Colorado

[Mtn Margie]

The winds are screaming up here this am! Feathers all in Kansas - no plucking needed! LOL!

 

[xmonster0]

you could always eat him...... they taste good

 

[Pozees]

Mtn Margie, luckily we did not have screaming winds today, just the usual "breeze."

Separated the 10 chicks from the mamas and daddy Silkie this afternoon - one of the mamas is very unhappy with us, but the rest are fine and the youngsters settled right into their new digs. I will be selling 4 Silkies and a Fayoumi x Speckled Sussex cockerel out of the 10. Will try to get pics tomorrow. Also have a dark Silkie baby (still under a lamp, a week old) available. Planning to grow out a pair of SS x Fayoumi and breed to see what they produce and how well they lay, and grow out a couple of the Silkie chicks this group is producing to see how they mature. Last is a Cream Legbar and I want to grow it out to see how it turns out. When it hatched I was sure it was a pullet, now I'm not sure so have to wait. The SLW I was sure was a cockerel might be a pullet after all. I guess I am just not good at guessing gender LOL.

 

[wsmith]

Posted this over on the Colorado Chickens FB group...

Today we processed most of the excess cockerels, a Narragansett tom and the two BBB tom turkeys. The 27 week old Dominique cockerels averaged 4 pounds dressed weight. Not bad, they look great and will be delicious as always. The Narragansett dressed out at 14.6 pounds, which was a 5 pound drop from live weight. The BBBs were a diffeent story. Live weight was 53 pounds each. Dressed weight was 41.4 and 42 pounds. Monsters!

Two more cockerels to process in a month after they get bigger.

Here are photos of the young chickens from the 2013 hatch that we kept.

 

[Pozees]

Wendell, those BBBs are beyond belief! I am just flabbergasted at how large they got in 6 months!

Looks like you have some nice keepers. I especially like the wings on the pullets.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Way to go Wendell! You are set for awhile.

 

[ACLV]

Is there a a CO-OP or something similar here in Colorado that you can get chicken Feed?

Or even somewhere you can buy the grains to make your own feed?
thanks
Michael

 

[Ashdoes]

Joyful Noise farm
http://cosprings.craigslist.org/grd/4175099048.html

 

[Mtn Margie]

Is there a a CO-OP or something similar here in Colorado that you can get chicken Feed?

Or even somewhere you can buy the grains to make your own feed?
thanks
Michael

Depending on where you are...,,, Agfinity out of Eaton, has stores in Mead and Brighton. Coloradogal was getting feed from there and bringing it to Col. Springs. 20% layer was running $14.20/ 50 lb bag.

 

[samsr]

A couple of my neighbors and i went in on just over two tons of feed from Agland out of Eaton at a pretty good discount. I know the owner of a trucking company that brought it to my door for free freight. You cand ask for a better deal than that. We should be set throuhh the winter. I hope.