Colorado

[Rock Home Isle]

Just thought of a fun activity: When we all have eggs, Real eggs that is, we will need to cook examples of everyone's eggs the same way and see which breed's eggs we all like best! That is, some of us ever get eggs....... real eggs......

"Colorado-Get-Together" with an egg based potluck theme...bring a potluck item that uses your own flock fresh eggs in the ingrediants.

Well it was an idea....for those of you that have eggs.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

On Sunday a lady at church (who we used to get eggs from occasionally) how all of a sudden there were no eggs. They do a total free range thing, (they are off Old Pueblo Road, east bank of Fountain Creek) and are always losing chickens to predators, so she looked and all her hens were there, but no eggs. None were moulting. This went on for a couple of weeks, and they were to a point where they thought they would need to (gasp) BUY eggs!. Then she got up early one morning and stealthily followed a couple of the hens around the yard. They had found an opening and had gotten under the back porch where it wa cool. There were close to 3 dozen eggs there!

That is hilarious.....

OMG....my sides hurt.

I read a post in the Buff Orpington thread that just killed me as well....I'll go find it.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Quote:
Originally Posted by HallFamilyFarm

A fellow with show bantams took an unusual approach to keeping roosters in Tulsa years ago. Seems his new neighbor turned him in. All roosters were removed and taken to a farm outside of the city limits.

A few days later the neighbor heard the roosters again. He called animal control (AC) The AC came out and search all buildings. No roosters. Every day for a few weeks this neighbor called about hearing roosters crow. Each day AC came out and checked. Finally the animal control officer apologized and said they would not be back. It was just a rotten neighbor with apparent mental health issues.

A few days later the fellow took his sound system down from his bantam building, disconnected his tape recorder, and brought his roosters home.

He had been playing a recording of his roosters every morning!

This hit a major funny bone with me...don't know why but it did.

 

[mynamesjenelle]

^^^ Love it!

Or take the plunge and ask one of us who lives near you to give or sell you some. 

That's what I'm hoping for really - a local person who raises their own chickens and has some extras to sell

I'd be willing to drive out to Black Forest or Fountain for em!

 

[wsmith]

Quote:
Originally Posted by HallFamilyFarm

A fellow with show bantams took an unusual approach to keeping roosters in Tulsa years ago. Seems his new neighbor turned him in. All roosters were removed and taken to a farm outside of the city limits.

A few days later the neighbor heard the roosters again. He called animal control (AC) The AC came out and search all buildings. No roosters. Every day for a few weeks this neighbor called about hearing roosters crow. Each day AC came out and checked. Finally the animal control officer apologized and said they would not be back. It was just a rotten neighbor with apparent mental health issues.

A few days later the fellow took his sound system down from his bantam building, disconnected his tape recorder, and brought his roosters home.

He had been playing a recording of his roosters every morning!

This hit a major funny bone with me...don't know why but it did.

 

[wsmith]

I like the idea of an egg based pot luck. Maybe egg / home grown chicken?
Now where did that ornery cockerel go.......

 

[wsmith]

We could call it the Colorado sp-egg-tacular pot luck!

 

[wsmith]

Here's another funny story....

I used to work with a guy from Rural Southern Utah. His grandpa raised a huge garden each year, in fact, it was their single largest food source. So he plants his seed one year, and the neighbor's chickens visit and eat all the seed that had just been planted. He goe to the neighbor and tells him, but the neighbor says his chickens weren't going to his house. So Grandpa Judd plants again. The seeds are eaten again. He talks to the neighbor again, and again denies that HIS chickens would have done that. So grandpa Judd goes back home, thinks for a while and comes up with a solution....
The next day the neighbor apologizes for his chickens. He had gone out to check on them and they were all running around with strings hanging out of their mouths, each with a tag tied to it. The tag said, "I have been eating in the Judd's garden" Grandpa Judd had taken the time to write these tags and attach them to corn seeds.......

 

[wattsjadajoe]

We could call it the Colorado sp-egg-tacular pot luck!

Well, I only have 1 brown egg layer...laying...and I am going on vacation for a spell, but when I get back (hopefully with my wife!!) we would love to do a meet-greet-and-eat!!! (I have 5 house sitter/watcher/Chicken & Rabbit feeders lined up)

I do have 4 Leghorns laying 1/day each though!!

Joe

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Here's another funny story....

I used to work with a guy from Rural Southern Utah. His grandpa raised a huge garden each year, in fact, it was their single largest food source. So he plants his seed one year, and the neighbor's chickens visit and eat all the seed that had just been planted. He goe to the neighbor and tells him, but the neighbor says his chickens weren't going to his house. So Grandpa Judd plants again. The seeds are eaten again. He talks to the neighbor again, and again denies that HIS chickens would have done that. So grandpa Judd goes back home, thinks for a while and comes up with a solution....
The next day the neighbor apologizes for his chickens. He had gone out to check on them and they were all running around with strings hanging out of their mouths, each with a tag tied to it. The tag said, "I have been eating in the Judd's garden" Grandpa Judd had taken the time to write these tags and attach them to corn seeds.......

That is so funy.