Eastern Washington

[KrystalRose]

No but the Benton-franklin Fair and Rodeo is next week, I bet someone in the chicken barn would know how to set you up.

 

[ClickerChick]

Well, the Walla Walla county fair is in a couple of weeks, so I guess I'll just ask around the barn and see if any of the other exhibitors have any leads.

 

[NinetreesMom]

Got my last bunch of chicks out of the brooder and into the chick tractor, just as my spring chickens are starting to lay. We have 3 or 4 tiny little eggs a day... So cute!

 

[Raech]

Woohoo!! Skating in chicken poo and mud...god I hope I don't fall on my butt.

 

[Scram85]

There weren't very many chickens at the Grant County Fair. We went yesterday.

 

[NinetreesMom]

That is a bummer! Hopefully more will be at the Walla Walla Co Fair. I just built the last of my hen houses and coops. Now everyone that has been in a tractor for the summer has a cozy place to live for the winter. Now to get my larger feed and waterers made, get a nice protective coat of paint on everything, hawk netting over the runs, and I will be set!

 

[fintuckyfarms]

Anybody in the Tri-City area have day or two old chicks? My broody wins... I give up, that is if I can find a chick or two. I'm not picky.... Even Walla Walla isn't too far. I'm begging....

 

[Divannah]

I know your struggle. I tried to break my broody Buff Orp all summer. I finally gave her some eggs, two of which she squashed. As of yesterday she has one chick and seems quite happy now. It's a Blue Andelusian-Wheaten Ameraucana cross that looks like will be black, but got the tufted cheeks, so yay! Maybe the blue egg gene will be dominate.

 

[gpsygrl]

I just found the white/yolk spilled down the walkout plank of my coop but no egg shells anywhere! They're supposed to beginning to lay this next month-ish and I've not seen an egg yet... Do they usually eat the inside and leave the shell? Is this just a case of a soft shell to start? And if they are eating their eggs how do you figure out who the culprit is?

 

[KendyF]

I just found the white/yolk spilled down the walkout plank of my coop but no egg shells anywhere! They're supposed to beginning to lay this next month-ish and I've not seen an egg yet... Do they usually eat the inside and leave the shell? Is this just a case of a soft shell to start? And if they are eating their eggs how do you figure out who the culprit is?

If it was a soft shelled pullet egg, it might have broke during laying, or simply been stepped on and not eaten. I got my first soft shell chicken egg last week. Too soon to worry yet. My opinion.