Colorado

[wsmith]

Got the work bench built in the work / shade shelter.


Now to design and build the box for the plucker and mount it under the bench top, on the right side end.

 

[Mountain Momma]

i'm not sure how to transport them since i've never had to, but make sure you check the ordinances of the city you move to. There are tons of suburbs around denver and some do not allow chickens. Others will not allow roosters.

As for you getting used to our temps, layering is a must. The actually temp may be in the teens but if you are in the sun it can feel alot warmer.

Good luck with the move!

Many years ago I put some chickens in a cardboard box in a UHaul and drove through two States. They were fine when I got there. I think a Kennel with water and food and maybe a couple old towels. I'm just thinking that all that wood chip will get all over the car and you can wash towels or throw them away. Good luck and welcom to Sunny Colorado!

 

[Pozees]

Note to self:

When balancing a #50 bag of cracked corn on one shoulder and carrying a
#75 bucket of wheat in the other, don't try to open a door and then go through the doorway..... You may end up banging your left ankle with the wheat bucket leaving a HUGE bruise...

I have caused more damage to myself this past year building the chicken facilities that the last 10 years put together....

Remember the shovel incident?............

Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow - sheesh, Wendell, what are you, Superman?! LOL Reminds me of all the times I load up for the trip from the car to the front door, and Bob opens the door and says, "Oh, you have a lazy man's load!" To which I smugly reply, "No, I have a busy woman's load!"

 

[Pozees]

I haven't been online much the last couple of days. My Mom is coming in on saturday to stay a few months with me. That means cleaning and cleaning and a little more cleaning.

The chicks are doing great. I lost one to failure to thrive but the other 5 are big and healthy.

I can't figure out my chickens lately. I go from having 12 eggs one day to 3 the next. My ee's seem to have decided to barely lay any at all, which is frustrating. I know its the time of year but it just sucks.

You are a very kind person, and I'll bet your Mom is really looking forward to spending time with you. It may be challenging at times, but how many chances do we have, as we grow older, to spend that kind of time with our folks?

Glad to hear the 5 are doing well. Would love to see some pics

We've missed you!

 

[coloradogal]

You are a very kind person, and I'll bet your Mom is really looking forward to spending time with you. It may be challenging at times, but how many chances do we have, as we grow older, to spend that kind of time with our folks?

Glad to hear the 5 are doing well. Would love to see some pics

We've missed you!

Everything is better when my Mom gets here. I've been trying to explain to her for many years that her place is with her children and grandchildren because she's just getting too old to have to do it on her own anymore. My Dad died in '02 and everything is just too much for her. When she's with me, she can crochet to her hearts content and not worry about making dinner or the other minutiae. She is usually the one who gets to where she can't stand me and then she hides in the bedroom to get away. Seldom is it the other way around. She's never been much for being in the kitchen so I guess that's why we coexist so well. Two women living together trying to control the kitchen just never works.

Besides, now I can let her make the candles needed for the next year. I give give her a couple of hundred pounds of wax and she'll work until the wax is done. She loves candlemaking... for me, it is a necessary evil.

The chicks are chirping away. This time, I fashioned a small brooder out of an old tote, cutting out window slots and putting a screen on with duct tape. It's so much easier to clean and I have decided I like this idea best.

Nemi Jr. goes to his new home tomorrow. yay!

His hatch mate that I also thought to be a roo is now I believe a hen. Her waddle/comb is still a little larger than normal but she isn't developing the secondary characteristics of a roo. Whew. That makes me feel better.

However, my 6 month old silkie just started crowing and one of my frizzles started crowing. I had that feeling that the silkie was a male even though I had no clue how to tell. My phoenix hasn't started crowing yet and my black beauty maran doesn't crow much.

I have been getting the most beautiful marans egg the last week. They are still smallish but are a deep mahogany with dark speckles. They are, by far, the most beautiful eggs I've ever gotten from a hen. I suspect it is from the black marans hen. I've gotten 3 total so far of this color and they are just gorgeous. They are too pretty to eat right now and I just leave them in a glass bowl in the fridge so I can gaze upon their glory. Can anyone guess the eggs I'll be incubating next year once Beauty gets going for the spring? So far, Beauty is a very gentle roo. He's never attacked me nor has he raised his hackles at me. I wish he were a little more amorous toward the gals. He's do a little dance and if the gal isn't receptive, he'll find another gal who is. But he hasn't tried killing the other roosters so that's a good thing as he is almost as big as my brahma roo was. I'm hoping Beauty stays black next year when he goes for his first moult. I've heard that often black marans will moult with copper after the first one.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

YES!!!! I found a home for one of my little Roos!!! Well, DH did anyway. A guy he knows at works wife keeps chickens and has been looking for a new rooster. They are working out the pick up details now! She picked the guy I have been calling Blondie; the half leghorn. Pretty boy. I need to get a final pic before he goes to his new home. He is mostly white but getting a lot of red patches and his tail is grey.

One more to go...

 

[gardendufus]

So I went out to re home my GLW today. What a fascinating time it was. This is the same place I re homed my suspected BA Roo about 4 months ago. The girl (well woman, but to me a girl) I gave him to said he hadn't crowed yet, but also was not laying eggs, but there has always been that 'I wonder if he was REALLY a roo?' question in my mind as he was only 10 weeks old when I re homed him. Well, let me tell you no longer any question, he is a beautiful roo. Long black/green saddle feathers, beautiful tail. What a good looking bird. But still not crowing.

Well, this rooster is in a flock (?) that consists of only himself and 1 lone hen, probably about 6-7 years old. She's no longer laying eggs, just a mutt chicken and not really even a good looking one. We put the GLW in the run with the both of them. 30 seconds later, the GLW runs over to the hen and attacks her. They both jump about 2 feet in the air, claws going after each other. The roo runs up and they scatter. From that moment on, it was just fascinating to watch. Wherever the GLW went, the roo very obviously, deliberately placed himself between the GLW and his coop mate. If the GLW headed in their direction he faced her off, ruffled his hackles, and wouldn't allow her near the hen.

After awhile, the roo became interested in the GLW and would approach her, I think just to check her out. She wasn't having any of it tho, she faced him off every time. I honestly think he was already thinking...."oh boy, fresh meat'. I'm told no one has seen him mounting the old hen, but I definitely got the impression that was on his mind already with the GLW.

Anyway, was great to see in action what people talk about when they talk about the roo protecting and controlling his flock. And it wasn't subtle. And it was immediate. Such a nice thing to see. Makes me wish I could have a roo.

 

[dennarahl]

Everything is better when my Mom gets here. I've been trying to explain to her for many years that her place is with her children and grandchildren because she's just getting too old to have to do it on her own anymore. My Dad died in '02 and everything is just too much for her. When she's with me, she can crochet to her hearts content and not worry about making dinner or the other minutiae. She is usually the one who gets to where she can't stand me and then she hides in the bedroom to get away. Seldom is it the other way around. She's never been much for being in the kitchen so I guess that's why we coexist so well. Two women living together trying to control the kitchen just never works.

Besides, now I can let her make the candles needed for the next year. I give give her a couple of hundred pounds of wax and she'll work until the wax is done. She loves candlemaking... for me, it is a necessary evil.

The chicks are chirping away. This time, I fashioned a small brooder out of an old tote, cutting out window slots and putting a screen on with duct tape. It's so much easier to clean and I have decided I like this idea best.

Nemi Jr. goes to his new home tomorrow. yay!

His hatch mate that I also thought to be a roo is now I believe a hen. Her waddle/comb is still a little larger than normal but she isn't developing the secondary characteristics of a roo. Whew. That makes me feel better.

However, my 6 month old silkie just started crowing and one of my frizzles started crowing. I had that feeling that the silkie was a male even though I had no clue how to tell. My phoenix hasn't started crowing yet and my black beauty maran doesn't crow much.

I have been getting the most beautiful marans egg the last week. They are still smallish but are a deep mahogany with dark speckles. They are, by far, the most beautiful eggs I've ever gotten from a hen. I suspect it is from the black marans hen. I've gotten 3 total so far of this color and they are just gorgeous. They are too pretty to eat right now and I just leave them in a glass bowl in the fridge so I can gaze upon their glory. Can anyone guess the eggs I'll be incubating next year once Beauty gets going for the spring? So far, Beauty is a very gentle roo. He's never attacked me nor has he raised his hackles at me. I wish he were a little more amorous toward the gals. He's do a little dance and if the gal isn't receptive, he'll find another gal who is. But he hasn't tried killing the other roosters so that's a good thing as he is almost as big as my brahma roo was. I'm hoping Beauty stays black next year when he goes for his first moult. I've heard that often black marans will moult with copper after the first one.

First, a question, what do you need that many candles for? That's ALOT of candles.

Also, I will totally do whatever it takes to get a couple of the maran hatching eggs from you next spring. I only have one Cuckoo maran and I LOVE her eggs. I want more of them. I'm sure Beauty will get more amourous to the girls in the Spring. All of my boys are slowing down now that its started getting cold outside.

 

[wsmith]

I got the plucker put together and it runs! I had to take it apart so I could adjust the motor bolts and the belt tension. also turn it around to it goes the right direction..... I have a video on the Windy ridge facebook page...

We got 6 eggs today, that takes out month-to-date average to 4 per day. That being said, this week it went from 3, to 6-8. One of the EEs comb is starting to redden up finally too!

 

[wsmith]

So I went out to re home my GLW today. What a fascinating time it was. This is the same place I re homed my suspected BA Roo about 4 months ago. The girl (well woman, but to me a girl) I gave him to said he hadn't crowed yet, but also was not laying eggs, but there has always been that 'I wonder if he was REALLY a roo?' question in my mind as he was only 10 weeks old when I re homed him. Well, let me tell you no longer any question, he is a beautiful roo. Long black/green saddle feathers, beautiful tail. What a good looking bird. But still not crowing.

Well, this rooster is in a flock (?) that consists of only himself and 1 lone hen, probably about 6-7 years old. She's no longer laying eggs, just a mutt chicken and not really even a good looking one. We put the GLW in the run with the both of them. 30 seconds later, the GLW runs over to the hen and attacks her. They both jump about 2 feet in the air, claws going after each other. The roo runs up and they scatter. From that moment on, it was just fascinating to watch. Wherever the GLW went, the roo very obviously, deliberately placed himself between the GLW and his coop mate. If the GLW headed in their direction he faced her off, ruffled his hackles, and wouldn't allow her near the hen.

After awhile, the roo became interested in the GLW and would approach her, I think just to check her out. She wasn't having any of it tho, she faced him off every time. I honestly think he was already thinking...."oh boy, fresh meat'. I'm told no one has seen him mounting the old hen, but I definitely got the impression that was on his mind already with the GLW.

Anyway, was great to see in action what people talk about when they talk about the roo protecting and controlling his flock. And it wasn't subtle. And it was immediate. Such a nice thing to see. Makes me wish I could have a roo.

Very cool! Unlike that idiot rooster at Rock Ledge!