Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Imp]

Quote: Yup, Dellana's the best.
I have some of her birds from last year.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

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.

I sent you an email too.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote:
It wasn't conflict between members. I don't think anyone is not speaking to each other.

Very true.
There has been some splintering already.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: It was handy having Mom close to me at Holy Rood. I stopped by and brought her flowers whenever I had something blooming in the garden. When Dad died, they insisted on moving her to the military cemetary out in the middle of nowhere with him (Mom wanted to be in a Catholic cemetary, but what Dad wanted was all that ever counted). I suppose I should be grateful the military cemetary is in Washington state. It used to be the nearest was in Oregon. That selfish a$$hole would have insisted on going there even if it was inconvenient for the living.

I've told my sons to do whatever they find most comforting when I die. I won't care. I'll be DEAD! I have said I don't like closed caskets because I suspect they'll find it as hard to say good by to a box as I do.

 

[Slinglings]

Quote:
It wasn't conflict between members. I don't think anyone is not speaking to each other.

Very true.
There has been some splintering already.
I wouldn't call it splintering, exactly, it's just that some of us are friends, and others are just people we know because of our chickens but don't necessarily have a lot in common with otherwise It's normal for friends to have separate conversations.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: Better they should eat him than fight him.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: Yeah, he was the only one, and for a moment that fact was so exciting that I overlooked how not great he was.

The not duel purpose thing is a problem; I'll probably need to learn to caponize if I keep hatching them, although the hand problems that make me hesitate to handle eggs complicates that, too.
Is this something Andrew or the hired hand could be taught to do?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Nice Iris- mine aren't in bloom yet, but they'll likely be over before memorial day, I don't know what we'll take to the cemetaries.

It was handy having Mom close to me at Holy Rood. I stopped by and brought her flowers whenever I had something blooming in the garden. When Dad died, they insisted on moving her to the military cemetary out in the middle of nowhere with him (Mom wanted to be in a Catholic cemetary, but what Dad wanted was all that ever counted). I suppose I should be grateful the military cemetary is in Washington state. It used to be the nearest was in Oregon. That selfish a$$hole would have insisted on going there even if it was inconvenient for the living. I've told my sons to do whatever they find most comforting when I die. I won't care. I'll be DEAD! I have said I don't like closed caskets because I suspect they'll find it as hard to say good by to a box as I do.

We go to remember for our own sakes, and to pass stories on to our children that we first learned from our grandmother (who died when I was nine) or about people who made life interesting for us but died before our kids were born. And to get off the farm for a while.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I have Silver Spangled Large Fowl; I'm going to need another rooster soon, and so far the one which was at Vancouver was not according to breed type on posture, comb, body markings, or hackle/saddle feathering; had a nice clear white tail with strong spots, unlike my boy's smudged one, but my current cock is much better on other matters.


I know that there's a reputation for "flightiness" that comes with this breed, but mine don't seem to fill that, and I can't understand why such a striking and productive bird has fallen out of favor in the Large Fowl size.


(I'm posting this to go ruffle through my photos for a pic of Elvis: I do not trust this platform not to dump a post, otherwise).

He was the only one there right? I remember him. I too have always been wondering why the hamburg has fallen out of favor. I used to have Golden Pencilled Hamburg and was forced out of them due to life circumstances but they were very productive and all the patterned varieties are eye catching. Maybe it's just that white eggs have fallen out of favor and Hamburgs aren't big enough to be dual purpose fowl? Anyway, triple luck hatching goes well. Love seeing Hamburgs being raised and shown.

Yeah, he was the only one, and for a moment that fact was so exciting that I overlooked how not great he was.


The not duel purpose thing is a problem; I'll probably need to learn to caponize if I keep hatching them, although the hand problems that make me hesitate to handle eggs complicates that, too.

Is this something Andrew or the hired hand could be taught to do?

Remember that Andrew stuck his right hand in a grain grinder on his fifth birthday and lost the top two joints of his right index finger and the top of his thumb. Also, he's busy castrating pigs one weekend a month...

(eta also I asked, he said no).

 

[CarolynF]

Quote: Yep, they have to find out first they are good and sometimes they don't take your word for it. My own first experience with the raisins was they investigated, turned their beaks up at my offering and never touched them. Then I got the BlueRoo and he found a snack box that I left (by error) in his recovery area (injured legs.hips) and he got it opened and devoured the rasins. The next time I offered (he was now in charge of the flock) the rasins he came over and immediately called the girls over and they had a party!
Funny critters, these chickens.

Oh I definitely have to try that! My young ones haven't figured out how to eat (swallow) BOSS yet, it's pretty funny. I'm guessing when they try a raisin it's going to get stuck on somebody's beak! When I was a kid, my Dad's favorite time of the day was when he got home from work and went out to feed the chinchillas one raisin each (we had over 70). And if somebody was especially cute they'd get two.

I never thought about it for chickens.... till now.

I have a chick pic or two of my own! I came into these two unexpectedly on Thursday/Friday. One's a RIR and the other is an Iowa Blue. Their names are Strawberry and Blueberry.


They were having fun exploring mom's bed yesterday in between cuddles.

Awww, those are SO cute!