Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[mikeyb]

SudsyChick; wonderful photos and kudos for nursing Frodo back to whole again.

 

[Totalcolour]

My Polish Littles and a Bucket of Orp Goodness Lemon Cuckoos a Black and a Lavender there are 6 in the bucket! Can you find them all?

OMG - that was really wicked of you posting those pics - I'm drooling

I LOVE those colours and little crests. So, LF, but some LF are on the small size; how big do these ones get?

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

I always love your photos Dawn

x2!

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

Oh so cute! I love crests on chicks

Nice bucket of chicken!

x2!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, for a rotten morning it's been a pretty good morning, except for the part where I bought an ankle brace instead of a knee brace, and have a chick in the bathroom who's getting out and having hysterics every five minutes, and also still haven't set foot outside. Worked with the chickies twice, ordered meds, paid a bill, went to Petsmart and Freddie's and am just now eating lunch.

Good thing it's not a chicken treat day, although of course they'll try to convince me to the contrary.

 

[pebcrb]

I am planning to buy some pullets for pets and the ones I found have not been handled much, is that a bad idea for pets?

 

[melissaG]

Lots of photos of the chicks at 2.5 weeks. Photo overload!



Here they are learning to roost, they love this corner!


Hanging out with mom


Starting to get chilly, time to duck under


The EE chicks always seem to go under first, I wonder if the d'Uccle chicks stay warmer with all those feet & leg feathers?

Chick peeking out from under mama


Two of the d'Uccles

The gate to the little pen is open now, mama takes them wherever she wants to


Love those little feathered legs!


Bantams are super adorable!






Finally, here is my darling Frodo, her head healed nicely from the winter's hawk attack.

 

[MidsummerNight]

I am planning to buy some pullets for pets and the ones I found have not been handled much, is that a bad idea for pets?

Depends on the breed and age I think

 

[Sudsy Chick]

I am planning to buy some pullets for pets and the ones I found have not been handled much, is that a bad idea for pets?

IMO, if you want pet chickens that are lap chickens, you either need to get friendly chickens (that someone else has spent a lot of time with) or hatch your own and spend a lot of time with them.

There are also more docile breeds, Salmon Faverolle comes to mind. My most friendly chickens are the Brabanters I hatched from Hallerlake's eggs.

What are you looking for? And where are you located? There are a lot of folks on here that have friendly chickens of all ages, sizes, and breeds

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, the egg eater seems likely to be a mammal of the nasty rodent sort: there's another empty egg in the Wyandotte pen, and a bit of wet dirt on Agnetha's beak, but then there was also an empty egg UNDER a whole egg in the Hamburg pen, so... ugh, rodents.

Everybody's getting extra shell today, I just hope the stinky Xcell oyster shell has destinkified, since all of the hens kicked it out of the runs the last time I fed it. And the feeders were filled with stock grower since I was going on the "bad protein status" clue.

Otherwise: I need to move the Hamburgs into their new pen, which means I need to finish the new pen, which won't happen until I have multiple helpers for a whole day: I've suggested the idea of a work party for poor old Mom, but in this modern world where everybody works weird shifts, it's hard to do. And when my son was over for my birthday we wasted our work-time reburying a cow the coyotes had dug down to.

I lead such a productive and glamourous life!

OH- about tame chickens: Tegan, the year-old rosecomb Hamburg, squeezed out of the run gate I hadn't closed quite right. We have this down to a science by now: she's been the breechy one since she was a week old. I scattered scratch grain in the pen, opened the gate chicken-wide, and got behind her, and she walked in as if she did it every day. Good thing, too, because the ravens were in the orchard.

I haven't handled them much (Deary is the only one I regularly pick up, although the two new roosters and the Australorp broody are all sort of luggage-chickens) but I've been in and out of their run with them every day since they were born, and they're used to being around humans. Even the Hamburgs I bought at POL can now be petted and sometimes picked up, because they are habituated to humans. But Agnetha was raised at a Day Care, has been as close to me as her sister, and is both harder to handle and a little aggressive toward my hands when I'm filling the feeder and waterer.