Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[justbugged]

Just thought I would check in here on the thread. I will be going to the show in Chehalis. I have a hotel room for Friday night. There is a spare bed in the room if anyone is interested in sharing with me. It will be free. I don't have pay out of pocket for the room.

 

[Hinotori]

Just thought I would check in here on the thread. I will be going to the show in Chehalis. I have a hotel room for Friday night. There is a spare bed in the room if anyone is interested in sharing with me. It will be free. I don't have pay out of pocket for the room.

Hiya! I hope to see you there. I'm just going down for a bit on Saturday.

 

[1TurkenLover]

Wooo Hoo Local BYC peeps

were down in Onalaska, where is the SHOW @ Would be great to see ! we usually go to " Coal Creek Auction " on Saturdays. https://www.facebook.com/coalcreek.poultryauction

 

[8675309j]

Can anyone give me some tips for Pacific NW winters and chickens. I have 1 Buff Orpington who is laying but slowing down, 2 Buff Brahmas who are 26 weeks and havent started laying yet, and a 1 year old welsummer that was given to us a few weeks ago and was laying before the move and hasn't started back up yet. Do many in the area supplement light? I don't mind if they slow down in the winter but would like some eggs out of them. I worry about running electricity to the coop don't want to worry about fire etc. Any battery operated options? Would love some tips.

 

[kg7il]

Welcome from South Graham, Our mailing address is Eatonville, but we are well north of the city.

Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Goats and Steer.

I buy most of my supplies at Webster Rd Feed, my local store.
I got the light on two weeks ago and the girls are laying up a storm.

I love shooting and have a range on the property.

My latest project has been running the dirt in our new garden area through my home-made grizzly to remove all the rocks over an inch. Anyone out my way certainly knows about glacial till!

 

[Hinotori]

You're just south of me. Probably not by a whole lot.

If I took out all the rocks I would just have water. I gave up and started putting in raised beds last year.

I ran a cord for light last year but didn't really want to this year. I may have to since most of the hens are older girls.

 

[fosterson]

I noticed in one of the hoop house threads (sorry, don't recall which one now or I'd post the link) that someone ran several strings of the LED Christmas lights on a solar battery and that seemed to be enough lights for their hens.

 

[1TurkenLover]

Can anyone give me some tips for Pacific NW winters and chickens. I have 1 Buff Orpington who is laying but slowing down, 2 Buff Brahmas who are 26 weeks and havent started laying yet, and a 1 year old welsummer that was given to us a few weeks ago and was laying before the move and hasn't started back up yet. Do many in the area supplement light? I don't mind if they slow down in the winter but would like some eggs out of them. I worry about running electricity to the coop don't want to worry about fire etc. Any battery operated options? Would love some tips.

I can tell you what were doing .we live Down Past Chehalis: we're Newish to pet chickens,started This Summer : have 1 BR Hen, 2 Red Sex Linked Hens, won @ local auction. 1 Mix Brahma/Marams Cockerel, 1 Mix NN Cockerel.

We got an outside timer with outlet. and put it with an outside Extension Cord, Plugged in an regular light bulb Set to go On 2 Hrs B-4 Sunrise goes off 30 Min after. we don't want Force laying Just giving them enough to grow on. we've also put them on feed on demand Quality Layer Crumbles.

We have Several high Wattage safety Fuse Power Strips. as I understand it : IF they surge, the fuse stops any Power from possibly starting Fires.

Hope this helps

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Anyone here going to the WFF show in Chehalis next month? Showing or just looking?

I am. Will be my first time showing. Showing my Wheaten Marans cockerel. Will be showing my Silkies in the spring, hoping they won't be broody like they are now or they would be coming too.

 

[Duck Drover]

I have a battery powered light/motion sensor LED light in my coop that I got at Grocery Outlet for $12 and it can be angled as desired and also removed from the mounted base (stick on or screw on). I only want it to go on as the chickens are heading to bed and then shut off after they are settled. They must move around more than I thought, though, because it seems to stay on (unless they move when they hear me coming to peek and that turns the light on, LOL).. I want to put a window in the coop but right now the only light is from the door (there are two but we only open one) and vents. As the chickens line up on the ramp to go in, there is sometimes a traffic jam as the one at the front of the line stops to check out her roosting options so I got the light to encourage them to enter the coop and then figure out where they want to sleep. My English Orpingtons tend to pile like the Silkies but some are using the lowest roost and I may put in another low one for them (in my experience, chickens seem to fight over the highest roosts but not the Orpingtons).

Anyway, the light is not too bright but it is as bright as a string of Christmas lights. I don't know if it helps with laying or not since I have nothing to compare to but I am still getting eggs to hatch and my brooders are full. I will need to use rechargable batteries since it stays on and it went through the cheap Dollar Tree batteries too quickly.