Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[CarolynF]

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Nope, definitely not around first, and definitely not anywhere near as knowledgeable or experienced! Just messing with you cuz I know you take as well as you give!

 

[Emsanon]

Nope, definitely not around first, and definitely not anywhere near as knowledgeable or experienced! Just messing with you cuz I know you take as well as you give!

You guys are funny.

 

[Duck Drover]

Hope you do not have an explosion, it ain't fun at all !      

I candle the eggs and I can smell the bad ones before they ever explode. The worst that has happened is for chicks or ducklings to hatch in the incubator instead of the hatcher because I was not watching my due dates to move them in time. I have had to clean hatching mess but not exploded eggs.

 

[torrelee]

Is anyone on th e long beach peninsula and/or also have a bear problem? I built a second fence around my temporary run and a bear climbed it and ripped the roof off my coop a couple nights ago. Luckily I heard it and we scared it off with a little help from a shotgun. It came back later that night and ripped into the wire, but I had the girls on the garage!
I put up a motion light, two layers of hot wire, bolted down the roof, and lined the door with welded wire mesh. I put up the game cam hoping to catch a picture of the bear electrocuting himself but just got pictures of a deer, lol.
I'm going to go get a chain link kennel from my parents next week, but does anyone know of scent deterants that may work in the mean time? I go on duty for a couple days at a time and am worried about the kiddos!

 

[Chicksahoyfarm]

Get Twinkies and put the hottest hot sauce you can get in them. Bears like sweets but now hot things. It is what got rid of the bear that came into our yard when I was younger.

 

[CarolynF]

Apology
After looking back at my posts, I can see that what I wrote came across much differently than I intended when I was teasing ChickieLady, and I want to apologize. I meant no disrespect! The written word can get fouled up much too easily and that's what happened here. And I feel really bad.

ChickieLady is a long time member of BYC, and has helped us all in countless ways, and I think that's obvious when you read her posts. I tried to poke some fun in a tongue-in-cheek fashion after she commented on Orpingtons. Well.... guess I'd better brush up on doing that sort of thing in a forum cuz it turned out all wrong! I know you love to kid around, but when something is written poorly and doesn't come across as a joke, well.... it just turns out bad.

I hope you will accept my apologies ChickieLady!

 

[LindaSmith]

New to BYC from Seatac.

 

[Rainier]

New to BYC from Seatac.

 

[Hinotori]

New to BYC from Seatac.  

Welcome!

 

[tridentk9]

I saw the video, and I have not ever seen a chick do that, happy to say~
What you are doing has to help, and I want to add that all my breeder birds, and chicks up to 1 mo of age get vitamins in their water, why ?
Cuz I do not trust the feed makers to contain as much vitamins as they say~
This is what I buy now as "Broiler Max" is no longer produced, this replaces it.
So, I feed my layers a half dose, and my meat birds a full dose:

https://www.twincitypoultrysupplies.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=949

I just read an article on adding Vitamin C or Vitamin E to the diet to help with heat stress in chicks. Vitamin C helped the most and E was between C and no supplementing BUT the article seemed to think that Vitain E helped more fighting off disease.