Colorado

[uzisuzuki]

You wouldn’t have that problem if you kept your car dirty like I do.

The ONE time I wash my car...

 

[lomine]

The ONE time I wash my car...

 

[Mtn Margie]

Oh my!

 

[lomine]

Ended up with 7 chicks from my Easter hatch. Best percentage so far (if you only include fertile eggs). Dry incubation seemed to work well. I put another 42 in the incubator. Maybe this will be the one were I can finally hatch some Ameraucana.

 

[PirateGirl]

Ended up with 7 chicks from my Easter hatch. Best percentage so far (if you only include fertile eggs). Dry incubation seemed to work well. I put another 42 in the incubator. Maybe this will be the one were I can finally hatch some Ameraucana.
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They look strong! What kinda of chicks are all these?

 

[lomine]

They look strong! What kinda of chicks are all these?

Yes, I was so happy that all the ones that fully developed hatched out. I didn’t have a single drowned chick, which has been a real problem for me.

The yellow ones are an Ameraucana/Leghorn cross so I’m calling them EEs. One of the dark ones is an Ameraucana/Marans cross and the other two are Ameraucana/Barnvelders. So I’m calling those OEs. I was going to mark them at hatch but thanks to down color and leg feathers on the Marans cross I can tell who is who.

 

[PirateGirl]

So I hope most of you didn't get too much snow this last storm! We actually had our first rain for awhile the other day before it turned to snow and everything is just a soggy mess now. The ducks of course loved it. I went to lock them up at like 9:00pm and they were just hanging out in the sleet quacking, then this morning their pool was frozen for the first time in a week and one of them hopped in and was just laying on top of the ice. So goes spring in the mountains. Chicken math is taking hold of me and the sight of the peepers and quackers at the feed stores has got me wanting to brood some babies! I am trying to refrain, but as previously mentioned, have been thinking of geese. Had dinner with a friend last night who said he recently got 2 geese and they do a great job of looking after his flock of approximately 30 chickens and that the geese sound the alarm and chase off the hawks. It got me thinking of geese all over again. He did say they chase off everything and are currently with a caretaker and attacked her daughter, which was the final straw after they'd attacked everyone and everything else. He does 6 months on the east coast and 6 months in CO generally, maybe we can compromise and his geese can live at my house the 6 months he is in CO and protect my flock half the year.

 

[Percheron chick]

Sometimes I hate living in Boulder then this is your view driving to work. Then you have to take it all back.

 

[matt1978]

Anyone in this thread in or near the Springs?

 

[lomine]

Anyone in this thread in or near the Springs?

I live in Peyton and work in the Springs.