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[VelvettFog]

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Besides - it is such fun to say!

I live in the Wenas ! Way up in the Wenas!

 

[mikeyb]

MikeyB:

Compost Bin-Free (Rochester)

http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/zip/3707016839.html

Dang, gone already!! That was really quick.
Thank you RainMom for thinking of me, I really appreciate it.

 

[TacomaFarms]

My new incubator arrives on Thursday and I won a bid for some Silver Laced Wyandotte eggs in the 24 hr auction on here and hope to test my first hatch. These will be for sale according to my hubby. Not to keep. I am so excited.

 

[VelvettFog]

Quote: I don't have a clue

Ok .. I'll keep an eye out for a link to a tutorial.

In a nutshell -- a bird who is actively laying have an oval shaped, open and moist vent - while one who is not laying will be -- puckered

Once you see a vent of an actively laying bird, you'll always be able to tell who's layin

 

[mikeyb]

The thingy that the pull rope is tied to is called a cleat. Almost any hardware store should have them.

 

[Greg Richardson]

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VF. Few things here................

Some people don't do links due to viruses. I sometimes post links anyways.
If one doesn't want to read it all they just scroll on by.
Just like when people copy 6 pictures in a row and you already seen them once scroll on by or look at them again it's called a CHOICE one makes not DICTATED by a few others.

I didn't know you and we've you refer to were the board police?

I guess I'll look for that ticket in the mail.

In the mean time go outside and enjoy the blessings you have there instead of whining about something like that.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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. 

Unfortunately, the Yakima Training Area is in the part of the rainshadow that gets closest to no rain at all (around 5 inches a year). I always wanted to move out to the Wenas Valley: almost no rain, and lots of meltwater so it's green for a long time in summer.

Besides - it is such fun to say!

I live in the Wenas !  Way up in the Wenas!

Wow, that must be some weird kind of rain, then, coming in from the backside of a cyclonic circulation.

My Aunt and Uncle started out apple farming in the Wenas but in one of the cold, cold winters around 1950 all their trees froze and exploded, so they moved up to Tieton where the air circulation was better.

Or so they say. I wasn't born until 1952, and so was not an eye witness.

 

[mikeyb]

Quote: I don't have a clue

Ok .. I'll keep an eye out for a link to a tutorial.

In a nutshell -- a bird who is actively laying have an oval shaped, open and moist vent - while one who is not laying will be -- puckered

Once you see a vent of an actively laying bird, you'll always be able to tell who's layin
OK, I now have a mental picture of what to look for, if I find an uptight, rigid unbending hen, she's the one that's not laying?
Thanks VF, I do understand what you're saying, should be easy to determine. (after I catch the chicken, will one of you come over and film this. Should be really good viewing and laughter at the next meet up)

 

[mikeyb]

Couldn't have built this (or even known how) without this website. SO PUMPED for my coop. Since this pic I've framed in the roof, covered the floor in hardware cloth, and covered with 5/8 minus and then coarse river sand. Chicks spent their first night in the coop last night!

Very, very nice.

 

[ChickAudie]

Quote: ETA- Whoops, forgot to mention what I was going to say about your post!

SHOOT! Wish I knew that about the parasites before! I wonder if I put a good layer of clear coat, if that will keep the creepy crawlies out?

Couldn't have built this (or even known how) without this website. SO PUMPED for my coop. Since this pic I've framed in the roof, covered the floor in hardware cloth, and covered with 5/8 minus and then coarse river sand. Chicks spent their first night in the coop last night!

That is a very cool lookin' coop & run! Well done and Welcome!!