Colorado

[Ashdoes]

Also got my animal blog's logo made today! I want to get it made into a stamp, but I'm not sure if the design is suitable. Gonna have to hit up Etsy tomorrow & hit some stamp makers up. (The stamp would be the design in the circle)

I LOOOOOOVE Etsy!! I swear, I'm on there at least twice a day....sometimes more, if I'm really searching for a crochet pattern. Fun fun!

 

[samsr]

I am glad everyones egg production is u. Mine too! In the past week I have gotten 42 chicken eggs and six goose eggs The goose eggs are a bit harder to find as she like to burry them under abour three inches of dirt. Once I figured out where she likes to lay tem, they have been easier to find. I think It is about time to put up the eggs for sale sign again for the spring and summer. I do still have a couple that are not laying though. I actually got my first dozen in one day, yesterday. I gave them to my neighbor to hatch. Right now between the three neighbors that I know have eggs set I believe we have somewhere around 240 eggs set

Thats going to be a lot of chicks running around. I am going to keep collecting the goose eggs until I get around 20 to 24 from her and then let her lay as many as she wants to try and hatch. I am giving six to my neighbor to try and hatch and I am going to try and hatch some as well. Geese are just plain cute following you around. Besides, it is hard to find geese chicks. I had to drive about 70 miles to Murdocks to get a companion for the one I hatched last year.
My Toulouse has yet to start laying eggs. She may be a later spring layer.

I am in the process of making another incubator. This one is for the neighbor down the street that has a couple hundred chickens. It is made out of a larger wine cooler than I used for mine. It will be a similar style though, just with a few improvements for the size it is. She wants to end up with about 500 The incubator I am building for her should hold 4 turners quite comfortably and have a hatching tray or two in the bottom. I hope to start a test hatch in it over the weekend. I will take a few pics and post them up. I hope it turns out well. I just have to get the air flow right so it is the same temp at the bottom that it is at the top.

 

[uzisuzuki]

I LOOOOOOVE Etsy!! I swear, I'm on there at least twice a day....sometimes more, if I'm really searching for a crochet pattern. Fun fun!

Me too! I'm actually thinking of reopening my shop there since Storenvy isn't a great as I had hoped.

 

[maggiemo]

Holy smokes sam what are you going to do with all those birds?

How many will you keep?

 

[COChix]

We have some new layers...found two tiny eggs today, one blue and one brown. That makes a new Cream leg are layer and a new Cochin. We got six eggs yesterday and only the two tiny eggs today. we have quite the colorful egg basket...

Yeah nice colors.

Holy smokes! All 4 hens laid eggs today! This is crazy.

Also got my animal blog's logo made today! I want to get it made into a stamp, but I'm not sure if the design is suitable. Gonna have to hit up Etsy tomorrow & hit some stamp makers up. (The stamp would be the design in the circle)

Congrats on the eggs and love your design and how you got your little man into the design.

 

[suncatcher]

Holy smokes! All 4 hens laid eggs today! This is crazy.



Also got my animal blog's logo made today! I want to get it made into a stamp, but I'm not sure if the design is suitable. Gonna have to hit up Etsy tomorrow & hit some stamp makers up. (The stamp would be the design in the circle)

Lovely!! Did you draw that????

I am glad everyones egg production is u. Mine too! In the past week I have gotten 42 chicken eggs and six goose eggs The goose eggs are a bit harder to find as she like to burry them under abour three inches of dirt. Once I figured out where she likes to lay tem, they have been easier to find. I think It is about time to put up the eggs for sale sign again for the spring and summer. I do still have a couple that are not laying though. I actually got my first dozen in one day, yesterday. I gave them to my neighbor to hatch. Right now between the three neighbors that I know have eggs set I believe we have somewhere around 240 eggs set

Thats going to be a lot of chicks running around. I am going to keep collecting the goose eggs until I get around 20 to 24 from her and then let her lay as many as she wants to try and hatch. I am giving six to my neighbor to try and hatch and I am going to try and hatch some as well. Geese are just plain cute following you around. Besides, it is hard to find geese chicks. I had to drive about 70 miles to Murdocks to get a companion for the one I hatched last year.
My Toulouse has yet to start laying eggs. She may be a later spring layer.

I am in the process of making another incubator. This one is for the neighbor down the street that has a couple hundred chickens. It is made out of a larger wine cooler than I used for mine. It will be a similar style though, just with a few improvements for the size it is. She wants to end up with about 500 The incubator I am building for her should hold 4 turners quite comfortably and have a hatching tray or two in the bottom. I hope to start a test hatch in it over the weekend. I will take a few pics and post them up. I hope it turns out well. I just have to get the air flow right so it is the same temp at the bottom that it is at the top.

Wow, chicks will be plentiful in your neighborhood!!! Cool on the new incubator, please keep us updated on your progress with building it!!!

 

[uzisuzuki]

Yeah nice colors.
Congrats on the eggs and love your design and how you got your little man into the design.

Thanks! I was just going to make him a silhouette but I kinda like that angry/irritated look he always has. It ended up a lot more detailed than I initially planned on it being, but that's kinda how this whole chicken thing is for me. Just keeps getting bigger and more involved than a single tiny orphaned rooster.

Lovely!! Did you draw that????

Wow, chicks will be plentiful in your neighborhood!!! Cool on the new incubator, please keep us updated on your progress with building it!!!

Thank you! And I did! I'm not very good at drawing animals - my training is more focused on humans/object illustration and sequential art. This is kinda my practice run before I try drawing my little Victorian style portraits of the chickens to put up in the coop when I get it built. OMG I'm such a nerd.

 

[samsr]

Holy smokes sam what are you going to do with all those birds?   How many will you keep? 

Most of those are the ones that my neighbor set. She is borrowing a sportsmans right now. I will probably give her all the chicks i hatch this year minus the geese. Im not quite sure what i will do with the geese that hatch. Probably sell them. The first group of geese will be toulouse/roman tufted cross. They should look like a lighter colored toulouse with a tuft on their head. When my female toulouse starts to lay her should be pure toulouse.

 

[COChix]

I am glad everyones egg production is u.  Mine too!   In the past week I have gotten 42 chicken eggs and six goose eggs  The goose eggs are a bit harder to find as she like to burry them under abour three inches of dirt.  Once I figured out where she likes to lay tem, they have been easier to find.  I think It is about time to put up the eggs for sale sign again for the spring and summer.  I do still have a couple that are not laying though.  I actually got my first dozen in one day, yesterday.  I gave them to my neighbor to hatch.  Right now between the three neighbors that I know have eggs set I believe we have somewhere around 240 eggs set Thats going to be a lot of chicks running around.  I am going to keep collecting the goose eggs until I get around 20 to 24 from her and then let her lay as many as she wants to try and hatch. I am giving six to my neighbor to try and hatch and I am going to try and hatch some as well.  Geese are just plain cute following you around.  Besides, it is hard to find geese chicks.  I had to drive about 70 miles to Murdocks to get a companion for the one I hatched last year.
My Toulouse has yet to start laying eggs.  She may be a later spring layer.
  
I am in the process of making another incubator.  This one is for the neighbor down the street that has a couple hundred chickens.  It is made out of a larger wine cooler than I used for mine.  It will be a similar style though, just with a few improvements for the size it is.  She wants to end up with about 500  The incubator I am building for her should hold 4 turners quite comfortably and have a hatching tray or two in the bottom.   I hope to start a test hatch in it over the weekend.  I will take a few pics  and post them up.  I hope it turns out well.  I just have to get the air flow right so it is the same temp at the bottom that it is at the top.

So do ou usuall take the chicks back after your neighbors hatch or what do you work out with them? Or are you just tring to share your OCD (obsessive chicken disease) with them

 

[jgoldy2]

Does anybody have problems with the cyotes?