Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Leighe]

I am sorry you are having so much pain

Have you ever hatched chicken and duck eggs in the same incubator? I have a gal asking me how to do it and I don't know anything about ducks! If you or anyone else here can give advice, I will pass it on.

I've hatched them together. Chickens hatch first and I got them in the brooder and waited for the ducks. Read online humidity and temp for ducks and everything hatched.

 

[Birdinhand]

I'm here, I've been working on lots of stuff, kids out from school. I just rehomed 6 chicks from our broody. she did a great job! we are more than maxed out on our limit so we will have to rehome some more chickens before they reach 6 months. we have two BO, two SLW's, one lavender O, and 4 pullets that are about 4.5 months (a Barnvelder, two black Sex Links and a Speckeled Sussex). we are allowed to have 6 total and now I can't figure out which one's to get rid of. I had no idea how much I'd fall in love with the speckled sussex and Barnvelder and the kids have taken to the sex links. the silver laced wyandots are kind of mean and so is the Lavender, so currently they are on my list. I'm just waiting till the youngens start laying. the problem with chicken math is the ordinances, LOL!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Nice idea though right @Hinotori .. really needed the sleep last night

 

[Hinotori]

The plants help keep it cool in the coop. I have pots on the afternoon side blocking sun from the bottom.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Darn good idea the new coop does pretty cool for that and it has the 11 lavender a I bought from a breeder.. had to fix typos too early.. turns out was too late to get the banty eggs at auction but celtic has a friend with them so not as early up meeting her as going back to auction

 

[Chickielady]

This little guy gets to stick around. He's a little brick, only 6 weeks old.View attachment 1068571

lOOKS LIKE YOU ARE BREEDING THE SAME KIND OF FUNNY FACES THAT i AM !

 

[Chickielady]

Should have started hatching tomorrow evening. All of them are starting to hatch. Even the ones under the broodies have a few pipped so it's not just the bator.

A good sign that hey are super healthy & strong !

 

[pennyJo1960]

lOOKS LIKE YOU ARE BREEDING THE SAME KIND OF FUNNY FACES THAT i AM !

giggle, giggle and I have the lavender Ameraucana 11 og them 18 more hova bator

 

[Chickielady]

I'm curious about the high protein %. Obviously you know what your flock needs, but It seems higher pretty high. Is that ever a concern to you, as in overtaxing their organs? I seem to recall claims to that effect some time back but can't recall specifics.

What brown layers do you have these days? CRS!

Also curious about animal protein, who does that? Right now I'm using Payback All Flock pellets. So far so good I think. I switched from Purina Flock Raiser earlier this year. I like pellets.

You can get bursitis and gout from feeding too high a protein.in Ducks, Geese and large meat fowl (Jersey Giants, Buckeye, Cornish cross) you can feed 24% intermittenly with 20%............otherwise gout will get your birds, and then damage to the kidneys I beleive is the next issue.
In the case of Silkies....for some reason they need extra or they feather pick.
Only an experienced silkie grower knows about silkies...they are a mystery.
Not even a chicken as far as I am concerned...they are something from another planet !

It is very true about the gout and organ damage though !

 

[Chickielady]

I understand that and will stay at the 17% for my girls, molting I can give them oatmeal and meal worms as I do now chicks I do start at higher but they have that also I will see how this does for them decide from there

I give mine farm scraps, like squash, pumpkins and sweet meats stored over winter from last summer.
That kills any worms, too.
I also give my layers 16% layer feed, small pellets, from TS.
I also give ALL of them either a giant pie tin piled with beer mashed grains, or a bag of 100% whole wheat or great grains bread, we get at Franz bakery outlets.
Call them, and ask for any "animal Bread" and expect alot if they do have it, about $25 and about fills the back of our mini van up about 2/3 of the way to the roof......so I share with the neighbor.
They do on occasion have alot of doughnuts...which we give to the people we know who have pigs...who is not raising any this year.
So I still have 20 boxes of raspberry filled doughnuts in my van.........smells good anyways...but can't eat any of it !