Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[bikerchicky]

Have to show you my new tea pot I got last week. Little shop near here has weekly specials and I got this one for $2.00 I could not resist.


not such great pics my wrist is acting up with this hot and cold running weather.

OMGosh what an awesome tea pot.

 

[VelvettFog]

Quote:
I don't.

Comb is normal color? It is not floppy-er than normal? Odd spots, sores, wounds on the comb?

Birds abdomen is soft? hard? swollen?

Eyes - clear? discharge?

Nostrils - clear? discharge? wheeze? rails? breath odor?

Feet - scaley mites? bumble foot?

Poops - normal?

Crop - normal?

I'm sure there are other things to look at that are currently slipping my mind.

something just dawned on me --

Chickens use the comb to regulate their temperture, if they had a fever, it would make sense to me that the comb would feel warm. Could that (very warm comb) mean she has some type of infection? (now I am completely guessing)

 

[RustyHen]

My dad use to eat 10lbs of Bings every spring and he swears by them. Keeps his joints greased at least till winter.
It is suppose to help with RA, but Gout too ey?
Could it be the antioxidents? I eat Goji berries now.

Yes Dark Cherries for Gout. I going to pit and freeze some this spring maybe try dehydrating too.

 

[bikerchicky]

So here is the coop/brooder with an update



Also, I think at least one of ds RIR chicks which are supposed to be pullets is a boy... He is clearly younger, from feathers and size, but has a much bigger comb and as soon as they were loose in the coop he/she immediately picked a fight with dash, complete with trying to pull dash's feathers..... What do you guys think, the offender is the one on the right

Not having seen a cockerel (sp?) at this age, I would have to agree the comb is markedly bigger and with an aggressive attitude I would say it's likely a boy.

 

[RustyHen]

My sweet little daughter is anything but little any more.... in fact she's older than a good number of the mommies on this thread. But I'm still super proud of her and want to share. She performed at Seattle's Moisture Festival on Sunday at Hale's Palladium in Fremont. Their act is Duo Rendez-vous and they do "Risley - Icarian" acrobatics (foot juggling). Her partner, Graeme, juggles cylinders and drums and her. Which in and of itself is pretty amazing because she's 5'10" tall! Not like the teeny tiny petite little things that usually do acrobatics.

I got to see them perform Sunday afternoon and the audience loved them. I understand that at the evening performance they got a standing ovation. It just makes me smile all over to see her so excited with her life now. She's worked a long time to find what really fulfills her.

These pictures are from the event's photographer, John Cornicello. He's an amazing photographer!



She also teaches adult yoga, paddle board yoga, baby yoga, and pure barre!

How great that she found this! You can see her enjoyment and trust in her partner. Congratulations MOM

 

[bikerchicky]

You are all being hard to get along with .......YA KNOW ?????????????????

Some of us old women just have our ways, and they work, and are not measured.......sheeeeeeeeeeeesh !!!

LOL. I know what you mean. There are some things I measure with great precision. There are others that I "wing it" and just go with what looks right.

I'm a quilter now and with my tendancy towards OCD (or CDO for those really precise) I can't imagine doing quilts by hand with hand cut fabric and always wonder if it will come out the right size.

 

[Totalcolour]

There are some things I measure with great precision. There are others that I "wing it" and just go with what looks right.

I'm a quilter now and with my tendancy towards OCD (or CDO for those really precise) I can't imagine doing quilts by hand with hand cut fabric and always wonder if it will come out the right size.

What do you do them with then? I only ever made one quilt, all by hand. I found it a lot of work and even though it came out fine, it took a long time so I decided not to do it again.

If not by hand, by what . . . ?

 

[Totalcolour]

That is fabulous Carolyn! I wish I was young enough to do it again. You must be very proud of her.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I suspect I'd have the same problem with partridge pattern, too- tweed clothing also confuses the camera.


I got my d'Anvers from a young woman in Centralia who is on BYC and Facebook and is the western VP of the Bantam Society; she's got pretty, pretty Barbu d'Anvers, and has Watermaals and a couple of true bantams, I think. I'm not so interested in breeding d'Anvers because the roosters have a bad reputation, and am still looking for Porcelain OEGBs to breed at least partly because I've hung out with a few hundred of the roosters over the years and they seem pretty human-positive.

All my cockerels and cock birds were friendly, so it might be a line by line thing.  Mine came from Labluv Bantams in Georgia, I know he's still breeding them.  I sold them to some lady from up north, don't remember a name or anything, they were the quail variety.  No clue on Porcelain OEGB's, I recently saw some of the best Self-Blue/Lavender OEGB's I've ever seen though I like those softer colors, but something with that gene can really hurt feather quality.

The color reduction gene is tricky wherever it occurs- lavender point Siamese are notoriously prone to FLeu and FHIV, f'rinstance. It's easy to argue from epidemiology that any variation from wild type carries a risk of diminished hardiness. Freely breeding cat colonies revert to brown tabby, freely breeding chickens to BBR- although both of those are probably due to predation.

(Having tea late again, and still have to go retreive the sheep, do the last lap for eggs, make sure all the tools are under cover, et'c et'c and so on).

 

[bikerchicky]

I'm new...from fairfield, wa. We brought home our first chicks ever yesterday. So excited to finally have chickens of our own!

Congrats on joining a great group of people who are UBER supportive and informative.