Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Leigti]

OK, good. Now if they would just start laying some eggs.

 

[Leigti]

Well, another question. I'm thinking it's getting close to time for these little buggers to go outside permanently. Maybe one more week or two you think? They are about four weeks old now.

 

[junebuggena]

If the night time temps are over 40*, they should be fine. If you're still getting below that, keep them in for another week.

 

[Leigti]

The forecast for the next week is Lowe's 37 to 45° and highs in the 50s and 60s. So I might wait another week.

 

[shawnellabella]

ISO bearded silkie roosters who are good with the ladies in lewis county, I need two c:

 

[SeattleSelkie]

I'm exhausted!
We have had two long power outages over the past three days and my incubator is full with long-coveted eggs.

Tuesday was a car-power pole accident that took out the power pole and our entire island's electricity. Fired up the generator for the eggs (did I hear grumbling from my DH?) and then started to worry that it was going to be a long outage and we didn't have enough fuel to last. Guess we got caught a little flat footed on that one. So I bundled the incubator up and after the road was opened I got the eggs to a friend's house off-island that had power. They stayed there overnight. Picked them up yesterday morning (our power came back on in the night) and brought them home. We put away the generator and thought we would go get more fuel the next time we went into town in a few days..........after all, who has heard of two long power outages within two days of each other in mid-March??......dumb, dumb, dumb.

All was well until about 2am when the wind really started........of course I laid there in bed wide awake just praying we kept the power. I started to feel a bit smug right around 430 and, of course, out it went.....so had to hop out of bed and wrap them up with the down jacket and hot water bottle I had set aside for them. By early morning we heard the power might be off for up to 24 hours and that the nearest gas station pumps weren't working so went over to my nearest neighbor's-with-a-super-duper-generator and had to dodge tree limbs and an overflowing pond to get up his long drive. Tucked my incubator into his place and just got it home a few hours ago.

These are the most traveling eggs I have ever attempted to hatch. Fingers crossed they make it.....we are on day 16 tomorrow.

Well, I can hardly believe it but my chicks have hatched!

Multiple power outages (3).......hours without heat when it went out while we were away....transfer to friend's houses (6 car rides total) when our generator died
I had 19 viable eggs before the outages and today.......after a protracted 48 hours of eggs hatching that started on day 21......I have 15 chicks.

Some of them had a bit of a rough time......two with un-absorbed yolk sacs......a good number with almost 24 hours from first pip to hatch......but after resting under the warm brooder, eating a little scrambled egg and sleeping they are starting to perk up and act like happy baby chicks. I am tickled they did so well......especially since this is a batch that includes a dozen eggs I won in addition to those from my own stock.

Now I can finally get some sleep!




Olive Eggers (FBCMXBlAmeraucana, WelsummerXBWAmeraucana)



Black Ameraucana



BLR Wyandotte


BLR Wyandotte


Two BBS Ameraucanas ready to go places

 

[pennyJo1960]

@ SeattleSelkie

Congratulations They are adorable if I didn't live so far away I would take the 2

PennyJo

 

[Leigti]

Has anyone ever used one of those microwavable plastic disks that are meant for pets? They supposedly stay warm for about 10 hours. I have one and it does stay warm for quite a while. If I wrapped it in a towel and then put it in a pile of pine shavings with that keep them warm overnight?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Google the plastic bowl I have never heard of it, if it safe foe newborn puppies
you could use it on pullets under a towel covered in shavings I bet. JMHO

 

[HensAmongCedars]

Hi everyone! New Washingtonian with chicks here! I'm in S. Seattle/Skyway/N.Renton area, and I just got 6 chicks from the Issaquah Grange. It is lovely feed store and the chicks I got seem super-healthy and happy. I'd love to connect with anyone else local. I'm using an always on heating pad as my heat source, but then my chicks are in my spare bathroom. Thankfully, we have one of those that can be dedicated to chicks!