Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Hinotori]

How are you doing?

i'm doing good, 3 of my chickens are molting right now, never had more than 2 molt at a time.

Then you need more chickens so you can have the terrifying piles of feathers that make you do head counts.

I have a few big girls finally laying again. My fault for not getting or hatching pullets last spring. The silkies make up for it though. The 14 nonbroody girls give me an average of 10 a day. I've been saving all my eggs the last two weeks to give to Mom, though.

 

[Chickielady]

Well, that's cool! I have a lot of pumpkins. I am going to try this.

Don't enlarge this & look at it if you are squeemish....this is a pic of POO on the poop tray the night after my birds pig out on pumpkin seeds (and Sweet Meats Seeds work too) maybe just about any big winter squash would do....

 

[Chickielady]

For not being swimming birds, chickens seem to love baths. Good job getting her healthy

Chickens can swim pretty good !

 

[Chickielady]

I found an old silk brocade jacket I'm taking to a young cousin who's really getting into the anime and conventions. I must help corrupt her. Lol

 

[Chickielady]

That is also why why I am sitting here with my F-1 Blue I have another F-1 pullet
and 5 ee Pullets from Gena hoping to make more olive eggers

My expensive Black Ameraucana Cockerel, from shipped eggs, that was 7 months old & just beginning to mate, flew into a wall & broke his leg last week.. and of course he died unable to walk/eat/drink...

.......................................just my luck !!!!!!!
So the Splash OE, and the blue OE, and the 2 black Am pullets are left with a very young (and stupid) Silver Ameraucana cockerel..........................

BUT I gathered all the eggs from the 4 females, and left my Chantecler hen see them, and she went into broody mode...like usual (her name is Broody Momma ).............after 2 days I then moved her to her own brooder where the eggs were moved and food & water was all set up...and she figured it out, I had moved her too soon...drats !
I had to turn on the incubator.

sOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIf all goes right, we will have super dark (and spotted) OEggs bred back to a super blue cockerel...and the 2 blue am pullets bred by him also.....
Since the incubator is on, I am running fertility test eggs & put up my ads for hatching eggs for sale...may as well, as long as the incubator is on.
It is my little incubator...but still there is room for a few extra eggs...I'm just going to have a few extra chicks hatching...and that is how I got too many this summer, by "verifying fertility" every week......cracking them open is OK, but not as good as an incubator test.

 

[Chickielady]

Chicks are hatching early. Should be a peeping incubator by morning.

You are hatching this time of year too?
Put any hatching egg ads up yet ?

 

[Chickielady]

Red sexlink Easter Egger, just hatched. Now dried and fluffed enough to see deep, dark red. This little girl took over 30 hours to hatch and was pipped at the wrong end.

 

[Chickielady]

hi everyone

 

[Chickielady]

nope just me and my chickens here and the rest of the zoo

I believe she refers to us on the WET side of the state..my Dad calls us 'Mossbacks"

The moss on the roof is referred to as a "Chia Pet Roof"

And all is green here...even the side of the house !

 

[Chickielady]

Red sexlink Easter Eggers are done hatching. Two girls and a boy.

PERFECT HATCH !