Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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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.

My boxes entrances are 12" high and 14" wide. My 10lb Orp cockerel fits inside it to show the girls it is fun to be in the nest box. I would think 14x14 should be adequate for JG. I did not think my cockerel would fit in, but he does. He stands 25" at top of comb and is about 14" wide.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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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.

My boxes entrances are 12" high and 14" wide. My 10lb Orp cockerel fits inside it to show the girls it is fun to be in the nest box. I would think 14x14 should be adequate for JG. I did not think my cockerel would fit in, but he does. He stands 25" at top of comb and is about 14" wide.
I forgot to say my total nest box size is 14"Hx18"Wx18"D

 

[itsren]

Well, so long as they will eat it. I've offered the chicks a strawberry and a grape so far, and they act like it will kill them. Eventually a brave bird will peck at it, but they never figure out that it's food. If it doesn't look like chick starter or mealworms, it's not edible.

At 6 months my three girls still think a strawberry will kill them. I love it - I have a pot of strawberries that got fully rip without them taking so much as a nibble.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Quote: I got my blue Ameraucanas from Pips&Peeps.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Anyone have info on the swap in Centralia/Chehalis in November?

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Glad to know mine aren't the only ones who think certain foods are going to leap off the plate and murder them.

We never had any luck at all getting them to eat watermelon or strawberries this summer! Weirdo's!

If I'd have known that, I wouldn't have wasted any of our precious melons on those freaks!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Only four? Alas!

Yeah, they're zippy little things!

No, there is 6.

YAY!

 

[Greg Richardson]

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First flock I had were great egg layers.
First year did great straight through winter then the first molt took months before they started laying again and they never were as good as the first year.

I've had chickens start laying then stop for a week, lay a few more days, stop for a month.

Contrary to blogs, a lot of posts on this forum, chickens are not automatic layers.

The people whom believe they are will eventually have their day when reality hits them in the feed bill.

When you are feeding 11 chickens getting two eggs a day with lights in coop three weeks after the molt feeding them you just got to remember the quality of the food you eat as well as eventually things get going again.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

That's a Sitka Spruce, right? That's the wood they made B-17 airframes out of (and the Spruce Goose). It's HARD, and the grain spirals around the trunk so splitting it is... strenuous. The coastal tribes made wedges to split other wood out of the lower part of the limbs; I've handled one out of a wet site and it felt like iron.

The coastal tribes also have made whole totem poles and solid 1 tree canoes from these trees.
This one however...is laying here and no one can move it.

Nope, not even a little (remember this is my academic area of expertise). Totem poles and canoes were all made from Western Red Cedar, except for in the very north where Yellow Cedar was sometimes, rarely, made into carved poles and house poles. the qualities which make Sitka Spruce work for airframes, it's density and split-resistant spiral grain, made it difficult to work with the tools available in the precontact northwest, suck as ground-stone bladed D-adzes and planes made from shell or antler.

Wood Technology at Ozette by Jan Friedman is the most thorough treatment of the subject, although Boas has some references to how different kinds of wood are used. and Erna Gunther's Ethnobotany of Western Washington skims the subject; she was more interested in food and medicine plants.

 

[Greg Richardson]

Quote: If there isn't anyone on here with chicks to buy call Monroe Farm & Feed.
I don't know what they have now but for a feed store they have the best selection I have seen.