Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[GoldieOrpington]

Hi all, I have a question for those in Western Washington. Is your entire run covered? I need to expand mine and am debating whether or not to cover the new part. I thought it’d be nice to have some uncovered but given our 6 months of wet weather coming up, it might be better to have it covered?

 

[saxgoddess25]

Hi all, I have a question for those in Western Washington. Is your entire run covered? I need to expand mine and am debating whether or not to cover the new part. I thought it’d be nice to have some uncovered but given our 6 months of wet weather coming up, it might be better to have it covered?

Mine currently just has a net over it, but I have some corrugated roofing that I'm going to put up over half of it. After that, it will be half and half.

Also, duckling picture that I promised earlier:

And a gratuitous Gabby on my lap selfie, because why not?

 

[Sequel]

Hi all, I have a question for those in Western Washington. Is your entire run covneed to expand mine and am debating whether or not to cover the new part. I thought it’d be nice to have some uncovered but given our 6 months of wet weather coming up, it might be better to have it covered?

I’d say cover as much as you can. You won’t regret it when the weather turns.

 

[Lemon-Drop]

Hi all, I have a question for those in Western Washington. Is your entire run covered? I need to expand mine and am debating whether or not to cover the new part. I thought it’d be nice to have some uncovered but given our 6 months of wet weather coming up, it might be better to have it covered?

My whole run isn’t covered but a small section is with tin roofing. The rest is covered by bird netting.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Stay with the metal best to keep it and take it off ..
I have it on two roofs of my coops but we have major apple tree and hazelnut bushes they can hide in Smudge my rooster is heck of watch dog

 

[Hinotori]

Cover all you can. Especially if you will be walking through it in the wet.

My silkies are fully covered as they will purposely stand out in the rain because it wets the crest down. The courtyard I let them "free range" in just has net but they aren't allowed out there of it's raining.

The large fowl pen only has net to keep them inside as they WILL fly over the 6 foot fence. I'd like to cover it, but they do have a nice big 15x8 coop.

Hi all, I have a question for those in Western Washington. Is your entire run covered? I need to expand mine and am debating whether or not to cover the new part. I thought it’d be nice to have some uncovered but given our 6 months of wet weather coming up, it might be better to have it covered?

 

[pennyJo1960]

My silkie have a tractor with a pair of metal sheets to cover them yes silkie will stand in the rain silly things

 

[saxgoddess25]

Almost all of my girls who are old enough to lay eggs gave me eggs today (7 of 8) and one of my buff orps, I think, is laying beautiful dark brown eggs. Did a marans gene sneak in there somewhere?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Those look pretty dark do you have a marans? you can see I do have marans and it quite dark

 

[saxgoddess25]

Nope. No marans at all. 4 orpingtons (two buff and two lavender. Lavenders aren't at point of lay yet), 2 blue plymouths (also too young to be laying), 2 RIRS, 1 buff brahma, and 3 australorps. I'm pretty sure the dark ones are from one of my buff orps because she was the only chicken in the coop around the time it was laid. One of the australorps was the only other hen laying a week ago and hers is a pretty rosy brown color.