Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

Just an FYI, Orpington doesn't have an "H" in it; and and even if you only have one, there is an "S" on the end of MaranS, named for a town in France.

Sometimes you can be such a ENGLISH TEACHER !

 

[Chickielady]

2chicks poultry: glad you found one, thanks for letting us know!

TC: what if it's an orphan????

You are so bad Carolyn !!!
HA HA HA

 

[MargaretYakoda]

My dad is a Milwright...He wanted to use a lazer level when he built the ramp in our coop.
The fact that he even lets me have a heat lamp in the house is beyond shocking lol.

My partner did use a laser level when he built the coop.

 

[Chickielady]

Cute pic of all my babies perched on the arena fence. Tonight will be their last night sleeping in the house. Tomorrow they'll be sleeping in the coop with the big girls.

CUTE !

 

[Chickielady]

Look up rare feather farm, Heather may have some in that color…..eliz

Better look up pettec63, she raises Muscovies, I do not think Heather does.
Heather is a goose person, though.
I have Muscovies, but mine are either white or brindle.

 

[Chickielady]

Hey guys,

I live in tacoma and i am looking for mixed color eggs to hatch. My 4 yr old is excited to hatch his own "birdies". we used to have a nice mix of breeds a few years back but a large lab decided to break in and create a scene from criminal minds, since i have not had chickens. now we are set up more secure and ready to start over.
Is there anyone close that might have any mix?

I certainly do, including Olive eggers.
Let me know.

 

[Chickielady]

My partner did use a laser level when he built the coop.

 

[Chickielady]

OK new printer for the new puter, the old one would not work...................

So, I am gonna have to deal with that issue all day tomorrow (I hope not !)

In the mean time find homes for 4 more Cobra tomatoes my Dad stuck me with (He does it every year !)
FREE to good home.
Cobras do extremely well here, extremely !
And the seed is SUPER EXPENSIVE !

Free !
Anyone close ?

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/Cobra_Tomato_Seed/all_tomato_seed

20 seeds fpr $7.50 ??????????????????????????????????
None the less. my Dad raises them every year and is infested with beautiful tomatoes, all the same size, all the same color.
Excellent plant for the WA coast.
Dad is in Grays Harbor.

 

[MargaretYakoda]

I have a big brooder like that, it is about 3 feet wide & 12 feet long.
In it, I can insert didiers, so I can have brand new babies under a heat lamp, and add a divider after 3 feet, and then 4-5 week olds, no light, and the last section has a door to a chick pen with hardware wire, and the pen is about 15 feet by 25 feet, and fully covered by netting as well.
So any cold babies can run inside.
Hopefully you have given them access to heat, should they need it.
I left a light off a few weeks ago & had a pile up, where the chicks got cold.
Then they cram into a corner & keep hopping up on the pile until the bottom babies can suffocate & die.
It never would have happened if I had closed the window...but I didn't.
And in the morning it was cold enough to cause a pile up, and 3 were smashed dead until a pile up.

For the first week outside (one to two weeks old) they did have a heat lamp while they were running around outside during the day. The heat lamp was hanging under the big coop. The JG's broody run is off the back of the main coop. They had a smaller version of the "broody bucket" inside a screened off area in the main coop at night. They did excellent. No panic-y pile-ups. I watched carefully. I don't want to lose any of these babies.

I had this "broody bucket" outside for two entire days and the chicks did excellently, even without the heat lamp. They went inside the cooler "broody bucket" when they got cold, and came out when they warmed up.

HOWEVER yesterday Drew and I were at a local used building materials store and spotted this:


I think it's an old rabbit hutch? It needs a new paint job, but it's built like a brick outhouse. They wanted $18 for it so we said SOLD! without even thinking. It's PERFECT for a chick coop, or an isolation coop later if/when we need it. I put the broody bucket inside it and the chicks spent the night there last night.



And here they are enjoying their second serving of fermented feed this afternoon.

 

[Pookie_Momma]

Thanks
Graham is not really that far. wouldn't really want to go farther but no one in the are seems to have any right now so we have a major

going on LOL