Hello from Colorado!!

[4-H chicken mom]

Hi and from Ohio. So glad to have you aboard.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Welcome to BYC!!!

Glad you joined us!!

 

[sourland]

Hey Chook Chick! Welcome to BYC!
Be sure to visit the Colorado Thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/68894/colorado/11140#post_10414769
Lots of nice folk here in Colorado and many in the Colorado Springs area that are willing to help with whatever chicken questions or concerns you may have.

Check it out! Welcome to BYC.

 

[Chook Chick]

Thanks so much everyone. I will check everything out as I plan to get "crackin" before the end of March!

I have had a bantam before and she was a delight! She was also a 'house chicken', in nice weather she was outside by day, inside by night. I kept her in a very large ferret cage, and she did very well. During the winter I would take her out every so often during the day. She was very friendly, hand tamed and a great companion, not to mention she gave us beautiful little eggs......I miss her so much, she died after 4 years. Don't really know why either.....but, hoping to start up again in her memory

 

[silkieluver50]

I live in Colorado Springs....our winters can be very unpredictable. Sometimes we get alot of snow, sometimes just alot of cold with the wind blowing....other times just cold; then we can get up to 68 degrees in the middle of winter. So it's anyone's guess, which is why I need a breed that will do well in just about any type of weather!

Thanks for the response and the welcome! Btw, I think RIR's are beautiful!!

Yeah they are quite beautiful to look at and your welcome oh and btw just incase your wondering they lay brown eggs and the more they eat the bigger the eggs get so far my biggest egg is 125

 

[liz9910]

from California!

 

[weimarmama]

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from Alabama. Glad you joined us.

 

[Chook Chick]

Wow....chicken peeps are nice folks for sure! I have learned so much already!
Now if it would only stop snowing so I could get my coop and run built, I would be up and running!!

Nice to meet all of you!

 

[chook master]

Welcome to...BYC!

try Buff Orpingtons they're good egg layers and they can cope with cold whether pretty well.

 

[Chook Chick]

Welcome to...BYC!

try Buff Orpingtons they're good egg layers and they can cope with cold whether pretty well.

I wish I could find some locally.....I've read they are very good in cold winter conditions.....! They are a beautiful color too. I'd like to have an Easter Egger, A Buff Orpington, and a Dominique, but all I can find so far are Dominiques. I don't want to have them shipped to me, I think that's kind of cruel. I don't have an incubator, don't really want to go to the expense of that since I am only going to have a small flock. I guess I'll just have to take what I can get, which is ok, as I just LOVE chickens!!