Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Jupiter]

Anyone want a free friendly easter egger rooster? He is my daughter's pet, but he was supposed to be a she. Philburt is wearing a velcro collar to help reduce noise, but it's not enough. He was hatched April or May 2016. I'm up in Sedro Woolley, would love to find him a home. I've tried CL and a couple facebook pages for chickens......no luck so far.

 

[Hinotori]

I actually was productive today and got cleaning done. Then bathed the dogs.

And even a little time to take the silkie action figure out for some pictures.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Finally was able to upload two pictures. I really hope our splash chick stays a 'she'. My oldest has named her Kai. It's his first day of kindergarten tomorrow. Where does the time go?

 

[pennyJo1960]

made it home all in one piece bought flexible tubing and a 5 gallon igloo water tank then a 2.5 one for water to go
with the 10 cups we bought from Amazon last monthPicked up a shutoff valve
to go on as well.. there is a water spout on the igloo cooler that our shutoff valve is going to match up to

 

[Hinotori]

made it home all in one piece bought flexible tubing and a 5 gallon igloo water tank then a 2.5 one for water to go
with the 10 cups we bought from Amazon last monthPicked up a shutoff valve
to go on as well.. there is a water spout on the igloo cooler that our shutoff valve is going to match up to

Let me know how it works for you with the cups. I've been thinking of catching the rainwater off the metal roof for chicken water and doing that.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I will I intend about 7 of them in them main coop then 3 in the bachelor pad
see I have always had their water inside the coop fed them there
everything because I have a 17 foot diameter coop

 

[pennyJo1960]

this is the water cup off amazon we paid 11.99 for 10 of them
we bought about 4 other little things the same time so do not recall if
we would have paid shipping

 

[junebuggena]

My "Drama Queen" broody is no longer allowed to brood. She broke and ate half her eggs again. She has to be forced off the nest every single morning. And she's so rough with the eggs that the air cells were all detached. Drama Queen is just too much drama.
My good broody, Little Mamma, is broody again. So she gets some fresh eggs of her own. Her last batch of chicks are 14 weeks old now.

 

[JulesChicks]

this is the water cup off amazon we paid 11.99 for 10 of them
we bought about 4 other little things the same time so do not recall if
we would have paid shipping

I'm curious to know how these work out. I just bought a premade waterer with 2 cups from Coastal Farm and Ranch and the little yellow toggle has to be pushed too far down and the chickens weren't using it. Had to go back to the old gravity waterer. We have an auto waterer we will be installing now that our run is built and it has the nipples. Hoping that works out as planned. This would have been a nice back up but I think I will return it. Either that or buy replacement cups that work better.

 

[JulesChicks]

My "Drama Queen" broody is no longer allowed to brood. She broke and ate half her eggs again. She has to be forced off the nest every single morning. And she's so rough with the eggs that the air cells were all detached. Drama Queen is just too much drama.
My good broody, Little Mamma, is broody again. So she gets some fresh eggs of her own. Her last batch of chicks are 14 weeks old now.

I feel ya. I have a broody who first went broody in July - she hid a clutch of 10 eggs in our ramshackle solarium (we're renovating). When I found the nest I candled and there were 6 or so viable eggs. I had collected the eggs for candling and my husband moved her to a new nest in one of our coops set up for broodies, but not her usual coop - and we had just housed a group of juveniles in there. My husband carried her down there while I was candling. After about 100 yds an egg fell out from under her! Apparently she had been clutching it and my hubby didn't notice. Unfortunately it did have an embryo in it. We settled her in and then had to leave on vacation 2 days later for 2 weeks. We had a friend caring for all the animals and he let my husband know that she abandoned the nest. Had I been here I would have arranged her differently and tried to get her back on. I think she abandoned them because she was around the juveniles. I think our friend just tossed the eggs and by the time I heard about it it was too late. When we got back from our trip she somehow was sitting on one of her eggs that seemed to be developing and about 10-14 days along, so I let her be, back in her old place in the solarium. That egg seemed to quit at some point so I decided to give her one last chance and put 2 eggs under her. She is now past due at day 24/25. I have been concerned about her health but she has been getting up daily to eat, drink, dustbathe, etc - for short periods. If these don't hatch though I will have to break her. I'm bummed though, since she seemed so determined. I have candled a couple of times and they seemed to be developing so I'm not sure what happened to them. Upon reading the story above, maybe she was rough on the eggs? I never saw her do anything to them so I have no idea. She's actually our sweetest (normally- she's fierce right now) girl and I was surprised she went broody at all - she's a Cream Legbar.

I have one other proven broody, a BC Marans - she raised 2 babies earlier this season and I thought she was done for the year. She decided to sit again so I am letting her sit on just 2 eggs. I really didn't need any more babies! We have the room I guess, but we don't sell and haven't started processing our extra cockerels (been putting it off I suppose) and I already hatched out 2 batches.