Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[TerrorBird]

My girls are great at letting me know when I need to toss my pants in the wash. They simply place a nice runny poop on my pants when they believe I've worn them enough! When that job is done, they think that more cuddles are in order. They're just a bunch of brats.

 

[UrbanEnthusiast]

Hi everybody.

I am returning here after a few weeks off with some very sad news. Something really, really awful and terrible happened. That's why I haven't been posting. It's an extremely long, complicated, and disturbing story, so I'll skip it. However, one of the consequences of the situation is that my boyfriend has to move out of his house. Since there is no one left there who is interested in caring for our flock, we must find a new home for our five girls before the end of this month. I'm devastated as many of you know how much I love having the chickens even if my man and I I don't live together so I don't get to see them every day. After what happened to me over the past few weeks, this loss is a huge final blow. It is highly unlikely that we will find another living situation anytime soon where we could actually keep chickens again.

A friend of mine has a sister-in-law in Lakewood who is a vet tech and already has five hens but says she has room in her coop for five more. I have no doubt she'd take excellent care of our birds, but I have two concerns. 1) She only has 1/5 of an acre, which seems like a tight squeeze for 10 hens, maybe? 2) The integration of the two flocks will no doubt be quite traumatic for all of them, especially mine coming in as the newbies.

Does anyone here know somebody with a large fenced yard who might be interested in keeping five young laying hens? We'd be happy to assist with building a coop or whatever else may be needed. I still have all the scrap materials we were going to use for the big new coop, so that is definitely available to anyone who wants to provide a safe, happy, and healthy life for our precious birds. I would prefer someone who doesn't already have chickens or who can keep the flocks separate. My two Leghorns in particular have fought so hard from a young age to be (mostly) accepted into the flock. I don't want to put them through that again. Maybe I'm being crazy about this, but isn't that what crazy chicken ladies do? I would also prefer someone who can let them free-range most of the time during daylight hours. Our girls are spoiled and are used to free-ranging all day every day. The two Leghorns in particular really appreciate having a lot of room to roam around and forage.

I can also split the flock up into two separate groups if necessary. If I were to do that, I would put the Wyandotte and the blue mutt together, and put the Welsummer (who is still recovering from the raccoon attack back in late September, though I don't think she's going to require anything more than time to continue healing) with the two Leghorns together.

Please let me know in PM if you or someone you know might be interested in checking out our flock. They are a very good bunch of girls. I'd write more about them but I think that would just send me into a crying fit.

I want to thank everyone in this thread who has helped me with all the great advice so far, and especially to thank Hallerlake, Imp, and Jess who made actual "real life" offers. I am sad to be coming here and asking for one more last bit of help. If I can't find someone here to take them, I'm sure they'll be just fine down in Lakewood.

Cheers,

~Cory

 

[hallerlake]

Hi everybody.

I am returning here after a few weeks off with some very sad news. Something really, really awful and terrible happened. That's why I haven't been posting. It's an extremely long, complicated, and disturbing story, so I'll skip it. However, one of the consequences of the situation is that my boyfriend has to move out of his house. Since there is no one left there who is interested in caring for our flock, we must find a new home for our five girls before the end of this month. I'm devastated as many of you know how much I love having the chickens even if my man and I I don't live together so I don't get to see them every day. After what happened to me over the past few weeks, this loss is a huge final blow. It is highly unlikely that we will find another living situation anytime soon where we could actually keep chickens again.

A friend of mine has a sister-in-law in Lakewood who is a vet tech and already has five hens but says she has room in her coop for five more. I have no doubt she'd take excellent care of our birds, but I have two concerns. 1) She only has 1/5 of an acre, which seems like a tight squeeze for 10 hens, maybe? 2) The integration of the two flocks will no doubt be quite traumatic for all of them, especially mine coming in as the newbies.

Does anyone here know somebody with a large fenced yard who might be interested in keeping five young laying hens? We'd be happy to assist with building a coop or whatever else may be needed. I still have all the scrap materials we were going to use for the big new coop, so that is definitely available to anyone who wants to provide a safe, happy, and healthy life for our precious birds. I would prefer someone who doesn't already have chickens or who can keep the flocks separate. My two Leghorns in particular have fought so hard from a young age to be (mostly) accepted into the flock. I don't want to put them through that again. Maybe I'm being crazy about this, but isn't that what crazy chicken ladies do? I would also prefer someone who can let them free-range most of the time during daylight hours. Our girls are spoiled and are used to free-ranging all day every day. The two Leghorns in particular really appreciate having a lot of room to roam around and forage.

I can also split the flock up into two separate groups if necessary. If I were to do that, I would put the Wyandotte and the blue mutt together, and put the Welsummer (who is still recovering from the raccoon attack back in late September, though I don't think she's going to require anything more than time to continue healing) with the two Leghorns together.

Please let me know in PM if you or someone you know might be interested in checking out our flock. They are a very good bunch of girls. I'd write more about them but I think that would just send me into a crying fit.

I want to thank everyone in this thread who has helped me with all the great advice so far, and especially to thank Hallerlake, Imp, and Jess who made actual "real life" offers. I am sad to be coming here and asking for one more last bit of help. If I can't find someone here to take them, I'm sure they'll be just fine down in Lakewood.

Cheers,

~Cory

Well, DARN!

I hope you find someone to take your flock.

 

[pips&peeps]

Anybody here raise red broilers??? I bought these birds this summer that were supposed to be red broilers and I think they are just production reds. The photo is about a month old, but they still look pretty much the same.

If anyone knows about these birds let me know. If I can come to some reasonable conclusion that they are production reds, I will be bringing the pullets to sell at the Chehalis show.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I have 5-6 2 year old potted Wallflowers, if anyone is interested.
Get bigger every year and have spring to deep winter purple blooms.




Getting scraggly & needs to be put in the ground as soon as the house is done...this is Momma plant & is 3 years old.




Bees love this bush.

I'd love one of those!

I also have a few lavender seedlings, not to mention a quarter acre or so of various oreganos.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Great! PM me and I'll give you my phone number and directions.

I'll have to find out a time that my husband and I can both go.  I broke my shoulder a few years ago and it's never healed properly so diggin ain't my thing anymore.

I've only dislocated mine, and that decreases my digging effectiveness, even is the kind of sand that makes ditch diggers happy.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

So... are there any tips for growing out a brooder full of cockerels without them hurting each other?  I have 4 that have been going at each other pretty hard today.  Their brooder box should be big enough for the four of them.  It is 3.5' L x 2' W x 2' H.  They are 3 weeks old tomorrow.

I've seen a lot of posturing and chest bumping in my brooder, but never actual damage.

The four SSH boys never did any damage to each other, in an 8X4 pen, but I had to move the EEs to two-to-a-brooder after four weeks.

 

[RonB]

Anybody here raise red broilers??? I bought these birds this summer that were supposed to be red broilers and I think they are just production reds. The photo is about a month old, but they still look pretty much the same.

If anyone knows about these birds let me know. If I can come to some reasonable conclusion that they are production reds, I will be bringing the pullets to sell at the Chehalis show.

If they are production hens I would be interested in buying two off ya. they do look a lot like my gold sexlinks I also am interested in A Real Ameraucana. C.L. told me to contact you. I want BLUE eggs! I have a couple EE's laying green. Where in the heck is Newman Lake ???

Going out to clean the coop and rake leaves.

 

[Mumsy]

Anybody here raise red broilers??? I bought these birds this summer that were supposed to be red broilers and I think they are just production reds. The photo is about a month old, but they still look pretty much the same.

If anyone knows about these birds let me know. If I can come to some reasonable conclusion that they are production reds, I will be bringing the pullets to sell at the Chehalis show.

I would be interested in three pullets. I'll be at the Chehalis show for the weekend.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Waiting for pullet eggs any day now- both Tegan and Sarah are redding up. The other Hamburgs are still growing feathers, as are Malvina, the EEs and Sylvia; the two younger BLRWs are the only ones laying right now- which was the case last year, also, up until the week before Thanksgiving.

It's sort of refreshing, not having to spend so much time and refrigerator space to dealing with eggs, but I'll be relieved when I'm buried again.