Colorado

[ksp1]

Hi all I'm here in northern CO! Anyone raise call ducks?

 

[WendyGeisler]

Well I am finished with this hatch and ended up with 10 chicks out of 15 eggs. Not to bad for a second timer!
I had blue and black marans eggs and 2 of the chicks are white. One has stripes. The rest are black and blue.
Has anyone ever had a white marans ?
Here are some pictures...

 

[Pozees]

Well I am finished with this hatch and ended up with 10 chicks out of 15 eggs. Not to bad for a second timer!
I had blue and black marans eggs and 2 of the chicks are white. One has stripes. The rest are black and blue.
Has anyone ever had a white marans ?
Here are some pictures...

I've never had Marans so no idea about the whites, but this is a beautiful chick! Congrats on your hatch!

 

[Pozees]

Hi all I'm here in northern CO! Anyone raise call ducks?

Welcome! Don't know how many have call ducks in CO, I just have chickens, but nice to have another Colorado member!

 

[dennarahl]

Wow....., I just heard from cackle and they are shipping me my chicks Wednesday . I am half panicked and half excited. I have 16 layers and decided to do meaties. 10 red broilers and 15 Cornish cross. And hopefully 5 Marans for eggs! My extended coop for the meaties isn't started yet and so now we finally get snow. I know I wanted to raise some chicks for meat but the reality is kicking in. Has anyone else had that feeling? Got a giant long box from Big R for the brooder, usually only use a wire dog kennel. Hope it will be large enough for a couple weeks. We have the pallets collected for a pallet coop. Should go up fairly easy if I can get the weather to cooperate. It will be 8x8x8 so I can stand in it to clean, and they will have access to a meadow to range. Oh my goodness how did March sneak up on me so fast.i still want to go into the Peyton post office to tell them it is ok to call me at 5 or as soon as they come in. They are so nice there.......breathe........

I'm really interested to hear about how you pallet coop goes. we started to try one and it was just too darn hard to pull the darn things apart where we needed to.

 

[ShysCreations]

SMALL ANIMAL WORKSHOPS​

RABBITS –101 POULTRY – 101​

(INCLUDES BACKYARD POULTRY)

March 30th, 2013

Colorado State Fair Grounds
Livestock Building (Heated)

$2.00 Admission fee, 6 years old and older​

“Schedule of Events”

4-H Club Breakfast Concession (Begin 8:00 AM)​

POULTRY WORKSHOPS: RABBIT WORKSHOPS:

9:00 am - Begin the Poultry Project 9:00 am – Begin the Rabbit Project
Goals(4-H, personal, show, or??) Goals (4-H, personal, show, or ??)
Selection of Birds for Project Selection of Rabbits for Project
9:45 am – Housing, feeding, care, health 9:45 am – Housing, feeding, care, health
10:15 am- Break 10:15 am- Break
10:30 am- 4-H and/or Show Projects Attendees 10:30 am- 4-H and/or Show Projects Attendees
How to Select Bird(s) and enter a show How to Select Rabbit(s) and enter a show
Safe transport to a show Safe transport to a show
Setting up a show Setting up a show
10:30 am- More Specifics for Backyard Poultry

12:00 NOON – LUNCH BREAK –4-H Club Concession
​

12:45 pm-Showmanship for Poultry 12:45 pm- Showmanship for Rabbits
1:30 pm – Judging Clinic for Poultry 1:30 pm - Judging Clinic for Rabbits
2:15 pm – Fun Showmanship (with Prizes) 2:15 pm – Fun Showmanship (with Prizes)
3:00 pm – Fun Poultry Judging (with Prizes) 3:00 pm – Fun Rabbit Judging (with Prizes)

3:45 – 4:00 PM (Say your goodbye’s to new and old Friends)
Final check of Supplies, Animals, etc. available for Sale
Lots of hand outs will be available to pick up

DRIVE HOME SAFELY AND TELL OTHERS WHAT THEY MISSED!!

SPONSORED BY: COLORADO STATE FAIR, COLORADO POULTRY ASSN.,
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH SHOWS

Contacts: Marie Adams, e-mail: [email protected]
Bruce Murdoch, e-mail: [email protected]​

 

[Chesterchook]

Woohoo, just set our first batch in the incubator. 21 days seems like a really long time now...

 

[jgurshtein]

Does anybody around the Denver metro area own cochins or polish chickens and can sell me hatching eggs??

I don't know about eggs, but the Littleton Murdoch's just got a batch of black cochin chicks in TODAY!! SO CUTE! I got my own...


We got two light brahmas.... they're SOOO photogenic.


Here's our Speckled Sussex



This brings our flock to completion, 7 in total:
2 buff orpingtons
1 silver laced wyandotte
2 light brahmas
1 speckles sussex
1 black cochin

SOOO EXCITED!!

 

[Pozees]

I'm really interested to hear about how you pallet coop goes. we started to try one and it was just too darn hard to pull the darn things apart where we needed to.

We didn't even get that far - I mentioned it as a possibility and Bob said pulling them apart was much harder than I thought it was LOL. I wonder if they can be cut apart with a sawzall?

I have seen a couple examples of coops built from whole pallets but they were nicer and bigger pallets than I've ever seen around here.

 

[Pozees]

SMALL ANIMAL WORKSHOPS​

RABBITS –101 POULTRY – 101​

(INCLUDES BACKYARD POULTRY)

March 30th, 2013

Colorado State Fair Grounds
Livestock Building (Heated)

$2.00 Admission fee, 6 years old and older​

“Schedule of Events”

4-H Club Breakfast Concession (Begin 8:00 AM)​

POULTRY WORKSHOPS: RABBIT WORKSHOPS:

9:00 am - Begin the Poultry Project 9:00 am – Begin the Rabbit Project
Goals(4-H, personal, show, or??) Goals (4-H, personal, show, or ??)
Selection of Birds for Project Selection of Rabbits for Project
9:45 am – Housing, feeding, care, health 9:45 am – Housing, feeding, care, health
10:15 am- Break 10:15 am- Break
10:30 am- 4-H and/or Show Projects Attendees 10:30 am- 4-H and/or Show Projects Attendees
How to Select Bird(s) and enter a show How to Select Rabbit(s) and enter a show
Safe transport to a show Safe transport to a show
Setting up a show Setting up a show
10:30 am- More Specifics for Backyard Poultry

12:00 NOON – LUNCH BREAK –4-H Club Concession
​

12:45 pm-Showmanship for Poultry 12:45 pm- Showmanship for Rabbits
1:30 pm – Judging Clinic for Poultry 1:30 pm - Judging Clinic for Rabbits
2:15 pm – Fun Showmanship (with Prizes) 2:15 pm – Fun Showmanship (with Prizes)
3:00 pm – Fun Poultry Judging (with Prizes) 3:00 pm – Fun Rabbit Judging (with Prizes)

3:45 – 4:00 PM (Say your goodbye’s to new and old Friends)
Final check of Supplies, Animals, etc. available for Sale
Lots of hand outs will be available to pick up

DRIVE HOME SAFELY AND TELL OTHERS WHAT THEY MISSED!!

SPONSORED BY: COLORADO STATE FAIR, COLORADO POULTRY ASSN.,
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH SHOWS

Contacts: Marie Adams, e-mail: [email protected]
Bruce Murdoch, e-mail: [email protected]​

Thanks for posting this, Shy!