Colorado

[stickers]

Can anyone use a Silver Sussex roo? Free to a good home not for food. He will be huge and is very sweet . He can be used in a light sussex flock to add the silver birchen gene.1st come 1st serve on this fellow, if you want him come and get him soon! He is free to backyard chicken members so I dont have to deal with Craigslist buyers.

 

[bustermommy]

Really, a Silver Sussex. DROOL. Do you think my husband would notice if he just appeared? I would love to have him. What would he do with Coronation?

One of my chicks I just hatched yesterday died this morning, so it's not really getting another chicken, is it?

 

[coloradochick]

Sorry you lost a little one. So it wouldn't be "adding" it would be replacing

I say go for it and give this fella a home. But we do require pics if possible when he settles in to the new digs

 

[warbirds]

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Hi OwensMom!!! Sorry for the long delay in replying - after I made my original post, my DSL disappeared! Took a lot to figure out what happened, the "new" company who took over the "old" company (starts with a Q) kept saying the problem was with my computer.............I had a hard time convincing them that the same problem was occurring on my hubby's then, and that's not possible. FINALLY someone admitted that a techie in the field disconnected the wrong DSL line.............but we were without internet for several days and that was a butt-kicker for his job.

Anyway........pullets - I don't know when I will have good Marans pullets available. I am still working diligently to get the many flocks I have up to the basic APA SOP. I've been sold a lot of "pure" this and that...........and hatch some chicks and find out they are not so pure this OR that.......but a lot of progress has been made.

And yeah, dark eggs are a Marans requirement............so the two pullets that I brought back from a breeder in Texas this summer are already in the freezer - one laid a totally brilliant white egg, one laid an egg that didn't even come up to the color of my Sussex eggs. Always working at it, though, just like all my breeds!!!

The last chicks of this year hatched Saturday/Sunday, so we'll see how I did with the various breeding groups as they grow. Big bator won't fire back up again until around mid-February.

Hubby didn't take I-70. After many years of him commuting from that side of the state to home, we know many alternate routes that avoid crazies, ski traffic, and weather issues.

I don't think we were 10 degrees warmer than you last week...........................three days in a row it was 14 degrees here. Did the same this morning as at sunrise it was a balmy delightful 15.

Gotta love our area.

At least we missed all the high winds.............hubby didn't............

 

[warbirds]

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Enjoy!! It will be some time before I offer any more percentage English birds as most are part of ongoing projects, and probably a while longer than that before there will be any of the 100% English orps.

I'll let everyone know the next time he heads that way so that orders can be placed for rare/import eggs, chicks, and juveniles.

 

[bustermommy]

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I totally think so. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of asking my husband if he would mind. Well, actually I asked him if he would divorce me. He said yes, so I guess I'm just stuck with the miserable pitiful quantity of 25 chickens. Poor me.

I keep telling everyone that only four count, because only four are laying, but they keep rolling their eyes.

 

[coloradochick]

Oh

such an empty threat if I ever heard one

. Trust me, they don't follow through..............they just get used to it

 

[bustermommy]

Well, we have been married 26 years and he can't divorce me--I'd make him take the kids.

But he pointed out that I might have a few more chickens than the 8 my city allows.

My neighbors would have to turn me in though and I give out bribe eggs (I actually tell them it's a bribe) whenever I have any extra so I'm sure I'm safe.

 

[coloradochick]

I always tease my DH with that also, that the reason he's still with me is because he'd get the kids. But the big D isn't even a thought for us thank goodness.

But seriously if you're over your limit, a rooster will surely not help in that matter. Eggs or not

 

[bustermommy]

Oh, the big D isn't really a thought for us either, it's mostly something we joke about. I think I'd start worrying if we stopped joking.

I am really only legally allowed 8 chickens; I currently have 25. My neighbors aren't about to rat me out though. Roosters aren't allowed either, but I've had "male chickens" before and my neighbors thought it was cool (I asked). It was funny to hear the neighborhood kids running through the alley yelling cock-a-doodle-doo. And since we're very urban, I'm sure it's the first time any of them have heard a crow before in person. A lot better than some of the things they could have been yelling, I thought.

I'm actually hoping one of my new coronation hatchlings will be a roo, which will be better overall for my plans than a silver. But I've seen those roos because that's where my two lt. sussex came from. They are GORGEOUS and have a great temperament. It's a huge temptation, which I would have succumbed to if I hadn't just added 5 coronations.

And, he wouldn't have divorced me either. He didn't after the last two roos I got without asking him first.

Oh, and the eggs I just hatched. Didn't ask about those either. I only ask when I want him to say no, because I know it's just not a good idea.