Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[ValerieJ]

It's 45 degrees here. No snow. But they are predicting some in the morning. I wish we could get past this 20-something degrees at night. Makes the waterers a challenge.

 

[gimmie birdies]

We have snow. and frozen water dishes.
I just bought some eggs from 2 different stores, I have hatched before,(local farms) and they were pretty.
Eggs to the left were $6.99, the eggs to the right were from a health food store $8.40.
Candled and I yanked one of the eggs on the right (crack) and the gray to the front right is from my chickens. (Rooster went to another farm a month ago, but I hope it is still fertile.)

I cannot find these local eggs very often, so I grabbed them.

 

[ValerieJ]

We have snow. and frozen water dishes.
I just bought some eggs from 2 different stores, I have hatched before,(local farms) and they were pretty.
Eggs to the left were $6.99, the eggs to the right were from a health food store $8.40.
Candled and I yanked one of the eggs on the right (crack) and the gray to the front right is from my chickens. (Rooster went to another farm a month ago, but I hope it is still fertile.)
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I cannot find these local eggs very often, so I grabbed them.

Good luck on the hatch!!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning State folks. Have a great hatch Birdies.
I have 9 in my incubator fingers crossed.

 

[Hinotori]

Ive been collecting eggs from one pen. These are getting hatched separate because there will be known lavender carriers.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Oh what fun Kim I have 4 marans and 5 blue.

 

[Hinotori]

Oh what fun Kim I have 4 marans and 5 blue.

Anything from the black half silkie hen will just be mixed to partridge. She throws very nice chicks that look silkie. The lavender partridge hens are the ones I really want chicks from. All those chicks will be splits and I'll choose a rooster from them to get a few more lavender partridge next year. The hens I have are getting older.

All the pullets in that pen haven't started laying yet so now is a good time to get what I want

 

[pennyJo1960]

See no rooster in the banty coop never wanted one.
Guess that coop is more like pets.
Main coop has just Smudge he is all blue marans 3 years old.
I may get a son of is with but a gal wants a marans roo to.

 

[TahomaChickens]

I'm REALLLLLLLYYYYY not interested in dealing with chicks (yes, I know they're cute, but that's just more than I want to tackle). But, we're wanting to add to our flock. In the past, we've been able to find pullets fairly easily, but it seems with the run on chicks these days, no one is selling pullets (they're all getting sold as chicks). That said, I figured I'd check here if anyone knows of any up for grabs? Pretty flexible on breed and egg color--more interested in consistent laying and disinclination towards broodiness. I'm in Tacoma, but willing to travel an hour or two to pick up at least 2-3 girls.

 

[Hinotori]

I only have silkie pullets. Small eggs and not super abundant. Also annoyingly broody.