Colorado

[alebuela]

Hello Everyone, and Happy New Year to all of you! Catching up here. WELCOME to the newcomers! I love this thread, and am so grateful for ALL the great posts and good information.

@COChix I would be interested in a Black Copper Marans and in a Blue Ameraucana, but I can't keep babies because I don't have a space/place for a brooder. Six-week-olds are doable, because they can be in my little coop outside. If I were to pay you, could you do the first six weeks for me?

I would love to be part of a Metro Denver meet and greet, maybe -as someone suggested - around the Poultry Show at the Stock Show. Coming right up!

My little Leghorn pullet is finally laying lovely eggs -5 in the last week! They're not pure white, but they have a pinky-beige cast, which I love! My other six have varying degrees of red around their faces, but only the Leghorn is squatting and laying. Sigh.

I lost my little GL Sebright this past week - maybe it was too cold for her? She went into the coop well before sunset and way ahead of my other girls, hopped up to the highest roost, but just never fluffed up like the others.And one morning I found her cold on the ground of the coop. Another sigh. But all the others are fine - I hope!

May you all have a good winter, enjoying the beauty, if not the cold. Hope to see some of you at the Stock Show. PM me if you have suggestions or any interest.
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[Mtn Margie]

Morning! Only a couple of inches of snow up here, but cold and foggy.

Sorry your old sheep died. Mine are down at the breeders and will be back up here in a week or so. Hopefully, lambs in May!

Hugs on your Sebright Alebuela.

LS, she is big and healthy because she has eggs for breakfast every morning!

 

[sonshine15]

Well, yesterday when I looked, the weather forecast was for the snow to start this evening. When I got up it has already started with a light mist like snow and the forecast now says all day today into Friday evening or Sat morning... I still have large sections of yard covered by snow from the last storm. Maybe this will turn out to be a snowy winter after all?

This is a very cold..wet winter. We still have drifts too...more on the way

 

[sonshine15]

Yep, starting to look like Christmas again in Berthoud. I got a last minute run in to Hays for dog food, and checked the chicken food larder. Filled a couple of feeders and checked waterers for the few birds that actually prefer water to snow. I picked up 9 eggs from the Silkie box, this afternoon, one hen is setting. The Silkies seem to ignore day length and near zero temps, they just keep keeping on. My car doesn't handle snow, and it's really possible for me to stranded in my own front yard. Lost a windshield wiper on my way to Hays. And one of my old sheep died yesterday. My dog is in rabid heat, she has to be tied out, and I grieve for her. Well, that's the end of the good news. I AM warm, I have food, and I have a new movie to watch. It can snow for the whole day tomorrow, if it wants. Hope y'all are faring well.

I'm sorry you lost your sheep too

 

[sonshine15]

Hello Everyone, and Happy New Year to all of you! Catching up here. WELCOME to the newcomers! I love this thread, and am so grateful for ALL the great posts and good information.

@COChix I would be interested in a Black Copper Marans and in a Blue Ameraucana, but I can't keep babies because I don't have a space/place for a brooder. Six-week-olds are doable, because they can be in my little coop outside. If I were to pay you, could you do the first six weeks for me?

I would love to be part of a Metro Denver meet and greet, maybe -as someone suggested - around the Poultry Show at the Stock Show. Coming right up!

My little Leghorn pullet is finally laying lovely eggs -5 in the last week! They're not pure white, but they have a pinky-beige cast, which I love! My other six have varying degrees of red around their faces, but only the Leghorn is squatting and laying. Sigh.

I lost my little GL Sebright this past week - maybe it was too cold for her? She went into the coop well before sunset and way ahead of my other girls, hopped up to the highest roost, but just never fluffed up like the others.And one morning I found her cold on the ground of the coop. Another sigh. But all the others are fine - I hope!

May you all have a good winter, enjoying the beauty, if not the cold. Hope to see some of you at the Stock Show. PM me if you have suggestions or any interest.
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Thank you for the welcome. I'm see I'm seeing a few more "bugs" in various forums that's beginning to make me a bit uncomfortable......dealing with a couple sneezing here so taking precautions.
I'm sorry you lost your bird

Is anyone using oxine? Just ordered some to use regularly

 

[uzisuzuki]

I don't have any roosters but I am ordering some bantam americanas. I have wanted bantam americanas for years and it has never worked out.
You folks with bantams tell me; what do you do with the extra roosters? I can't imagine killing and eating them, but it seems like the only logical end to the problem.
My Pet Chicken sells sexed bantams for $12 a pullet. I bought 4 last year and all 4 were DOA

it was horrible.
I am thinking I am going to need to order the minimum # of bantams and try to sell the extras, but I am worried I will only be able to sell the pullets, that no one will want roosters.
Does anyone have experience getting rid of extra bantam rooster?

Depending on how my flock's health is, I might be able to buy an extra bantam rooster from you if you end up with some. I like the little guys.

 

[uzisuzuki]

Hello Everyone, and Happy New Year to all of you! Catching up here. WELCOME to the newcomers! I love this thread, and am so grateful for ALL the great posts and good information.

@COChix I would be interested in a Black Copper Marans and in a Blue Ameraucana, but I can't keep babies because I don't have a space/place for a brooder. Six-week-olds are doable, because they can be in my little coop outside. If I were to pay you, could you do the first six weeks for me?

I would love to be part of a Metro Denver meet and greet, maybe -as someone suggested - around the Poultry Show at the Stock Show. Coming right up!

My little Leghorn pullet is finally laying lovely eggs -5 in the last week! They're not pure white, but they have a pinky-beige cast, which I love! My other six have varying degrees of red around their faces, but only the Leghorn is squatting and laying. Sigh.

I lost my little GL Sebright this past week - maybe it was too cold for her? She went into the coop well before sunset and way ahead of my other girls, hopped up to the highest roost, but just never fluffed up like the others.And one morning I found her cold on the ground of the coop. Another sigh. But all the others are fine - I hope!

May you all have a good winter, enjoying the beauty, if not the cold. Hope to see some of you at the Stock Show. PM me if you have suggestions or any interest.
Hope this

I'm so sorry about your little Sebright. I was worried about keeping mine by himself when I was finally told what breed he was because I had read they aren't cold tolerant. I'm kinda glad he's a he because I measure what I'm going to see in the coop by him crowing every morning. Doesn't really help gage with everyone else that doesn't crow, unfortunately.

I was thinking of trying to go to the poultry show at SS this year, but I'm still not sure how well I do in crowds because of my brain injury.

 

[coop410silkies]

Thank you all for your thoughts about my sheep. He was a black sheep, left here by his previous owners, old and lame. He was addicted to chicken feed, and, even as late as last month, would come up through the field to raid the chicken feeders. I called him Stucco, and he was rather handsome, more dangerous as a friend than ever as a foe; the man who sheared him won 1st prizes with his wool at County Fairs. Stucco taught me a lot about what it means to be a Shepherd. I wish I could say that I was a good shepherd, but I cannot - only that I know it takes a special kind of person to be one.

Interestingly enough, my flock in the coop down by his shed swarmed around him when he went down; they went into their coop at night, but at the times I went down to the shed, I always found them surrounding him, up to the day he died - and afterwards. And no, they were not pecking his eyeballs out. Stucco is survived by his old and lame companion, Dolly.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Sorry to hear of the losses both alebuela and coops410silkies. It is an odd winter this year. Not sure if the weather has much to do with either the loss of the seabright or the sheep. Hugs to both of you.

It is odd how some animals react to the passing of others. When I lost the pullet named Grandma the buff brahma pullet behaved very oddly about it. She guarded the corpse and would attack me while I was trying to recover the body. She is still different then she was before it happened.

I like the idea of roll out nest boxes for you LS. It sounds like you need them for sure.

One of my Silver Spangled Hamburgs has gotten to where she is dang snarky when I try and grab eggs from under her. Yes she is trying to sleep in a nest box these days. I think one of the Partridge rocks is being a bit mean to her at roosting time. I don't mind if they roost on the bar in front of the nests but this sleeping in them thing is kind of frustrating. I may need to make some little doors so I can close the boxes at night after evicting them.

The old ladies are picking up on laying. I got 2 brown eggs in there today and have been getting one white one as well. Last year no one laid in that group until after I bought new chicks in March. I am glad for the eggies.

Looking forward to spring and the blooming gardens for sure this year.

Take care everyone.

 

[uzisuzuki]

My bantam Phoenix has started sleeping in the nesting boxes, too! I think she's gone broody since the little d'Anvers was about a week ago & the tiny pullets seem to take turns. She was growling & pecking at me loud enough to get Damien to hop off the roost to check out what was going on.

He's so nosey.

It is very interesting to watch how animals react to deaths in their groups. They do seem to mourn the passing. That's always made me feel a little better about being upset over pets dying since I always seemed to be the one in the family who took it the hardest. It's been some winter so far.