Colorado

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

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I have some black copper maran chicks due to be sent here on 3/22. I plan on breeding them when old enough. Could sell you some eggs then if you want to wait that long. Don't know of anyone real close to our area with Marans. Have done a lot of searching. There is a lady in Falcon that advertises now and again on craigslist about having Maran chicks but she never responds to emails back. I have emailed her numerous times and so has a friend of mine to no avail. Let me know if your interested. BTW I am in Pueblo West.

I haven't started my Black and Blue Marans breeding pen yet this spring, but will have some eggs to share when I do.
I just have a pair, so will only have a few eggs, but don't intend to set them all.
The lines I have are from Bev Davis (Florida) and Wade Jeane (via Linda Hamid in CA).
Although I'm near Steamboat, I do get to Denver regularly and could bring eggs that far, at least!

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I want some too! Let me know when you get into Denver and have eggs. Do you have a list going? Would like to be put on that list.

Thanks!

 

[alpinefarm]

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I don't keep a list (my single hen would go neurotic real fast with that kind of pressure)! Just let's keep in touch!

 

[colowyo0809]

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I like going to it

It's fun and exciting, even if we don't come home with anything (which, to be honest we should probably do more often lol) sometimes people even have bunnies, and once someone had puppies

oh, and quail and pigeons and guinea fowl

 

[alpinefarm]

Marans eggs and Jaerhon egg

 

[ruralmom]

Hi Rosemary, how was your winter? Hope you and the stock made it through ok. If you need some more birds hatched let me know. nancy

 

[alpinefarm]

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Hiya, Nancy!

You are getting "baby hungry" again, eh?

I'll think on the possibility, especially for Marans eggs.
My bantam cochins are super "incubators" but Marans have such *big* babies with big appetites and tend to overwhelm my little guys.
We have had light snow and deep freeze temperatures here. Our water system (which is buried 4' down and has worked great for years) froze this winter on account of such little snow pack to insulate the ground.
The chickens did really well with the cold, tho. Better than me, for sure!

Rosemary

 

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

Our black australorp boy is almost 1 year old, and is too much for his 4 girls. I'm making chicken saddles today (trying to, anyway). Hubby and I are thinking we would like to trade him for a POL pullet ... not sure what kind. Anyone interested? He's huge. He's gotten frost-bitten on his comb and wattles and may possibly lose them. Doing a test incubation now to find out his fertility ... tomorrow is Day 7 in the incubation process so the eggs will be candled; we'll know if he's able to fertilize eggs. He's very protective (almost too protective for me ... nips at me when I wear a particular red skirt), keeps a good watch out for his girls, and calls them over when he finds food. (In the pic, that's him on the right, top, Jan or Feb 2011)

Also...

Hubby heard there was some kind of a 10-for-2 going on in Brighton this weekend. Ten meat birds when you buy 2 bags of feed. Does anyone have details about this?

Thanks.

 

[DenverBird]

FYI, Denver folks, I just saw this on Craigslist :



Chicken swap (370 Kalamath St, Denver)

FIRST CHICKEN SWAP of year this Saturday, March 5 from 10-Noon at Earthdog Denver, 370 Kalamath Street, Denver. Great place to buy or sell chicks, chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, rabbits.

Free.

Also, we sell organic chicken feed from Modesto Milling in California, organic goat feed, diatomacious earth and oyster shell.

We sell chicken coops and cold frames at our year-round, indoor farmers' market selling local food from local farmers.

DENVER URBAN HOMESTEADING
200 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO
www.denverurbanhomesteading.com

 

[joeyg4583]

I got chicks!!!! I couldn't wait any longer and picked up some ee pullets today YAY!!! I have been looking for white/light ones forever

Eta bad iPhone pics

 

[coloradochick]

Joey did you get those at Bomgaars?!?!?! I was in there Wednesday and she said they're were being shipped that day. Wondering what the "assorted brown layers" are that she said they were getting besides the RIR and the BO's.