Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[hallerlake]

http://www.holycrossredmond.org/Ministries/GreenElephant

If I've already mentioned tomorrow's plant swap, ignore me.

I'd like to get there, but we'll see. I'd be more likely to get there if it started at noon instead of ending at noon. I'm not a morning person.

 

[Hinotori]

Quote: I've seen people on BYC use pipes to create hoops on top of their runs.








Make sure you anchor the run to the ground very well if you're in a high wind area. I learned that the hard way. 200 feet away later, Lucky no birds were in the pen at the time. The PVC was stronger than the run. Only one cross piece had a crack in it. There are three broken spots in the metal on the run.

 

[mikeyb]

So it's taken me close to 25 years but I'm pretty certain I'm going to hang onto my DH now. Funny, I thought once he retired he'd drive me nuts, but it's been quite the opposite. I love having him around during the day and evenings now. He is happy to run errands with me, go to the movies at the spur of the moment, dinner out once a week - we've had a lot more dates recently. Nice.

On top of all that yesterday I told him since we had two broody Silkies that I was planning on picking up 1/2 dozen eggs tomorrow for the girls to hatch. He thought that sounded like a good idea. Then I casually mentioned that gosh darn it, I really need a new grow out pen for my juveniles. I sure do love having chicks in the spring and it would be nice if they had a good grow out pen to replace that piece of junk kit coop in the back yard...

"We don't have room for another coop"
"Yeah, we do if we're getting rid of that junky one, it can go right there".
"Why do you need another coop"?
"For the babies - isn't it fun to have babies every year? We don't need to keep them all. We'll re-home them. I just like hatching and playing with them is all".
"Where are you going to get another coop"?
"Well, actually - I kind of already signed up to be on the big 2013 VF World Coop Building Tour again. He does such nice work and has different designs and you'll be around to help and it's fun to visit and have dinner together. Remember how cool that was last year"?
"Yeah. Okay I guess. That should be fine".

Whew! I guess we're ready for the summer tour!

The first part brought back very happy memories for me.

The last part reminded me how I lost so many arguments when Birdie May wanted something.

 

[LindaSchaal]

im on my never ending hunt for Marans! Went to dels and they told me i had to order 25. So im now pondering if i want to order 25 and hope i can sell them off, or just keep watching craigslist. ALSO bought two chicks yesterday! Black australorp and a buff orpington.

 

[FirewifeJess]

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[FirewifeJess]

im on my never ending hunt for Marans! Went to dels and they told me i had to order 25. So im now pondering if i want to order 25 and hope i can sell them off, or just keep watching craigslist. ALSO bought two chicks yesterday! Black australorp and a buff orpington.

What age do you need? I have a BCM I'd consider selling. She's about 18mo and lays about 5 eggs a week.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Quote:
Thank you

Yes, Frodo is the one that survived a hawk attack. You can see the bare spots on her head, those are her scars where she didn't grow any feathers back. Such a tough little girl!

 

[ChickAudie]

Quote:
So you know those Full Circle boxes that are about 6"Hx12"Wx18-20"L? I cut the tops and bottoms off of two of those size boxes and used the middle of the box around the perimeter of the kennel. I used tape to hold them to the corners for now, but am adding zip-ties this weekend, I was being lazy and didn't want to go to the garage

I put it in there like a crib-bumper, if that helps?

So it's taken me close to 25 years but I'm pretty certain I'm going to hang onto my DH now. Funny, I thought once he retired he'd drive me nuts, but it's been quite the opposite. I love having him around during the day and evenings now. He is happy to run errands with me, go to the movies at the spur of the moment, dinner out once a week - we've had a lot more dates recently. Nice.

On top of all that yesterday I told him since we had two broody Silkies that I was planning on picking up 1/2 dozen eggs tomorrow for the girls to hatch. He thought that sounded like a good idea. Then I casually mentioned that gosh darn it, I really need a new grow out pen for my juveniles. I sure do love having chicks in the spring and it would be nice if they had a good grow out pen to replace that piece of junk kit coop in the back yard...

"We don't have room for another coop"
"Yeah, we do if we're getting rid of that junky one, it can go right there".
"Why do you need another coop"?
"For the babies - isn't it fun to have babies every year? We don't need to keep them all. We'll re-home them. I just like hatching and playing with them is all".
"Where are you going to get another coop"?
"Well, actually - I kind of already signed up to be on the big 2013 VF World Coop Building Tour again. He does such nice work and has different designs and you'll be around to help and it's fun to visit and have dinner together. Remember how cool that was last year"?
"Yeah. Okay I guess. That should be fine".

Whew! I guess we're ready for the summer tour!

Haha!! That sounds awesome! Let me know if you need any volunteers VelvetFog!

 

[CarolynF]

Yoda's Tour continued....

It was such a nice day on Monday that Yoda decided to look around Central Park.
This statue is at the South entrance.






Then it was off to the Empire State Building.... High up it is.....






On the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, Yoda seemed to like the metal railing close by.
Far down it is the sidewalk below....






The lure of yummy pastry led Yoda to seek out Buddy, the Cake Boss!
It will certainly take Jedi powers for him to master THAT rolling pin....



Thus ends Yoda's trip to the Big Apple. Until next time, bon voyage!

 

[TerrorBird]

Okay BYC friends! I need help naming TurtlePowerTrav's eggs that Itsren and her son hatched!!!

The other ladies are:

Princess Buttercup
Princess Caribou (if anybody remembers that movie

)
Opal
Ophelia
Marie Antoinette
and Chocolate

They have a fancy princess coop, so they need fancy princess names

There's Jasmine from Aladdin, and Aurora from Sleeping Beauty...