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[Nyrial]

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(as well to the other newcomers)

Which feedstore? I am a huge Cackle Hatchery fan. I have an order coming from them this week actually - 7 heritage turkey poults and 15 chicks of varying kinds.
Patiently..waiting...for Thursday

ETA: I'm going to get some pullets at Monroe on the way home today. I love going to Bothell doc appointments, it gives me an excuse to stop there on the way home because the "highway was congested" so I "had to take the back roads"
My egg demand at work has skyrocketed, and all DH will order are bantams.

 

[justbugged]

Hi to all!
I have been keeping up reading the forum. I just haven’t had a lot to say.
I was able to get 2 chicks out of 2 dozen eggs that I put under a broody EE, and a Silkie. The EE and the Silkies have been very insistent on trying to brood some chicks, so I picked up some mystery eggs at the auction. I think one of the chicks is a BR, and I am guessing that the other one is a Cochin due to it having feathered legs. I am still not sure what happened to all the other eggs. The 2 chicken hatched 2 days apart. I had set the eggs under the mama hens on a Saturday afternoon, and the first chicken was found under the EE hen on Sunday morning 3 weeks later. By Monday afternoon, I decided to check the other eggs to see if there was any life in them. I am so glad that I listened carefully and I was able to hear the other chick still cheeping in the egg. So I popped the egg back in the nest box, and the mama EE came back to the nest box. The next morning there was the little blue Cochin chick tucked under her wing. I now have the 2 chicks in a large fish tank in my living room.

I am a bit frustrated about the hatch rate I have. I have now tried it twice with an incubator, and twice with broody hens. I each time have a dozen or more eggs involved, and only 2 or3 chicks hatch each time.

I have the big brooder full of 25 plus Cornish-X chickens. I think we have about another month to go before we start to send them to freezer camp. Cornish-X are really ugly stupid chickens. All they do is eat, drink, and poop.

I also kind of brought home from that auction with 3 finches and their cage. I just love the sounds that finches make. There was also a bunny involved, but after 2 weeks in my sewing room I had enough of trying to keep the bunny and all the Yorkies separate. I sent the bunny back to the auction and sold it for 3 dollars more than I bought him for. DH is still a bit put out with me over the bunny.
So that’s the highlights in my chicken world. The rest of my world still needs to have a few remodel projects closer to done than they are.


As for Stevenson just go to Vancouver WA and head East on highway 14. It will take to right to Stevenson.

 

[whidbey]

Welcome Mamarose
Good luck with the chick they are so much entertainment all the time
Neighbor, in Island County also




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[LaSombra]

OK, took a few pics today of the new chicks and momma. There's one pic from a couple days ago before the camera died also (the yellowed pic where there are still a few eggs under momma). The two grey ones are what hatched for me this weekend. The other one is the 1/2 EE 1/2 wyandotte that hatched last weekend.

 

[Frogchickrincess]

Ohhh I am so

Excited to say that my Dh is Taking us his Girls, Myself and are 2 daughtrers to the Stevenson show on Saturday. I am not showing anything, but want to come and check everything out. In the future though I hope to be showing something!

So who here in Washington has Serams and is going to show them? My daughters are wanting to show them and we just want to know who has them from around here.

Ohhhh I also want o buy some chicks at the show. Will anybody have standard or Bantam Polish, maybe Frizzle polish?

 

[spectrejazz]

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Very cute!! Chicks are so much fun, and that egg was beautiful. Was that the BCM? We are still trying to figure out what ours are (crosses of ???). We are pretty sure that one is a BSL and one is part cochin (fuzzy legs), but the rest are a mystery. Any idea what a yellow chick with some red in the body and tiny black dots next to its eyes might be? The fathers could be RIR, PBR, or a Barenvelder, the mothers could be RIR, PBR, Gold Laced Wyan, Silver Laced Wyan, Blue Cochin, BO or a NH Red. Anybody's guess I suppose, but I would love to hear ideas

Justbugged - Jealous of the Blue Cochin! They are beautiful birds, and delicious~.

 

[LaSombra]

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Very cute!! Chicks are so much fun, and that egg was beautiful. Was that the BCM?

yeah, the one showing in the pic is the BCM that I tried to save but couldn't

I do have 2 BCM pullets and a blue copper marans roo. I just gave a BCM roo to a friend. I only want one roo from my BCM and figured the blue would be better to keep than black for if I want to breed with blue ameraucanas for olive-eggers in the future...

 

[Ohlearia]

Hi All,
I live between Bellingham and Ferndale on the Lummi Res. Just bought 3 Silver Lace Wyandotte, 1 Golden Wyandotte, 1 Sex Linked chicks. Am building a small coop/garden shed combination-kinda A DIY project, but am excited about the chickens and am already addicted to this website. So friendly...So much information. I beat my brother in getting chickens first, but want to know if anyone raises chickens or has chickens available on Lopez Island.

 

[Illia]

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- And welcome to the Washingtonian thread.

Not sure about Lopez Island though. . . I live really far away from everyone else here.

. . . Out in Twilight Town.

 

[spectrejazz]

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Oh to have space for breeding... It is a dream to be able to have enough space to get a fun breeding program going, but for the moment we are urban farmers

If you get some fertile BCM eggs, or you Illia (!) We would probably like some in the not too distant future!