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[Totalcolour]

I hate to be a jerk, but if there are graphic descriptions about how to kill a chicken, could the poster please consider giving some sort of warning before going into it? I'm exceedingly sensitive about chickens and the killing bit, and it does bad things to me when I read or hear something without warning. I'm sorry if I'm being rude.

I understand being sensitive, especially if you consider chickens as pets. However, this is after all a chicken site, and a lot of folks raise them for food, (like myself), so perhaps learning to scroll a bit better might help.

OTOH, perhaps you would get over the sensitivity a bit if you read some of those posts. Best of luck. (I will make sure to put a note on any posts of that nature)

 

[TacomaFarms]

I will Have some hatching eggs middle to end of April for english import orps. BBS. to much fluff on some of them for american SOP but they are not american birds. Am in Monroe. a young English hen out of import stock


11 month old Cockerel out of import stock, in the pen with the black girl

Wow! Those are beautiful.

I need to get pics of my girls...

 

[TacomaFarms]

I am really very excited!

One of my PBR's is redenning up! *NOT A CAN, a bird*

The coop is well underway.

Tomorrow will be my first day at the goat creamery up north!

And Sunday is Easter!!! Woohoo!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

My experience is the opposite. As decades pass, people forget what the rules are. I've never lived in a neighborhood where anyone cared enough to keep the HOA board active. My parents' neighborhood no longer has an board. Same was true for my Kent neighborhood, and the board in my Federal Way neighborhood is small and almost powerless because no one pays dues. There isn't enough money to pay lawyers. Granted, these are 40 - 50 year old neighborhoods.

I actually have three HOAs on my north and west property lines; the Mountain Aire (early 1970s, half acre lots) one is still really active at least partly because maybe a third of the residents have been there thirty-forty years, and another good handful moved in to houses they inherited, and also because it was set up with neighborhood parties and garage sales built in. Then there's the two newer places: one is only six or seven houses and a lot of the covenants have been shot down by the small board(that's where the childcare is) and the other is strapped for cash because it has over a quarter-mile of plank fence that they have to keep graffiti free.

The problem with HOAs is the problem with humans: any group venture always ends up dominated by the loudest and most persistant crazy people.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

 

Very nice! How long did it take to build? I'm thinking of doing something similar, and growing either hops or grapes on it.

Lute -

I spent the better part of two days working on it.  I'm not keen on digging post holes, so I took long breaks once I had one of the posts set

I'm going to grow grapes.  Red seedless - they are my favorite, and make good rasins.

Hey, uh... you might want to put a nice little pipe frame under the grape, because it's going to outlast the willow, even if the willow takes root, and old grape vines can smash down heavier materials than what you've got: I learned that with a Concord on fence posts and 2X4s over at the main house.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Here is Frodo's Salmon Faverolle chick around five weeks. And here is Henrietta (or Henry?) Frodo's Light Sussex chick. One of all three - there are lots more photos in my "Spring 2013" album (link in my signature.)

I realized, learning more about Bd'As, that I could shove Hamburg eggs under them all year, three or four at a time. It was a nice thought.

 

[mikeyb]

I will Have some hatching eggs middle to end of April for english import orps. BBS. to much fluff on some of them for american SOP but they are not american birds. Am in Monroe. a young English hen out of import stock


11 month old Cockerel out of import stock, in the pen with the black girl

That's a fine lookin' Roo.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Travis - After I woke up to another empty feeder this morning and quite a mess around the brooder, I decided to try the wet feed. I have no idea how much 8 one week old chicks will eat in a day, but I started with a cup of feed. THEY WENT NUTS! I swear all they did for over an hour was chow down on the wet feed. I'm glad I did it! No more hanging feeder for sure, at least until they're too big to jump on the feeder and empty it. They're all completely tuckered out and have been sleeping motionless for over an hour since the new feed mayhem ended.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Anyone who posted pics, BEAUTIFUL birds! Dawn I LOVE Frodo! What breed is she? I might need to get me one of those

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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She makes a fantastic mama, although these large fowl chicks don't fit under her anymore so we do have to supplement heat =)

Anyone who posted pics, BEAUTIFUL birds! Dawn I LOVE Frodo! What breed is she? I might need to get me one of those

Frodo is a Quail Belgium Bearded D'anver, one of the Bantams that has no larger counterpart. (I got her at Bothell Feed Store last year as part of their bantam mix.)

She gets picked on a lot by our large fowl since we no longer have our other bantam (Princess Buttercup) so I will be getting her some friends when Juno goes broody.