Colorado

[uzisuzuki]

Crowing contest at 330 am today.. I ignored it forcing my beloved to get dressed and get each (total of 6) loud roosters.

If I had taken care of it like usual, he would still be in denial, and keep telling me "Baby those roos aren't that loud. Let them live"

He isn't saying that anymore after this morning.

This flu won't let go it's grip on me. Today I started coughing up green yellow phlegm. No longer clear. And way more of it than I've had over the past few weeks. My new nickname is "snot blossom". I think I need to go to the dr. But I don't drive, he's all the way in Parker and the bf has to work.

On a brighter note, my bf ordered me the hovabator 1588, the janoel 48 and the brinsea xlg brooder heater.

I'm so eggcited to hatch my own chicks!

I hope you start feeling better soon!

 

[COChix]

Turkeys:
   The processing size/ age depends on the breed.  The BBB will reach heavy weights after 3 months and the regular turkey breeds might need about 5 or even 6 to reach 15/20 lbs.
There are differences in the breeds for sure.
We had some BBB a few years ago and had to use a pulley system to help with scalding and we used a medium sized NEW metal garbage can for our 40+ lb turkey.  Worked great!
He dressed out at like 35 lbs.  Ridiculous.... 

WELCOME all newbies and all new to the thread.  Nice to have more voices on here.  :cd

Thanks for the info on the Turks, a friend in Meeker has raised them and had her largest one was 45 lbs. dressed out. Need to find out which breed.

 

[Mtn Margie]

DK-

Just so you know, hatching your own gives you about half roos and dual-purpose birds don't really reach a great processing weight until 5 months or so. LOTS of crowing
and some (depends on the boys) serious fighting and mostly just "King of the Hill Mayhem." Your gonna need earplugs......

 

[suncatcher]

I don't think she was pecked. She was originally one of my friend's chickens but she kept flying over to my side and blended in with my flock seemlessly, no matter how many times I put her back on the other side she came back over, so I bought her from my friend.

My parents found out about the noni on a trip to HI, there are a lot of testimonials about it helping with animal injuries/infections so I thought I'd give it a try. So far it is has helped take the swelling down. I'm really not sure what's wrong though. It looks as if she doesn't have an eye at all anymore. Here is a pic. As you can see, she has her eye lid open but there's just red there. The crusty stuff above and below the eye is the dried noni. I don't know what the white chunk in the corner of her eye is. I got a big chunk like that out the other day. It's hard and white.

I'm going to start a thread about it and see what people say.

It looks like it is her eye lid that is stuck over the eye, but what do I know. Do chickens have an extra eye lid like dogs who get Cherry Eye???? I would bring her inside and soak it every hour or so, see if you can unstick it. Starting a thread on it is a great idea too!!!!! She should make unless she gets a secondary infection or has something else going on.......... Poor girl!

Yep, live in the high country, love the summers here, the winters, ummmm, not so much!!! lol

Sounds like your BF got a dose of reality this morning, having to go and put the roosters up himself. Hope you get better, lots of stuff going around, also read this flu season is going to be a bad one, shots that were given, may not even work this year!!

 

[Ashdoes]

I read that article, about the flu shot this year being for the wrong flu. Apparently the strain "drifted" and a different one became the main one. I was a little upset about that, I hate getting sick and have gotten the flu shot the last 8 years...the article came out a week after I got vaccinated. One of my daughters has already gotten the stomach flu, the rest of us lucked out and had no issues.
Been making fudge all day, 9 lbs done, 6 to go. This is way more work than someone who can't eat it, should put into it, but everyone LOVES fudge.
I'm pretty irritated my chickens aren't laying yet, even though they all seem to be done molting. None of the older Cochins, or legbars have started back up. I'm feeding a bunch of free loaders.

 

[suncatcher]

LOL on the free loader comment, I have "labled" my hens with those same words! hehehehehehehe

but, the no eggs seems to be over here!

Mine are picking up, four eggs yesterday! My Marans were the first to start laying again, I am impressed with them this year as it took forever for them to get into their egg laying mode, they were a year old in September, and did not start laying til eight months of age. Now I just need a decent BCM rooster so I can start hatching out some of their eggs! I hate putting those eggs in the fridge for eating, even though it is waaaayyyyy to early for me to start hatching, as I need a hen to go broody, but one usually obliges.

Snowing here, not much, but is a really wet snow, warm enough it melts when it hits the ground.

Fudge sounds yummy, why can't you eat any?????

 

[Ashdoes]

LOL on the free loader comment, I have "labled" my hens with those same words!  hehehehehehehe    but, the no eggs seems to be over here!

Mine are picking up, four eggs yesterday!  My Marans were the first to start laying again, I am impressed with them this year as it took forever for them to get into their egg laying mode, they were a year old in September, and did not start laying til eight months of age.  Now I just need a decent BCM rooster so I can start hatching out some of their eggs!  I hate putting those eggs in the fridge for eating, even though it is waaaayyyyy to early for me to start hatching, as I need a hen to go broody, but one usually obliges. 

Snowing here, not much, but is a really wet snow, warm enough it melts when it hits the ground.

Fudge sounds yummy, why can't you eat any?????

We just culled a couple older hens, and I'm wondering if my Cochins are over the hill as well, but there's really no excuse for the Legbars not to be laying. I'm getting just one egg a day, from one of the legbar mixes.
The fudge is awesome, but I get sugar induced migraines, so tiny tastes to make sure it's not grainy is all I get and that tends to be too much as well. I made chocolate covered cherries last week, like the yummy store bought ones, and had four of them, which ruined my whole next day...now just thinking of eating one makes me nauseated. Lol. They took all day to make, and I just had to try them. My "genius" doctor said, then don't have sugar...I almost called him a name after that stupid comment.

 

[suncatcher]

Hmmm, could be age, most of mine are all under the age of two, but I played around with their protein this year, and it seems to have helped to get it to around 26 percent for a few weeks in them now having most their feathers in. But, who knows, could be the warm December weather too. If my LF Cochins don't sell by spring, I will hatch out a few of their eggs just for the heck of it, to see what they produce.

Wow, sorry about the sugar induced migraine's! I am not sure I could go through life without eating sugar!!!

 

[Mtn Margie]

I read that article, about the flu shot this year being for the wrong flu. Apparently the strain "drifted" and a different one became the main one. I was a little upset about that, I hate getting sick and have gotten the flu shot the last 8 years...the article came out a week after I got vaccinated. One of my daughters has already gotten the stomach flu, the rest of us lucked out and had no issues.
Been making fudge all day, 9 lbs done, 6 to go. This is way more work than someone who can't eat it, should put into it, but everyone LOVES fudge.
I'm pretty irritated my chickens aren't laying yet, even though they all seem to be done molting. None of the older Cochins, or legbars have started back up. I'm feeding a bunch of free loaders.

Just give them til early Jan. You should start getting eggs again after the lengthening daylight triggers them on. I don't call mine freeloaders, I just tell them they get to make a choice, the breakfast table or the dinner table. Seems to work great!

 

[Double Kindness]

I'm seriously looking at one of my ayam cemani roos that has had the crow reduction surgery (he's about 15% as loud as his daddy was... and his daddy was LOUD) as a candidate for freezer camp tonight unless someone wants to buy him for $150 (cost of the surgery). He is from Mike Bean's non Smithsonian line. I have ayam cemani pullets too.

I had 23 roos earlier this fall... these are the last (favorites) left. This was inevitable.

The ac line I have atm throws out 10% all black saturated babies.. a lot of culling would need to be done, but they are surprisingly heavy birds. Boss the ac roo I'm trying to rehome easily weighs 6 lb or more and was hatched late August

Otherwise he is in grave danger of becoming magical healing Korean ginsing soup in his very near future. I'm so sick and desperate... it's my next resort.