Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[mikeyb]

HI everybody.
WELCOME to all the new peeps.

Kinda been busy today and running around. (shopping) Also planning what I want to do this weekend, but planning and doing are usually far different things for me anyway.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Any Western washington Silkie owners? I got a silkie in my last batch of chicks and I know they need to stay under the light a bit longer then normal chickens. My question is, since they are not as hardy as other chickens do I have to keep it indoors during the winter? Or will a heatlamp in the coop suffice? I appreciate any insight.

I'm in Oregon, but post here quite a bit. I have a bunch of Silkies. They are very cold hardy, they don't do well in heat. Keeping them dry is the important thing. They will not need a heat lamp once they are 6 weeks old. You may want to pick up a Silkie friend or two as they usually don not roost, they sleep in piles on the floor. They can be trained to roost with time and energy. I had chicks out all winter once 6 weeks old and feathered in. KMHunter and myself are breeding Silkies, but I am not selling yet as I am still building stock up. Also Kelar here on BYC is Catdance Silkies and there are some others real well known breeders in WA and OR

 

[AletaG]

There seems to be some debate whether the white spots on my banties earlobes are enough white to make mine Dutch vs. Old English Game banties. If those threads keep kicking me back and forth, I will be forced to conclude I have a hopeless cross. LOL

 

[BGMatt]

Where is this white? the only "white" spot I can see if the feather tuft over the ear itself. Maybe I'm just blind. I'll just chime in again since I already said it in the OEGB thread, but those are OEGB (I would bet the farm on it) just not totally sure of the color, although after stopping by and looking at some sun bleached Self Blues I'm leaning that way rather than a mixed variety. Where did they come from again?

 

[robj]

Hello all! Just checking, since I just found this thread. New to BYC as a member, been nosing about on it for years. Want to start raising H. RIR and play with some interesting banties that fell in my lap recently (see avatar). On the Olympic peninsula, looking to make contact in real life with some chicken breeding enthusiasts . Thanks everyone!
-Aleta G.

There is a few of us out on the Peninsula if they see your post I'm sure they'll pop up and say Hi

Here is the little bantam EE with his tiny crow! It's so quiet I'm not even worried about the neighbors (yet).

These cute EE and d'Uccle chicks will be six weeks tomorrow. Two of the d'Uccles and both bantam EE's are boys and available for free to anyone on BYC. Send me a message!

eta - the EEs are a cross between bantam Ameracauna and Phoenix - so they have a possiblity for a beautiful, long tail!

That there is Flippin CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!

There seems to be some debate whether the white spots on my banties earlobes are enough white to make mine Dutch vs. Old English Game banties. If those threads keep kicking me back and forth, I will be forced to conclude I have a hopeless cross. LOL

What ever they turn out to be they're pretty.

 

[Dwkuska]

So I have posted a few times but never introduced myself. I'm misty from Bremerton wa. I'm newish to chicken raising and am learning so much from this site. I get up and have my coffee and read on here everyday. I am human mom to 1 SLW, 1 GLW , 2 polish , 5 light brahmas , 1 mutt roo, 3 EE , and 2 khaki Campbells.

Welcome to BYC!!!! Sounds like you have quite the collection!

Hello all! Just checking, since I just found this thread. New to BYC as a member, been nosing about on it for years. Want to start raising H. RIR and play with some interesting banties that fell in my lap recently (see avatar). On the Olympic peninsula, looking to make contact in real life with some chicken breeding enthusiasts . Thanks everyone!
-Aleta G.

WELCOME! Um, where abouts on the peninsula? Its a bit large you know?

 

[Dwkuska]

ok so.. In my flock my only Roo is a polish crested. They forage in the backyard for most of the day, and stay in their coop on the rainy days. Last 3 mo or so the roo has been bullying the polish hen with matching color. He chases her away when she goes to be part of the flock with the other hens. I have tried separating him for up to 2 weeks at a time. After a day or so he goes right back to bullying that one hen. Now that hen is always off alone and wont even let us come near her. Any thoughts on how to fix this issue? Or is he BBQ?

also...

So I want to make sure I have this right. I am building coop & run for my chickens. I have a total of 13 chickens when the 6 peepers in the brooder are old enough(2 RIR, 2 brown sussex, 2 white leghorn). So my run is 24x8. so by my math thas 192 sq. ft. right? Divide that by 13 chickens, that's almost 15 sq ft per bird? I think I read somewhere that you need some amount of square footage per bird. yet I cannot find it. So.... is my math correct, and what is the preferred footage per bird?

 

[chickendude9]

I'm in Oregon, but post here quite a bit. I have a bunch of Silkies. They are very cold hardy, they don't do well in heat. Keeping them dry is the important thing. They will not need a heat lamp once they are 6 weeks old. You may want to pick up a Silkie friend or two as they usually don not roost, they sleep in piles on the floor. They can be trained to roost with time and energy. I had chicks out all winter once 6 weeks old and feathered in. KMHunter and myself are breeding Silkies, but I am not selling yet as I am still building stock up. Also Kelar here on BYC is Catdance Silkies and there are some others real well known breeders in WA and OR

Hi , I live in western Washington and I have four 10 week old silkies that have been out in the chicken coop A few weeks now and have half of their run is covered and the other half isn't. When it rains the silkies don't seem to get that they have some cover. They just do their own thing and get soaked. Is this bad for them?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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It will be when temps dip below 50, they can get hypothermia if not dry. I have my run/pen completely covered. They only get out if I am around to supervise since they don't see arial attacks well.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Here is some of my breeding stock of Silkies

Three cockerels and one pullet. Ages 5-7mo(1 Marge Best, 3 KMHunter)

Catdance kids(3mo)Light blue is pullet and Black is cockerel