Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

gret, so I posted the same photo...................

 

[Chickielady]

I give up !
Every pic double posts !
Gonna go, so G'night all !

 

[junebuggena]

I am so sick of berries this time of year ! The blueberries especially...I have to pick them daily and I get so tired of it........I free them daily in 1 quart containers (as apples & pears) I can use them in winter to make upside down cakes......YUM

Wish I had blueberries of my own. My bushes are only 3 years old, so too young to produce more than one or two fruits this year. Same for the apple, peach, and cherries. 10 years from now, I'll have more than enough fruit.

 

[MonicaWA]

Cool colors on the baby Sulmtalers.............

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Both of my roos look black with the white heads like the roo on the right on one of the pics. I hope that means they are silver for sure!

 

[MonicaWA]

The chick on the left is my Spitzen-Egger, the ones on the right are all Sulmtaler.

 

[MonicaWA]

Excellent question. I know we recently decided to clip some of our birds wings (the bantams) because they were flying out of their pen with 8 foot fencing and feasting on peaches. The thought was they (and our crop) would be safer if they stayed in their secure area. Also, we are planning on putting netting over everything. We decided not to clip any wings of our free ranging large birds to make them less sensitive to predators.

Speaking of predators, we discovered evidence of a black bear today IN our fenced area! Near our bee hives (which amazingly are untouched and doing well)! I just placed an order for several bear deterrent devices and stuff to electrify our fence. Not sure anymore if clipping anyone's wings was a great idea.

Yikes! The only thing bothering us right now is squirrels and I had a peregrine hanging around. I would freak out if there was a bear near my bees, or my chickens!

 

[Leigti]

Can somebody please remind me how to get to the breed profiles? I looked under articles but didn't find them.

 

[orchardflock]

I regularly allow my birds to free range out of their coop pens, and I have alot of coop pens, so daily a different group can free range.
Those that have flown out of their coop run, have had bird net applied over their runs...
That is only necessary with light weight breeds, like Leghorns, and some Ameraucanas.
My heavy breeds can only dream of flying out over the pen fence.
nonetheless, flying is necessary for them to evade predators...
But by all means, save the peaches !

We have two 40' x 40' chicken yards with sturdy buried 8' fencing enclosed inside of a ~2 acre wooded area with 4' fencing. Each coop within the yard is also pretty well fortified (at least for normal predators - all bets are off for a bear). Our nine bantams barely make a dent in a 40' x 40' yard, so it seems unnecessary and risky to have them free range. The bantam old English game birds are excellent fliers.

We want to add at least one more predator proofed fenced area so we can rotate both flocks without risking them in the (apparently bear infested!!!) woods. I cannot believe this bear. We saw him in the road a week ago, and called the state wildlife management office. He's been knocking over all of the garbage cans and making a huge mess all down the road.

 

[mixedbreeds]

Just checked broody it's been 21 days almost to the hour she is making all kinds of cool broody noises and there is light peeping going on under her.

 

[Leigti]

Just checked broody it's been 21 days almost to the hour she is making all kinds of cool broody noises and there is light peeping going on under her.

That's great