Colorado

[maggiemo]

• uzisuzuki
  
• Where do you live? Maybe post a sign at the local feed store that you found a rooster?

 

[trsturself]

Did you pick some of the birds up and feel their pelvises? The birds laying will have about 2 1/2 to three fingers of width between bones. The molting/non-layers will have pelvis bones almost touching.....you probably knew this.....

I know which ones should be laying. We actually got another egg today. It was one from the small cochin. Makes me lean more toward something is stealing them or eating them. My friend had 2 eggs in her box.

Thanks for the offer. I'll ask my husband if he wants to borrow a pellet gun before her buys one to see if it is something he wants to do.
I am really grateful for the info.

My husband is an NRA instructor if you want to take an intro to guns class.

 

[COChix]

Today all of our EE laid, here is a shot of their eggs. We very between light baby blue and sort of a greenish/blue. Also from 30g to 50g.

 

[jime]

My boys are healing up nicely after their crow reduction surgery, buc member dretd did a fantastic job and I'm so thankful. They have a funny wheezing sound which is normal, my semi-quieted rooster Lenny makes the same noises.

A speckled sussex makes a very loud whooo hoo sports fan scream for his crow. I hate it. He's the first one slated to become a capon Saturday. And we're going to try to get them all done by the end of this weekend. My bf is taking Monday & Tuesday off work to help me get the rest of the work done to get these roosters and ducks off to freezer camp, and to move the Am. white bresse, haffies and cemanis outside. They are getting so big!

I got rid of a pair of muscovy ducks last night, now I'm down to just 8. But idk the sex of 4




Can anyone sex these ducks? I keep second guessing myself, I think the 2 black ones are boys, the brown ones girls?

not an expert but the 4th for sure duck, the 3rd a drake number 1 and 2 is hard the amount of coruncles is deceiving for males, is lots easier in my country because they do look like the real think you can identify them at about 3 weeks.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Hello, fellow Coloradans! I'm new to BYC and chickens in general. I was directed to this part of the forum from the New Members section, so I thought I'd introduce myself!

My name is Summer and I have ended up taking in a rooster that got lost and was trying to live on my grandparents' front porch. Since signing up on BYC, I've gotten some conflicting rooster care advice so hopefully I'll be able to figure out what I'm doing or I find his original owner soon!

Hope today finds you smiling!

Welcome! Rooster care? Just ask your questions - a lot of us have roosters and I bet we could help out Colorado style!

 

[suncatcher]

Have been busy building, and adding on to coops here, such beautiful fall weather!!!! Love it!

We are getting three or four eggs a day from 17 hens, yikes, but on a happy note my home grown pullets are laying, started at 20 weeks, so even though they are half Barnevelder, they started laying three months before my pure breed Barnies!!! Pullet eggs below are on the left.



I used my Barnevelder over Austrawhite this year, hoping so some good sized girls, I will add JG next year.





i think this one is a cockeral, will see what he weighs after processing......

 

[maggiemo]

I'm no expert but that sure looks like a hen to me.

 

[suncatcher]

Updated pictures from today......

 

[trsturself]

One of our bantam cochins is laying again. We've gotten a small light brown egg for 3 days now. I also got 2 eggs out of my friend's boxes yesterday. We put out some ceramic eggs today. It will be interesting to see if they either disappear or we break some egg eaters of their habits and we get more eggs.

 

[Ashdoes]

Have you tried raising their protein? That always helps my girls. Most of mine are molting right now, so I'm trying to force them to eat the feather fixer pellets. It worked last year, and I got eggs all winter.