Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[FirewifeJess]

[COLOR=0000CD]I just want to throw this out there for future thought. Once we find and buy the right place, I would like to breed Ameraucanas, not EE's, but true Ameraucanas. It will be a few months for us to find, buy and settle into a place but I just want this out there so that if you breed them you can keep me in mind.[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000CD]Speaking of buying a place, I found a place that I will be going to look at here really soon. There are three houses on the property, which is great because my BIL and his DW live here with us (in their own apt.) and we were hoping to find a place where they a could come with us. There is also two barns a shop for DH and many out buildings that could be coops. Also (and this is a great part) the property is 29 acres in Duval. I am trying not to get to excited like I did with the last one but I do have my [/COLOR]

. [COLOR=0000CD]So we will see, and I will of course let ya'll know how it goes.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=008080]GOOD LUCK![/COLOR]

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[Ginas Poultry]

I am new to Backyard Chickens and trying to figure it all out...lol But so glad I found a local thread to check out! I am getting ready to breed some bantams and Salmon Faverolles. And of course the normal barnyard mix. I have several variety of hens and one big Faverolle rooster and of course my lil banty roos. I am also hoping to breed India Blue Peafowl this summer, Guine Fowl, Giant Pekin ducks, and African Toulouse Geese. Going to be a very busy summer!! Lots of babies!!

 

[Totalcolour]

I am new to Backyard Chickens and trying to figure it all out...lol But so glad I found a local thread to check out! I am getting ready to breed some bantams and Salmon Faverolles. And of course the normal barnyard mix. I have several variety of hens and one big Faverolle rooster and of course my lil banty roos. I am also hoping to breed India Blue Peafowl this summer, Guine Fowl, Giant Pekin ducks, and African Toulouse Geese. Going to be a very busy summer!! Lots of babies!!

Hi Gina. Glad you joined us! Watch those Guineas - they are noisy and worse than road runners!

 

[KMoran]

can anyone tell me if it is time to plant potatoes yet? I am thinking it is.
Have not grown those for 30+ years and have forgotten the timing.
I did get the peas planted last weekend. Just hope they don't rot!

Its my understanding anytime between March and June... Just depends on how early you wanna harvest. Last year I planted second week in march and they did great. I plant in a 2x2 square foot box n build it up as needed.

 

[Totalcolour]

My New Chicken!

This morning I went over to CR's and traded him one flighty little blue pullet for one of his dark egg layers (cukoo Marans). I hope CR is as happy with his new girl as I am with mine. Wondering though, was she exposed to Fudge or would her eggs be infertile. Just curious.

Oh, and Amelia has been covered by our Barnevelder should you want to incubate any of her eggs. Saw him doing it yesterday

 

[Hinotori]

to all the new peeps! I think I saw several of you post. I couldn't keep up last night and today.



Four hours in that pouring rain yesterday, soaked to the skin, but there is an actual door on the chicken shelter now. DH got it hung very well and it swings smoothly. I just have to get the latches and pull on it today, then the netting back up where we had to take it down to get the door on. I'll also probably put some fencing on the front top of the silkie pen where there is a gap on the tarp.

DH thinks possum is the more likely culprit, since he's seen several of them around in the mornings on the road. I didn't get the trap yesterday because I forgot when I was getting the door parts and was in tons of pain all day from my ankle. It was still throbbing hours after I sat in the chair and put it up. I'll be getting that trap today and setting it. I did have the dogs pee all over around the pens last night, but with the rain, I don't know how well that helped. The poor silkies were blocked in their little houses until I let them out this morning. I need to make them their new one.

Were getting the fence panels this weekend to make a new quarantine pen. Putting the roof up will be easy since I just have to take it off the old broke pen and move it, replacing one cracked X joint, and put the tarp on. Then after quarantine is up, I can move the whole thing over and attach it to the side of the silkie pen. Then we can slowly buy sets of panels and make several 10x20 runs for birds since they are getting moved out of the big run and separated into smaller groups. Then after we get them out, we'll rebuild a shelter there so we have a place to put the dogs when we're gone all day for something. Can't do a dog house since Zeus is terrified beyond belief of them. He'll go into the chicken shelter. It's 10x16.

I need to figure out what to do the the old pen. Several of the metal pipes are broken. Only thing good about it is the chain link that goes around it.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Chick Audie, I have been following an online women's clothing boutique called eShakti for a year now; I've been taught once already (over a dress I wanted for Easter last year) that she who hesitates looses the perfect dress, so when exactly the right print came up I ordered it immediately. My daughter's getting married outside by the water the last weekend in July, so the matter of wearing something which will cover without cooking and not be ruined by sunblock was driving me crazy.


The shoes, though, oh lord the shoes: the wedding is at the bottom of a football field sized lawn with about a 20% slope: I don't want to be dependant on a car to get me up and down, and in normal life wouldn't take that on without hiking boots. Young people never consider these things!

This is good information to have. Obviously, I won't wear heels.

Yeah, not a place for heels, to say the least.

I think you've seen photos of the venue over the years, as it's a default for the IOOF side of the family; standard Puget Sound High Bank Waterfront, great view of The Mountain. It's well-maintained and free from loose rock, but steep until you're almost to the sea wall, where there's a flat place big enough for the ceremony (and there will be seating due to the whole "family full of old people" thing: Bailey's grandfather is over ninety, and my Aunts and Uncles are all in their eighties.

 

[catelb]

Aww, thank you all for the warm welcome!

I'd love to come to Monroe next weekend, but it is right before my finals so I'll probably be furiously studying. Stranger things have certainly happened though, and I do love a good potluck ... So maybe I will have to take a study break and stop by. Certainly motivation to get a head start on my school work this weekend.

Thank you again!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well obviously I forgot Ordering from a hatchery, or even getting some from someone else is not nearly as fun or as interesting or as challenging as trying to create it

True story...as an example, I just spent an entire year looking for breeders selling any R/C LBLs......................no could locate. Found some, eggs, ordered, arrived smashed, ordered more, arrived half smashed & got 2 to hatch which turned out to be Bantam fowl.............crapola !!!!!!!!!!!!

So, 12 mo later I just ordered 10 from McMurray.......................they are in the brooder doing great. They are necessary for the breeding project with the Crele Chantecler. Sometimes ya just have to order from a hatchery.

I keep trying to sucker pursuade some 4H or FFA kid into a project where I pay for a largish number of SSH hatchery chicks and the feed to raise them to an age where quality can be judged, I keep the best two breeding pens worth and they get the pick of the rest and we ship the remainder to the auction. As my wild ideas go, it's actually pretty doable, but I need a sucker partner.

 

[robj]

You can build these on your kitchen table. (just put down 2 layers of corrugated cardboard- I've done it many times- besides, what are tablecloths for ?

Oh- at Home depot, if you don't have a chop saw/compound miter, they will cut your lumber,. have them cut the fence boards in 1/2 for the 3 foot wide ends.

Did you see the pics of the TALL supports? If you want to grow pole beans, peas, cukes, etc (I always grow as much as I can UP, -since slugs don't fly!), then use 2x2 (which is actually 1.5 x 1.5) or those 2x3's, and put on 2 corners on the LONG ends so you can run string. I ran string by tapping little 10 penny nails with BIG heads into the board holding the soil, then made an A frame with tree limbs. String from nail, to top rail of A, back to nail, repeat- zig zagged from one end of ebd to other. Plant beans or peas on string, put lettuce, radishes, spinach UNDER the "A".

BTW- My favorite tool is my Rigid Compound Miter saw,. I bought it for myself as a birthday present when I was single - many years ago.

I've been skippin alot did I miss a somethin?