Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

Well everyone is shit away now up to 12 from the big birds my banty did 3 now of 5 was not sure how fast they would mature. The frizzle as a pretty blue green egg she was the first to lay.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Started the 56 egg incubator today Janoel They are hard plastic I clean with rubbing alcohol between hatches.
I set 14 eggs today day one. So should hatch about the 5th March

 

[justbugged]

This is such a quiet thread these day. Meanwhile the old night crew cheif is back, and I now live east of Toledo WA. I currently have 9 savuvy hens. And an empty incubator.

 

[justbugged]

Ugh, 2021 ended in the worst way possible. My mother passed away during surgery (mitral valve replacement) because, at 69.5, no one had ever detected the amount of heart damage she had sustained as a child from Rheumatic Fever (likely such a mild case that they just assumed it was "just strep throat, it's a secondary infection common with strep and scarlet fever...but the surgeon told me it was something that isn't something I would need to worry about as a 41 year old). Valve replacement went extremely, but they had to take it out to reach the damage that was found when they tried taking her off the heart-lung machine. They replaced it 3 times before they finally "gave up" (per her medical directive). Days are slowly getting better, very slow process. I've been going with my daughter to see her therapist once a week...she's still super shy because it's a new therapist, so having me there to "translate" her silence has been helpful.

On to the good news though! My scissor beak, Shadow, was in the nest box today for the FIRST time! No egg yet, but her vent was working hard....maybe this week? The gals are 41 weeks old this week...finally got her nutrition figured out. Her upper beak was really curving and I was researching options on trimming it, but she broke the curved tip off the other day, clean break, very lucky.

(((((Hugges)))))

 

[Hinotori]

This is such a quiet thread these day. Meanwhile the old night crew cheif is back, and I now live east of Toledo WA. I currently have 9 savuvy hens. And an empty incubator.

Welcome back!

 

[Bonkerelli]

This is such a quiet thread these day. Meanwhile the old night crew cheif is back, and I now live east of Toledo WA. I currently have 9 savuvy hens. And an empty incubator.

Welcome back and yes it has been lately. Yesterday came home with this little one.

 

[WhySayWhat]

That it is! And thank you...I was never a hugger, but have found that I crave them these days and happily accept them from people I've just met!

In my "chickening world", I've got the strangest thing going on with my EE, Muffin. Over the last several months, she has started losing feathers on her head! First, her gorgeous fluffy beard...now, she's almost completely bald! No one else is losing feathers and I haven't witnessed her being on the receiving end of any bullying....but I don't know what it even could be.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

Welcome back and yes it has been lately. Yesterday came home with this little one.
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Uhhh oh my goodness what a tiny floofster!

 

[camjay]

Hi,
I'm new to BYC, and moving to the Spanaway area. I've taken care of friends chickens when they've been travelling, and I'm looking forward to having some of my own. I'm wondering if anyone has recomendations for egg or dual purpose heritage breeds that do well with the wet weather in this area? The place I'm moving to has an existing coop and a good are for them to free-range outside of that, or rrun them in a tractor,

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning State Welcome to and Welcome back .. good grief not always so quiet here ..
I am south here with a incubator with 14 eggs in it ..
First casndleis tonight