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Hey Washingtonians! Haven't been around for a while since we had to rehome our flock due to the fires last year in Eastern Washington. I have a request - I have a friend in the Stanwood area who is tending a small flock of chickens at her workplace. One of the hens appears to have a pretty bad...

I loved our NNs when we had them. I'd probably still have them but the other half fell in love with Marans so that's what we're focusing on now. Unfortunately we only have so much room on the property for chickens!

Not from Wenatchee specifically. We're up in Okanogan county just outside of Omak but we head down to 'the big city' often enough. :)

A couple of days ago my partner's favorite French Copper Black Marans hen (henceforth known as Winifred) went missing. We couldn't find any sign that a predator got her but she just seemed to have vanished into thin air! Yesterday he got a wild 'notion' and looked in the irises growing up...

Since I only have one EE, it's pretty easy to guess who laid the blue egg. I can tell my RIR eggs from my Sussex eggs because of color and size but I have NO clue which RIR or Sussex laid each individual egg.

Whoo. Been awol a bit, but I finally get to say I officially join the club! Lemon Drop laid this! Pretty true-to-color for the blue egg, too!

The answer, like so many related to chickens is, 'it depends'. You don't have to get rid of your chickens. If they're pets a chicken can live to be 10 or more. If your primary purpose for a chicken is getting eggs they continue to lay relatively reliably (though individual hens can vary) up to...

Okay. I'm way up in North Central, WA, so probably out of range for you. Lots of folks are at a chicken show this weekend but you can bet there'll be SOMEONE with hatching eggs for you in your area!

What part of EWA are you in?

No, she was just a baby. Hatched September 13. Just as healthy as could be to all appearances. I don't know what happened but man am I bummed. Didn't realize I could get that attached to a chicken.

Ugh. Lost my only 'pure' EEr this morning. No discernible reason :/ Just dead in the corner of the pen. Body weight was good, her crop was full, no visible reason. I just don't have the mood to do a necropsy to see if it was anything else.

Yup. That's normal. My chickens get the same ration every day, at the same time, and 5 minutes before I'm due to walk out the door with their food, they're ganged up at the door like they're going to beat me down to get the feed bucket. Chickens act like they're starving to death pretty...

Yay! And welcome to BYC!

So you're saying anything but red :D

Sorry. These are the best pics I have of him. He's a very dark duckwing with really ruddy red feathers. His tail feathers are to die for.

Here ya go - this is the main Washington board!

Hey @smallchick ! The rest of us Washingtonians are over here! :)

Sure thing! Glad to be of help :) And it sounds like a squat to me!

No such thing as a silly question around here. Trust me, I've already asked most of them including this one. The chooks should be just fine overnight without water :) Water in the coop itself, especially in winter, is an invitation to a yucky, unhygienic, and potentially icy coop. Your chooks...