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TracieJS said:
Thanks Ashdoes! Here is Midnight - he was just sitting in my lap and decided to hop down. Anybody want a great rooster? Thanks Tracie
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He is very pretty and if I didn't already have one definite and possible three roosters, I'd take him. Hubby left for deployment this morning, and he knows full well he can't get rid of anything I "find" while he's gone. :D lucky him most of my acquisitions are on the cheap side.....most.
 
Ashdoes said:
He is very pretty and if I didn't already have one definite and possible three roosters, I'd take him.
Hubby left for deployment this morning, and he knows full well he can't get rid of anything I "find" while he's gone. :D lucky him most of my acquisitions are on the cheap side.....most.
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How long is he going to be gone? My hubby was active Army for a while. When he came back from Iraq I had an extra child (I was 28 weeks pregnant with #3 when he left) and a puppy. :) Now he's a truck driver so, while he's still gone for days at a time, he is at least home more often! Now I have to include him in all my animal acquisitions! We're talking about getting another kitten. We got one last year that has turned into a holy terror! Maybe having a friend would help calm him down.....
 
At least 7 months, possible nine. I promised no cats would be here when he got home, cats and horses are on the no list. He wants me to get a puppy a month before he gets back, only because he doesn't want to potty train.
Four day weekends are no good...takes too long to wake up after getting to sleep in.
 
Roo crowed for the first time this morning! :( It was a funny strangled sound but undeniably a crow! Time for him to go. My 7 year old cried even though they all knew this was coming! *sigh* Sad day.
 
Mommato5 - when you say "has to go". Do you have a place to take him or will you have to kill him? Ours crowed two days ago and I am trying to find someone to take him but nobody wants a rooster :(

Thanks Tracie
 
Well, it has been quite some time since I posted anything on here, but since we started out with the six chicks in March, we had one roo that we found a home for and have five beautiful hens who are laying about five eggs a day, all brown. Chatty Cathy, barred rock, began laying earliest at 18 1/2 weeks and has only missed one day and given us a couple of double yolkers, Anne, Buff Orpington, who started laying at 21 1/2 weeks and lays pretty much every day, Jane, started laying at 21 1/2 weeks, Production Red, cross between New Hampshire and Rhode Island Red, lays a dark brown egg. Baby, Black Australorp, started laying at 20 1/2 weeks, and Catherine of Aragon, Ameraucana, started laying at 22 weeks, and lays a light brown egg...no blue or green...all healthy girls.

We have an A frame coop built by Herbert, husband of the goat cheese lady. Its been great in our Colorado Springs backyard. We are concerned with how to provide winterization for the hens so they stay nice and cozy. We have looked at lights, heat lamps, flat panel heaters, insulation, covering the coop with a piece of carpet to fit and plastic over that. We only have ventilation around the nest boxes at each end of the coop. We also think it will be good to cover one side of the a frame run with plywood and the other side with polycarbonate plastic. We don't know...what do y'all think? We check the night temps and so far the coop stays about 3 degrees warmer than the outside temperature in the roost area at night. Any ideas are appreciated.
 
Newchiknmomma said:
Well, it has been quite some time since I posted anything on here, but since we started out with the six chicks in March, we had one roo that we found a home for and have five beautiful hens who are laying about five eggs a day, all brown. Chatty Cathy, barred rock, began laying earliest at 18 1/2 weeks and has only missed one day and given us a couple of double yolkers, Anne, Buff Orpington, who started laying at 21 1/2 weeks and lays pretty much every day, Jane, started laying at 21 1/2 weeks, Production Red, cross between New Hampshire and Rhode Island Red, lays a dark brown egg. Baby, Black Australorp, started laying at 20 1/2 weeks, and Catherine of Aragon, Ameraucana, started laying at 22 weeks, and lays a light brown egg...no blue or green...all healthy girls.

We have an A frame coop built by Herbert, husband of the goat cheese lady. Its been great in our Colorado Springs backyard. We are concerned with how to provide winterization for the hens so they stay nice and cozy. We have looked at lights, heat lamps, flat panel heaters, insulation, covering the coop with a piece of carpet to fit and plastic over that. We only have ventilation around the nest boxes at each end of the coop. We also think it will be good to cover one side of the a frame run with plywood and the other side with polycarbonate plastic. We don't know...what do y'all think? We check the night temps and so far the coop stays about 3 degrees warmer than the outside temperature in the roost area at night. Any ideas are appreciated.
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When I had a separate coop, I weatherized the windows on the sides because the roof has plenty of ventilation. The thing to be most concerned about is drafts in the winter and of snow blowing and getting inside. I suspect being in Springs proper, it should be much easier to keep the massive wind gusts that I get all the time out here on the eastern plain in the fall/winter. I gerry rigged up a heavy duty commercial outdoor fabric curtain that I could encase the coop in during the blizzards. During the day, you might have to find a place for them to hang out as most backyard coops are rather smallish during the wicked blizzards. On the awesome hand though... the bad weather isn't that often.

Just remember, if you have to choose ventilation of warmth, always go for the ventilation, not drafts though. If your good at building on, you could build on a small section to the front where the trap door is with just inexpensive plastic stapled to a cheap frame to help keep the snow from going into the coop and also to provide them an area during the day a little warmer to hang out in.
 
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