Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[btrask]

@btrask there are several duck ads in the olympia/ thurston county craigslist I have no knowledge of them only Chickens here sorry

Thank you! Will take a look.

Edit: Looks like Shelton is the closest listing. Would a 2.5 hour drive be alright for the drake? Was trying to keep travel stress down.

 

[KikiDeAnime]

Planned on selling both our Polish hens today but one of them decided to go hide in our garden area so now I can't find her or get her to come out. I've been shaking a bag of feed for 2 hours straight and she still won't come out. I can hear her but can't seem to figure out where she is.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Best to catch after they roost at night .. Selling three buff colored birds tomorrow.. taking the numbers down a bit

 

[Hinotori]

So Flitter has decided to skip the hopping into the basket step and now flutters over it. She's mostly silkie but has normal feathers. She can barely fly. I think only her small size lets her do it.

She got in twice today. She wants treats. Found the dog bowl and had a nice breakfast of dogfood.

The dogs (and cats) just lay there and let her do whatever.

 

[WhySayWhat]

Got my brooder set up in the garage (it's too small to actually park our vehicles in thanks to previous owners building a spare room in the back half of both sides), chicks shipped yesterday, so I'm on "chick watch" with the postal service. Temps are around 63-64 in the brooder (lined the big dog crate with cardboard), have the brooder plate going, and have the heat lamp out and ready on standby if need be...but I'd rather not use it. Ready at any rate on the off chance that the babies can't all fit under the plate...it looks rather small, but does claim to be good for "up to 20" chicks and I'm only getting 15. The whole thing looks looks very hobbled together, but it should work. Probably going to have to take the school books and laptop out to the garage once they arrive...I can't imagine my kids will be able to stay away, lol.

 

[Hinotori]

I put my brooder plate against a wall with a hand towel between them. Some chicks like to be in that small gap and not under the plate. Others like outside the front edge. Some prefer the middle.

I have the smaller Brinsea brooder plate. I prefer to use the silkies or ameraucana if given a choice. I had the brooder plate out beside two silkie hens when I hatched 27 that one year. It gave some overflow heated area and the mamas would always come back to beside it at night.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay did not buy a brinsea bought one that holds 20 60.00 said and done be here before the eggs hatch but both my silkie are on the nest started with little black Mud then big Dirt joined her.. Sold the barred rock I had in their

 

[WhySayWhat]

Okay did not buy a brinsea bought one that holds 20 60.00 said and done be here before the eggs hatch but both my silkie are on the nest started with little black Mud then big Dirt joined her.. Sold the barred rock I had in their

I didn’t buy a Brinsea either, I forget the brand name, but it’s orange/grey and was in the $45 range back in February. I had enough points on our Amazon cc that I got it for free (best price in my book), lol. It’s a hokey little setup that is temporary until they’re older and can go in the coop.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay I have bought other products from them, this is the link
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CJMV8XG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Hinotori]

I use their water cups. The silkies like them.