Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[justbugged]

Quote: You could check with Amtrak and we could pick you up in Olympia. The train is a rather fun way to travel, and may cost less than fuel in a truck. This is just a thought.

 

[TerrorBird]

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I think those traps work on all cats forever.

 

[SadieSue]

Nope. You would get 100% Splash. If you throw a Blue in there you would get 50% Blue and 50% Splash. If you got a blue boy and a blue girl, and maybe a couple of splashes you could get Blue, Black and a lot of Splash. Blue X Blue gives you all three colors, 50% blue, 25% Black, 25% Splash.

I am breeding BBS Silkies. So I will have end up having two Black boys, a blue, a black, and a splash hen. Hoping to pick up some more girls. Or Hatch some more.

Also interesting, is if you have a Black Copper Marans and put him over Splash Blue Copper hens, you will get BBS and I am hoping for a Nice Blue Copper boy (along with more BBS hens.

Should be infested by mid December....
The big incubator is going.............................and y'all know how chicken math is.

**** Situation is, I have MANY Splash Blue Copper hens, but no Blue Copper Cockerel....so, I can breed a Black Copper to these blue splash hens

I wish my Favs were to the point of my being able to hatch! We will see if I can wait til spring. Although I guess it would be helpful if all of them were laying and my younger cockerel was mature and mating. Will have one pair and one trio to work with as soon as it happens.
I was also hoping for a Blue Silkie boy, but I do have a blue hen and will have two black boys, so I can breed for at least one good one, I hope!

I thought you had a blue silkie boy? I knew you gave one away, but thought you'd kept one you hatched?

Trying to keep up with your flock, because I'm interested in what comes from your initial forays into breeding...

What did CR bring home from Salem for you?

 

[Farmin Momma]

I am so frustrated...... I got all excited about ordering some chicks from Meyer Hatchery, they are one of very few that hatch through the winter. I was going to order 4 WLeghorns, 3 Splash Maran pullets and one cockrele and 4 EEs, got to a page that said the EEs and the leghorns were not available and that I could only get 1 boy and 2 girls of the splashes. Although I was not feeling great about getting only 3 chicks for $30 I was going to anyways, then it came to check out and the shipping charge was about $45. It came to $73.10 to order 3 fricken chicks, really????

 

[CarolynF]

You could check with Amtrak and we could pick you up in Olympia. The train is a rather fun way to travel, and may cost less than fuel in a truck. This is just a thought.

Oh, that's a really nice suggestion, thank you. But we are in Corvallis in our trailer and Olympia would be on our way home. It's just a matter of timing and logistics. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[SadieSue]

Oh yikes. I'm catching up on the thread here missing my chickens a bit because I'm enjoying a few days in Scottsdale,AZ. My sister is attending a 2 day conference and I thought I'd fly down with her, you know, so she wouldn't get lonely.

But I just checked the weather at home, 50 and raining. It's supposed to get to 82 here today, so maybe I'm not missing my girls quite as much as I thought...

My parents left the house this morning to return home, baby sis is still at her workshop, and I'm feeling just a little bit guilty for having nothing to do but sit by the pool and read an entire book. I guess I can live with the guilt. I'll be back tuesday afternoon to join the rest of you on the PNwest side though!

I've looked around the neighborhood. No one around here keeping chickens that I can see. Can chickens live in hot weather? It would have to be certain breeds, right?

 

[KMHunter]

I am so frustrated...... I got all excited about ordering some chicks from Meyer Hatchery, they are one of very few that hatch through the winter. I was going to order 4 WLeghorns, 3 Splash Maran pullets and one cockrele and 4 EEs, got to a page that said the EEs and the leghorns were not available and that I could only get 1 boy and 2 girls of the splashes. Although I was not feeling great about getting only 3 chicks for $30 I was going to anyways, then it came to check out and the shipping charge was about $45. It came to $73.10 to order 3 fricken chicks, really????

You could wait and see if CL has some this winter.

 

[Ogress]

I've been sitting inside all morning, looking out the window and finding something better to do inside rather than planting my garlic. I'm going to run out of time soon and I'll have to just suck it up and get wet.

Jennifer

Last year I ended up eating those expensive garlic cloves - going to try and plant them this week. I've not grown garlic before.

 

[itsren]

The only reason I mention Alfalfa instead of straw is that 1. straw is heavy to clean out and takes longer to break down alfalfa breaks down faster. 2. the vet/poultry expert some of us have met says Alfalfa is great for them and makes the yolks really orange. And 3. I figure if they eat half of it, there is less for me to rake out! Lol.
A couple of years ago I had to rake out the run from the really cold time when I put the straw down to keep them up off the snow and ice. It was wet and extremely heavy! Just my experience with it.

Can you put Alfalfa down on a dirt run? Will it get really nasty? I ask - because my girls are spending less time free-ranging.

 

[itsren]

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Cool! I'd love to try a Brahma or Jersey Giant someday, so it's nice to know that I could fit one in there.

Jennifer

I just went out and measured. Both of my nest boxes are 14.75" x 15". My Light Brahma is 6 months old, and from what I understand, probably not full-grown yet. But, she still looks like she fits in the nest boxes well and could probably grow a bit more and still be OK. I haven't weighed her since summer, and she was over 7 lbs. at that time. My girls lay in opposite nests, though - and they've never tried to get in the same one together.

I have no idea how big a Jersey Giant hen would get.