Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[LyleChickens]

I'm still trying to figure out what the hay is going on- as far as I know, Yelm banned all livestock except horses from inside the city limits back along 1980, maybe, when my uncle was on the city council. There were all sorts of bad feelings involved because some people had chickens and cattle for generations on places that hadn't been quite inside city limits, and most of the noise stayed in committee and out of the papers. LONG time ago, and I'm scraping together vague memories.

That website is as bad as the Nisqually Valley News one, which is saying a lot.

still can't figure this all out with quoting, I really appreciate all the help I'm getting. I called my mother yesterday in Fl. This is right up her alley as she was with code enforcement in Fl. She couldn't find anything on their site either. She was very frustrated with the site as well.

 

[blythspirit]

I live in the northern part of Washington state....on the west side. in a little town that allows hens only in the town itself...I can see the entering blah blah town from my house..2 houses down they are in the county not town limits..they can have roos...I sadly cannot, but I can hear theirs from my house..lol..I love it here and am a happy chicken owner with two grown ups and 2 babies...nice to see some of my neighbors on here too.

 

[blueducklings]

I LOVE crested chickens!​

Is there a tendency for crested chickens to be blind?

I read somewhere that crested ducks do.

 

[Totalcolour]

I live in the northern part of Washington state...

This is a great thread - tons of info and just chit-chat too!

 

[Totalcolour]

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I've had crested chickens and NONE were blind. I have seen crested ducks, and NONE were blind either. I guess it depends on breeding with bad genetics or some other flaw. I too have read that about ducks - even on BYC someone had a thread about not buying crested ducks because of it.

 

[Totalcolour]

Well, one of the perpetually pregnant cows has dropped a nice big white heifer calf. In the middle of a hailstorm, of course.

I hope she's doing well. Out here the weather has cleared up and it's really quite nice, although a bit chilly

Is this little heifer going to be a breeder or meat? (Hope you are doing better).

 

[DeltaBluezTess]

Folks

I had a person want an 18 pack and 12 pack of Marans eggs, an assortment of the below.

Black Copper Marans (pure)
Wheaton Marans (pure),
Blue Maran (rooster is Black copper)
Blue Easter eggs (rooster is Black Copper)

She had been begging for them, and was to pick them up today. Just got a text she 'changed' her mind and got free eggs. (sigh)...mind you she really wanted the assortment of Marans.

I have parents on site and they are nice, quality birds.

So I have a good deal for anyone.

All 30 eggs, for $50. I just filled my incubator and don't have room. I don't want them to go to waste.

 

[RainMom]

Folks

I had a person want an 18 pack and 12 pack of Marans eggs, an assortment of the below.

Black Copper Marans (pure)
Wheaton Marans (pure),
Blue Maran (rooster is Black copper)
Blue Easter eggs (rooster is Black Copper)

She had been begging for them, and was to pick them up today. Just got a text she 'changed' her mind and got free eggs. (sigh)...mind you she really wanted the assortment of Marans.

I have parents on site and they are nice, quality birds.

So I have a good deal for anyone.

All 30 eggs, for $50. I just filled my incubator and don't have room. I don't want them to go to waste.

If I had an incuboator, I'd make the drive. I've been wanting wheaten marans !

 

[nikki1]

I live in the northern part of Washington state....on the west side. in a little town that allows hens only in the town itself...I can see the entering blah blah town from my house..2 houses down they are in the county not town limits..they can have roos...I sadly cannot, but I can hear theirs from my house..lol..I love it here and am a happy chicken owner with two grown ups and 2 babies...nice to see some of my neighbors on here too.

Yeah, I know the feeling. Half our property is inside city limits, half is outside. There's a 40 acre farm down the hill with a chipper rooster and a mess of noisy geese. I like hearing them in the distance when I open the coop up in the morning.

Welcome aboard!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, one of the perpetually pregnant cows has dropped a nice big white heifer calf. In the middle of a hailstorm, of course.

I hope she's doing well. Out here the weather has cleared up and it's really quite nice, although a bit chilly

Is this little heifer going to be a breeder or meat? (Hope you are doing better).

Since it turned out to be a bull calf born with retracted testicles, he'll be meat. We sold his sister from last year, also white: it's a crossbred cow, and while I would keep a white purebred Shorthorn to keep roan in the herd (they have the same style of color genetics as BBS only it's RRW) white Shorthorn heifers have a ton of extra problems which mostly boil down to excess UV exposure on unpigmented skin. Roans tend to be larger than reds, though, it's one of those balancing acts and not merely color related.

On the less-stupid side of the coin, I went to an estate sale that a friendly neighbor pointed out to me and got a big vinyl composter for $10, which will make me happy for a week, at least. I had to stop adding to my existing composter, partly because it's too full but also because somebody not named Julia dumped moldy bread into it, and it's going to have to work for a while before it's worth opening.