Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Stumpfarmer]

At twelve days; we went to spend Memorial Day weekend in Ellensburg with out son, whose birthday is the 26th. The cockerel who would later prove to have a single comb is at the apex of this triangle.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Oh, yeah, probably. Just leave it up to me to mention it! LOL, it would be funny to watch

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I think it was being avoided. I know I was. I don't know if I would get slapped for it but didn't want to go there. Pretty funny though. I wonder what would happen to the chickens? Lol!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Two and a half weeks, and I can pick out the pullets in this picture (center and right of the top row) but that is with benefit of hindsight.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Stumpfarmer, those chicks really are absolutely gorgeous!

 

[Imp]

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I think it was being avoided. I know I was. I don't know if I would get slapped for it but didn't want to go there. Pretty funny though. I wonder what would happen to the chickens? Lol!

I avoided it as well. There were 2 threads started on this subject yesterday, both from the Tacoma area. ??? I just put it down to election spamming d/t the initiative.

Russ- starting to wonder about the South Sound though.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Four weeks, and the first night on the perch-with-training-wheels; one cockerel and Sarah are under Mal, Tegan to the left. From this point on it was discouragingly obvious that I had a bare two pullets and one of those with a straight comb.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

One last- and I now have a date that things started going to heck this summer, the date of this pic, when the chicks were a month and a half old. I didn't take another photo of them, nor more than a few of anything, until way into September.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I read somewhere that 14"X14" is a good size for a LF egg box. Is this true?

Yes - that's a good size if you want the option to get larger breeds.  I believe mine is ether 14x14 or 15x15 and my Light Brahma is comfortable in it.

The Hamburg nest box is a 3 gallon bucket braced between two bricks. Malvina has a cheap catbox (actually two of them, for cleaning purposes) which held her and six chicks until they were four weeks old. The EEs have a plastic barrel under a roof which exactly one of them uses, and the BLRWs refuse all models of nest boxes, on the ground or off, and are offended out of laying at all when such boxes are introduced.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Stumpfarmer, those chicks really are absolutely gorgeous!

See, I told y'all: they don't have an ugly phase. Unlike the EEs, which are just goofy looking at several points of development.

 

[VelvettFog]

Oh, yeah, probably. Just leave it up to me to mention it! LOL, it would be funny to watch
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I think it was being avoided. I know I was. I don't know if I would get slapped for it but didn't want to go there. Pretty funny though. I wonder what would happen to the chickens? Lol!

I'll go there (I also had been avoiding the subject - call me a chicken) -- basically, there would be no effect on any animal who eats 'grass' clippings. The 'grass' needs to be broken down by oils or fats in order to 'work' prior to being ingested.

Please don't ask me how I know this - unless you really want to know