Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

It is hot here also. The rooster is a cutie. I think it's hilarious that he looks around after he crows.

We are at 90 right now but sitting in our air conditioned office custard in the oven

 

[Scram85]

It is currently 98 degrees here at 2 p.m. We are cooking everything on the George Forman or stove top. It is almost impossible to get the darn house cooled off if we use the oven.
I have been outside putting frozen pop bottles and milk jugs in all my coops. I spent the morning building a new shade area.
Also, the air quality is terrible. We have like 3/4 mile visibility. Are you guys getting this too?

 

[junebuggena]

Yep. Really smokey from all the wildfires east of here.

 

[pennyJo1960]

think we are all getting a certain amount of smoke from the fires yes

 

[Hinotori]

Air isnt too bad at moment. It was horrid yesterday evening

 

[pennyJo1960]

maybe you will get spared it is the fires up in Canada causing the haze

 

[Hinotori]

So I think I'm going to hatch a few eggs from my EEs and ameraucana. The only eggs I'm getting right now are from those girls and the ones laying are 5-6 years old. Two of those 6 year hens are giving 4 to 5 eggs a week. They are the same girls who lay during the darkest months. So I think I need offspring from them.

Thing is I only have silkie roosters so there will be a broody tendency. On the plus side I could work on a blue eared blue egg layer

 

[pennyJo1960]

So I think I'm going to hatch a few eggs from my EEs and ameraucana. The only eggs I'm getting right now are from those girls and the ones laying are 5-6 years old. Two of those 6 year hens are giving 4 to 5 eggs a week. They are the same girls who lay during the darkest months. So I think I need offspring from them.

Thing is I only have silkie roosters so there will be a broody tendency. On the plus side I could work on a blue eared blue egg layer

I may have a extra peep depending on how my 11 grow up can only keep 12 total in the new coop with 2 Silkies counted in

 

[Flufferes]

I'm getting wildfire smoke here, too.
Yuck- it's 83 here. Not as bad as 90, though.

 

[Hinotori]

Hubby is encouraging me to hatch them and work on it. He wants to see a blue egg laying silkie. We figure it would take at least 6 years to get something that resembles a silkie correctly