Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[robj]

I just want to tell everybody that one of my friends has joined and I want everyone to treat her with alittle kindness...

destinidawn

If anyone has any problems I would like to know!
She lives over in Port Angles and will be a huge participant to this community.
Mike

Everybody is Welcome and Kindness is what we should all be about!!!

Really, Because I sell my birds directly to the feed store, don't make me call you.. it's late!

REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!

That's just completely uncalled for. I've never said my birds were the best and for the information of everyone on here, I don't even breed and show Buff Orpingtons. And I don't know what the "calm down" is all about. I'm not upset and as far as I know nobody else is either.

I'm also aware that you sell your birds to MFF. What I'm not aware of is how many you've shown or how many awards you've won from showing them. I am NOT saying there is anything wrong with hatchery or feedstore birds. I refer folks to MFF all the time. But anyone who would claim there is no clear comparative difference between a hatchery or feedstore bird with a good SQ breeder bird simply is either completely oblivious to what a breed should look like or I don't know what. It also does a grave injustice to the time, effort, expense, dedication, commitment and everything else that a true breeder goes into in order to produce the best specimen that can be bred.

What I do tell folks is that it does cost the same amount of money to feed a really good looking SQ breeder bird as it does a poor looking bird. Some people care about that and some don't. Makes no difference to me.

But I am getting really tired of your cheap shots at me for whatever reason. You got a problem with me, then at least PM, email, or call me and let me know what it is.

SO you two have a history that needs to be discussed in a PM or somewhere else! This thread was just locked down do to some of this junk! We are just gettin rollin again and don't need this. Everybody is welcome but please do this elsewhere.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

One Hamburg egg hatched, nothing else pipped; even though this is egg-zactly what happened to both other hatches (in Brinseas I borrowed from hallerlake and Sadie Sue) I'm freaking out because nothing else has even pipped. I will be freaked out for as long as this hatch takes,I know- especially because Stewie wants to watch.

 

[robj]

I picked up two dozen NPIP Orpington eggs to hatch. They are blue, black, and splash. I am hoping for good fertility so I have lots of chicks to sell.

We also finished our nesting boxes so they are ready for the Silkies. My plan is to be able to use them as incubators and brooders but for now I want eggs to hatch. I read that people often clip the vent area to help the roosters do their job so I am going to do that tomorrow if it does not rain. I wanted to paint the rest of the exterior of the coop today but it was not dry enough. It is really looking like a coop instead of a playhouse and the chickens seem happy with their home.

OOOO you'll like the Orps. we have a few flavors of those and we love them. Our DD was caring around our Lemon flavored littles while we we in the garden yesterday.

welcome! I'm in the Sheton area too out Cole road by Fawn Lake.

I forget your close to bad there isn't a way to come up with a list of where everybody is.

Hey Rob... seems like Chicken Math is consuming more and more of your time! Pretty soon you won't even have time to sleep let alone hang out with us!

But I'm glad you ARE here.

Thank You Carolyn! I love it here I do the other from my phone because it's easy and always with me the BYC mobile is hard to do anything on and it messes me up when I get home Although chicken math does keep me busy it's kids stuff right know that has us runnin I try to sit down during the week to get on BYC but it will be very sporadic for a bit!

Well, something in that incubator is talking to me.

AWESOME!!! Fill me in!

 

[robj]

One Hamburg egg hatched, nothing else pipped; even though this is egg-zactly what happened to both other hatches (in Brinseas I borrowed from hallerlake and Sadie Sue) I'm freaking out because nothing else has even pipped. I will be freaked out for as long as this hatch takes,I know- especially because Stewie wants to watch.

hang in there!! and CONGRADULATIONS

 

[Stumpfarmer]

One Hamburg egg hatched, nothing else pipped; even though this is egg-zactly what happened to both other hatches (in Brinseas I borrowed from hallerlake and Sadie Sue) I'm freaking out because nothing else has even pipped. I will be freaked out for as long as this hatch takes,I know- especially because Stewie wants to watch.

hang in there!! and CONGRADULATIONS

It's a Hamburg... with a straight comb

 

[robj]

It's a Hamburg... with a straight comb

Nice! Now for the rest

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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Yup, raisins are awesome treats. I keep mine in a Tupperware container. All I have to do is shake it once and they ALL come running from all directions. I can hand feed most of them too. I only handle my birds for inspections(except for the Silkies)

 

[Stumpfarmer]

OKAY: there's another egg pipped, the biggest of the d'Anvers eggs, on the opposite corner of the incubator from the Hamburg, so GO!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Two chicks, one of each (d'Anvers and SSH). And I keep looking through that dim window without wearing my reading glasses, so I couldn't tell if anything had pipped or indeed if they were actually eggs at all! Must check weather radar and decide what to do about the sheep today, put that spoiled brat Deary in her outside pen (note to self: it's not too soon to price falconer's gauntlets!) and make the first run assessing food, water, and egg status.

Well, I really didn't want to go to Pentacost services, I guess. Even though I happily laid out church clothes last night. Oh, well, who needs social contact outside of the internet, anyway?


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[Chickielady]

Nope I check his profile and he closed up shop when the thread was closed. Let him know that the atmosphere here is all clear and we are building steam again!!!
If anybody has his contact info on a personal level PM me and I'll give you my email to give him I'd really appreciate it.

I have talked with VF...and if anyone here wants his e-mail addy, please e-mail me, my e-mail addy is in my sig line.
I will then forward the message to him.
He is done with BYC.