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[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Earth dog denver swap is this Saturday.

http://www.denverurbanhomesteading.com/new_page_3.htm

 

[Cellarrat1]

Any news from your wife? Having trouble sleeping as I'm thinking about chicks.......

I'm sure you'll be glad to know yours are leading the way

 

[johnnalei]

Hi all- I have a rhodebar cockerel and a blue spitzhauben cockerel I would like to rehome. I bought the eggs from Greenfire Farms and hatched myself. They are about two months old. They are both very rare and handsome. I live in Arvada and can't keep them. I'm selling for a reasonable price to help pay for the cost of the eggs and feed. Let me know if you're interested

 

[Chesterchook]

Any news from your wife? Having trouble sleeping as I'm thinking about chicks.......

Last update was four total hatched and few new pips

 

[boolabib]

Hi everyone. Im in little seaside town in England...miles away from all of you.! I've just joined this sight in the hope of getting as much info as possible before i buy my first coop!! Im so excited and i haven't even chosen one yet!! Watch this space!!

 

[Chesterchook]

Hi everyone. Im in little seaside town in England...miles away from all of you.! I've just joined this sight in the hope of getting as much info as possible before i buy my first coop!! Im so excited and i haven't even chosen one yet!! Watch this space!!

Welcome! We lived in N Yorkshire for about a year and a half, long enough to not notice the smell of sheep any more

 

[Pozees]

Posting here first, if no takers will post to Craigslist:

Free to good home - Black Tailed Buff Japanese (bantam) cockerel.

I didn't know he was a he until I combined him with the 5 Catdance Silkies, THREE of which are cockerels (do I have luck or what? LOL - at least two are pullets; one is the one that has a slightly crossed beak and I doubt she can be used for breeding, but she can be a beautiful broody) and this little bantam immediately confirmed which of the Silkies were male and who was top male by ruffing up and chest bumping and when they started to circle I took the Japanese cockerel out of the pen and put him by himself. Now he is lonely and I feel bad for him but I can't have him squaring off with the most expensive birds I have.

I will try to take a picture of him later, he is a pretty little thing.

 

[wsmith]

Well, with 12 Dominique hens that are laying, during the past 6 months we have gotten a total of 1091 eggs. (That isn't counting the EE eggs) March alone we got 250 eggs, for a March lay factor of .67. For just last week of March the lay factor went up to .73. (If every hen laid one egg per day, that would be a lay factor of 1.00)
Not too bad. That means that IF each dozen was valued at $3.00, and we were to have sold all of these eggs, the total $ value would have been $272.75.
LOL, of course we gave away a bunch, sent several dozen hatching egg duds to different people, and a couple of failed batches in the incubator........

Nothing like counting chickens or eggs before they are hatched.......

 

[cosbackyard]

Earth dog denver swap is this Saturday.

http://www.denverurbanhomesteading.com/new_page_3.htm

Thanks for that link. Wish they had something like that down here.

 

[Pozees]

Well, with 12 Dominique hens that are laying, during the past 6 months we have gotten a total of 1091 eggs. (That isn't counting the EE eggs) March alone we got 250 eggs, for a March lay factor of .67. For just last week of March the lay factor went up to .73. (If every hen laid one egg per day, that would be a lay factor of 1.00)
Not too bad. That means that IF each dozen was valued at $3.00, and we were to have sold all of these eggs, the total $ value would have been $272.75.
LOL, of course we gave away a bunch, sent several dozen hatching egg duds to different people, and a couple of failed batches in the incubator........

Nothing like counting chickens or eggs before they are hatched.......

I noticed the lay rate here shot up the last week or so of March too. Except yesterday, pretty sure it's because I cleaned about 2/3 of the deep litter out of the coop and replaced it with a smaller amount of clean shavings to re-start deep litter for the spring. They hate change LOL.