Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

Hey Ogress, tell me again where you got the best counter tops ?????????
I gotta go...

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Sometimes I still cannot remember who you are cuz you used to be someone else...LOL
Good to see you here though !

Good to see you too! I changed my name some time back. cflaming, my old name is a login that I use for many different things, emails etc. Flaming Chicken is the name I use to identify with my chicken interests. I have a FB page named that also.

 

[Ogress]

Diane, Pitbull Diane ?

Border Collie Diane in Carnation

She gave me 8 eggs to hatch but the BCM that was sitting on them walked off with her 3 chicks while 3 other of her eggs were peeping. I put her in a broody box with the 3 peeping eggs and her chicks. I thought the eggs would hatch under her, but she rolled them away overnight, all 3 had zipped and made holes over their faces, but were dead when I found them

Momma was fiercely protective of the first 3 to hatch, but wanted nothing to do with her other eggs. She guarded those chicks for 10 weeks, they grew big and strong, but she was mean to any other hen or chick who came near!

 

[Ogress]

Hey Ogress, tell me again where you got the best counter tops ?????????
I gotta go...

Crud. I liked Oregon Tile and Marble in Seattle south of the stadiums for marble and slate, but we got our granite across the street from them; I can't recall their name - something imports. They are directly across from Oregon Tile and Marble, HUGE warehouse with lots of selection. Global Imports maybe? Name seems familiar.

 

[lovinchickypoos]

 I have a branch I picked off the native sage from EWA, 2 years ago...dried and in what the Natives call the smoke stick.(smudge stick)..and the awesome smell is still there, as long as I keep them rolled tightly in plastic.

That is so awesome! I've thought about making a smudge stick but just never got to it.

 

[PheasantsFirst]

Quote:

There is always a way to do so.

I take it personally when any of my birds is injured.
We lost 4 last year/Father's day / broad daylight through our penitentiary pens.
MINKS.
Little weasels crawl through any pen.
They can squirm through a 2x2 fence wire, or even smaller !
We mink proffed after that, adding hardware wire, buried 12" deep all around the pens and all over the gates, and no way for them to get through gates.
That said, any attack can come from the air...and the biggest responsibility I have, is to be here to open coops when the temperature is below freezing~~~~~~~~~~~ and then to lock them up tight, a minute after the sun is setting.
Two minutes after and every rat and possum and mink and raccon is OUT and they ALL LOVE chicken.
Owls are never an issue here.
If your coops are so insecure to allow night animals to free range on your poultry, well, maybe poultry is not for you.
One of my best galpals in Canada tells me this story, which I have told a few of you before...bear with me:

She sent her daughter, then 8 years old, out to the coop by the huge barn...at 5;30 AM on a deep dark wintery morning....
Off the girl child went, basket in hand to collect eggs for this mornings' breakfast.................but she returned...crying and saying there was a monster robot chicken in the coop.
So Kim got the flashlight & basket & went to see for herself, and spied a great horned owl, nearly 3 foot tall, walking out of the coop with a severe limp, as 1 foot was taloned to a laying hen, clump, clump, clump...off it walked and she backed off & let it go.
Morel of the story:

CLOSE your coops !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let no flying, crawling, creeping thing in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not days or nights !!!!!!!!!!!!



Above: NO DIG perimeter wire, no coyote can dig under the fence.


No climb wire.......................cut at an angle, strips of the 2x4 fencing you see here, wraped around the top of the fence...very sharp & no critters have ever gone over, in 3-4 years and we are in the wilderness here.



Strips of "cutting wire" all over posts...so nobody is climbing the post~
NET on top of the babies pen (to the right) also has 1/2" square plastic fencing zip tied to the regular fence...to keep babies in.

Hope this helps.
But seriously, if you are not there to protect them, and lock them up at night, they are but food for something else.


Another shot of the baby fence...no dig, no climb.


Great looking pen! Looks like most people would even have a hard time getting in.

 

[DeltaBluezTess]

Border Collie Diane in Carnation

She gave me 8 eggs to hatch but the BCM that was sitting on them walked off with her 3 chicks while 3 other of her eggs were peeping. I put her in a broody box with the 3 peeping eggs and her chicks. I thought the eggs would hatch under her, but she rolled them away overnight, all 3 had zipped and made holes over their faces, but were dead when I found them

Momma was fiercely protective of the first 3 to hatch, but wanted nothing to do with her other eggs. She guarded those chicks for 10 weeks, they grew big and strong, but she was mean to any other hen or chick who came near!

love the Pitbull Diane....but really I am Border Collie Diane.....

Glad to hear the eggs hatched...well some of them......

I got a nice blue Copper Marans rooster (named Maxwell) from Robin (Chickielady)....he is super nice. He has girlfriends already and look for chicks in the future.


I always wondered how the eggs turned out.....good to have you back

Diane

 

[urbanchange90]

Who all is in the 509 area?

 

[PheasantsFirst]

I am! Why?

 

[urbanchange90]

Just curious. I'm new to this so I'm trying to make connections, especially local since I don't even know where to find chickens yet haha