Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[sarahkatie]

A question about new birds and quarantine.... Can I quarantine all new birds together, if gotten at the same time, even if gotten from different people? After a intro period, of course.... It looks like I'm getting two pullets from one person, and maybe Carolyn's Dash, at the Vancouver show.... I have space for quarantine, just have to cement the shelter arrangements as they aren't traditional coops....

I do know to bring them home in separate boxes ;-)

One is the shell to a washing machine turned on its side(I have plans for it to be a brooder someday, and I also have Many dog crates, 36"-42" front-to-back

....yes, I admit to being a crate hoarder ;-P.....

Any advice/comments are appreciated :-D

 

[walady944]

hah! Me too! Not only am I doing it wrong, but so is everyone else.

Take heart, people; I know I did it all wrong and my three turned out to be intelligent, polite, generous, productive folks anyway.
Just love them!

 

[ChaeBird]

Today was our first three-egg day! Ada is the only hold-out.






Easter Egger, Rhode Island Red, and Cuckoo Marans. So exciting!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Quote:
hah! Me too! Not only am I doing it wrong, but so is everyone else.

Jess, you are a mean mommy that hoses her kids down before letting them come back inside(I have done the same thing when mine were little)

 

[RustyHen]

WOW loveley boys and girls!

Happy crying!

Oops still got problems, the quote and pics were from ChickieLady and "the sky is falling" was my quote back to her.

 

[CarolynF]

So 10 minutes ago it was NICE out so I tried to go put some soil in a few pots, but then the RAIN started and then WIND gustig to ah maybe 50 mph and HAIL...and then my entire porch was invaded~~~~~~~~~~~~





Waiting out the storm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Love That!!!

 

[FirewifeJess]

I just went out to check for eggs and say goodnight to my sweeties and I found Willow, my beautiful blue Ameraucana dead in a nest box. I don't know what happened. I went out around 1pm to get eggs and say hello and all was well with them all. I even talked specifically to Willow and nothing about her seemed problematic. Could she have been egg bound? Her vent looks a little odd like stuck with some poop coming out...

I'm so upset, she was such a pretty bird and finally beginning to come around to me being her owner; she finally let me pet her when she was on the roost when the lights were on without a squawking fit.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

As a parent, there will always be people who think you're doing it wrong.

As a parent, I think I'm doing it wrong.

Oh, my, yes. And something I've just begun to understand: the fact that I intentionally did some things very differently than my parents did mean that I don't understand my own kids some times because I can't imagine what it is like to have the childhoods they had.

 

[CarolynF]

As a parent, I think I'm doing it wrong.

Again..... too funny!

 

[FirewifeJess]

Could this be because they have been switched to chick feed and she wasn't getting enough calcium on her own? I always offer oyster shell free choice and just assumed they would eat extra for the time they weren't on layer feed.

I have heard calcium deficient birds can become egg bound.