Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[ChickAudie]

OH! Jess, they look like they had a bunch of fun in the mud!! Haha, I love it! We were able to get to the beach after our get-together on Sat and picked up a beautiful madrona branch that fell down after the bank was eroded this winter, I think the not-quite-here-yet chickens are going to be thrilled with their roost! Here is to warm sunny days!!

 

[Hinotori]

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My GSD loves the chickens, and will help me herd them, but she prefers to ignore them. My Aussie/Blue heeler cross still thinks the chickens will kill and eat him in his sleep, so he either ignores them or stays away. I have a young silver ameraucana pullet that has been chasing and attacking the kittens. She has them freaked. She's tried doing it to the dogs many, many times, but they haven't noticed at all. SHE thinks she's chasing them off, though. Both my dogs grew up with the chickens.

I do have E-collars for both of them. It took that to get them to not chase deer or leave the property. Vibrate and they come running to me. They learned very quick and I've only had to put collars on them once in the last 8 months.

Now the neighbor's pitbull cross is a different story. It killed 8 of my chickens last spring. 4 of my 5 roosters and 4 hens. We've caught it over here a couple more times, but the GSD has seen it first and ran it off. If it get's to the chickens again, it's a dead dog.

 

[Hinotori]

OK... got on here to post one little post, then I got sidetracked with all the chatter.

Quoted from the flyer:

I haven't been to a Nutrena workshop, but I have been to a Purina one, and the coupons were worth my time.

Awesome. I've marked it on my calender.

 

[TerrorBird]

I'd love to get some japanese or d'anvers, but really the main thing is to make Miss Frodo happy!

Has anyone here had a bantam go broody? How many eggs can they fit? I was thinking four or so?

I've had several broody Belgians at a time. They will pile up in one nest box. It's ridiculous. Someone will go in to lay and they'll be booted out (if it's a LF laying), then they'll go back when she's done.

 

[ChickAudie]

My Aussie/Blue heeler cross still thinks the chickens will kill and eat him in his sleep,

I do have E-collars for both of them. It took that to get them to not chase deer or leave the property. Vibrate and they come running to me. They learned very quick and I've only had to put collars on them once in the last 8 months.

Now the neighbor's pitbull cross is a different story. It killed 8 of my chickens last spring. 4 of my 5 roosters and 4 hens. We've caught it over here a couple more times, but the GSD has seen it first and ran it off. If it get's to the chickens again, it's a dead dog.

We had a shepherd that couldn't not (yes, double negative) leave the dang deer alone! Those neighbors better keep that daggum dog away from your chickens! I love pitbulls, but in the wrong hands, it can be a bad deal.

Your puppy is SO cute!! I want to say I have seen her before...did you list your property in Graham for rent with Windermere? There was the CUTEST house for rent when we were looking with a puppy like your with a pink bandana on!

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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I bet this is pretty cute!

Too bad your girls don't have a boy!

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

My GSD loves the chickens, and will help me herd them, but she prefers to ignore them. My Aussie/Blue heeler cross still thinks the chickens will kill and eat him in his sleep, so he either ignores them or stays away. I have a young silver ameraucana pullet that has been chasing and attacking the kittens. She has them freaked. She's tried doing it to the dogs many, many times, but they haven't noticed at all. SHE thinks she's chasing them off, though. Both my dogs grew up with the chickens.

I do have E-collars for both of them. It took that to get them to not chase deer or leave the property. Vibrate and they come running to me. They learned very quick and I've only had to put collars on them once in the last 8 months.

Now the neighbor's pitbull cross is a different story. It killed 8 of my chickens last spring. 4 of my 5 roosters and 4 hens. We've caught it over here a couple more times, but the GSD has seen it first and ran it off. If it get's to the chickens again, it's a dead dog.

that really sucks. Put high powered electric wire around your property and shock the hell out of your neighbors dog when it tries to come on your property.

 

[Farmin Momma]

The other day I got a tiny little dark brown egg that had a whiteish powder coating on it. Then the next day I got another but with out the "powder" on it. I only have two girls that lay dark brown eggs one is a Welsumer (sp?) and the other is a C Maran. Now the Welsumer is still laying but my Maran is broody, so I was wondering who could have laid this new little egg. I do have 3 pullets that are due to be laying any day now, that I hatched this summer out of eggs bought from 4Hpoultrymom. I had bought BLRWs, OEs, and EE's from what I can remember. Hatched 14 out of 18 eggs, but sadly only 3 pullets and one roo survived until now. All three of the pullets have beards (as dose the roo) so I was assuming that they were all going to either lay blue or olive eggs. One thing that is making me question if it is one of them or not is the fact that I have one chicken that I hatched during the summer that is 23 weeks old, face and comb are red, but I can not for the life of me decide if it is a pullet or a cockerel.
But to my surprise I got a tiny little greenish pullet egg today as well as another of the dark brown pullet eggs!

The lipstick in the chickens butt thing is starting to sound doable at this point. I really want to know who is laying what.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

The other day I got a tiny little dark brown egg that had a whiteish powder coating on it. Then the next day I got another but with out the "powder" on it. I only have two girls that lay dark brown eggs one is a Welsumer (sp?) and the other is a C Maran. Now the Welsumer is still laying but my Maran is broody, so I was wondering who could have laid this new little egg. I do have 3 pullets that are due to be laying any day now, that I hatched this summer out of eggs bought from 4Hpoultrymom. I had bought BLRWs, OEs, and EE's from what I can remember. Hatched 14 out of 18 eggs, but sadly only 3 pullets and one roo survived until now. All three of the pullets have beards (as dose the roo) so I was assuming that they were all going to either lay blue or olive eggs. One thing that is making me question if it is one of them or not is the fact that I have one chicken that I hatched during the summer that is 23 weeks old, face and comb are red, but I can not for the life of me decide if it is a pullet or a cockerel.
But to my surprise I got a tiny little greenish pullet egg today as well as another of the dark brown pullet eggs!

The lipstick in the chickens butt thing is starting to sound doable at this point. I really want to know who is laying what.

Sounds like your pullets are starting to lay eggs Also post a pic of the one that you can't tell if it's boy or girl and i'm sure everyone will give their opinion

 

[FirewifeJess]

Well I finally decided to start doing something about the poop in the yard to keep DH happy. I still would like to fence off at least half the yard for the chickens so DH can hve the rest of the yard to not worry about stepping in poop, but with the creek there's no good way to fence it off and keep everyone happy. Still mulling that over. So anyway, I spent over an hour picking up TONS of poop; fresh poop, old poop, flat poop, ground in poop...you get the picture. It's going to take many, many more hours of poop scooping to get anywhere near caught up. I'm thinking about spending the next week before we get the chicks keeping the girls confined to the run so I can catch up with the yard and possibly put up a temporary fencing. So many projects, so little time!