Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[JennS]

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Good point!

Jennifer

 

[Brookiesbrooder]

OK everybody ...this is one of those RARE opportunities. Premier Poultry Fancier/Breeder Sheryl Butler from Bothell Wa. Is down sizing a large number of her flock of SQ bantam cochins in many colors,SQ Frizzled cochins, SQ white &buff silkies,SQ white and buff showgirls and Mille Fluer U'ddle You can pick up,she will ship and she also can deliever to the show in 2 week. For those of you who do not already know who Sheryl Butler is feel free to google her to view her record wins. You may contacted her directly at 425-485-6040.email ([email protected])

 

[Hinotori]

If you haven't read Jackie Clay before here is a link..........
http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/JackieClay/
Wish she was our neighbor!

I read her regularly and have a couple of her books. She has very good canning info.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Quote: LOL I just saw your quote in the list, "She has very good canning info," and wondered if you were talking about Jackie Clay, so I had to stop into the thread to see!

Another fan here!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Lookie what I just caught. Actually I almost stepped on it as I was walking into my little work shed. It is in a vented gallon jar and yes that is my hand under. BTW the frog was not harmed and hasbeen turned loose a little farther away so maybe it will be OK.

 

[Farmin Momma]

Hi everybody.

I am returning here after a few weeks off with some very sad news. Something really, really awful and terrible happened. That's why I haven't been posting. It's an extremely long, complicated, and disturbing story, so I'll skip it. However, one of the consequences of the situation is that my boyfriend has to move out of his house. Since there is no one left there who is interested in caring for our flock, we must find a new home for our five girls before the end of this month. I'm devastated as many of you know how much I love having the chickens even if my man and I I don't live together so I don't get to see them every day. After what happened to me over the past few weeks, this loss is a huge final blow. It is highly unlikely that we will find another living situation anytime soon where we could actually keep chickens again.

A friend of mine has a sister-in-law in Lakewood who is a vet tech and already has five hens but says she has room in her coop for five more. I have no doubt she'd take excellent care of our birds, but I have two concerns. 1) She only has 1/5 of an acre, which seems like a tight squeeze for 10 hens, maybe? 2) The integration of the two flocks will no doubt be quite traumatic for all of them, especially mine coming in as the newbies.

Does anyone here know somebody with a large fenced yard who might be interested in keeping five young laying hens? We'd be happy to assist with building a coop or whatever else may be needed. I still have all the scrap materials we were going to use for the big new coop, so that is definitely available to anyone who wants to provide a safe, happy, and healthy life for our precious birds. I would prefer someone who doesn't already have chickens or who can keep the flocks separate. My two Leghorns in particular have fought so hard from a young age to be (mostly) accepted into the flock. I don't want to put them through that again. Maybe I'm being crazy about this, but isn't that what crazy chicken ladies do? I would also prefer someone who can let them free-range most of the time during daylight hours. Our girls are spoiled and are used to free-ranging all day every day. The two Leghorns in particular really appreciate having a lot of room to roam around and forage.

I can also split the flock up into two separate groups if necessary. If I were to do that, I would put the Wyandotte and the blue mutt together, and put the Welsummer (who is still recovering from the raccoon attack back in late September, though I don't think she's going to require anything more than time to continue healing) with the two Leghorns together.

Please let me know in PM if you or someone you know might be interested in checking out our flock. They are a very good bunch of girls. I'd write more about them but I think that would just send me into a crying fit.

I want to thank everyone in this thread who has helped me with all the great advice so far, and especially to thank Hallerlake, Imp, and Jess who made actual "real life" offers. I am sad to be coming here and asking for one more last bit of help. If I can't find someone here to take them, I'm sure they'll be just fine down in Lakewood.

Cheers,

~Cory

Oh I am so sorry you are going through such a hard time. I am sad for you that it also results in loseing you girls. I hope things begin to get better for you soon.

Quote: So can I make it in a milk carton (1 gallon) and use it over the next few days to fill thier waterer over the next few days. Or dose it go bad and need to be freshly made every day? Also Does this need to costantly be in their water or do I do medicated water and then when it is gone for the day put in normal water? The directions on this are not very good.
Make fresh daily. I measured out meds on my gram scale and just change water at same time every day.
Ok well then I need to know how much to make for a little Quart chick waterer? Does any one know how much I should put in one of these?
OK so I don't see if you have powder or liquid ?? Also I see somebody here that could REALLY answer this. But I will try. I use liquid and add 5 cc per pint. That is what I was told. Sorry Ihave no clue of dose for powder.
Oh crud what a feather head I am. I have the powder kind, it was the only kind I could find. We figured because a quart is 1/4 of a gallon that I would use 1/4th of the 1/4 tsp that would normaly go in a gallon. Does that make sense? LOL.
It is frustrating to me that my chicks that are in the house are the ones that got sick and non of my girls out side are sick. But it is time to worm my girls for the first time. This will be my first time worming chickens, so what kind would ya'll sugest?

Lookie what I just caught. Actually I almost stepped on it as I was walking into my little work shed. It is in a vented gallon jar and yes that is my hand under. BTW the frog was not harmed and hasbeen turned loose a little farther away so maybe it will be OK.

Our 10yr old DD finds these frogs ALL the time. Last time I told her that if she kept it more than two days that I would cook it and make her eat it because if she was going to keep it more than 2 days it would die anyway and I do not want her killing the poor things for nothing. You should have seen the look on her face! It was great.

 

[Greg Richardson]

If you live over there and got some time on your hands probably be able to score some pieces big enough........................


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Date: 2012-11-04, 8:26PM PST
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Cleaning up yard Found Many old fishing nets, some with wooden cork some plastic. Have 1 or all come and get em!!!!!! Darren 253.297.2000

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Farmin Momma, the Corid 20% powder dosage is 1/2 tsp per gallon of water:
see dawg53's post:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/716892/is-this-the-correct-corid-packet-for-treatment-of-cocci

 

[Greg Richardson]

Free parks days

If you're not sure what to do Veterans Day weekend, Nov. 10 to 12, consider this incentive: The National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Washington State Parks will not charge entrance fees.

That's right, visitors to places such as Olympic and Mount Rainier national parks will save the $15 entrance fee.

It also means you can get in free to locales such as Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge and Millersylvania State Park.

While visitors will not need a Discover Pass to enter a state park, the pass still will be required at state Department of Natural Resources and state Department of Fish and Wildlife sites.

A Discover Pass is $10 a day or $30 a year. For more information, go to discoverpass.wa.gov.

Jeffrey P. Mayor: [email protected]; blog.thenewstribune.com/adventure.

 

[HarveysHens]

I need some help from my fellow Washingtonians! I have 6 pullets born at the end of April. Barred rock, black australorp, buff brahama, blue andelusian, golden sexlink and a silver laced wyndotte. I have NO eggs! I just switched to layer pellets yesterday, they have a big house, 3 boxes, food and water. We dont have a timer light in yet. There is a golf ball in one of the boxes. I dont know what else to do! These are my first chickens ever and we have had them since they were little. The wait has been so long and now I am worried I am missing something??? Anyone have any advice?? Thanks in advance?