Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[RaZ]

Well hello and welcome, Shiny.
I'm not a Washingtonian. I 'm just a city chicken keeper who pops in from time to time.
The chatty people here made me feel welcome. Even though I am an alien.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Well hello and welcome, Shiny.
I'm not a Washingtonian. I 'm just a city chicken keeper who pops in from time to time.
The chatty people here made me feel welcome. Even though I am an alien.

You ain't an alien. You just live in a yet to be annexed part of the state !!!

And to all who have made their way here from the original WA thread as well as any new peeps I say

and to our NEW WA thread.

 

[Hinotori]

Welcome to all the new people. I know there have been a few of you. I don't catch up enough and skip some pages so I miss people sometimes.

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: I think it's fine to put them outside after a few weeks as long as you can keep them warm. I brooded chicks last fall and put them outside at the normal 6-8 weeks but still gave them a heat lamp until around 10 weeks I think. Worked great.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: I use wood stove pellets that have no additives.
Just be aware that pellets expand as the get wet from droppings...
1 cup pellets = 3 cups of wood sawdust
The reason I use it is due to composting... I already have enough sand in my yard so I use the pellets and dropping to add to my bad ground areas. It works rather well!
How is the cost compared to shavings?

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: I think it's fine to put them outside after a few weeks as long as you can keep them warm. I brooded chicks last fall and put them outside at the normal 6-8 weeks but still gave them a heat lamp until around 10 weeks I think. Worked great.
After six weeks, I expect I'll only turn on the heat lamp at night for a couple more weeks, unless the temps turn really cold.

 

[Oregon Blues]

17 pages already. The split posting isn't going to slow anyone down.

 

[hallerlake]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/717275/ordering-chicks-where-is-the-best-place

This woman in Tacoma is looking for chicks in case she needs friends for her hatchlings. I thought someone here might be able to help her, either with chicks or info on where to get them.

 

[Chickadoodoo]

do they have places to get out of the rain and wind?
I let my gals out in the afternoon to free-range. They don't mind the rain at all. When it comes down really hard they have areas to go to or they just go back into their home and wait the rain out. (just like us)

They do have inside and underneath the coop and I guess I forgot to mention that it was inside the run that it's super muddy. I let them free range on weekends but not full time because of our predators. Will I need to clean their feet at all or should they be fine.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I'm here too!!!

At least it looks like I only have 13 pages to catch up on now if I ignore the old thread.....
Been busy studying for the business section of the Enrolled Agent exam - it will likely be close to December before I am again as active as I had once been.

Wow, when that rian started, I went from getting an average of 12 eggs per day from 24 hens (of which most are molting) to only 3-5 eggs per day.
It's pretty funny watching them - they still want to be let out into the yard, but they run across the grass and hang out under the eves of my house with my 2 big dogs. I have to hose off the chicken poop from the door matt twice a day! I guess even the dogs have eaten their fill of chicken poop. They hardly touch their dogg food  anymore!    (or  from the dogs' perspective)

I wish I had a video camera on the hens earlier today. One of my Barnie's who is going through a particularly unattrative molt decided to make a run for it back to the coop during a brief break in the rain and winds. She was only half-way across a distance of only 20 feet when a huge gust of wind came and blew off many of her remaining feathers like an autum tree! She barely managed to stand her gound, and then went indignantly squaking away to the coop since she had just been stripped in public!

Yeah, I'm down to 1-4, mostly. I will note that two days after the last time I fed the brown rice/vitamin D/calcium treat I got seven eggs from eight chickens, so I suspect I'll be doing that twice a week for a while to see how it works.