Colorado

[Pozees]

Nic!. Funny how that Silkie is in almost every picture!!!! lol

They are so funny, I just love their personalities - they want to be involved in everything I do out there. The RIR are content to watch from the back of the pen, but the Silkies will risk being stepped on to have front row seats Have to look before every step I take.

 

[Percheron chick]

There are 2 ads on Denver CL that might interest someone here. There is a feather picker and racks and racks of quail breeding pens.

If anyone knows of a used GQF brooder for sale, I'm looking for a second one for next winter.

 

[gardendufus]

Wow, shade cloth can get heavy at that size, good job! Tell me about this Tek Supply Remnant page? Must go search ...

Pozees, here's the link.........To give you an idea, that piece was $32, unfinished (meaning no border or grommets (?) so bought enough clips for 1 every 2 feet or so. The clips I bought were $ .42 each, and were easy to put on. They had another fancier clip that was more expensive. Shipping was slightly less than $16.00. I bought about the smallest piece they had, but the list changes every day. I like it so much, now I'm watching for some 4' or 6' wide to fill in a few areas on the sides of my coop. It's a knitted poly fabric, so supposedly won't unravel and theoretically you can cut it without ruining it.

http://www.teksupply.com/contractor...s&breadcrumb_categoryIds=|51357&maxRecords=40

 

[Pozees]

Pozees, here's the link.........To give you an idea, that piece was $32, unfinished (meaning no border or grommets (?) so bought enough clips for 1 every 2 feet or so. The clips I bought were $ .42 each, and were easy to put on. They had another fancier clip that was more expensive. Shipping was slightly less than $16.00. I bought about the smallest piece they had, but the list changes every day. I like it so much, now I'm watching for some 4' or 6' wide to fill in a few areas on the sides of my coop. It's a knitted poly fabric, so supposedly won't unravel and theoretically you can cut it without ruining it.

http://www.teksupply.com/contractor/supplies/ScroungeCentralDisplay?catalogId=12051&categoryId=51357&group=$ALL$&subGroup=555&top=N&breadcrumb_trail=|Shade+Remnants&breadcrumb_categoryIds=|51357&maxRecords=40

Thank you!

 

[Pozees]

So I had a zero hatch on my Cream Legbars, had 11 go into lockdown but pretty much expected no hatch, the shells were hard to see through so I just put anything that looked dark into the hatcher. Saw no movement. Checked yesterday (day 24) and no peeps, no movement that I could detect, so knew for sure there would not be a hatch.

On the positive side I hatched a shipped Blue Silkie egg and 2 Silkie eggs laid here - finally - between ambient temp issues and turner failure in late April and early May I was getting nothing, and was starting to get concerned! Have more headed to lockdown this coming Tuesday, and should have a better hatch, had more eggs to set by this set date (5/10) and it had started to warm up. Will break out the Canon and snap a few pics of them and better pics of the Cochins and the White Silkie Cockerel, hopefully tomorrow.

Two of the four adult Silkie hens are now brooding eggs. One had gone broody the 18th, then another joined her yesterday, the new one took over the original hen's eggs today (yesterday she was just sitting right with her) so I gave the original hen the 5 I had saved and she already had two laid today by the other two hens who are not (yet) broody. Now I will be lifting two hens off nests to collect newly laid eggs every day - and they don't especially care for it I gave them an additional box but the two still laying have yet to use it. So one has 8 and one has 7 eggs, that should hatch within a week of one another, if they hatch - that pen is going to get full fast, I guess I need to work on new plans LOL.

 

[pichuris]

Been busy with being me. Hope everyone is having a beautiful time.

Wendell did I miss the update on Abe's fertility? Was that this week you were checking?

Skier I'm so sorry for your lose. Big cyber hug

I should have chicks hatching this week.

Pozees some nice little ones you got there.

Mayah how are the chickies doing?

WHATS TODAY? LOCKDOWN BABY! So total of 39 went into lock down, 2 of those were questionable they are either slow pokes or they quit a few days ago. Started with 51. We are having a birthday party for my son on Monday so I hope that the kids will be able to see some hatch. I think that will be fun for them. Of course lots of supervision since last year they got into bator and broke some eggs. That was gross.

Update on broody: So I asked about taking eggs from my broody hen to give her others. Well I took your advise and decided just to leave them. Candled those eggs couple days ago and all 7 are looking good.

This sounds strangely like the politicians in our government. All except the finally getting along part.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Doorknob bird...

I went to close up the coop tonight and my beak count came up one short. Two of our girls have been escaping daily so we have started tearing down the run to rebuild it better (going to move grow out pullets and meaties in there in two months). Fencing is still up around most of the run (DH took down the decorative lattice work and is waiting for the rest until Monday) but I started leaving the run door open. We were just letting the gals have the run of the backyard because my EEs would escape and then freak out because they couldn't get back. There isn't anything back there that could hurt them and without a boost they couldn't get over the regular fencing so I didn't think it would be an issue.

Add to having a missing hen; I saw something scrabble over the back fence near the coop when I came out. I couldn't get a good look but it was either a large cat or a juvenile fox (??). It just seemed to move wrong for a cat but what I saw of the body shape was catlike but 'cat' just doesn't seem to fit. This thing had to seriously scrabble to get over the fence, whatever it was. I am hoping it was just someone's overfed lap cat.

Good news is we found Sunny. She had 'trapped' herself on the wrong side of the coop. Seems she forgot where the door to get in was so she perched on a wheelbarrow.

 

[pichuris]

Chick_In_The_Burbs
Whew what a close one.

 

[gardendufus]

So I added an external nest box (it's a community box) to my coop earlier this spring....March, April? It's a shame my memory is going. But I only opened it up to the coop last week. I left my floor level nest boxes which actually work great, but I want the floor space since I increased my coop size. I couldn't decide on whether leaving them in would keep the girls laying in the old box or if taking them out would confuse them so much they would just lay on the floor without discovering the new box.

Well, my EE and my Dominique found the new box on the first day and have been laying there ever since. Today there were 5 eggs in it, so the others seem to like it too. I think with only one laying in the other boxes, I can probably remove the old ones and the holdout hen will probably follow the others to MY preferred laying box. WHEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

[coloradogal]

broody mama with her babies roosting. she still tries to cover them with her wings. edit: mama was a black star. the greys h have muffs so are most likely olive eggers. the black is most likely a marans cross hen. I placed 11 under her, only 3 survived the dog attack/ her weight. her other baby was from the prior hatch who decided she needed a mama. she took an almost 4 week old in with her 3.

the last hatch and yashars are still in the house. the hatch that was in the house when Shi many outside