Colorado

[maggiemo]

Latestarter, re the pullets in your nest boxes. I often have that problem until they start laying, then they roost with everyone else. Mine always sort themselves out when they lay.

3 chicks now! A few more pipped!

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[COChix]

3 chicks now! A few more pipped! 

I demand pics, PLEASE

 

[21hens-incharge]

3 chicks now! A few more pipped!

Ok lol that is enough silly pics. I am truly very happy and excited for you.

 

[Latestarter]

Latestarter, re the pullets in your nest boxes. I often have that problem until they start laying, then they roost with everyone else. Mine always sort themselves out when they lay.

3 chicks now! A few more pipped!

These birds (BOs) are already laying, and have been for quite a while... They all have saddle sores to varying degrees on their backs as well, so I know they're being mated. On another note:

Update: Just checked on eggs and found a BO pullet inside a nest box with a 3/4 eaten egg and she was picking at/eating egg saturated straw while I watched. This was one of the groups I found egg residue from yesterday. Was sorely tempted to grab her right then and there and process her, but didn't see her actually eating from the egg, so she might have just happened to be there when I opened the nest box door

There were also 2 eggs in the litter on the floor in their enclosure, both un-molested.

Having had/owned these 4/5 breeds now for 3/4 of a year, over the next couple of months I'm going to be doing some serious evaluation & may decide to process a couple of the groups in their entirety (or sell them at a local chicken swap/farmer's market) and replace them with hatched offspring from the groups I keep, or replacing them with new birds of different breeds.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Latestarter

I have seen hens get into eggs that had a poor shell. Perhaps the eggs being eaten have a thinner shell or some other defect. I have seen my own hens gather in a group and demolish an egg that had a crack in it.
It can become a habit of course but there are remedies posted about on here.

 

[Hayduke27]

Reading about everybody hatching eggs, and the fact I have spring fever, chick fever, and two broody hens... Well it finally got to me. I put 9 eggs out under my broodies last night.

So far, so good. I went out and gave them some treats, and they seem to be just happily brooding away (well, as happy as an angry broody can be!)







I think this puts me on track for a hatch on about Friday the 13th. These will be my good luck chickens!

I hope this works out! I would be very excited to get to watch some mommas raise their chicks!

 

[COChix]

Here is what I found out from Azure for the North Boulder drop for those interested. I might be trying to get an order together by the cut off date.



Tricia,

Thank you for contacting Azure Standard. I am sending you the contact information for the North Boulder Drop site coordinator. You can contact the drop coordinator and learn any other information specific to the drop site. If you would like to join that drop you will be able to place an order by entering the Drop # on the Truck Route page by Manually specify and then click update. You need to have a minimum order of $50 or you will incur a $5 small order fee. There is a 8.5% shipping fee for the total amount of your order. You will have a chance to review the amounts before submitting your final order. You are also welcome to contact us at the number below and we will place your order for you or talk you through how to do it.

L4 Route
North Boulder Drop - Drop # D796689
792 Union Avenue
Boulder, CO 80304
Drop Coordinator: Alexandra Zeljo
Phone: 571-286-9382
Email: [email protected]
By special arrangement she can hold orders

You can visit the following link to check on the order cut off dates for these routes. https://www.azurestandard.com/drops/schedule. The upcoming cut off days for the L4 route is as follows, with a delivery day of Tuesday (please confirm with Drop Coordinator:

L4 - Colorado, New Mexico, Utah
Cutoff Delivery Begins — Delivery Ends
June 17, 2015, 4:02 p.m. Jun. 21, 2015 — Jun. 25, 2015
May 20, 2015, 4:02 p.m. May. 24, 2015 — May. 28, 2015
April 22, 2015, 4:02 p.m. Apr. 26, 2015 — Apr. 30, 2015
March 25, 2015, 4:02 p.m. Mar. 29, 2015 — Apr. 02, 2015
Feb. 25, 2015, 4:02 p.m. Mar. 01, 2015 — Mar. 05, 2015

If you need further assistance please contact us.

Vicky Gall | Customer Service Representative
Azure Standard
79709 Dufur Valley Rd., Dufur, OR 97021
Ph. 971-200-8350
www.azurestandard.com | customerservice203

 

[suncatcher]

Well, the snow has arrived!!! Snowing like crazy now.......

 

[COChix]

Well, the snow has arrived!!!  Snowing like crazy now.......

Snow is coming down in North Boulder, starting to accumulate more.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Been snowing pretty heavily since 6 am here. Some is melting as it hits the roads but sticking to everything else. Wind is picking up and making it near white out conditions in the yard.

Hoping everyone is having a safe day.