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Both new pullets are now laying. One started at 22 weeks, the other at 23 weeks.

Molted feathers on the others are coming back in very fast, so we should be seeing an upswing in lay rate soon.

Snow and ice on the car this morning......
 
sacramento said:
With hatching eggs under a broody... do I need to worry about humidity? Or am I good to go? Thanks
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They should be fine if they are local eggs and not shipped. If you have a nice broody, yeah I know, you can check on them during hatching or just let things be as they turn out.
 
Coming up on Oct 26 is the Rocky Mtn Feather Fanciers poultry show at the Adams County Fairgrounds. Many breeds of chickens, plus ducks, pigeons, turkeys, geese.
These bantam cochin youngsters will be in the sale area (unless they sell earlier!) They are from my silver laced project, 4 females and 2 males. If they could all go together, I'm asking $25. Also have 2 younger ones of similar color, $2 each.




 
So this morning I went out to check on my hens and found my favorite girl dead. She was just laying there with no apparent signs of injury. She was an 8 month old laying speckled sussex and the most vocal of my flock. It is so quiet out there now, just adding to my sadness. Does anyone know how I might be able to determine cause of death? None of the other birds are acting differently and she had no signs of illness yesterday. She came out of the coop this morning and was still warm when I picked her up. Are there ways I could check her crop or anything else for blockage or something else? I'm so new to this and want to make sure there isn't something I could do to prevent future loss.

I was wondering if anyone in the Denver area knew of someone who might process her for me or could guide me to a resource for me to learn how to do it myself. I feel it would be incredibly wasteful and cruel to just 'throw her away.'
 
jgurshtein said:
So this morning I went out to check on my hens and found my favorite girl dead. She was just laying there with no apparent signs of injury. She was an 8 month old laying speckled sussex and the most vocal of my flock. It is so quiet out there now, just adding to my sadness. Does anyone know how I might be able to determine cause of death? None of the other birds are acting differently and she had no signs of illness yesterday. She came out of the coop this morning and was still warm when I picked her up. Are there ways I could check her crop or anything else for blockage or something else? I'm so new to this and want to make sure there isn't something I could do to prevent future loss.

I was wondering if anyone in the Denver area knew of someone who might process her for me or could guide me to a resource for me to learn how to do it myself. I feel it would be incredibly wasteful and cruel to just 'throw her away.'
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I'm so sorry that happened.
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