Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[blueducklings]

FYI: Stumpfarmer has EXCELLENT grass fed beef....buy a pound or a half beef....excellent and their prices are awesome as well, she is in Olympia area.

BEEF? How do I get some yummy beef?

 

[drumstick diva]

PS Walmart's temp/humidity thingie (Springfield brand) is usually way off. I have more than a dozen on plant shelves because I hybridize streptocarpus. I have had to return several and the replacements weren't much better. It isn't bad on temps.but can vary 20% or more on humidity. I wanted them mainly for humidity.

 

[bikerchicky]

But WHAT COLOR hoodie. I really doubt you will be the only one in a hoodie...

I will be wearing my Isle of Vashon biker shirt. It's the closest I have to a biker chicky shirt.

 

[KMoran]

Wow - so much reading to catch up!

ChickieLady - Congratulations!!! What a beautiful baby

Pips&Peeps - Beautiful scarves! I will have to see what is left when I get to the show.
SadieSue - Congrats to your daughter! Bet you're a proud mama

Speaking of the show...I'll bring some Sudsy Chick soap, shampoo, & conditioner bars for anyone that would like to purchase without shipping costs.

(Please let me know in advance if you'd like me to bring liquid soap or lotion bars. To see the list of fragrances, I have, see my Etsy shop.)

I would love to get a oatmeal, milk and honey lotion bar from you along with a few bars of soap.

 

[robj]

Yes, yes, - Jess is right-

Daiya cheese came out with "wedges" which are tubs of cheese recently. The Jack is delicious and could substitute for cream cheese. The Havarti is the softest cheese "wedge", but it has jalepenos in it. (or maybe you want jelepenos for your recipe- whatever you are making?)

You can buy it at Fred Meyer and I'm sure the Oly Co-op has it. I know Safeway has Daiya shreds. ALL of the flavors are very good. I have tried every single fake cheese on the market in the decade+ of our dairy free journey and it's the only one I'll eat- except the homemade cheese sauces made from soaked raw cashews.

I made mac & cheese with Daiya, grilled cheese sandwiches, cheese burgers, quesdillas, chile con queso dip, toss chreds on taco salads and in greek salads (still miss my goat cheese, but I'm over the pouting almost), cheese N crackers, etc.

Looks like a trip to Freddies is order Thanks

i think most people who have problems with dairy are actually reacting to A1 casein (Holstein dairy). If you can get cheese made from Jersey or Guernsey cows that would be the A2 that is less of a problem. Goat cheese is also A2 and goat Chèvre is available and similar to cream cheese in texture, but I'm not sure it would be good for things like cake icing.

Thanks

I just got an e-mail from Wilco with their spring sale flyer. Dang! They have chick starter on sale. For just $3 more I can get 5 times as much as I got last week at Del's. Too bad I don't have some coupons for Purina. Didn't think I'd ever use them. Just goes to show you should never turn down (or throw away) a coupon!

Today I'm setting up the dog kennel for my 4 chicks. They're 15 days old now and really rambunctious! Every time I open the lid to clean, somebody makes a leap for freedom! So cute! But the bigger space will be good and they'll even have a perch. My mom is getting her daily dose of belly laughs, laughing at me and chicks!

Are you kickin out your CGG chicks?

I am gonna start it Thursday night and let it run all day Friday and Saturday and then set the eggs Sunday morning. I need to find a small thermometer to set inside the incubator just to make sure its matching up to what is on the display.

Calibrate and save a head ache!!

Calibrate your incubator stem thermometers with a glass of WARM water and a HUMAN thermometer...shake it down & insert in the cup of water, add your incubator stem thermometers & adjust the nut on the back accordingly.
Not so easy with a digital, but what you do is have to remember what temp the human therm says, and add or subtract that to the digital (which will drive ya crazy: do I add 5 degrees ?
subtract 2 ?) the stem thermometers (like a meat probe) from GFI work great.and can be adjusted by the NUT on the back so they will be right -on.

Where did you get you GFI Therm?

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

Wow - so much reading to catch up!

ChickieLady - Congratulations!!! What a beautiful baby

Pips&Peeps - Beautiful scarves! I will have to see what is left when I get to the show.
SadieSue - Congrats to your daughter! Bet you're a proud mama

Speaking of the show...I'll bring some Sudsy Chick soap, shampoo, & conditioner bars for anyone that would like to purchase without shipping costs.

(Please let me know in advance if you'd like me to bring liquid soap or lotion bars. To see the list of fragrances, I have, see my Etsy shop.)

dawng: I've been out in the garden every chance I get and, same as last year, your lotion bars are saving my hands. THANK YOU!!!!

There's a lot of new people on this forum that probably don't know about your amazing product line.
If anyone out there - guys or girls - has dry skin or dry cuticles, you've got to try Dawn's lotion bars.
They come in different scents but mostly I use the unscented.
Between the chicken chores and my garden, my hands were just a mess.
For the first time ever, my hands are fine.
Her soaps are terrific, too, and smell divine.
Glad you're bringing products to Monroe!

 

[SadieSue]

So, the Home Depot guy went all the way back to Aberdeen, and drove all the way back here & this time delivered our 2 shower stalls.
Shower stalls are 36 x 48 and the crates seem to be at least 2 feet longer.but would make a nice start for a coop OR 2 separate breeding coops for just a few birds.

FREE COME GET THEM (before I decide I wanna keep them

)

DH says NO WAY !!!!!!!!!!!!
If no one claims them, he is gonna cut them up & have a bon fire.










They are 69" LONG
37" WIDE
44" TALL
Seriously, put plywood on the sides, frame a door & a window for air & light, add a roost inside...and PRESTO !!!!!!!!!!
Putting the 2 together to make a single 74" wide X 69" long would be even more coolness~~~~~~~~~~~
Or stack them & do a shed roof on top & make a 2 story coop ?
I made one kinda like that years ago & it had 3 floors with ramps, and 1 big door to open for cleaning...nest boxes on all 3 stories & roosts on top...it was cool, and we called it the (get ready)

Chickie-Boom-Box...................LOL
anyone seriously interested PM me, or else Einstein is getting the saw-zall out !

Ohh, maybe even a little broody coop/run. I was just thinking today I could use a small one of those and just pull it out when I needed it. Can't get yours though CL. No truck to get it - no time - not clever enough to finish it myself. Cool ideas you have though!

 

[CarolynF]

What are your thoughts on using sand inside a pen or pine savings? I know the pine is easier to haul, but the sand would last longer, right?

I have coarse sand in my run (which is covered) and my coop. I LOVE it. I get sand for $15 per cu. yard (that's 2 loads in our F-150). I scoop poop each morning with a long handled litter scoop, it takes me maybe 10 min. Nothing rots or smells. I add new sand as needed, because some of the sand sticks to the poop and thus gets tossed out. If the sand gets soggy and pooped on you can't scoop the poop and it get nasty and smelly and dries like concrete.

Hope this helps.

 

[SadieSue]

Quote:
Yeah yeah yeah - cute chicks yer showin' off there.

Yes, maybe I should have gone ahead and gotten chicks but I do love hatching - there is a delicious anticipation in the whole process for me. And on hatch day when I glue myself to either the incubator or a broody coop - well, it's pretty doggone fun. Plus, I wanted to give the Silkies a good way to spend their time being broody. I didn't know that they would fail miserably at their newest hobby! Thought they could manage to hatch out 3 eggs each - 1 BLRW, 2 bantam Cochins is all I left them. Maybe it's not their fault, who knows.

But I've got those got those good Ameraucana eggs growing right behind me here in DH's computer room! I'm sure the Silkies will be happy to raise them as soon as they hatch. What fun that will be!

So... I haven't raised Wheaten Ameraucana chicks before, but if I were a bettin' woman, I'd put money on Honey and Dot being girls, and Dash maybe being a little boy. I'm no expert but there's just a slight difference in color on the wing tips with Dash's being a little darker. And the combs can be a good early indicator. His is a little more prominent.

I hatched some Wheaten Marans last year for a friend and it was pretty evident to me within a couple of weeks who was who although she was in denial about it. Turned out I was right. She ended up with 5 boys and 1 girl!

 

[SadieSue]

So the two eggs that my poor Owl was broody on for two weeks before she was killed, are due to hatch tomorrow night.

The little silkie I stuffed them under has been doing a very good job with them. I did a quick candle a few minutes ago and the one chick is trying to pip internally. Could see it pushing against the membrane. So here's crossing my fingers that the little things make it.

Gosh darn that was just so sad Hinotori. Like "Bambi's Mom getting killed" sad.

I sure do hope your chicks make it out safely.

ETA: I don't mean that to sound glib. I meant it was very, very sad. To this day whenever I watch Bambi, it always makes me cry when his Mom tells him to run and then you hear that gunshot.