Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[vasher]

The babies are finally starting to lay. Maybe not quite enough food to get through the cold winter...

So anyone in the Graham/Puyallup area want to spend all day at a poultry in Monroe on March 18th? I'm thinking of entering some birds again so will be driving up anyway. Have to leave here at 6:00am if I remember right to make coop in. Then can leave after coop out.

I just have a pickup with a tiny back seat so probably only room for one person. The bird carriers will be in back seat as well.

Does one need to pay to attend? I've only been to the State fair and a bunch of dog shows.

 

[Hinotori]

The show is free to attend and look at birds. Have to pay to enter birds well beforehand. It's the Washington Feather Fanciers spring show.

Getting out of there without spending money is hard sometimes. A wander through the sale section takes my egg money.

 

[mixedbreeds]

Hello, I hope everybody is staying warm. I had a question about egg laying. I have three chickens that were born in March and three that were born in June. The ones born in March were laying eggs for a while but haven't in over a month. And the ones born in June have not laid any eggs. Is it the short days and cold weather that's keeping them from laying? I don't provide artificial light or heat. I'm just a little confused because my first chickens I ever got, 3SLW's, laid through the entire first year without stopping including the winter. So I'm just a little surprised that I'm not getting any eggs right now from any of my chickens.

I put a light in the coop this fall but the egg numbers continued to drop was getting 17 to 18 eggs a day from 18 hens got down to 8 to 10 a day. In early December I started feeding sprouted grains to them every day with in a week the egg numbers started up I am now getting 15 to 17 eggs every day.

 

[Leigti]

I put a light in the coop this fall but the egg numbers continued to drop was getting 17 to 18 eggs a day from 18 hens got down to 8 to 10 a day. In early December I started feeding sprouted grains to them every day with in a week the egg numbers started up I am now getting 15 to 17 eggs every day.

I've never tried sprouted greens. I do feed them fermented food.

 

[Leigti]

Sprouted grains. Is it unsafe for young chickens to delay laying eggs? Or does their body just naturally wait a little longer till the daylight is longer?

 

[Hinotori]

Both of the mated pair was here this afternoon. The one on the lower branch had a snack, but was facing away from me while eating it.





Turning around




Beak cleaning. I'd never seen an eagle's tongue before

 

[Leigti]

Both of the mated pair was here this afternoon. The one on the lower branch had a snack, but was facing away from me while eating it. Turning around Beak cleaning. I'd never seen an eagle's tongue before

Very cool. As long as they leave your chickens alone.

 

[chickenmomma16]

So anyone in the Graham/Puyallup area want to spend all day at a poultry in Monroe on March 18th? I'm thinking of entering some birds again so will be driving up anyway. Have to leave here at 6:00am if I remember right to make coop in. Then can leave after coop out.

I just have a pickup with a tiny back seat so probably only room for one person. The bird carriers will be in back seat as well.

Oh man... I want to show a couple of my pullets so bad! The difficult thing is making hubs think it's a good idea.


What are you thinking of brining?

 

[Hinotori]

So anyone in the Graham/Puyallup area want to spend all day at a poultry in Monroe on March 18th? I'm thinking of entering some birds again so will be driving up anyway. Have to leave here at 6:00am if I remember right to make coop in. Then can leave after coop out.

I just have a pickup with a tiny back seat so probably only room for one person. The bird carriers will be in back seat as well.

Oh man... I want to show a couple of my pullets so bad! The difficult thing is making hubs think it's a good idea.


What are you thinking of brining?

Silkies. Partridge hens and maybe a rooster

 

[Hinotori]

It's fairly cheap and good fun. Gets a professional look at your birds as well so might get ideas on where to go from there