Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[PattJ]

OK, I can try that. She is only about a week old, but I guess it's no different than eating a little tiny worms. I will try it.

There is lots of info online on how to fix this. I saw a good article using vet wrap to creat a splint to straighten the toes. Just google "curled toes chick."

 

[LittleLaneFarm]

Let me know how you do with the guineas. I am wanting to try a couplen but am reading awful things online about how wild they are and how they pick on chickens. I know if they donvt work out I can sell them at the auction barn for a great price, but I worried I may never be able to catch them to do so. I have nightmares of bands of wild guineas terrorizing the neighborhood!

I have 4 guineas, while they can be noisy, mine are pretty peaceful through most of the day. They do chase chickens they aren't familiar with, but the Banty group that rules the yard has no issues, they free range with my ducks, peafowl and also when I had turkeys. They free range until it's time for night feed and then they coop up. Same with my peafowl, they are quite most of the time unless they are startled or one gets separated from the pack. They free range also and coop up right after the guineas go in.

It's much easier to raise them from chick stage so they understand where they live and where they sit at for pecking order.

 

[SeattleSelkie]

@Bridebeliever
Where are you located?
I have ten acres and a large fenced orchard I run my birds in.

 

[Bridebeliever]

I'm in Whatcom County, near Bellingham.

We are considering another thought of just letting the 3 Andalusian "sisters" out of the coop regardless if there are people here or not.

 

[Leigti]

There is lots of info online on how to fix this. I saw a good article using vet wrap to creat a splint to straighten the toes. Just google "curled toes chick."

She seems fine today. Maybe she just had a little owie. But I will keep that in mind.

 

[PattJ]

She seems fine today. Maybe she just had a little owie. But I will keep that in mind.

Oh good! So glad she is better!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have a set of 4 boxes two top two below but no one laid in the lower ones, yesterday I took a few eggs and put in each lower ones well darn me if they are now using the lowers also. still learning these tricks from here.

 

[Carolei]

I need to find a home for my beloved Splash Andalusian named "Duck". Of course this has to be MY favorite chicken!

Duck is 24 weeks old. Began laying at 21 weeks old. Lays a white egg 4-5 days per week. (I have 3 Andalusians and I'm getting 1-3 white eggs every day, so her laying amount is a guess.) She has been vaccinated against Marek's. She is super friendly and will fly up on my arm when I call her.

When you read about Andalusians it says that they don't bare confinement well. This is completely true about Duck and this is why I am finding her a new home. She has to be FREE RANGE. She comes in the coop at night just fine but when the sun comes up she wants out and will pace back and forth and complain until that happens. If you put her in a pen, she will fly out...she can fly 8 feet up!! We run a camp and when we have guests on the property we have to keep the chickens in (their coop is 8x17), the other 10 chickens do fine but Duck is MISERABLE! I know it won't get easier for her so I want to find her a nice home now. She is also an excellent forager and so not a big consumer of feed either!

I'm happy to let her go "free to a good free ranging home". Please let me know you are going to keep her for her eggs and not eat her! (Yet.) I totally understand that's what will happen when she is older and not laying, we would've done that too, but right now she is a happy, healthy, well producing chicken. She is also an excellent flock guardian and VERY aware of predators. So if you don't have a roo in your flock she would be a good substitute! She isn't aggressive to her flock mates but she holds a high position in the pecking order.

Man this makes me sad! I love this chicken! But just like the saying goes, sometimes when you love something you have to let it go. She needs a better life free ranging all the time.



With our dog



This is Duck about two weeks ago eating yogurt.

So sorry you have to let her go. I feel for you. I had to rehome my Australorp Maxine last year. I still think of her and miss her.

 

[Carolei]

I'm in Whatcom County, near Bellingham.

We are considering another thought of just letting the 3 Andalusian "sisters" out of the coop regardless if there are people here or not.

It's definitely worth a try! Good luck!

 

[CGilbert]

I'm in Whatcom County, near Bellingham.

We are considering another thought of just letting the 3 Andalusian "sisters" out of the coop regardless if there are people here or not.

Why not, right?