Colorado

[kingcocker]

they are getting tough by now, maybe stew or something

Actually given a couple shots of rum before butchering to relax the animal preventing tenseness in the meat, and a overnight marinade will work wonders.

 

[COChix]

Actually given a couple shots of rum before butchering to relax the animal preventing tenseness in the meat, and a overnight marinade will work wonders.

Hi, welcome to the Colorado thread. So what breeds do you have and how many?

 

[kingcocker]

Hi, welcome to the Colorado thread. So what breeds do you have and how many?

I breed imported birds Malay, Rose comb Yokohama and OEG/ BB game, bearded and non.

 

[suncatcher]

Quote: I help only if they don;t progess after 24 hours. There is a great thread here on BYC that explains how to do it with the best results. Motst important is looking for blood, if they are bleeding a long after helping, I put them back in and try again in another hour. I have helped at least six chicks hatch, probably lost two of them....... so is a gamble, but at least give them a fighting chance.

 

[suncatcher]

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My hatching eggs (50 at a time) sit on the bottom of the incubator, I turn them 3 times a day by rolling across them with my palm, the main thing is that they move, I have a 80-90% hatch rate and that is good enough for me, I am too old to do more fancy stuff.
I don;t hatch many at a time, so enjoy turning them! lol Weird, I know!!!

 

[uzisuzuki]

I help only if they don;t progess after 24 hours. There is a great thread here on BYC that explains how to do it with the best results. Motst important is looking for blood, if they are bleeding a long after helping, I put them back in and try again in another hour. I have helped at least six chicks hatch, probably lost two of them....... so is a gamble, but at least give them a fighting chance.

Thank you. I'm not sure when this one pipped (must have been sometime last night), but the word from home is it still looks like it did this morning:



The chick was chirping when I left, but I don't know if it still is now. I am pretty sure that humidity was a major issue with this hatch since the eggs are from GA and we were unbelievably dry the past few weeks. The air sacs were a lot bigger on these eggs at lockdown than my flock's eggs last month at the same time. I was prepared for a fail on these but I'm still feeling a bit disappointed. However, it might just be Nature's way of telling me to wait until I'm not taking a pay cut every month for medical purposes to try and have 2 separate flocks. I am grateful to my mom for not letting me give up on trying to hatch them. If nothing else, it was a good $25 learning experience.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I am still hopeful for you Uzi. I know how much you love the littles.

 

[oshun55555]

Quote:
My hatching eggs (50 at a time) sit on the bottom of the incubator, I turn them 3 times a day by rolling across them with my palm, the main thing is that they move, I have a 80-90% hatch rate and that is good enough for me, I am too old to do more fancy stuff.
I don;t hatch many at a time, so enjoy turning them! lol Weird, I know!!!

Don't get me wrong suncatcher, I love rolling my palm over those eggs knowing little babies are inside, it just brings out my paternal nature, which seems to have grown as I have aged. But the way I do with 50 eggs at a crack is quicker for me and I still get the kick out of turning them.

 

[maggiemo]

Good Morning Colorado

Wet snow and rain here in South Boulder. Visibility is about 50 feet.

What's going on Uzi? Any chicks?

 

[DanicaDream]

hey everyone,

It's been a while since I've been on- life got really crazy, but I'm so glad I had my chickens to keep me sane. Seriously, is there anything better than watching your girls in the backyard to take away your worries?

A little about me- we got chickens about 2 years ago after participating in the movement in Unincorporated Jefferson County to get backyard chickens. We had four, but one turned out to be a roo, so he got sent to grandma's farm. So we've had our three girls, a Salmon Faverolle (Gwennie), a Gold-Laced Wyandotte (Lacy), and a Black Australorp (Nyssa) since then. Love, love, my girls. Our kids are really involved in an equestrian organization called Westernaires, and they've been wanting horses, so we decided to sell our house and find a place where we could have horses. We moved in to our new house in Conifer a week ago.

The new house has 8.2 acres, two ponds, and is just gorgeous! (And yes, we have more than a foot of snow today!) The place also came with chickens, ducks, and geese, because the previous owners could not take them with them, and they asked us if we'd keep the birds. I said yes. So we have 11 new chickens, 2 new ducks, and 6 new geese. The geese are sitting on some eggs, so I think we'll have goslings soon. I've been chatting with folks in the goose area because it looks like I'm going to have to change their setup to make it safer for all the birds.

We brought our coop with us, so my girls are still in their old coop and I haven't mixed flocks yet. They can see each other through the fence, but they haven't made contact yet. My chickens have been up here for about two weeks. We had to live in a hotel for the ten days between closings, and the previous owners here were nice enough to let us bring up our coop and chickens early.

Also, would love to connect with anyone else up here in the foothills. I had a good handle on keeping my chickens safe in the burbs, but up here, there are so many more predators. I haven't seen signs of any yet, but apparently, the first couple of nights my chickens were up here, the other people saw tracks of something trying to get in our coop.

Danica