Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[xoxocammyxoxo]

It's supposed to be pretty warm today, I'm going to let my girls out in the run for a little while for some excersize. We'll see how they like it.

We've been letting them out into a small temp pen for the past few days. Just haven't been able to convince myself to keep them out there yet. Tonight won't be any different i'm sure.

 

[Shanny050]

We've been letting them out into a small temp pen for the past few days. Just haven't been able to convince myself to keep them out there yet. Tonight won't be any different i'm sure.

I'm just starting day trips today. We'll still coop up at night. Beautiful and warm in sw Washington today

 

[xoxocammyxoxo]

I'm just starting day trips today. We'll still coop up at night. Beautiful and warm in sw Washington today

Is today Monday? It feels like it should be a monday. Well at least the Chickens are enjoying outside.

 

[Shanny050]

Is today Monday? It feels like it should be a monday. Well at least the Chickens are enjoying outside.

With all the chores we're doing, it sure feels like a monday!

 

[ShockValue]

After watching mama hen with her new chicks today, I just have to laugh at myself a bit. First time I brought chicks home from the store I was SO paranoid about temperature and food, and and and etc etc etc..

It's probably upper 60s, and the 3 day old chicks are all outside running around already.. Eating rocks and bits of clover and who knows what else.

I think this is a case of 'less-is-more' when it comes to raising chicks.

(Video coming soon)



EDIT: Video!

 

[QuiltinGramma]

My babies are just shy of 8 weeks. They've been going outside during the day for a couple of weeks now and at night we lock them up in their little coop with their heat lamp. Tonight will be the first night to go without the lamp on. With the weather warming up and them having all their feathers, it seemed like they will be okay if we take the lamp away.

It's been fun listening to them...how their little peeps are starting to turn into big chicken clucks and other sounds. One of these days I'll go out there and won't hear a single peep. I think I will miss those days.

 

[blueducklings]

Try RareFeathersFarm or maybe pips&peeps !

Getting into the BIG WATER BIRD WORLD NOW ?

As long as they are not shiney & black !!!!!!!!!!!

T-Hi called yesterday, to tell me Daffy Duckles passed on...she was 4 yrs old...raised in a house, a duck with diapers.........................................

T-Hi & daughter are extrememly upset, had a funeral, but daughter is still wailing & depressed.....................

CL: Thanks for the "BIGGER DUCK" lead. I will be placing my mini sebie order with Dave Holderread since I can't hatch those goosey eggs for the life of me.

Dave has some cool looking adults. I shall be on their wait list. 6 month wait...

T-Hi:

I have a lot of eggs in my bator ...also have some 9 week old babies and a few 5 day olds. None are black, but all are cute. Some might look super cool in diapers. I have tri color babies too

Just nothing shiney and black lately. I did hatch out a few "holstein ducks"

and a few "pinto ducks" too. Every hatch is truly like a "box of chocolates".

 

[blueducklings]

My hot frames are heated, from the floor, with pipe "tape".
So it is snuggly warm in there & the starts grow fast & when they get to the point where they are pressed up against the glass, it is time they have to go out, regardless of the weather.
That is why I am hauling compost to the squash bed & then it will get it's hoop cover on.Let's see if I can find a photo:


Hot frames, we have made alot of them & tweaked the design since these pics were taken


Then we got these boxes free from a company down here.
They are 20 feet long, so we cut them in half & haul them home.

This is the first year we were here....after this we framed in the 3 raised beds & covered them in green house plastic.

So far, 4 years and with our nasty windy ocean weather...this green house material is awesome !
So I need to go out & take new pics of the garden I guess...............

Are they the pipe warmers? I have a few of those. Can they be placed on the bottom of pots? I should try and bury it in my green house beds.

 

[Chickielady]

NPIP people sent this e-mail this morning, thought it interesting, this map of all Avian Influenza issues.
It said if you see a "barn" it is also a confirmed case.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?hl=en&mid=zv94AJqgUct4.kB0Jt6F7NlIM

 

[Chickielady]

awesome find with the crates! I'd love some of those lol..... I'd like to make some cold frames it's on the list of things to do.........right now just trying to settle in.....did alot of blackberry ivy removal and been pruning tree's and cleaning everything on the property up....I swear get one thing done and 12 more take it's place lol......love the set up though

Thanks !