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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I'm asking $10 per chick
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    Not Foxfire, although I do have Cream Legbar and Mosaics from them. The rooster and three of the hens have either one or two Greenfire Farms BCM grandparents (they are from the other pen, which sadly has no rooster this spring). The splash hens are from Cedar Hills and the BCM hens are from HB...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Same, I only go on facebook at times like this when I'm trying to sell or give something away :) I will PM.
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    I'm partial to marans, but a lot of new chicken keepers aren't familiar, and the idea of straight-run chicks is daunting. I've been through four people looking for "2 guaranteed female chicks" already and had to discuss how a small farm doesn't sex chicks. That said.... I'm pretty sure I could...
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    Just finished vaccinating 19 chicks. Whew! We had a great hatch of mixed color Marans chicks this weekend. I'm wiped out. My next job is finding them all homes, which I thought would be easy, as it has been in past years? But so far I'm striking out. I'm kind of excited to see how they...
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    After an aerial attack two years ago (lost one young rooster who was struck dead but not carried off) I had luck criss-crossing their moveable yard with some shiny tape. The theory is that it makes it too hard for the bird flying over to be sure it can make it back up. Big birds need a big...
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    A question for those who sell eggs to regular customers .... feed prices have gone up a lot this winter, egg prices in the stores way up. I'm thinking about raising my price for a dozen. But I have regular customers and do a subscription service spring to fall. Anyone have experience with...
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    I love my Brinsea Maxi 24. In fact I have two of them now as I got a second for Christmas. I've just loaded it up yesterday with 24 eggs for the first time (only done smaller hatches in the past). But they are pricey. My first incubator was a Magicfly off Amazon. The turning mechanism is...
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    I just had a rooster die right in front of me while I was feeding this morning :( I felt so helpless, he was gaping his mouth and seemed to be choking. No other symptoms at all, healthy 10 month old black copper marans roo. He's been in heavy molt along with the rest of the flock. He is in a...
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    I've had a nearly full stop on egg laying these past two weeks. Something about the weather has put the brakes on. More than half of my flock is in a hard molt. They are various ages, but I'm not seeing the molt really split by age or breed. It's always a mystery to me. I did have to...
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    He is a great rooster, and came from an expensive hatching egg. He is definitely my priority, as are the two BCM hens being pecked on. The white marans... not in the breeding plans. But she lays beautiful eggs and is robustly healthy and is very friendly to people. Hard to figure out.
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    I hope everyone is making it through the smoke ok. It seems to have cleared here for the moment, but that's only as long as we keep getting winds from off-shore. I've suddenly got a lot of nasty hens pecking at new feathers. Two black copper marans hens are like pin cushions with all the new...
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    I'm having trouble with wanting too many chickens this week. We dropped off my youngest child at college a week ago. She was my chicken breeding conspirator, and somehow that's making me want more chickens while I miss her. We have two flocks plus a bachelor pen and a total of 32 right now...
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    So true about the Vashon weather. I sold a flock of chickens in the rain in the morning and got a sunburn potting tomatoes in the afternoon. It's been a long cold spring though. Those tomatoes are starting the worst I've had in years.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Good morning here in the rain. We just re-homed a small flock of Silver Laced Barnevelders to some very nice people. And their eggs in the incubator have started pipping! Now we just need to get those chicks hatched and sold :)
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    OOh I need to try that apple cake recipe in the fall. I just saw my apple trees loaded with blossoms when I collected eggs. Everything seems to be blooming. I've started thinking about re-homing my Silver Laced Barnevelder breeding group though. Too many medium brown eggs in the egg basket...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I have a Salmon Favorelle with lots of fluffy muff and she LOVES getting her whole head wet. What a mess.
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    I have the Martin's pen and poultry spray, same ingredient. I've treaded them once in December, but it's a pretty awful job. I'm about to head out and do that now. The labeling says treat once a month, but I'm not interested in keeping them on a monthly dose of this stuff. Is it safe to...
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    We previously thought we were dealing with poultry lice, but today my daughter felt we were looking at mites. Several very small brown bugs near the vent area. The flock is 20 laying hens plus roosters in three separate groups with their own coops and fenced areas, plus a coop of 8 week old...
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    I'm so bummed, I just checked a hen while closing up the coops and we have mites :( Anyone have a favorite treatment/prevention plan that works for semi free-ranging chickens in mobile coops out in a field?
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