell any of her [COLOR=333333]dwarf olandsk? Because that is a bird I didn't know I needed until just now. So. Cute.[/COLOR]

Lol. That is how a lot of people figure out a breed they "need".
The stomach bug seems to be going around pretty bad right now. My girls school felt it necessary to send a letter home reminding parents NOT to send puking children to school.

 

[trsturself]

What camera are some of you using, to view coops and barns?

I'm using a Tenvis IP camera. It's great for wireless if you have signal at your coop. I used a wifi booster out there to help give it enough signal. Be warned though if you want to access it outside of your internal network, it does use up your data usage fast. We averaged 50-60G of data a month for years. Get the camera and in one month went over 275G! Our internet limit is 200G (pretty standard even if you don't know you have a limit - I never knew!).

 

[uzisuzuki]

Lol. That is how a lot of people figure out a breed they "need".
The stomach bug seems to be going around pretty bad right now. My girls school felt it necessary to send a letter home reminding parents NOT to send puking children to school.

I am so chicken illiterate because I never knew they came in so many breeds and colours and sizes until 3-4 months ago! All my life, I was only exposed to plain white hens that our neighbors didn't really take care of so they would peck each other raw in a terrible way. Imagine my surprise when Odysseus showed up in all his tiny Sebright glory!

I wish my job would do that instead of mass emails with "WHY AM I ON THIS MAILING LIST/STOP REPLYING TO ALL" because I think that would probably be more helpful to everyone in this building (or if our cleaning crew would actually clean the restrooms instead of making it a 5yr Petrie dish study in hopes of growing a real life Swamp Thing). At the very least, it would have saved me from getting an illness that requires swift movement to a toilet at the drop of a hat when I can still hardly walk at a leisurely pace.

 

[COChix]

I am so chicken illiterate because I never knew they came in so many breeds and colours and sizes until 3-4 months ago! All my life, I was only exposed to plain white hens that our neighbors didn't really take care of so they would peck each other raw in a terrible way. Imagine my surprise when Odysseus showed up in all his tiny Sebright glory! 

Also, does your friend sell any of her [COLOR=333333]dwarf olandsk? Because that is a bird I didn't know I needed until just now. So. Cute.[/COLOR]

Lol, I see a theme with the dwarf olandsk and the sea brights. They do have similar looks, the dwarf one is a cutie! I new that chickens came in different colors and such, I never thought of them as pretty. Obviously that has changed just a bit, lol.

Are you playing on BYC while at work?

 

[uzisuzuki]

Lol, I see a theme with the dwarf olandsk and the sea brights. They do have similar looks, the dwarf one is a cutie! I new that chickens came in different colors and such, I never thought of them as pretty. Obviously that has changed just a bit, lol.

Are you playing on BYC while at work?

While at work, yes. While I should be working, no. Per my speech therapists orders for brain trauma recovery, I can only do about 30mins of concentrated work before needing to take a break. Right now, 30mins for me is about 3hrs for someone with "normal" cognitive function. So, I use those breaks to try and figure out what I should be doing to be a good flock maintainer and possible reasons why my hen Penelope has been acting a bit off this week. Unfortunately, the therapist informed me this afternoon that looking/reading a computer screen isn't a break since there's something about a computer screen that makes our eyes work harder than they would reading printed materials. So, learning more about chickens than I'll ever be able to remeber right now because I've unknowingly been prolonging my recovery by not taking proper breaks. Brain injuries are not that fun to deal with and are extremely frustrating, as it turns out.

 

[COChix]

While at work, yes. While I should be working, no. Per my speech therapists orders for brain trauma recovery, I can only do about 30mins of concentrated work before needing to take a break. Right now, 30mins for me is about 3hrs for someone with "normal" cognitive function. So, I use those breaks to try and figure out what I should be doing to be a good flock maintainer and possible reasons why my hen Penelope has been acting a bit off this week. Unfortunately, the therapist informed me this afternoon that looking/reading a computer screen isn't a break since there's something about a computer screen that makes our eyes work harder than they would reading printed materials. So, learning more about chickens than I'll ever be able to remeber right now because I've unknowingly been prolonging my recovery by not taking proper breaks. Brain injuries are not that fun to deal with and are extremely frustrating, as it turns out.

Sorry about your struggles, I know how hard it is to be limited by your body, but yet feeling fully able bodied. Darn body has a mind of its own

 

[trsturself]

Update on the eye problem. The chicken has been inside for the last couple days. We've been putting medicine on it but it kept getting worse. I would open the eye but it was just red, nothing else. DD just brought her downstairs about 5 min ago and said, "look". The chicken's eye was half white. We brought her into my bathroom and put a q-tip of Vet Rx up into the roof of her mouth like I had read somewhere on BYC. The white stuff started coming out more. I brushed it with a tissue and a big chunk came out. Then the whole eye turned white. I squeezed her eye and a marble sized hard chunk came popping out. So gross but I'm sure she feels a ton better! We put medicine back on it and still have her inside. Hopefully it will clear up now.

Here is the chunk that came out. I couldn't find anything in my bathroom to give it scale except a fat hair tie thingy.