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[Chicken Rustler]

What doo ya mean it may be getting down to the 20's ?? I have had 22 for the last 3 nights and as of 7pm tonight it is 30*. Since we were gone all day and didn't get home till after dark I guess that means I am gonna have to get out there and bob for ice cubes early in the morning

 

[weaveagarden]

Incubator on CL

http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/grd/1495494239.html

i have a lil giant incubator with turner and extra trays for quail in great shaped never used to hatch in just to incubate plz call with ?'s jim 360 508 6713


•Location: lewis county

 

[weaveagarden]

I just listed 8 chickens on CL for my friend who my mom got her chickens from. They are in much better shape than I thought. I think my mom may have ended up with a scrawny couple of them.... But still need to have a different home.

She is happy, I am happy, and the hens will be happy with a new comfortable home too. Here's hoping the listing is successful

http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/grd/1495628744.htmlYourLinkGoesHere

8 Various Chickens / pullets - $15 (Grays Harbor / Hoquiam)

I am disabled and need to rehome my chickens as soon as possible. They are due to start laying soon. 6 months old. All pullets. Hatchery Quality

BROWN EGG LAYERS:
2 Barred Plymouth Rock
2 Red Sex-links (Rhode Island Red X Plymouth)
2 Turkens - Transylvanian Naked Necks

BLUE/GREEN EGG LAYERS
2 Americaucana - Easter Egger

 

[Illia]

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I live on the coastal Peninsula of WA. . . If it were ever in the 20's for more than two days, people would freak. It would be something we are not used to.

 

[Kittymomma]

I'm out between Olympia and McCleary. We have a bit of a micro-climate going here. It's 25 out right now and has been between 22-24 the last three mornings. It never got above freezing today. The chickens and ducks crack me up. I have a little winter run-off creek that runs between the barn and the house. The ducks spend most of the day in it which I guess isn't all that surprising, but the chickens have taken to wading around the edges of it lately. I'd understand if it was summer, but it just seems crazy this time of year. Does anybody else have chickens that like to wade in cold water?

 

[Illia]

Kittymomma - Your chickens are at the water in 25 F weather? Wow, not even my Brahmas like the frost here. . Well, they sure do like stripping it off grass. It's so funny, they'll go from blade to blade, making a squeaky noise while stripping the frost off. Then they eat the grass. The nice thing about this frozen weather is that I finally get to see the Brahma's feathered feet again, not wet, muddy strings hanging from their legs and toes.

 

[tomato lady]

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I have an EE roo. He is beautiful. However, he has bit me and drawn blood. He dives at me all the time. I push him back with my foot and he attacks my shoe. To make matters worse, I have a half wall dividing my coop and the chickens use it to roost on. When I enter the coop this EE roo jumps up on the half wall and looks down on me fluffing all his feathers out. He is big and strong and I am not going to carry him around. I am tired of having to watch him as I do my chicken chores. He is an opportunist and gets me when I am bent down changing the water or filling the feeder. I am getting rid of him.

I am interested in knowing if you can get your roo to settled down. I hope you have good luck with him.

 

[weaveagarden]

The only 2 times I have had a problem with Pinky is when I am handling or trying to catch a hen. He has charged at me to try to get me to put one girl down. He always screams when I do. Do you notice if there is a pattern. Could he think you are trying to hurt a hen or him?

Nyrial, maybe if you just had one Roo it would be different. How many chickens do you have? I can't remember as I am typing this, but it seems like it may be less than 12 if I remember right. Maybe he is insecure about his position and just needs a big hug

???

 

[Nyrial]

I have 29, 15 in that coop, 10 pullets and 5 roos.. The roos are in their own side (the playboi manshun

), with no contact with the girls whatsoever anymore, although they were all raised together. The other 4 are fine.. they don't like me handle them much, but they're not aggressive, the pecking order appears to go.. Leghorn..Leghorn..and then the other 3. The leghorns and phoenixes are perfect gentlemen when I go in the coop, they yield to me, and wait for the food. Red just goes.. crazy. He runs from me.. he's always been skittish, even as a chick. Which is why the peck today surprised me.

I'm going to give him some time for the hormones to straighten out, he's never been a particularly bright one anyway, and teenagers/young adults do stupid things. If he keeps it up though, we're going to have to have a talk with the iron skillet, I will not give him the opportunity to get one of my kids. As of right now neither of them are allowed in the rooster run anyway.. my oldest boys are only ~18 weeks, but that ground rule was laid down immediately after we separated them at about 14 weeks. No kids allowed in the rooster run

 

[justbugged]

Weaveagarden; Your Oddery is very beautiful. I would feel pride in her also. I must admit I am a little envious that you have a olive egger. I know what it's like to have those days when it feels like everything that you say makes someone else upset, mad. I seem to have more than my share of those day. I don't I ever intend to have bad motive or feel that I have said anything that would warrant the over reaction that others seem to have when I am around.

So I didn't that you could have upset anyone here at all. I feel that we all have different levels of care that we give our chickens, I can recall that in the past we only ever put a heat lamp out in the hen house for winter cold protection. So don't worry when you give the best information as you know it. There will always be someone that can add something, or does it differently.

I'm sorry that it took me all evening to post this. Christina