Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[RonB]

anyone live in or near Monroe????

Now near is near ??? I'm in Woodinville. I'm going to monroe to pick up chicks this Friday around 2:00pm. where is Newman lake ?

 

[Chickielady]

Butchered the one pullet, and dressed, she was 4.85 #........this at 5 weeks old.
Much bigger than last year & has to be due to the heat lamp illuminating the pen at night.

So............looking over the cockerels, and they are half again bigger than the pullet I just butchered.
Soon as this nasty storm is over, we have got to do them all.

No way can they go another 5 weeks !

Did this pullet as she was developing a bumble.....and now she is well on her way to Cacciatore land.........and will be wonderful with Polenta~~~~~~~~~

 

[Chickielady]

Why is it not in my email inbox?

I will look & see if I still have the tutorial.
I sent it to pettec63, she may still have it on her puter...e-mail her & see ?

You did get a tote from me didn't you ?
I tol ya to grab one !

 

[Totalcolour]

Sew, I bought a soing machine ....errr.. So, I bought a sewing machine. I want to make totes out of my feedbags.

Now I need to learn how to sew stuff, that are not my fingers.

Sewing can be very rewarding.


But then we decided to do this. . .

Photo isn't very good; I had to use my phone cam because I don't know where himself put the camera cable. Anyway, I think it turned out well.

 

[mikeyb]

Quote: You do good work. It turned out GREAT!!!

 

[pips&peeps]

Now near is near ??? I'm in Woodinville. I'm going to monroe to pick up chicks this Friday around 2:00pm. where is Newman lake ?

I'm trying to get the goose to Easton or to someone going to the show next week. Newman Lake is on the other side of the State.

 

[CarolynF]

Sew, I bought a soing machine ....errr.. So, I bought a sewing machine. I want to make totes out of my feedbags.

Now I need to learn how to sew stuff, that are not my fingers.

Now you're in MY wheelhouse! You found a good tutorial, which pics. Good job.
Please post a pic of your sewing machine to address CL's concern. I think she means you need a "free arm" on your machine.
I would highly recommend you use a #90 needle, sometimes also labeled as a "jeans" needle. It's more heavy duty and less likely to break. Also use a heavy thread, not as heavy as upholstery, but heavier than the usual thread.

In step 1, when the instructions say "sew or serge the bottom...", sew a straight seam then go back and zig zag the cut edge, use a wide zig zag. Then is won't fray or pull apart easily.

The part of your tutorial that says you need to stitch the triangle inside the bag, step #4, is optional. For the first bag you could just sew the seams twice for strength. Those bags are made of really tough stuff so the extra thickness provided by the "flaps" isn't really necessary most of the time.

Have fun and post some pics!

 

[CarolynF]

Speaking of birthday gifts.
There once was a young man (12 yo) that had a wonderful Mom, in fact she was the best Mom in the whole world.
His baseball glove was totally trashed and he needed to replace it. What to do? Mom and Dad didn't have a lot of extra money so he needed to save every penny he could earn which he did because of the values imparted to him by his Mom and Dad.
Finally, after doing odd jobs that he scrounged up in the neighborhood he had enough money for his glove! Life was good and he had his heart set upon a "Wilson" mitt.

He lived way out in the country and had to plan for a trip into the city to obtain said desired glove.
His great Dad offered to drive him, usually a thing like this did not happen. (Dad believed in self reliance in all things) The young man was duly excited about his aquiring the glove of his dreams.

But.........on the trip into the city, Dad reminded his son of Mom's birthday that would be in just a few days. Ut oh, another problem. Enough money for a gift, no glove, or money for a glove and no gift. He thought and thought, what a Gordian Knot he had. What to do? what to do? Hmmm he thought.

Dad parked at the curb and said he would wait, confident that his young son would never, ever not get his Mom a birthday gift. He was proud.

Son returned to the car with a gift wrapped box and a nice B-day card. Dad was proud, oh so proud.

The big day arrived, the candles blown out and the cake was cut and served. Dad gave Mom her present, the brothers gave their presents and Mom was very happy.
The young man retrieved the present from his room and presented said gift with much flair and drama. The moment had arrived! OH yes, the suspense was almost too much for Dad and then he noticed a glint in his son's eye. Hmm, he thought, I wonder what the little guy has up his sleeve now.
Mom opened the gayly wrapped package with much enthusiasm and there it was. A beautiful, soft, pliable, baseball mitt. The perfect gift.
Mom, the all knowing, loving person that she was smiled and with twinkling blue eyes handed her small son the glove and said "Will you please break this in for me/"
Whatta Mom.

Aaaawwwww....so sweet!

 

[CarolynF]

Still wondering what's up with my hen. It was just over 3 weeks ago that she did the same thing. Once I can write off as a quirk, twice is really bothering me! This morning when I cleaned the coop I found the remains of the shell-less egg I obviously didn't see yesterday.

So it starts with that, the shell-less or nearly no shell egg, sluggishness, puffed out feathers, little or no interest in treats.

So I bring her inside and eventually she perks up again.
This time I bathed her to clean her under-carriage but I can see now I left about 10% of the white stuff.
I didn't see lice and had DH look too. The white that's still on her feathers looks much more like dried urates or albumen than lice eggs. It's not clumped at the base of the feathers and not at all grainy. Much more like "spackle".

She seems fine now, but this is becoming a pattern.

Last time I dusted her with Sevin, this time I applied Eprinex.
Her comb seems very warm.
Comb is read and straight, not limp
Eyes and nose appear fine
Can't find any injuries.
Poop looked normal yesterday when she finally got around to it (waited over 2 hours when she was in the house)
She finally ate yogurt with chick starter mixed in after she was in the house for 2 hours.

Still trying to find out how warm her comb should be.
Wondering if shell-less eggs are related to lice, mites, etc. She gets shell as well as layer feed. Her egg shells are usually fine.

Any other ideas???

 

[flirty31]

One of my hobbies is saving money, so I like to share coupons with this group when I come across them. So with that, here's the latest Wilco "Chickville" coupon. For me, it's a GREAT one!