Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[mixedbreeds]

8 inches of snow here last night but with a 20 mph wind drifts everywhere finally almost done with snow blowing

 

[Hinotori]

Foot and a half here. It's heavy and wet

 

[pennyJo1960]

We got 4 inches today up in Skagit. This is our new girl Sophie, she is a seabright cochin cross!

Question, can a hen go broody before even laying eggs? We have haf her a week and today she is hording the fake eggs and not coming out of the box, she is 7 months old.

Adorable Daughter............ but had young pullet do it here gave her a couple day chicks
she had them like almost a week doing well then boom she left them both died

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have almost 2 on the ground but heavy and wet girls and blue coming out as their ground is wet
muddy nothing stuck there

 

[junebuggena]

About 3 inches of snow here overnight. It was all pretty much melted by this morning.

 

[Babybockbock]

Adorable Daughter............  but had young pullet do it here gave her a couple day chicks
she had them like almost a week doing well then boom she left them both died

Son and ty.

I think the little pullet might just be getting ready to lay!

I don't know which chick is cuter! The big one or the little one.
Good luck with the naughty one.

Ahah what one is the naughty one?!

 

[pennyJo1960]

We actually had a real flurrie at one point but all gone now

I wanted a good old fashioned snow storm but not here although it is much
easier to stay home when things get weird do puzzles we are all hooked on
jigsaw puzzle.com very addicting...
okay bockbock so it is a Son? see photo's of my favorite young man had a hair cut
at 3 days to get rid of all those lovely black curls.. he still cuts them all off

 

[Babybockbock]

We actually had a real flurrie at one point but all gone now
I wanted a good old fashioned snow storm but not here although it is much
easier to stay home when things get weird do puzzles we are all hooked on 
jigsaw puzzle.com very addicting...
okay bockbock so it is a Son? see photo's of my favorite young man had a hair cut
at 3 days to get rid of all those lovely black curls.. he still cuts them all off

Yes Son, he had hair past his shoulders!
I love his long hair!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well guess I beg mostly blind anyways

let's face it at those ages

 

[Hinotori]

So the snow weight bent the steel poles supporting the kennel roofs on two pens. I had to literally dig chickens out. Two hens were soaked and very traumatized out in the open. Two others were almost as bad but had a little shelter. The other three birds in that pen were trapped in the house. The wet girls had a vacation in the bathtub until they dried. They got food and cheese, then out into Ashes' pen. That pen is very full right now with 18 silkies. Everyone is very warm in the house though. Ashes and Raditz are the only two roosters that don't try and kill each other.


The bachelors fared a bit better. Their house caught most of the weight so they could just squeeze in and out and had a little space to move. They got to go live with the large fowl girls for now. Plenty of room there. The poor confused boys. 6 of them tried to hide in corners for bed. One was smarter and climbed in one of the big unused nest boxes. I moved the other boys over with him.


I should be able to salvage enough good poles to get one pen roofed again as soon as we have more melting. I have two spare poles to replace damaged ones.


The cats wanted out this morning. Leia saw white and turned around at the door. Luke went out and I had to go out and get him after a few minutes as he was lost and becoming a snowball.