Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

Well, I missed something important in one of the chicks. The splash with the pouffy face that I thought was an Am/Aus has feathered legs, so must not be an AmX after all. But, it has a pouffy face! Looks like a pullet too, judging from the wing feathers at hatching.



Guess I'll have to contact Cowgirl Grace for a couple of Ams. I'm delighted with this one though! Must be a splash Marans with a beard - how cool!

On second thought...does this babe have 5 toes per ?
Could be it has some Fav in it ?
Looks to have 5 toes to me, in which case it is a Fav or part Fav ....?

 

[AletaG]

So, anyone on this thread plant their (small) yard with forage for their chickens? I'm on the Peninsula, so need to think perennial or annual that doesn't mind the wet. The other problem is that basically this entire town is a giant sand dune (was, many moons ago) so the only 'soil' is imported or comes from chicken poop. We just got started this spring, so don't have a lot yet in the way of litter to scoop out there.

The one thing that comes to mind is clover... but then you can never, ever really be rid of it. Thoughts? Was hoping for something I can tractor birdies on, but also let patches grow to fruit in the summers and harvest seed and pack up dry forage. Hubby is dying to make a home-made 'straw' baler. I have HORRIBLE luck with sunflowers. I had thought millet, 'cause it always grows so well around the feeders, but the feed store supplier shot me down. :-(

Should I ignore 'em?
-AG

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I just filled out an 18 box with the Hamburgs, right? I suspect that the AM/Au ones are an indication of when Dave started to get sick; we'll see how many of the eight I have are pullets, since I'm unlikely to keep more than two. I am really unhappy about the way this is working out, all around, especially since I should have noticed earlier only I was trying to deal with weather, building/maintaining pens, the chicks in the house, a very late-calving cow, and the whole end-of-life dog care stuff.


And the wedding, forever and always the wedding. Two weeks from today it will be over. I hope I survive the interim.

So I missed something somewhere:
What wedding ?
Whose wedding ?

My daughter's wedding, on the 27th. I'm sure I've mentioned it here: it's going to look like the crowd scenes from Ben Hur.

 

[CoopDeDoo]

So, anyone on this thread plant their (small) yard with forage for their chickens? I'm on the Peninsula, so need to think perennial or annual that doesn't mind the wet. The other problem is that basically this entire town is a giant sand dune (was, many moons ago) so the only 'soil' is imported or comes from chicken poop. We just got started this spring, so don't have a lot yet in the way of litter to scoop out there.

The one thing that comes to mind is clover... but then you can never, ever really be rid of it. Thoughts? Was hoping for something I can tractor birdies on, but also let patches grow to fruit in the summers and harvest seed and pack up dry forage. Hubby is dying to make a home-made 'straw' baler. I have HORRIBLE luck with sunflowers. I had thought millet, 'cause it always grows so well around the feeders, but the feed store supplier shot me down. :-(

Should I ignore 'em?

You should check out some of the "cover crops" mixes that people us in their winter gardens. In my experience they grow pretty much anywhere without any help

 

[Stumpfarmer]

At least one of the new bantams is the right silvery-blue to be a Porcelain; if I get a Porcelain cockerel out of this setting I will be THRILLED.

Otherwise, not so speedy today; did the morning rounds (Bluebelle had an egg, which is a good sign, yes?) cleaned one box in the hall bathroom and made lunch, whoopdidoo, but I have to wash my hair because I never, ever do it at night and my scalp feels as if I stuck it in an ant hill, and run sprinklers on practically everything before I can get to pen-building.

 

[Chickielady]

SF, didn't TC say she had gotten some eggs from CR ?
If so, maybe that one feather-shanked & pouffy-cheeked splash baby is from Fudge ?

Now this is going to drive me crazy...when is she coming back ?

 

[Chickielady]

yeah, when the temps go above 80 deg the processor begins to heat up too much and it slows way down. Some times a fan blowing across the tower helps. Some times setting a laptop on a piece of 1/4" plate alum helps (acts as a heat sink). These are not the answer of all answers of course. The best way is use the computer in an AC cooled room.

And better take this antique to the junk yard & get a new one.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

SF, didn't TC say she had gotten some eggs from CR ?
If so, maybe that one feather-shanked & pouffy-cheeked splash baby is from Fudge ?

Now this is going to drive me crazy...when is she coming back ?

Possibly? I'm sure it's a few pages back, but my ability to sort is off. I moved chicks around this morning to give the Hamburg pullets more room and ended up with one of them getting a hole picked on her butt, so now I have another box with one chick who needs doctored and less time than I thought I had, to put it mildly.. I did get my hair washed, but now its so humid I may mildew before it gets dry.

I think she's coming back next weekend?

It does look like Favorelles feet, though, doesn't it?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

SF, didn't TC say she had gotten some eggs from CR ?
If so, maybe that one feather-shanked & pouffy-cheeked splash baby is from Fudge ?

Now this is going to drive me crazy...when is she coming back ?

You could not get a Splash color from a Fudglett. But is it possible to have gotten one of his Bantam Blue Fav eggs? Those could produce a Splash, and it does look like a Fav.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Two of the at least five Barbu d'Anvers babies, and I am so very very glad that I have broodies: they're so much better at doing the chick thing than I am!