Washingtonians

[Chickielady]

Quote:
Hey what happened to Godiva ?????
And Ghiradelli ????

You absolutely MUST get 2 more !!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Quote:
I want the lemon blues !!!!!

I know I cannot have them, we have way too many birds already !!!!

You can ever have too many birds!

I know, I know, but you guys have to remember we are living in a 10 X 20 foot storage barn.
Yes, the kind you see for sale on the side of the road !
I have insulated it and added windows...
We just got bids on our foundation for our house...and gotta save money.
SOOOOOOOOOOOO....the deal is more birds means more coops and pens and we really have to save and build US a house (and then the birds can have this, their barn !)
So, I better behave.
Darn it.

But we will finally have a house !

Wish our house and property in CA would sell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Quote:
Mine stopped when they were broody.
They also stopped laying in the dead of winter when they had no added light in the hen house...hope you figure it out !

 

[Chickielady]

here is the little barn before

the little barn with addititons and pens

flower boxes

and lots and lots of crap and no garage to put it in...
Conduit and water line not buried yet, and a honey do list miles long...
so I really have to stop getting more birds, for now !!

Like the kitchen addition on the front of the barn ?
It is 8x8 and has had 2 incubators on the tiny counter for several months now, yes people. I am an addicted nutcase.
Gotta stop and build a house now !!!!!

 

[L0rraine]

Cackling Hen - if you are out there, here are the three babies from the Roo I got from you last year to keep my orphan blue silkie chick company. I hatched three eggs just to help out one of my broodies. They are non-bearded like the roo, but one cutie is kind of buff and blue and I'm keeping 'her' (yeah right), just because she's different from all the rest. I got two new silkies this spring (very nicely bred ones) so that the buff and blue each have their very own mate for the coming year.

 

[Chickielady]

Quote:
Behr paint's "dried Basil"
I love it, looks more like sage brush to me.
We sprayed our "outhouse" (the future Ameraucana coop) and laundrymat (where we have the washing machine

) and the big coop and the barn with lean-to built down the side, and dog house all this color.

 

[Chickielady]

Quote:
OMG you are so in trouble !!!
If I was going to risk the wrath of Hell (DH ticked off) I'd go for the most awesome eggs I could find (like the lemon blue cochins !!!!!

) not quail.....
I think you have hatchyosis...the dreaded disease that causes humans to go beserk trying to hatch everything they can find !
It is related to Broody-osis that hens get.
My incubator is off for 2 weeks now, but still sitting there for a lack of anywhere to put it...and STILL I have to stop and look in the windows...and STILL I want to buy eggs.
Maybe I should just get alabaster eggs and put them in there and plug in the turner and incubator....

 

[LaSombra]

I let my latest broody have just 1 egg. Well, yesterday morning, it pipped. Mom got off the nest for a break and another hen got in the nest and pecked the egg open. I was still out there so caught it in time, went inside and set up the bator, and let it hatch inside. By yesterday evening, I had the chick back under momma and all was well. This morning, it's a cute little fluffy butt and momma is happily clucking to it

I decided to name the chick Julia since it was hatched July 1.

 

[kristenm1975]

Hey Jessica Rabbit, what kind of quail have you got? I'm wanting some Ca Valley quail or Gambrels if you've got them. That would be perfect!

On another note altogether, I have a sad little Polish needing a new home. It's a straight run chick from Monroe feed store and is about 4 months old. I've tried three times to integrate it with my others of the same age and its gotten badly pecked every time. The last time was this morning and I'm done trying. It needs a safe place to be. It's free to a good home. I need it to go somewhere with other docile chickens, like other polish preferably. I'll nurse it back to health again for a bit so that it won't be such an obvious target wherever it goes, but then it'll be ready for a new place.

Thanks!

 

[Jessica Rabbit]

Quote:
not really sure what they are..... he said it was a mix of a few different breeds.... I am hoping marked like Mike does the pheasant that way I am not guessing...lol I will let you know when I find out