Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[BGMatt]

Next year (or this fall when the young ones start laying) I will be running 4 ecoglows for weeks 1-4 then just nighttime lights until the birds can go outside. Been really impressed so far and worth every penny. Incubators I kind of view the same as fish tanks, it's easier to regulate the larger it is (plus with my needs the octagons are just too small) so for the cost would rather go Sportsman or Dickey.

Glad to see others having good results with the ecoglows though. I was nervous about tryin it at first.

Hatch update: 4 Langshans out with a 5th almost out, hope they keep hatching.

 

[Totalcolour]

PIPS!

Yup, we have a turkey egg pipped, a day early. I think there are a couple of D'Uccles pipped too. These are not mine though - for a BYC peep. Hoping all the turkeys hatch. Sadly, there are only 5 D'Uccle eggs viable. Going to be watching carefully over the next 24.

We don't have ANY birds right now, only a pair of wild Mallards who stop by for pond life.

 

[gabbi126]

In need of new home $5 obo clark county area
6-7 week old roo

 

[CarolynF]

PIPS!

Yup, we have a turkey egg pipped, a day early. I think there are a couple of D'Uccles pipped too. These are not mine though - for a BYC peep. Hoping all the turkeys hatch. Sadly, there are only 5 D'Uccle eggs viable. Going to be watching carefully over the next 24.

We don't have ANY birds right now, only a pair of wild Mallards who stop by for pond life.

Yippee!! Congratulations. I hope they all hatch healthy and happy!
Have a great weekend!

 

[CarolynF]

In need of new home $5 obo clark county area
6-7 week old roo

He's a cutey.... what breed?
I had to re-home my little guys, too. But they have nice new homes with a nice harem.

 

[gabbi126]

He's a cutey.... what breed?
I had to re-home my little guys, too.  But they have nice new homes with a nice harem.

He is an EE/Ameru

 

[Chickielady]

Repeating as a separate post, because I really need to know if this is when I need to do this:

Question: when I move the chicks into the next stage brooder (tonight or early tomorrow) would it be OK to sort the Hamburgs and d'Anvers into separate groups then? I'm going to want them to be separated for basic managment reasons but the difference in size sort of scares me, to be truthful..

YES

 

[Chickielady]

I'm trying to be philosophical about this weather but ARGH I hate tall wet grass so much, ugh, and especially the way it makes my ankles itch.

It ALWAYS is rainy & cool on memorial Day week end.........ALWAYS........................no matter what state we were in !!!!!!!!!!!!
California, Oregon, Washington or Idaho....ALWAYS !
Nice & warm before & after.

 

[Chickielady]

Pips, yesterday...................and the day before a broody brought a handful of Silver Cuckoo Marans into the world.
My incubator had 9 Crele Chantecler crosses.....
and I have 2 more broodies setting on a doz eggs each............one is a silver cuckoo, and the other is a Black java....(due the 30th)..........and NOW I have a BIG BLUE Jersey Giant going broody.................

Ei Yi Yi Yi YI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got our 2nd 1500 gallon water tank today..................and tomorrow we are nailing in the 2 knee walls upstairs (since the sheet rock is finally done there) and THEN we can finish running WIRE (in the knee wall)

 

[Chickielady]

That could be really cool. I'd be interested to see a passive solar setup and see if it can be upscaled to larger setups. Anything that can help power bill stay down during breeding season. Hoping to go solar lighting for lights in breeding pens here this year too, mainly to avoid ~200 ft of trenching and conduit to get electricity out there.

We have 2 active solar set ups...and I cannot tell you how awesome they are !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







This is our "other house" in NorCal................................and when this Barn House is done HERE, we will install solar on it also !