Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

Your nor whining, just allowing us all to understand that some days are much more difficult to enjoy. though not like you, i have back problems that are both spine and inflamation…The chiro is fixing the spine but have drastically changed my diet, adding Tumeric, ginger, kombacho, minimal sugar, flour, fats, most ly eat proteins and green vegitables…..have begun noticing more energy and less inflamation pain.

So for my "retail thrapy" as Tami Rainmom calls it, I bought myself another 1000 gal water tank....

So no shortages for the garden this year!

And I laid 1/2 yard of road base rock down, smooth, then 1/2 yard pea gravel, raked smooth & level...now Einstein is fixing the tank with a float shut off (to run to the pump) and then we get to unload it out of the pick up (which seems 12 feet off the ground with this huge tank in it) and so we have to unload it & pray it does not bowl us down and then it will roll all the way doen the hill & bounce into the salt marsh..............

and my back is sore, but OK!

 

[Chickielady]

Im in love! Anyone have frizzle polish around here?

Juststruttin has great Polish!......I am not positive she has those exact birds...but she has ALOT of gorgeous crele and tolbunt colors.........check out her Ad:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1086876/crele-polish-hatching-eggs

 

[Chickielady]

My version of a growth chart:


This is how fast they grow in 2 weeks

Depends on the breed...Some of you have seen how meaties can grow ! Every breed is diferent.

 

[Chickielady]

I am bringing a few doz French Silver Cuckoo Marans (eggs) and a few dozen Bielefelders...and maybe 1 doz Sulmtalers...my Sulms are trying to pull off a 1 yr molt....darn it.

I also have alot of chicks, from all 3 breeds.

I will not bring any chicks unless someone orders them.
To order, send me a PM before 5-6 PM tonight.

 

[Hinotori]

Silkies with the barring gene tend to have mottled skin and red combs. It's the bane of those trying to create cuckoo silkies. I had a splash hen that took me forever to figure out what the problem was with her mottled skin. The I hatched eggs from her and a blue rooster and it became obvious when she had blue cuckoo sons and splash ones with the same skin problem. I lost her to a hawk not long after.



And I'm wrong on the pairing results for the silkie rooster to EE hens. I looked up the pictures. The GIRLS had the black skin, the boys had the lighter skin that was more grey. Black skin is a sex linked trait. Since females only get one copy of it anyway anyway on the Z and they get that from their father. The sons get a Z gene from each parent.


Hmm now my brain is in gear some. So I guess that makes black skin incomplete dominant? The chicks are easily sexable by skin color though

So will they have hard or soft feathering...or patches of both ?

Regular feathers. The silkie feathers are recessive.

 

[Leigti]

I took the chicks outside for the first time.

And some of the older ones stopped by to say hello

And does anybody know what kind of chicken the one on the left is? The other one is SLW but I'm not sure what the other one i

s.

 

[junebuggena]

And does anybody know what kind of chicken the one on the left is? The other one is SLW but I'm not sure what the other one is.

Both hatchery quality Silver Laced Wyandottes. The one on the right has the wrong comb type though, common for hatchery stock.

 

[Leigti]

OK thanks. I didn't realize they were technically the same because the coloring is so different to me. I got them at the feed store.
So when the hatcheries breed their chickens, they obviously aren't going for the perfect breed tie up. So they just breathe the chickens of the general breed and don't worry about the ones with unwanted traits? Like the wrong kind of comb? It doesn't matter to me, just curious. My birds are four eggs and as pets. I won't breed them.

 

[Leigti]

One more question while I'm on a roll here this is one of my Easter Eggars, yes had to restock I keep hearing that the black and white ones are males. What do you think this one is?

Also, this one seems to be a bit of a loner. Is that normal for a chicken? It stays kind of close to the others but there are times when it is completely separate from any of them out on it's own. Is it anything to worry about?

 

[junebuggena]

One more question while I'm on a roll here this is one of my Easter Eggars, yes had to restock I keep hearing that the black and white ones are males. What do you think this one is?
Also, this one seems to be a bit of a loner. Is that normal for a chicken? It stays kind of close to the others but there are times when it is completely separate from any of them out on it's own. Is it anything to worry about?

That's a pullet. Coloring and pattern are pretty even. No big white patches.