Colorado

[Latestarter]

The egg gods like me today... I have already collected 4 and have found 1 for sure, possibly a second, that were eaten before I could get them. This is the most eggs I've had in a day in over a month! Way past time those slackers got back to earning their keep!

Weather doesn't appear to be calling for moisture, but it's gotten completely overcast here... very gray and though too warm, looks and feels like incoming snow. I'd be OK with that as we've only really had one real snow event so far this year, and the year's almost over. Man this past year went fast.

 

[coop410silkies]

The egg gods like me today... I have already collected 4 and have found 1 for sure, possibly a second, that were eaten before I could get them. This is the most eggs I've had in a day in over a month! Way past time those slackers got back to earning their keep!

Weather doesn't appear to be calling for moisture, but it's gotten completely overcast here... very gray and though too warm, looks and feels like incoming snow. I'd be OK with that as we've only really had one real snow event so far this year, and the year's almost over. Man this past year went fast.

Shall we bow down in thanks to the egg goddess? YES! Yeah, the overcast was unsettling. When I looked out the window I thought I was on the wrong planet. My birds seemed to love this day, though, and I was happy for them.

 

[maggiemo]

Hey gang, so I will be doing an experiment with an aquarium heater using it in my ferment buckets, in the garage. So here is my plan to get this going for next week, I will post pics of the process and outcome.

Here is the deal, since moving to Englewood, I have been wanting to get a ferment station going. I don't ferment in the winter in Boulder, as I have no where to ferment inside and nowhere to do it outside without the buckets freezing. Here is the heater we have just laying around, it is programmable to temps between 65-80, I plan to drop it in my bucket for fermenting....

My garage is warm enough to ferment in the winter, but I have to be careful giving it to the girls. They stand in the feed and if it is below, or close to freezing I have had frost bitten toes and combs from the wet fermented food. I only give them a little fermented food at a time in the winter, and only when it is about 40F.
Let us know how that works for you!

 

[maggiemo]

The egg gods like me today... I have already collected 4 and have found 1 for sure, possibly a second, that were eaten before I could get them. This is the most eggs I've had in a day in over a month!

Yay!

 

[COChix]

My garage is warm enough to ferment in the winter, but I have to be careful giving it to the girls. They stand in the feed and if it is below, or close to freezing I have had frost bitten toes and combs from the wet fermented food. I only give them a little fermented food at a time in the winter, and only when it is about 40F.
Let us know how that works for you!

Good points, something someone else pointed out was to make it more like an oatmeal consistency = less water to help avoid those issues. I am planning on either feeding In a heated dog bowl with it half covered so they can't stand in it, or I am going to try the heated dog bowl with the no waste bucket feeder on top.

 

[COChix]

The egg gods like me today... I have already collected 4 and have found 1 for sure, possibly a second, that were eaten before I could get them. This is the most eggs I've had in a day in over a month! Way past time those slackers got back to earning their keep!

Weather doesn't appear to be calling for moisture, but it's gotten completely overcast here... very gray and though too warm, looks and feels like incoming snow. I'd be OK with that as we've only really had one real snow event so far this year, and the year's almost over. Man this past year went fast.

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I found this online and it made me chuckle, for anyone that needs an egg!

 

[uzisuzuki]

Is the poster of this CL ad - http://denver.craigslist.org/grd/5354820105.html - anyone on here?

 

[coop410silkies]

It is WINTER SOLSTICE! today.

 

[coop410silkies]

NNNNNNNNND it is the first day of winter. Oh yay. I shoveled out my buried car two days ago, and then I had to shovel out the mudslide encasing the hot water heater in my crawl space, and after all that, I had to enlist help at Jax to load up my pickup with chicken feed. But Lo, I am at last showered and everything's OKAY now. I have narrowly survived yet another tricky northern Colorado Fall. Hope y'all are faring as well (maybe better) and are ready for our next exciting season. LOL. (Lots of love)

 

[Mtn Margie]

Ain't that the truth! Happy Holidays!