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[tomato lady]

He is the same rooster you saw in my lower coop. He came from Royce. He is a beauty. I love him, but he doesn't like Jenna. He tried to get her today and when I stepped between them he ran at me. I just happened to have a large McDonalds drink in my hand. I took the lid off and threw it on him. That stopped him in his tracks! He isn't mean, he just doesn't like Jenna.

Christine, you have 40 chickens! You have almost caught up to me. I have 44 now, including my two hatchlings and the two I bought to keep them company.

 

[justbugged]

I know it is rather addicting. I know that I will have to get rid of the roos, so that would drop me back to just 35, and then I need to sort the flock out and see who is laying and what they are laying. I am only getting about 10 eggs a day out of the 18 that should be laying. So I clearly have some free loaders. I don't mind too much, but still chicken feed isn't free. I also am hoping that some of the Wyandottes will go to live with a friend up in Seattle. I have a couple that look like BCMs so I might just opt to pretend that that's what they are, because my luck on raising BCM has been zero.

I have mostly rare breeds so it is also possible that most of them just don't lay daily, and that would be okay with me as long as I know for sure that they are laying something.
I need to keep my flock to fewer than 20 birds; I just don't have enough space otherwise. I can probably sneak in a few extra banties, but I am limited by both the size of the coop and property.
I have a fly problem going on right now it was to buggy outside tonight to eat out. I am going have to use DE in the run tomorrow.

I am looking again and I can sure see the Welsummer in your roo. He would be great for using to produce olive eggers. Because from what I remember Royce’s really big Americana Roo was covering some of his rather nice Welsummers hens.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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You can come over & check out our GLW. They are pretty, she's 'the model' of our flock.
And now we're down to five

We're so sad- @#%(! predators!

So I guess we'll need to think about more.... Maybe when my grief goes away

 

[tomato lady]

When I cleaned out my lower coop I took all the eggs away from my broody hens (5 of them sitting on 19 eggs) who had all settled in one corner of the coop in their self made nest. I put an old recycling bin in that corner for a nesting box. It had been in the coop, just not in that corner and they didn't like the location because they never used it. This is the result when I let them back into their clean coop.

I had taken their eggs into the house and put them in a makeshift incubator because the hens had been broody for about 2 months with no results except one dead chick. Well, what chick could survive this. I had no idea how old the eggs were that I took. Anyway, the good news is this morning one of the eggs hatched! Don't know what breed it is, but daddy is the Ameraucana rooster. The chick is black.

 

[hallerlake]

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Here in Seattle they're trying to up it to 8 chickens per standard lot (currently only 3 per standard lot). We can have 6 (and we have the 6) but I keep dreaming of more...

...And we haven't even had a first egg yet!

Same here. I haven't had an egg yet, but I'm looking at larger coops, and thinking about which breeds to try next.

I'm forcing myself to wait until next spring because that's the grown up thing to do. Sometimes, I hate being a grown up.

 

[hallerlake]

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You can come over & check out our GLW. They are pretty, she's 'the model' of our flock.
And now we're down to five

We're so sad- @#%(! predators!

So I guess we'll need to think about more.... Maybe when my grief goes away

Wyandottes look so pretty in the pictures! What are their personalities like?

 

[Chickielady]

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Will certainly try !
I am planning on going up that way Sunday and seeing WA4HPoultryMom in Duval....if we have time.
The Fairgrounds right in town in Enumclaw ?

 

[Chickielady]

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I told you it would be winter by the time you got back !
You missed summer altogether !

 

[hallerlake]

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Us too! Addictive and fun!

We are neighbors, Haller Lake! We live in Pinehurst just east of you.

There are a lot of people in north Seattle with chickens. I know of several within a couple of blocks of me.

 

[Chickielady]

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Beautiful Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!