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    Washingtonians

    hiya all! i need help! we are going on vacation in a couple of days and i desperately need to get rid of a few cockerels!!!! in-laws are staying at the house for us, and i don't want them to have to fish naughty cockerels out of the trees every night at bedtime! ack! i thought i had...
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    7 week old LF Orpington Cockerels - Blue, Splash

    Two orpington cockerels for sale - one blue, one splash. Asking $15 each - for sale to good HOMES only! Local pick up only. Hatched and raised by broodies in my backyard, fed "Scratch and Peck" feed and supplemented with whatever they dig up in the dirt/grass in the yard. They are friendly...
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    Washingtonians

    hi all! i'm officially looking for a home for my blue orp cockerel - if anyone is interested or knows of anyone, please take a look! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=439821 all was fine and i was in no hurry because he wasn't crowing... but now he is and i know...
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    LF Blue Orpington Cockerel - local pick-up only, western WA state

    My big beautiful boy has got to go! Hatched by my girls from a local breeder's stock in July, he just crowed for the first time this morning. So he's officially got to find a new home. He was raised by my flightiest broody in my back yard, so he isn't super warm and fuzzy for people. He is...
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    Washingtonians

    Hi all! Long time no post for me.... Life just never seems to slow down and lately the only time I come on to post is when I'm looking for good homes for peeps! Sooooo, guess what? You guessed it: I'm looking for a good home... I have a 4 1/2 month old blue orp baby (big gigantic baby)...
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    Waterer suggestions please, I hate my Little Giant waterer.

    i have a little giant too - mine leaks sometimes and not other times (like others said it has to do with the seal - i tend to have to crank mine pretty tightly shut). also make sure there's no grit or anything on the inside of the lid. my dh changed the water for me a few times and was setting...
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    Washingtonians

    omg this thread boogies! i've been on vacation for over a week and don't have the patience to catch up fully right now. suffice to say: i hope everyone is doing well in the heat - summer is finally here!... just in time to do our back to school shopping.... grrrrrrrrrr!!! i don't know if...
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    Broody Hatched eggs but won't leave the nest to take care of chicks

    how long has it been since the first egg hatched? i'd give her a day or two before you take the other eggs away - the peeps will be fine. if you're worried, you could try to set some food and water up close by where the hatched out peeps can get to it... my girls probably sat for a full...
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    Do chicks take dust baths?

    so cute! yep, dust bathing!!! i love chicks dustbathing (and sunbathing....) - but i think the fact that she's dust bathing in nothing but a towel is hilarious!!!
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    Washingtonians

    anyone know anyone who might want some orp pullets (or cockerels) in about 6 weeks? my girls hatched their own 6 eggs (blacks and at least one white) and have happily adopted the 11 buff babies i got ahold of for them. i'll be selling most of them when moms are done with them! congrats on...
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    The Welsummer Thread!!!!

    woo hoo - she's buildin it up purty (and painting it such beauuuuuutiful colors, i'm sure!)! i will continue to lurk here even tho i prolly won't get any wellies til next year at the earliest... meantime: keep the pics comin'!
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    Washingtonians

    But on a sad note, when we returned home my 9 yo dd found her bunny dead. The bunny had got out, had been attacked by something in the middle of the night, my mother found her loose the next morning, put bunny back in the cage....but bunny died either from heat or stress. Bunnies can die from...
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    i think my broody killed the first one to hatch.... *UPDATE*

    well, i started with 12 eggs - the horde of broodies and not-broodies managed to break 2 of the eggs early on in the pilings in and out of the nest box, before i moved the broodies to their own individual broody coops. when i first candled at about day 12, i threw out one distinctly clear egg...
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    i think my broody killed the first one to hatch.... *UPDATE*

    my broody girl is a black orpington. she should be a wicked-good mama..... grrrrrr! last night just before bed when i checked on the ladies before locking everything up i discovered two things: a mouse in her broody coop (it went running away when i went out there - the coop is an old rabbit...
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    Washingtonians

    TurtleChick wrote: so i've been running around trying to find day old baby peeps for my broodies - make sure i have plenty of babies to go around, get to watch moms raise babies, have happy not broody peeps. today i went out to check on my broodies (day 19 of sitting on these eggs) and found...
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