Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Cockatrice6420]

Chicks are in at Skagit Farmers Supply

So are you saying they need a supplier?
LOL

 

[mom98312]

well hello from beautiful Pacific Northwest! Haven't we had the most amazing summer? I'm over here on the peninsula near Seabeck Washington. I have a nice tidy herd of feathers and I'm out wrangling them daily. New to this forum and if there are any others near the Bremerton/Silverdale area I'd love to meet you and swap info!

give me a hollar.. I'm either wrangling or working in the garden. Thanks, Margaret

 

[Cockatrice6420]

well hello from beautiful Pacific Northwest! Haven't we had the most amazing summer?  I'm over here on the peninsula near Seabeck Washington. I have a nice tidy herd of feathers and I'm out wrangling them daily. New to this forum and if there are any others near the Bremerton/Silverdale area I'd love to meet you and swap info!  give me a hollar.. I'm either wrangling or working in the garden.  Thanks, Margaret  

Well hello. We are just on the other side of Tahuya and Sand Hill from you. Welcome to BYC, I'm new as of the last couple months and love this program. There are forums for just about every breed imaginable and always an expert somewhere to answer all kinds of questions. I hope you have fun!

 

[mom98312]

Thanks for the welcome! so what are you raising? I'm curious.. I've got a real mixed bag of girls..

 

[Cockatrice6420]

Thanks for the welcome! so what are you raising? I'm curious.. I've got a real mixed bag of girls.. 

All sorts of goings on here too. We have a few silver laced wyandottes, a welsummer, a few cuckoo marans, Black Copper Marans, ameracaunas, aracaunas, salmon faverole, chantcleer, speckled susex, a Partridge rock rooster, and many mix breed pullets and cockerels, then there are the ducks... poultry is an addiction.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

Thanks for the welcome! so what are you raising? I'm curious.. I've got a real mixed bag of girls.. 

We can get away with raising so many breeds here. What's in your flock?

 

[mom98312]

I originally started out recently saving 2 buff orpingtons and a barred rock. One of the buffs had been broody and came with three chicks that are now 2 RIR production looking and a Black SexLink pullets. Then I got a call from another person who had to thin their flock and ended up with a Silver Sebright and a Lacewing and they are also pullets. Years ago we had big Peking Ducks. .. a bunch of quackers. LOL

 

[Elaine Wright]

I can't believe how much I enjoy this thread. I'm very interested in what everyone has in their flocks. This is my 1st year in more than 4 decades with chickens. The climate here is so much easier than sub-artic. Chickens are fun to watch & their social organization is interesting. Reminds me of school, except I'm not the one getting pecked. LOL

 

[mom98312]

we too are starting again with a flock after years of NOT having one. I'm not sure why we didn't?? but I'm glad and we are enjoying the girls now. I have no roo at this point.. though we have acreage, we will soon have neighbors for the first time in 25 years. who would be closer to the flock than our house is. I'm pretty sure crowing would not make for pleasant neighbor relations. I did introduce them to the girls and their children were delighted. So for now we only have clucks and cackles and no crowing.

 

[cluckrpeck]

Grrrr, trying to get my girls drinking from horizontal nipples.  I have a chicken cup system that they like, and about a month ago added a horizontal nipple bucket in hopes that they would start using it so I can toss a birdbath heater in there come winter and not have to manage frozen water through the winter.  They've gotten used to it, I started putting bits of cracked corn and BOSS on the little ledges to get them to peck, but they are just not interested.  Any word on ways I can try to make this work, or should I give up and gift the bucket and nipples to someone who may be able to use them?

Make sure it's their only water supply available. Physically dipping their beaks in water (or to the nipple) always seems to help as well. Once they know it's their only source of water, they'll use it. May get stubborn but will eventually be forced to use it.