Washingtonians

[zach318]

Hi everybody I'm new to the site. I said HI in the new member section and thought I would say Hi to all my neighbors in Washington. I put a couple pics of the coop i built and some pics of my chickens. I started reading on this site to learn as much as I could about chickens since I always wanted a pet chicken. I bought day old chicks and started building. They all lived and are happy and healthy. Thanks everyone and BYC

 

[RonB]

Zach318

Welcome

you can get lots of good advice here. Lots of SMART people (I'm not one of them

) nice little set up you have

Is that a little welsumer? or maybe a brown leghorn?

 

[CarolynF]

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Hi Welcome to the group! What a cute coop!

 

[Ogress]

Welcome Zach!

Nice set-up you have there! Beautiful hens too.

 

[KMHunter]

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Really great set up you have! Pretty chooks too!

 

[RonB]

GREAT chicken day today

seven of the twelve eggs hatched today

One of my new girls that I got in March laid an egg today (they will be 5 months on Fri) I think it was one of my gold sexlinks

I was at the local feed store today when the hay truck pulled in. I got TWO Free Big garbage bags full of Nice fresh hay (use it on coop floors)

So out of the seven babies I know I have two lavender Orphs. and two EE's the other three ?

lets just say they are chickens

CR.
Good luck working your magic on my DD. I know she did take pictures.

Night All !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ogress]

Remember the big jars of antipasto and pickles that Chickielady posted a few weeks ago? Well, I guess I'mm more specialer than the rest of you because Chickie gave me a jor of each .... Mmmmm...mmmmm..mmm. I had to wait a while before I posted my reviews just in case CR kept my address - now there's not enough of the antipasto for him to rustle. I ate it all by myself since DH and kids won't eat any vegetable out of a jar (and very few fresh out of the garden). Sometimes it's a good thing to have kids who won't eat their veggies!

 

[Ogress]

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Congrats on your hatch! Depite what others post, I think broody raised chicks are the friendliest. My broody was mean while sitting, but just the nicest mom. She taught her chicks to trust DD and I. We could pick them up so long as she could see them.

 

[Kenshan1]

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Congrats on your hatch! Depite what others post, I think broody raised chicks are the friendliest. My broody was mean while sitting, but just the nicest mom. She taught her chicks to trust DD and I. We could pick them up so long as she could see them.

I agree. I gave my broody hen my new hatched chicks. She taught them how to get around the grown hens & how to free range, even to come running for treats. Well it looked like I had 3 roos & 1 pullet so I found someone to trade with for 2 more pullets. Her pullets had just come out of the house but about the same size as my pullet. So these new pullets haven't a clue how to free range & are afraid of anything. They don't even know how to roost which my broody had taught my pullet. So they sit in a nest box at night but my pullet roosts in the nest box above them as she wants to be close to them but also wants to roost. The new pullets barely come past the coop door while my pullet hangs with the big hens but runs back & forth to be with the new pullets. I almost miss my other chicks I gave up but if they really were roos I couldn't keep them.

Shannon

 

[RonB]

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Congrats on your hatch! Depite what others post, I think broody raised chicks are the friendliest. My broody was mean while sitting, but just the nicest mom. She taught her chicks to trust DD and I. We could pick them up so long as she could see them.

My broody RIR has been friendly through the whole nesting and hatching thing. She let me pick her up everyday and put her out to drink and take a dust bath. today she let me pick up three of her new babies. she even drank and ate out of my hand. I put some chick feed down in front of her and sat beside her while she was teaching two of her chicks how to eat