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    Topic of the Week - Moving chicks out of the brooder and into the coop

    Def. a dude...sorry if you can't have them....woohoo if you wanted a cockerel!
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    Topic of the Week - Moving chicks out of the brooder and into the coop

    I used a homemade "tote brooder" for my first chicks...in my laundry room! It was a LOT of dust, even with just 3 chicks. The second go around, I had planned to use the same tote brooder and heat lamp, but it turns out, even at 2-3 days old, 15 chicks do not fit into even a LARGE tote! So, I...
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    Please help! Who laid this egg?? I don't have white egg layers...

    Assuming she normally lays a brown shelled egg, it looks like a "misfire" that didn't spend long enough in the "paint job" area of egg production. If you didn't wash it, it could also be a super heavy bloom. I notice when my darker brown egg layers are getting ready to molt, their eggshells...
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    I keep my hens in a fully enclosed run, but I have had to add a light source to their coop so that they go in it at night, otherwise, they all just stay outside! Even though the run is fairly well "predator proof", I know that accidents happen, and something could get in if it wanted. I have a...
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    Your 2025 Garden

    This is usually how I get my "seed" potatoes and sweet potatoes! This year, I did purchase some actual seed potatoes, I got red skinned new potatoes and "all blue" potato seeds....normally, I just plant whatever I have forgotten to cook after purchasing them from the grocery store, lol. My...
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    2 month old chicks: Pullets or Cockerels?

    Roo, roo, pullet, pullet is my "vote". But the 4th could be "questionable".
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    It's been a couple of years since I last posted I think. Life got super busy, doesn't it always?
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    Review by 'WhySayWhat' in article '3D Printing for Chickens (Feeders and Other Accessories)'

    What a great article and just "one more reason" for me to give my husband to try and get myself a 3D printer! Those small feed and water dishes are a great idea for not only chickens, but I can totally see a use for them with all "crate friendly" animals and as an option in animal traps! As...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    New babies! In the past year, I have lost 4 of my hens to accident and "old age" bringing me down to 7 hens, 3 from my order 5 years ago (my CB Shadow, Lovey my White Cochin momma, and Lady an EE that hates me and yells all day if I'm outside) and my 4 Grey Silkies (Blu, Charlie, Delta, and...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Meet Buckbeak! She's a Crossbeak Silkie with more than a few things going against her, but we will be letting her live her best life, no matter how long or short that might be. She's 6 weeks old and only the size of a 1 week old chick, so she is currently living in my bathroom as my 7 and 8...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    What a beautiful goose! We are back out again today to catch the last 2 remaining Fawn and White Indian Runner Drakes that were dumped in Manito Park here in Spokane! We caught 2 of them yesterday with the help of the Parks Dept. Poor boys are super healthy looking for having been dumped 3...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Phew! 13 days my group of volunteers worked....we fed, watered, caught, sought medical care for, and reunited pets in the Gray fire area! Our final "tally" of animals helped/saved/evacuated included... 350+poultry 77 cats 46 dogs 50+ deer 34 Horses 47 Goats 4 Cows 2 Porcupine 1 Llama 1...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Okay Ladies and Gents, talk to me about caring for meat birds! I took in a flock of 36-38 chickens last night that have been displaced by the fires on the East side over here near Spokane. I don't have an accurate count as they were unloaded into my dark, unused for 5 years coop under my deck...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Anyone on the East side have fertilized eggs they want hatched? I now have 2 incubators that I am dying to use, but no room to add to my own flock! This is like "chicken math" on steroids y'all! I'm even considering learning how to make a quail setup inside the house just so I can use the...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I broke down this year and let my broody hens have eggs (1 hatched). I also have a small coop, a friend of mine bought it from costco to use as a catio until his cat busted out the ramp/run door! I bought it from him for $20 because at the time, we had only 1 hen left and I wanted to set her up...
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