Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[FirewifeJess]

I will try to get there for some chick feed, it's a great deal!

 

[Hinotori]

So it seems that the reputation Silkies have for going broody is true - imagine! My Pearlie June just shook herself from her broody spell and now Priscilla, our porcelain girl is sitting firmly in the corner, flattened out like a pretty feather duster. I pet her and she just purrs and raises her fluffy tail in a somewhat feline fashion.

She is currently in a coop with 2 other silkies. If I got Priscilla some eggs to hatch and raise, does anyone have any idea how the other Silkies would behave around new chicks? I don't currently have a broody pen.

I'm wondering if anyone within a few miles would have a a few to a half dozen hatching eggs they'd be willing to sell or part with? I don't want any shipped - I'd rather pick them up. She's a bantam so I wouldn't need many. I don't plan on keeping any new chicks right now. Just thinking out loud...

I prefer to have my non-silkie broodies in with the silkies so that the chicks see silkies as normal. My silkie rooster was awesome last year. He's worth his feed. He helps feed the chicks and will let them warm themselves under him. Even after their mom's were done with them, he was helping them out. My silkies have always been good with chicks. It's a toss up on where they sleep at night when everyone will allows them to sleep under them.

Current batch of chicks won't be raised in there as the silkie rooster hates the hen who is currently broody. It's a what goes around comes around as she picked on them when they were younger. Why she picked on silkies, I don't know, since she's half silkie and was raised by and with silkies.



I got my new batch of egg cartons today. Decided to spend a little more per carton and got me the pretty blue ones. Only thing is they make my eggs look more green in comparison. Maybe next time I'll order the teal colored ones.

 

[Chickielady]

I prefer to have my non-silkie broodies in with the silkies so that the chicks see silkies as normal. My silkie rooster was awesome last year. He's worth his feed. He helps feed the chicks and will let them warm themselves under him. Even after their mom's were done with them, he was helping them out. My silkies have always been good with chicks. It's a toss up on where they sleep at night when everyone will allows them to sleep under them.

Current batch of chicks won't be raised in there as the silkie rooster hates the hen who is currently broody. It's a what goes around comes around as she picked on them when they were younger. Why she picked on silkies, I don't know, since she's half silkie and was raised by and with silkies.



I got my new batch of egg cartons today. Decided to spend a little more per carton and got me the pretty blue ones. Only thing is they make my eggs look more green in comparison. Maybe next time I'll order the teal colored ones.

can you post a pic of the blue cartons ?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

So here is the Splash Laced Red Wyandotte bantam I got from Cloverleaf yesterday. It is so small, even smaller than my chick that hatched two days later.

 

[Hinotori]

can you post a pic of the blue cartons ?

Sure thing. They are a denim color. I do like it. Egg top right on bottom picture is blue. Doesn't look like it here.

 

[refamat]

Hey FieewifeJess
well done, much better than me as a house husband. I don't have the children chores unless the grandkids visit, then it's just fun and games all day, and my housekeeping is as I see it and realize it. Did get laundry done, took eggs to post office and mailed off, to the bank, then home and did some with the chicks inside and then spread out hay for the chickens (wet and cool here in the PNW yet, but they love hay to scratch through), relined nest boxes as needed, checked on turkey chicks, collected eggs I could find from loose flock (I think one of my new turkey hens is laying, got a different turkey egg today, will have to set it and see if my tom has introduced himself to her). Well, back to fun and games

Mark

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Well, looks like I will have an unproductive day. See, my 12yo Aussie came inside with the new pup a couple of hours ago. He NEVER wants to be inside. We have always wanted him inside. So until he wants out, I get to stay inside too. I really need to get the fence up for the run so I can hopefully transition the LF into the pallet coop this weekend. So looks like I get to lurk around BYC for a while.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Hinotori - how much do you charge for a dozen eggs with those cartons?

 

[Hinotori]

Hinotori - how much do you charge for a dozen eggs with those cartons?

$2.50 - $3.00 a dozen. I need to raise the price a little since prices have been going up. These cartons ran me $.46 each, but the guys try and take care of the cartons and return them, so they do get reused. I just wanted something different this time. Will take me over a year to go through these most likely.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Hope everyone got to enjoy a lovely dry day outside! I think I overdid it a bit out gardening, but I enjoyed every minute of it! Tomorrow might be a different story though! I weeded the Peony bed, and they are all starting to come up! Planted two rhubarb plants and started a huge job of transplanting my 5 yr old asparagus bed. We just put them in the wrong place and need to move them. Little did I realize how difficult that would be! I moved 2 plants and called it a day. Think I have 6 more to go and then I bought a dozen new ones as well that I need to get in. And desperately need to weed and mulch the strawberry bed, prune everything and start seeds! ACK! Never enough time in the day! I did check today though on when the clocks change for daylight savings time, and its not next weekend but the following one. Yippeeeeeeee!

Just a quick update on my DH since so many of you sent him well wishes when he hurt his back. After an MRI and x-rays, he has 2 ruptured disks. Despite that, he still had to travel for work this week and is in Fargo. Next week he starts PT and he will have an Epidural Steroid Injection on Wednesday.

Sweetlilbaby: So sorry to hear about your doggy. We lost our yellow lab, Abby Rose, one year ago this week. It's so hard to lose such a good friend!

CR: So sorry your machine broke!!! That's a bummer!

CL: Congrats on the great progress on your house!!! That's so exciting!

Love seeing all the chick pictures!!! I am awaiting the arrival of my first shipped eggs as we speak! I went ahead and traded for some BBS Ameraucana eggs since we lost our rooster this winter, and everybody I've spoken too that I know has them, is also looking for a rooster! And I'm also getting a few of the Silkied Ameraucana eggs and I'm sooooooooooooooo excited about those! So I'm hoping to put them in the bator on Thursday before I head off to a scrapbooking retreat this weekend. Will also be putting in some of our Splash Marans, bantam Salmon Faverolles, Olive Eggers and Seramas to check for fertility.