Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

Hi all! It's been ages since I last was on here. I finally admitted I'd never be able to recall my password, so I set up a new one so I could join the conversation again. Tomorrow I need to figure out how I am going to se up water inside the coop for my hens - no drippy messes and no poopy water!

My coop stays pretty warm inside, even during nasty freezes.

HEY GAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you ever get around to getting eggs to that woman in Rochester that wanted some of your cochins eggs ?????????

 

[mollychick2013]

Hi all... looking to start another incubating batch soon and I need eggs.... I am in Shelton, wa and can travel to olympia, lacey, tumwater, rochester, belfair for eggs...

Mixes are fine with me too! Anyone have any frizzle, buff orpington, rhode island reds, black australorp, favecona, faverolles, silkies eggs for sale??? Hoping for around 20-24 eggs but will go as low as 12 eggs. Hoping to start them this weekend at the latest!

 

[Chickielady]

Ogress
Hey its been a long time !!!! I have a couple electric water bowls, That I use once in awhile. But when it gets really cold I use two three gallon electric water containers. they aren't the easiest to use. they have a rubber plug on the bottom where you fill them. I have a lot of covered area in my run so they aren't right out in the open.. I don't put water inside the coop anymore. Doesn't matter what kind of container I use, my chickens always seem to spill it all over., My chickens don't spend much time in the coop. They can get under the barn and I do have a covered area coming off the side of the barn.

HEY RON B IT HAS BEEN A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG TIME !!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

We had a dusting of snow here yesterday morning.

The old red hens were all 'yawn' about it, but the little barred hens (a year old now) were totally freaked out and refused to leave their coop till it melted.

I raised barred rocks, hordes of them, in the Aneas Valley area (UP hill from Round Lake) for a few years..................they did well but for the frigid temps and mid winter I was always clipping combs.

 

[Chickielady]

My Cream Legbar are the only brave chickens. They have been running around in their pen. The old layer flock and my Breda Fowl are hiding in their houses waiting for Winter to go away. Can't blame them.

I bought a 4th heated water fount today. Finished stocking the barn with bedding pellets. Stocked up on animal feed yesterday. And counted 6 heat lamps. Just set the faucet in the barn to a slow drip and hope, hope, hope that I don't have to lug gallons of hot water around for the next 2 weeks or more till this Frasier Valley cold front wears itself out.

Sometimes I still cannot remember who you are cuz you used to be someone else...LOL
Good to see you here though !

 

[Chickielady]

Ducking in....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/840992/time-to-make-it-byc-official-were-moving

And ducking back out...

EEnie you know we are all here for you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Hi all... looking to start another incubating batch soon and I need eggs.... I am in Shelton, wa and can travel to olympia, lacey, tumwater, rochester, belfair for eggs...

Mixes are fine with me too! Anyone have any frizzle, buff orpington, rhode island reds, black australorp, favecona, faverolles, silkies eggs for sale??? Hoping for around 20-24 eggs but will go as low as 12 eggs. Hoping to start them this weekend at the latest!

I have tons....but Beware.
Cold temps gently touch the cock's comb, and Viola !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He goes sterile.

So, whilst a few hens may still lay this time of year, cocks usually 1) do not mount
and 2) are shooting blanks if they do mount
WHY?

COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!
So much so that for years we toyed with making mad bomber's caps for the males.

I still think justbugged will come up with a perfect knitted ski cap for male chickens...ha ha ha

It is true, their sprightly adornment on their heads is directly attached to their...you-know-whats !

 

[Ogress]

Nope! I could not get any to hatch, even after trimming their feathers! The rooster died a short time later, I don't know how he died, he was fine in the evening, and the next morning he was dead in a cat-box I have set up in the run as a dust bath; I have no clue how old he was, but I noticed that for at least 6 months before he died that his comb and waddle were a very dark red, not the brilliant red of the younger roosters. I have 3 beautiful back-up roosters and moved one of them in with the hens, and will try hatching some again in the spring. I keep the big cochins in with the little guys, and the 2 hens (blue and splash) ran out one day in early July and got "serviced" by my LF roosters. I saved 2 of those eggs to hatch because I was curious what the offspring would look like. I now have a gorgeous cochin/barnevelder cockerel with very feathery bright yellow legs, black irridescent body and red neck - He will end up in a stew pot for someone because I don't need him. The other is an English orpington/cochin cross. all black, slate grey feathered legs.

I broody hatched 8 other LF eggs, some from my coop and 3 hatched from Diane. Mine are orpington marans or orpington barnie crosses and the ones from Diane are all marans. Of the 3 from Diane, 2 are BCM cockerels, the other is a black hen; I think also BCM with just a little coloring on her neck. Another pullet I got from her is also not a pullet - she started growing tail feathers! Lots of stew meat for anyone who wants them. I may keep one BCM boy.

 

[Chickielady]

HEY OGRESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Holidaze !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE YA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Nope! I could not get any to hatch, even after trimming their feathers! The rooster died a short time later, I don't know how he died, he was fine in the evening, and the next morning he was dead in a cat-box I have set up in the run as a dust bath; I have no clue how old he was, but I noticed that for at least 6 months before he died that his comb and waddle were a very dark red, not the brilliant red of the younger roosters. I have 3 beautiful back-up roosters and moved one of them in with the hens, and will try hatching some again in the spring. I keep the big cochins in with the little guys, and the 2 hens (blue and splash) ran out one day in early July and got "serviced" by my LF roosters. I saved 2 of those eggs to hatch because I was curious what the offspring would look like. I now have a gorgeous cochin/barnevelder cockerel with very feathery bright yellow legs, black irridescent body and red neck - He will end up in a stew pot for someone because I don't need him. The other is an English orpington/cochin cross. all black, slate grey feathered legs.

I broody hatched 8 other LF eggs, some from my coop and 3 hatched from Diane. Mine are orpington marans or orpington barnie crosses and the ones from Diane are all marans. Of the 3 from Diane, 2 are BCM cockerels, the other is a black hen; I think also BCM with just a little coloring on her neck. Another pullet I got from her is also not a pullet - she started growing tail feathers! Lots of stew meat for anyone who wants them. I may keep one BCM boy.

Diane, Pitbull Diane ?