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ChickieLady, You REALLY need to stop insulting your Bielefelders. It's like low self esteem that is plaguing them! They hear what you are saying! My Biels are friendly, calm, and adventurous. I admit they can be chow hounds- but after all- how does one feed those big, gorgeous bodies? Mine...

Hey Chickie lady- it's not too late to get meat birds. I saw that there's a new hatchery in Bellingham (?) area advertising on CL- chicks just over $1 each, and of course there's Linda who gets from Jenks in Oregon. I'm growing some this year- feeding them non-GMO food and giving them piles of...

Margaret, you are SO right! I started out with 6 hatchery hens, and once we got a couple acres, all heck broke loose. I mean, since 2 acres is really not enough land to have cattle, why not more chickens? I could not JUST have hatchery birds, so invested in some cool birds to own/breed/sell...

I wish I did! I was so, so sorry to hear Sherry in Port Angeles had to dispose of her flock (bird flu- ugh!). I hear she had gorgeous sebatapols. I'm loving my ducks we hatched from your eggs. I sent you private pictures, but because they are SO adorable, I'm going to brag about them here and...

I was going to buy a GQF cabinet, then opted not to, then changed my mind again- I decided that I've had enough of this crappy hatching. In fact, I was going to put the order in this week- was just checking prices to find the best deal (anyone?) - then spaced it out amongst the chaos. These...

Sorry your hatch didn't go well. I had a really bad hatch with my (rare) Bielefelders recently from incubator malfunction. I was so peeved . The day after, one of my hens went broody, so she's got eggs under her, then 2 days later, another went broody, so gave her some too. I'm buying new...

Hey MotherOChickens! I'm in Maple Valley area also. What breeds of chickens do you have?

I'm super excited that I got all of my Bielefelder hatching eggs and the remaining hatchlings sold this weekend. What a relief. I can't imagine holding my son's Sea Shepherd fundraiser this coming weekend --with incubators running in every room and brooders of chicks in here and 40 people...

you could use a couple heat mats under the pool, and keep it shallow, or use the cookie-tin water warmers that have 40 watt bulbs in them- and use a smaller pan like a sink-size dish pan? The only other thing is a livestock tank heater, and then you need a big 'ol metal or Rubbermaid livestock...

I'm down south of Issaquah, in Maple Valley-ish

Hey DiamondDust- Kummer poultry is in Black Diamond- south east King County. You can find him online. he's also got Russian Orloffs, silver leghorns, welsummers. He's got both large fowl and bantys.

well shucks- I live 15 minutes from Erhardt Weiss! We could have had coffee! I got hatching eggs for my Welsummers, Silver Leghorns and Barnies from him. I have one lone surviving Barnevelders hen and a Silver Leghorn hen, but lots of welsummers. My Welsummer rooster is gorgeous, but he's a...

Haha! can't sneak in here! We're a smart bunch . What kind of chickens are you planning to get? Are you raising for eggs or meat, or both? What area are you in? I'm really excited this week. I've been hatching chicks- and have some adorable little baby Bielefelders chirping in the corner...

Hey Hintori, I have recently gotten pretty excited about a way to keep really little baby chicks warm and secure. I found these storage boxes at Home Depot and have been using them with a Brinsea brooder/warmer thingy to keep very small chicks happy- check out my picture: The duct tape at...

Hey Hintori- how old are your chicks?

I've been wanting to get back into making coops and I need to make myself a brooder. that's a pretty nice design! I bet you could make one cheap with crates they give away on CL and just buy the screen and plexi-glass. If course, if you were super thrifty, you might find free plexi-glass also...

Leghorns are spazzy and flighty, but ya know- I love my ONE white leghorn. She's a super dependable layer and is economical on feed. Curiously, as a breed that is almost NEVER broody......she has gone broody TWICE. Funniest thing ever- a puffed up cranky leghorn. I'd yank her off the nest and...

Hey Duck Drover- do I recall that you live in Covington? Did you get rid of all your silkie roos at the auction? I'm sporadically online here, (have a LOT going on) but on FB more often. I'm in Maple Valley. -Rainmom

Howdy! I live in Maple Valley and there's no limits here (unless you are in a close to Covington (10 minutes) and Issaquah (15 minutes), 35 minutes to Bellevue, and far enough off the beaten track that nobody complains about my woodstove or chickens.

So sorry for your troubles. What a mean thing for someone to do! The silkies don't get a lot of money at the auction, but the big roosters do. We sold 4 big roosters, got $16-$17 each. (Looking back- I should have kept the more protective one- duh!). I've got a silkie rooster and 3 hens- none...