Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[ChickAudie]

I don't think it was a bad choice. Sometimes, ya gotta do what you gotta do. In the end, the kids were fine, and I believe that was with some help from above. In the height of the situation, she had a clear head to get intuders outta there. There's a million ways this situation could have gone, she chose one. Somebody else may have chosen another.

 

[Slinglings]

Does anyone know of a good link that shows the stages development for candling? I have never done it before and I am not exactly sure what I am looking for.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

 

[Slinglings]

Quote: I should have known that someone would have posted it already! The person who started that thread hatched my Jersey Giant Leila

 

[LaughingFeather]

Hehe... I wonder what is ever going to get done in my garden this year?? Lol... Maybe I'll just plant it in my car, so I don't have to leave it... Picture it now: a VW jetta with a garden & chicken coop built in driving down the road.

After we get rid of our hired hand who has been living in my travel trailer we are thinking of turning it into a mobile chicken everything. I am not sure the poor trailer will be salvageable for much else after him living in it so long. Just one of my cookie ideas. One of many. Hubby dreads it when I cruise cragslist. So many No, I don't want that piece of junk here.

 

[RustyHen]

For RustyHen - here are some photos of Pearlie June just before she was integrated into the VF Banty Coop. I had hatched 7 Catdance Silkie eggs and 5 turned out to be beautiful boys. FlyRobinFly had borrowed my incubator to hatch her own Silkies and was nice enough to give me two from her hatch in exchange for use of the 'bator. One of those, the pretty buff - turned out to be a boy and now lives with zgoatlady's flock.

So after all the boys were sold or given away I had 3 beautiful girls - a porcelain, a lavender and gorgeous black. My black, Isadora died, leaving me with Lucille the Lavender and Priscilla the porcelain.

One day KMHunter and I took a field trip to see Karen Larson of Catdance Silkies and admire her set up. Well, you know some of us like to pick up souveniers when we visit a place so I brought homely little Pearlie June from her place. I think Karen said folks were calling her color "Creamsicle"? She looks porcelain with a little more buff tint in her wings.
She hadn't been held much, so lived in a bunny cage in my computer room for the first month where she got a lot of attention and learned that all good things come from me. By the time she was integrated, she was my little buddy. Although Karen's birds are all bearded Silkies, Pearlie June is a bit lacking in that department so has an exposed "chin" with a few scraggly feathers, but I love her. As I said, she makes up for her looks with a great personality!

During integration - I set the covered X-pen up next to the Banty coop so they can visit together safely for however long seems necessary. At night I would put her back into a kennel so she was protected from the elements. As you can see they were curious about each other during integration.


Lucille, peeking out from the Banty coop at Pearlie June. An anonymous bystander far in the background...


Not a pretty face, but she is proud of her fluffy butt.


Before integration occurred, Pearlie June and the newest babies would spend afternoons in the covered X-pen on our back deck. The buff who lives with zgoatlady's flock is in the background along with his buddy Priscilla.


Photo bombed by the buff.

Thank you so much! love to look at the silkies I tried several once but they were older and very shy. Sold them with our old house.

 

[CarolynF]

don't think I want a roo; just a few girls for those wonderful chocolate eggs. I found a breeder in the midwest who will ship 5 -- kinda pricey but should be good quality and just might do that. Still thinking and trying to talk myself out of it.

Woops... you said wheaten and my brain skipped the marans and went straight to ameraucana!!! Silly me!

 

[RustyHen]

That was easier than I thought it would be. Here you go

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

VF Your site is more informative than mine.

 

[mikeyb]

Why have a doggie

 

[RustyHen]

I've been biting my tongue ever since she told her story the first time. Her son, who should not have been there still, almost getting hit was the last straw.

She left her children in a dangerous situation while she went to defend her property. Children should be more important than property. I'm sure that was not her intention. I'm not saying she's a bad mother. I'm saying she made a bad choice.

X2 My babies first always.

 

[CarolynF]

Well.... it seems pretty unanimous among those that raise wheaten ameraucanas that my little buddy Dash is a cockerel. He has such a nice personality I was hoping he might be a pullet. Oh well.

So I need to find him a new home. Is there anyone here that's interested in one of Cowgirlgrace's Wheaten Ameraucana cockerels? If he's anything like the roos I saw at her place he's going to be a beauty.