Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[VelvettFog]

Links to articles are much preferred over the actual article itself.

Then again - we've mentioned that before - and it still goes unnoticed.

Do you ignore our simple request purely out of spite?

 

[hennotrooster]

Grrrr ....

It looks like it will rain today. RAIN?!?!

I live in the freaking desert on PURPOSE -- we don't need no stinkin RAIN !

I hate rain!


Yesterday I got the arbor finished. Today, I'll continue to work on fencing off the garden from the pack of wild, on-the-edge-of-starvation, rabbits. They ate everything - twice - last year, until I got smart enough to put up a fence. It was only temporary. This year I'll put a permanent fence in (at least for the east side of the garden. It will look nice from the house.

Out of 34 eggs that made it to lock down, only 14 hatched (3 others got shrink-wrapped). Something went wrong with that hatch. When I opened the lid on day 22 - there was a really bad odor. I cannot find an egg the blew up - but I think one of them certainly had a small crack and really stunk up the place. I'll be sure to give that hatcher a good spritzing with the bleach bottle before I use it again.

I did get a good ratio of M to F -- 5 males and 9 females. Which is both good and bad. Good because pullets are easier to sell and I can charge more. Bad because I really am after a rooster from this breeding for the next step in my Hambar project.

Did I mention that I dislike rain?

Dislike is not a strong enough word.

Wish we had rain. Supposed to get some Easter and Monday but l seriously doubt it. Being in the High Desert we don't get much but what is funny my mother lives 7 miles up the road from me and she will call and say she is having hail and major rain and we have beautiful blue sky above us and are encircled with black clouds, go figure. Really would like some rain.

 

[VelvettFog]

Quote:
Rain is evil.

Graupel on the other hand is fun.

 

[BGMatt]

No wishing for rain! I got a coop to finish! LOL once that gets done it can rain all it wants.

 

[ChaeBird]

We've been waiting for our SLW, Ada, to start laying. She's the only hold-out. Then this morning Mr. Bear found a hidden clutch of four eggs behind the garage! Silly hen. Why can't she use the nesting boxes like everyone else?

 

[VelvettFog]

OK ok .. I'm off to dig post holes.

I'll be back in two blisters, or two hours, which ever comes first.

 

[TacomaFarms]

She is an awesome young lady. She has been absent here for a bit but may now have more time to come visit. If ya were at Monroe she was the one with the walkin stick and the qwacker on the leash.

She had a duck on a leash!?! That is AWESOME!

Grrrr ....

It looks like it will rain today. RAIN?!?!

I live in the freaking desert on PURPOSE -- we don't need no stinkin RAIN !

I hate rain!


Yesterday I got the arbor finished. Today, I'll continue to work on fencing off the garden from the pack of wild, on-the-edge-of-starvation, rabbits. They ate everything - twice - last year, until I got smart enough to put up a fence. It was only temporary. This year I'll put a permanent fence in (at least for the east side of the garden. It will look nice from the house.

Out of 34 eggs that made it to lock down, only 14 hatched (3 others got shrink-wrapped). Something went wrong with that hatch. When I opened the lid on day 22 - there was a really bad odor. I cannot find an egg the blew up - but I think one of them certainly had a small crack and really stunk up the place. I'll be sure to give that hatcher a good spritzing with the bleach bottle before I use it again.

I did get a good ratio of M to F -- 5 males and 9 females. Which is both good and bad. Good because pullets are easier to sell and I can charge more. Bad because I really am after a rooster from this breeding for the next step in my Hambar project.

Did I mention that I dislike rain?

Dislike is not a strong enough word.

And when there's a drought....

Grab a bag of lettuce seeds, cheapest ones you can find, and plant them away from your garden.

 

[TacomaFarms]

We've been waiting for our SLW, Ada, to start laying. She's the only hold-out. Then this morning Mr. Bear found a hidden clutch of four eggs behind the garage! Silly hen. Why can't she use the nesting boxes like everyone else?

 

[TacomaFarms]

I watched this last night, I'm sure someone has posted this or seen this before, but man oh man! I am impressed. TONS of ideas. Glad I saw this before the coop was finished!

 

[Slinglings]

Quote: Here's a pic of her duck:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...91330080184.2132223.1156955214&type=3&theater

It was so cute