Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[elizmartin]

Thats interesting, i would have thought that Buttons would live a bit longer than that…..Ya know, bantam chickens can be kinda tiny too…tho a bit bigger Bantam Faverolles are kinda sweet, D'unccles are lovely and a fav of mine are D' Anvers….used to have a hen that was my pocket pet, smaller yet are the Serames (sp)…... Do male Quail make loud noise like regular chickens?

 

[ThetaSigma]

I'm pretty sure buttons live to about six years. Mine are less than a year. About five months and super healthy. They lay an egg almost every day. They've never been exposed to other birds so no diseases or anything. Hens live shorter lives usually. They can make noise, although not too often, and usually not loud.

I'd love chickens as well, but don't have the room either.

 

[ThetaSigma]

Of my seven button quail, I'm keeping one. He didn't have any hatch mates and can't figure out how to be a bird, so he stays by himself (he gets aggressive with other buttons). His name is Spankie. This is him:

 

[ThetaSigma]

And as chicks they look like this:

 

[Carolei]

Five eggs today from my five girls! Woo hoo! I have a barred rock, a black australorp, a speckled sussex, and two buff orpingtons. The orpingtons were the last two to lay, but now everyone is on board! Yay! The biggest egg if from the australorp.

 

[Ashley Stroud]

Five eggs today from my five girls! Woo hoo! I have a barred rock, a black australorp, a speckled sussex, and two buff orpingtons. The orpingtons were the last two to lay, but now everyone is on board! Yay! The biggest egg if from the australorp.

Awesome!!!!! Very nice lookin eggs!

 

[jbkirk]

ThetaSigma just so you know there is a way to edit your post so that you don't double post and clutter the thread, as shown here

Five eggs today from my five girls! Woo hoo! I have a barred rock, a black australorp, a speckled sussex, and two buff orpingtons. The orpingtons were the last two to lay, but now everyone is on board! Yay! The biggest egg if from the australorp.

Nice eggs.

I also got my first three eggs today from my 5 MM australorps.

MK

 

[Carolei]

@jbkirk Congrats!
Aren't these chickens amazing to be laying so well in the darkest days of winter!

 

[ThetaSigma]

ThetaSigma just so you know there is a way to edit your post so that you don't double post and clutter the thread, as shown here Nice eggs. I also got my first three eggs today from my 5 MM australorps. MK

I normally would edit, it but I'm on my phone and it's been acting up. Sorry about that.

 

[jbkirk]

So I started feeding them soaked feed yesterday and we got TEN WHOLE EGGS!!!!!!! (for the second time this month)

out of the 35 "laying" hens. I'm so excited!!!!!

Hopefully they will keep up this good trend!!!!!