Colorado

[Poka Doodle]

Hi, I have been here before, I am keeping the details to my self but, if anyone is going to Arapahoe County Fair, I will be there also I will have a cake at the state contest and hopefully just around at state

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good luck in your contest!

 

[Poka Doodle]

Good luck in your contest!

Thanks, it is in 1 month. Right now I have fair, I have posted the same thing a couple times but here it is, just thinking of randomness I should take a picture of my chicken food in the barn for county fair, what I think 5 BANTAMS will consume in 5 days, it is 3 gallon sized bags filled along with 5 sandwich bags filled.

 

[uzisuzuki]

Okay. Dumb question time again from me.

I know there's such a thing as hen saddles/aprons to help protect the hens backs. Is there anything in the way of patterns or already made saddles that can help cover a little higher up around the neck area?

 

[PrettyWhitty23]

I have a few bantam cockersls for sale.... Bottom picture is a very small Killdeer my daughter found caught in the weeds by the pond at dusk, she put it out the next morning, hopefully it found it momma!!! After reading up on them, they are ready to go after they hatch.

Are all of them frizzled like the one pictured looked like? I want some frizzles so bad. I'm really wanting to get or hatch a frizzled naked neck.

 

[suncatcher]

Quote: I have several frizzled pure breed Bantam Cochin cockerals for sale. Blacks, Brown Reds, and Mottleds. I don't have Naked Necks though...... PM me, and I can send you pictures of everyone I have available.

 

[uzisuzuki]

Mercury laid her first egg this morning!



I thought she was hurt because she was in one of the top nesting boxes, but she was laying an egg! She's only 17 weeks old and I wasn't expecting this for another 4 weeks or so. It's so tiny and the lightest shade of brown (kind of like her white feathers).


(size/colour comparison with an egg from one of her parent hens)

 

[COChix]

Thank you for your kind words. It's The worst nightmare... Well we have 9 bantams, including a cute little silkie rooster. And we have about 10one month old chicks. Americana's and SFH. One of the bantams is sitting on eggs so she will stay put for right now.

Sorry about your situation, trust me I understand. We recently had to sell 16 of our egg layers after we found out we will be moving at the end of our lease.

I DM'd you (and also told you that already), but I wanted to post a picture of her since I realized I kinda just left my update on Day 2 with her. I've got a TBI so I'm kind of an airhead most of the time now. I don't do it intentionally, so I apologize for that. I love her! She's integrated with my 3 youngest chicks, either because they were easier to hang with or because she thinks they're her babies. I haven't figured it out just yet. When I named her, she hadn't been guarding the babies of the flock yet, but it turned out to be the right name* for her. She lets me handle her a lot better than my eldest pullet, Mercury, currently does. She even tried to come to work with me this morning by hopping onto my shoulder every time I turned around. Having her around even got the 3 babies to finally come out of the coop and spend the majority of the day out in the pen with her and everyone else (once she got used to everything). I don't know what I was so worried about in the beginning! Newbie jitters, I guess. They all have been keeping me busy, along with my dogs. They're a nice way to come down off the ledge that my day job leaves me on. *I named her after the X-Men character Ava'Dara, codenamed Warbird. She's a character that is/was basically a protector/guardian figure for a child character in the comics. Ava'Dara comes from an alien race of bird humaniods and she basically has feathered hair that looks exactly like the Sumatra feathers. Good naming all around on there!

Pretty girl and love the name.

Okay. Dumb question time again from me. I know there's such a thing as hen saddles/aprons to help protect the hens backs. Is there anything in the way of patterns or already made saddles that can help cover a little higher up around the neck area?

What about cutting the end of s sock and sew the frayed ends and pull it over the birds neck? Just a thought I had.

Mercury laid her first egg this morning! I thought she was hurt because she was in one of the top nesting boxes, but she was laying an egg! She's only 17 weeks old and I wasn't expecting this for another 4 weeks or so. It's so tiny and the lightest shade of brown (kind of like her white feathers). (size/colour comparison with an egg from one of her parent hens)

Pretty egg, congrats!

 

[Mtn Margie]

Congrats on the egg Uzi! Kinda cool huh....

 

[uzisuzuki]

Sorry about your situation, trust me I understand. We recently had to sell 16 of our egg layers after we found out we will be moving at the end of our lease.
Pretty girl and love the name.
What about cutting the end of s sock and sew the frayed ends and pull it over the birds neck? Just a thought I had.
Pretty egg, congrats!

That's a good Idea about the sock. I'll have to try that out. Thank you!