Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[ducklingsweety]

I went out and tucked her into the hen house part. She was not happy, but has stayed in. I dont know who was more scared, her or me. Pitch black outside. I must say, her body felt nice and warm though. Makes me feel better to know she is warm under all those feathers

i used to love going out and giving my hens a hug when it was cold!

 

[beausonge]

The modern version of that is the rock bottle (plastic pop bottle with a few pebbles in it). That would work with many dogs but I'm pretty sure that would not work with my GSD. Too hard, and too much prey drive. I saw that on my previous GSD Brando when I took him to a local herding trainer for a herding day. He'd never seen sheep before and it was exciting to say the least. He went into the ring with the trainer and proceeded to pursue the sheep with gaping jaws. Joe (the trainer) had to fend him off the sheep with the stick and Brando ignored everything unless Joe actually smacked him on the head with it.
After several smart raps he suddenly realized he wasn't supposed to bite the sheep and went straight into ignoring them. Sat down and started checking out the view through the corral fence. I could see him thinking, ok I get it, screw you guys. At which point Joe tossed a rock bottle at him, and bounced it right off his head. He wasn't even startled, just ran right to it, picked it up and pranced back to Joe with it, tail wagging, still ignoring the sheep. Joe and everyone watching just about fell down laughing. Anyway, our current GSD has a similar temperament and his very favorite activity (that doesn't involve live prey) is to retrieve thrown objects.

That must have been pretty funny! Some dogs are just full if themselves!

 

[Manningjw]

Soooo my 7 month old ameraucana/australorp/leghorn mix decided to go broody this week. Does anyone have Blue Ameraucana or blue am/leghorn hatching eggs for sale? She is so dedicated to hatching that golf ball I feel bad.

 

[fosterson]

Well, I'm not so sure about the fertility of my barnyard eggs. :/

We are going to be in the Seattle area tomorrow. Anyone have a dozen or so fertile eggs I could grab while I'm there tomorrow? I'll be in Monroe, WA overnight on the 10th. I'd like to throw a few more 'chances' in my incubator if I could!

 

[Hinotori]

I'm not getting hardly any eggs right now. Can't wait for the birds to start laying good again

 

[Lutefisk]

People are talking about getting 50% hatch rates on Trader Joes fertile eggs (white Leghorn), if no one on BYC has any. I'm tempted to try that myself after I get an incubator. Still not sure what to get though. I do know I want 12-20 egg capacity, temp and humidity control, and auto turner.

 

[fosterson]

Well, I'm about 4 hours away from the nearest Trader Joe's. They say Whole Food sells em too. Same story

 

[Hinotori]

People are talking about getting 50% hatch rates on Trader Joes fertile eggs (white Leghorn), if no one on BYC has any. I'm tempted to try that myself after I get an incubator. Still not sure what to get though. I do know I want 12-20 egg capacity, temp and humidity control, and auto turner.

DH has promised me a Brinsea Octagon Advanced with humidity pump for Christmas. I'm going to get in so much trouble with that come spring

 

[Chickielady]

Holy BLEEP it's cold.

There. I just had to say that.

Our low here for the past 4 days has been 16 degrees F.

No, this is NOT NORMAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Hey there CL

, it hasn't been this cold at this time of year since 1972, the year I was born

Hi sweetie !
And I must say again.........................1972 ?
LOL the year I graduated from High School !