Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

Only do chickens here sorry @saxgoddess25 but great to see you ..

 

[WhySayWhat]

I figure it's a bit of a longshot, but is anyone interested in a Rouen drake? I ended up with three drakes out of the seven ducklings I bought in January and since they're so sweet, I figured I'd see if anyone wanted one before I just ate him. I'm in Tacoma.

I'm already "over the limit" on chicks coming...someday I'd love ducks, but it'll probably be another 10 years before I'm able to get them.

 

[saxgoddess25]

Only do chickens here sorry @saxgoddess25 but great to see you ..

Thanks Penny.

Speaking of chickens, this goober decided to sunbathe on my foot...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Mine are not pets sorry I am older and farm raised do not name what you might eat .. My roosters get names. Only one now is Smudge he is blue marans just rooster still learning

 

[saxgoddess25]

Some of my chickens have names (that's either Ruby or Scarlett, I can't tell my RIRs apart any more) but they're layers. I don't really intend to eat them. The ducks don't have names, mostly because I wasn't sure until recently what sex they were. Not that having a name or not would keep me from eating one.

 

[pennyJo1960]

The Rooster I took out Red he was buried just because he was 5. Old enough I did not want to stew him 4 days.
I talk to the birds allot but always did as a kid that has not changed.
The banty here are spoiled rotten.. They have their own coop I had 4 silkie but lost 2 this last year .. We had a member need to home a ameracauna. The kid named her Limpy, she limped but lost that pretty quick here.
Took 2 banty from a friend she had to give up her birds.. So have 5 now but large coop for them

 

[saxgoddess25]

Aww, Limpy. Hehe.

 

[pennyJo1960]

She grew up fine but lays a small brown egg so all my banty lay brown eggs .. No big deal just thought I might get a small blue egg.. See when I was a kid just brown or white eggs .. This colored egg stuff I have a ball with

 

[WhySayWhat]

She grew up fine but lays a small brown egg so all my banty lay brown eggs .. No big deal just thought I might get a small blue egg.. See when I was a kid just brown or white eggs .. This colored egg stuff I have a ball with

Hoping for colored eggs is why we ordered 3 EE! 12 days to hatch day, I gotta get my brooder ready...Plan A didn't work out, so starting them in my old brooder box that my original 3 where in...hoping I can keep them for 2 weeks in it, but doubtful...then, they'll have to go out to a plywood " make shift" brooder in the new (maybe the old) coop....lots of moving about since our new run/coop are on semi hold until the weekend...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ahh go to walmart buy a large plastic tub that is my brooder cut part out with the dremel on top used a peice of hardware cloth cover the holes