Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

Hope you just have like 2 birds in that coop @picomfy.
On the way to scrape the tables in my big coop take photos in banty land.
Back from the Dr.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Shift knob in two of them, the new dirt bath.

 

[Sequel]

Shift knob in two of them, the new dirt bath.View attachment 3393044View attachment 3393045View attachment 3393047View attachment 3393048

Shift knob!!! Actually those white birds are really cute too!!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Those are the real silkie got all four them from one gall here.
Good morning had a busy morning.

 

[ValerieJ]

Shift knob in two of them, the new dirt bath.View attachment 3393044View attachment 3393045View attachment 3393047View attachment 3393048

Which one is Shift Knob?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Which one is Shift Knob?

She is the black bird with the knob on her head like a polish.
James named her shift knob and it stuck.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

I have a Brinsea Octagon. It's pretty much set and forget. And I just looked it up and they don't make that model anymore. Brinsea incubators are expensive but control temp and humidity better than styrofoam incubators. Plenty of people have had success with those, though.

Sometimes I just let the silkies hatch on their own, but many times I incubate and make the silkies raise them.

i was looking at the brinsea ones, I am not suer wat size I want, if I want 4 to 6 more hens I figure I should try and hatch 10, some may be roosters, some may not live,,
???????????

 

[Hinotori]

I always assume I'll get at least half as boys if not more. My incubator holds 21 silkie eggs if I have the dividers in properly. 32 if I really pack them. Yes that bunch all hatched just fine. I try and not do more than a hen can cover usually and that batch had 3 hens.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning I have one that takes 56 then a 9 fer.
Both are Janoel hard plastic, I have like three temp gauges.
They come with a preset temp have a whole to add water.
It screams at me if the humidity gets to low.

 

[ValerieJ]

I don't have a lot of experience with incubating, and I prefer my hens do it for me. They are not very good at it, so I have had to incubate some eggs a couple times. The last batch was 6 eggs, all hatched, 2 cockerels and 4 hens.