Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

Hello Washingtonians. I have 8 layers who are behaving more like 3 layers right now. My barred rocks and a lavender orpington still are plopping out eggs but the EEs and Buff orpingtons all quit. Spring will be a different story - I have seven 6-week olds in the big brooder and two under 10 days in the little brooder. The incubator should produce another 5-7 this weekend. My swedish flower hen chicks will be here end of the month - so I could have up to 24 hens all laying in April! Woo! For now it's just a good time to build more roosts, improve the grounds, teach chickens tricks, and enjoy the rains.

Welcome to the state thread.

 

[ValerieJ]

Hello Washingtonians. I have 8 layers who are behaving more like 3 layers right now. My barred rocks and a lavender orpington still are plopping out eggs but the EEs and Buff orpingtons all quit. Spring will be a different story - I have seven 6-week olds in the big brooder and two under 10 days in the little brooder. The incubator should produce another 5-7 this weekend. My swedish flower hen chicks will be here end of the month - so I could have up to 24 hens all laying in April! Woo! For now it's just a good time to build more roosts, improve the grounds, teach chickens tricks, and enjoy the rains.

Welcome to the thread! Happy to have you here. We are all experiencing low laying this time of year. Mine have just picked it up a bit, so maybe they are finished molting and have adapted to the cooler weather.

 

[Kmaria187]

Its a cold one this morning shoot only 30 (f) out right now everything still has frost on it. chickens don't seem to mind, but they are very quite. Not like they usually are, by this time of day they are yelling at me to let them out of the chicken run. Yesterday I got Zero eggs that's a fist time since they started laying eggs that we got no eggs at all!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey good morning have one really nude hen first molt and it is tough one.

 

[Hinotori]

Hello Washingtonians. I have 8 layers who are behaving more like 3 layers right now. My barred rocks and a lavender orpington still are plopping out eggs but the EEs and Buff orpingtons all quit. Spring will be a different story - I have seven 6-week olds in the big brooder and two under 10 days in the little brooder. The incubator should produce another 5-7 this weekend. My swedish flower hen chicks will be here end of the month - so I could have up to 24 hens all laying in April! Woo! For now it's just a good time to build more roosts, improve the grounds, teach chickens tricks, and enjoy the rains.

Welcome!

It's the light levels. Eggs dropped here as soon as the grey skies came back. I'm a bit surprised on the EEs though. Mine slow but lay pretty consistently through winter. It's the silkies that really get me through since they don't go broody as often in winter.

 

[Smokerbill]

Hello Washingtonians. I have 8 layers who are behaving more like 3 layers right now. My barred rocks and a lavender orpington still are plopping out eggs but the EEs and Buff orpingtons all quit. Spring will be a different story - I have seven 6-week olds in the big brooder and two under 10 days in the little brooder. The incubator should produce another 5-7 this weekend. My swedish flower hen chicks will be here end of the month - so I could have up to 24 hens all laying in April! Woo! For now it's just a good time to build more roosts, improve the grounds, teach chickens tricks, and enjoy the rains.\

Welcome! Sounds like you're going to have a nice setup!

I have only Barred Rocks, eight of them. Since they're only 8 months old they're still popping out eggs, 6 to 8 per day. I expect they'll keep laying through the winter, maybe slow down some.

Next fall they'll probably all be molting so I'll have that to look forward to. I might buy a few new chicks next spring so I'll have eggs while the others are molting.

 

[ValerieJ]

Welcome! Sounds like you're going to have a nice setup!

I have only Barred Rocks, eight of them. Since they're only 8 months old they're still popping out eggs, 6 to 8 per day. I expect they'll keep laying through the winter, maybe slow down some.

Next fall they'll probably all be molting so I'll have that to look forward to. I might buy a few new chicks next spring so I'll have eggs while the others are molting.

Yep...that's how it starts...

 

[Smokerbill]

Yep...that's how it starts...

Chicken math!

 

[Hinotori]

Get silkies and they will do the chicken math for you. They'll hatch a rock

 

[Smokerbill]

Get silkies and they will do the chicken math for you. They'll hatch a rock

If they could hatch infertile eggs, that would be a possibility.