Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[ChickAudie]

I got a call from Ideal, they have my Red Shouldered Yokohamas! I will be placing my order this weekend, if you would like one, you can have one, no charge, I just need to know how many you will want.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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I mentioned on the Oregon thread that M Best lives not too far from us. I sent her here knowing someone was dealing with a chronic broody.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Check out the Washington Feather Fanciers website, it's a poultry show in Monroe on March 16th

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Thanks all for the warm welcome! A little more background on me and our chickens - I'm new to chickens as of two years ago when we got our first chicks from the local Del's .I have been interested in them for awhile, but my DP had them as a kid and thought it would be too much work on top of our full time jobs, but then she surprised me with a chicken tractor (one of those a-frame things that's supposed to hold 6 chickens) for my birthday.

As it turns out they are not too much work, especially since our GSD has taken over guard duty (after eating most of the first batch) and we don't need to lock/unlock them every day or move the coop several times a week. Plus they are much nicer pets than either of us anticipated. Rather too nice, as the plan was for them to be for the soup when they are done laying. Part of the long term plan to improve our ecological impact and become more food independent. That is still the plan, but it will be tough to slaughter them ourselves, and I hope to find someone we can trade slaughter duty with so we don't have to slaughter our own. Or maybe when we have more it won't be so tough.

We are planning to expand by another 5 this spring. Easter Egger or Ameracauna, Welsummer, Maran, Barred Rock. Maybe a rooster (we have the neighbor's blessing) if we can find a nice one. Anyone near Shelton or Oly hatching any of these? Would rather buy from people than the feed store chain.

Also, saw mention of a chicken show in Monroe, any more info about it?

Here ya go
http://washingtonfeatherfanciers.webs.com/wffspringshow.htm

 

[Chickielady]

Chickielady the house is looking great!
Do you have any buckeyes left? could use some hatching eggs from them

No, get after pettec63 for my Buckeye line.
I also sold some stock to 'Sumatradama' who is in Hermiston.

 

[Chickielady]

I also had 2 e-mail messages from BYCers that apparently did not send the messages.
These e-mails were a link to some odd ball "Raspberry weight loss system" and the 3 of us (so far) are wondering if BYC has not been hacked ?

Anywho...I am off to start the pot roast & ran out of propane~~~~~~~~~~~~~yikes I better get on it before I get too involved in BYC stuff as I usually do !

 

[Hinotori]

I had 5 different broodies last year, some going broody a couple times. No one seems inclined to go broody for me right now.

Even the silkies who should be now, because of the pattern they had been following, have decided that they'd rather be able to just eat all the young grass themselves without worrying about kids.

I have my stash of eggs I'm cycling in hopes of one of them sitting. I have silkie eggs sitting in nests in the two pens to encourage sitting.

Omelet the rock was playing pretend in the nest boxes for the last few days, but I think she keeps getting kicked out because she likes the favorite nests. She's not quite done molting, but I think sitting would let her feathers grow back in on her rear. She's super friendly and comes to her name, so she'd be a great one to raise chicks.

 

[Chickielady]

I am also looking to buy, 2 hen & 1 drake Skovie or 4 hens 2 drakes skovie duckles, can pick up at the show or if close ?
It is for a young girl in So Bend, color not important and pet quality although she loves having multi colored birds, Thanks, send e-mails if you can do this & price.

 

[MrRenz]

Tried posting to the Re-Homing Forum, but didn't get any responses. So, I will try it here.

I have a Coronation Sussex Cockerel that I need to rehome. He was hatched on 11/11/12. Has been handled since birth (shortly after) and is incredibly tame, he loves to be held and petted. He was hatched in my classroom and since he ended up being a him instead of a her, I can't keep him due to local city ordinances.

Would love to get him to a new home soon, he has been living in the garage so the neighbors don't hear him crowing (it isn't really crowing yet, but, he tries) in the morning. It is kind of cute to hear him try to crow in the morning when we open the garage door to leave for the day.

Won't ship him, but, might drive a bit to hand him off to someone in Western Washington a reasonable distance.

Would prefer him to not be on the dinner menu any time soon.

Pictures were taken a month ago while he was living in a temporary cage.

 

[ChickAudie]

Good luck MrRenz! He sure is a handsome guy!