Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Amberjem]

thanks so much again for the comfrey and mint...glad to see you found some others who wanted the starts as well..

 

[Hinotori]

Wings on the younger girl. Both need to fill out. By fall I'll see how the older of the two look and may take her to that show.

Hopefully next WFF spring show I'll have ameraucana to take. The eggs are due in two weeks. I'm still collecting and dating eggs in case I need to restart.

 

[elizmartin]

I want blue faverollies

HI There, Bantam ??? Most of the Faverolles that were there were brought by Karen Carpenter. She lives in Burlington-(BYC, Sillie70). She has Bantam Salmon, Blue Salmon, Blue, Black, Splash. She also brought the splash Ameraucanas, several colors of De Anvers and some others and raises lots of bantam breeds especially colored silkies.

I don't know Janelle and wish I would have paid more attention to her birds, but you're right about her competitor who has ben breeding for a while. I loved his blue laced Barnie roo! I had never seen that variety before. So many beautiful birds yesterday!

I had thought that Janelle had brought some Blue Barnies too????? Maybe was a hen?

The longtime breeder i was referring to is Erhard Weihs,( Kummer Poultry Farm-website and BYC), Enumclaw,He also raises bantam varieties of Barnie, Welsummer, and others…. as well as some of the few LF Mahogany Orloffs in the country. He was selling Barnie and leghorn eggs at the show…

.Royce Van Blaricome, Granite Falls, was showing both Barnie colors as well as Buckeye and Wheaton, Blue Wheaton Ameraucanas and ??? often on the BYC Barnie, and advertises in the Snohomish Co. Craig's list often.

Anyone remember what variety the big white rooster/cockerel was that was best or reserve variety????? LF Mediterranean? Before i left it had already been placed in the show row cage….he was pretty impressive….so was the New Hampshire.

 

[cooliechick]

Oh, it sounds like the show was wonderful. Everyone seems to have had a great time. We live on the west side of Puget Sound and it was just too far to get away for a short time. My time here is being filled doing odd jobs before the DH (dear hubby) comes home. I was in Seattle on Friday... still at the hospital, but, my dog sitter was getting very antsy for me to be home. Seems all the good deeds I had done for her must not have add up to enough for her to give me just one more morning of being away. Won't count on her again!

I sure would have loved to have taken a few of my Partridge Penedesencas, even though they are not approved yet. My understanding is that they have to be shown several times before the breed will be considered for approval.

Hope everyone is without that pouring rain that hit us yesterday. My yard was a wet mess, as were a couple of the chicken pens.

 

[Hinotori]

The buckets of rain didnt bother me. That nasty wind storm tried to rip the roof off the ameraucana pen. They aren't happy with my solution which was to attach a chunk of tarp to the front of the roof and slope it down. The tarp freaked them enough they slept inside their house instead of on the outside roosts they prefer. Usually they only do that in cold weather.

 

[jbkirk]

Rain WITH Wind is teribble
Wind Without Rain is bad
Rain without Wind is good
Clouds without wind or rain is better
And sunny days without Clouds, wind or rain are the best

 

[ochochicas]

Rain + wind = no power at my house...always when I have eggs in the incubator. At least it was on again fairly quickly this time (only 3 hours).

 

[catface]

Rain + wind = no power at my house...always when I have eggs in the incubator. At least it was on again fairly quickly this time (only 3 hours).

I seem to always lose power when I have eggs in the incubator too!
I've actually moved the incubators out to my suv and slept in there with the car running all night so I could keep them plugged into the power converter during bad storms. The things I do to save the eggs...

 

[Hinotori]

I have a generator that I'll go hook up and run cords in the house for the few things that need plugged in. We lose power enough and are near the end of the list for getting it fixed. I highly recommend everyone have a small generator. It saves the fridge and freezer, too.

We got lucky and didn't lose power with that wind storm or I'd have had that running. I have some blue wheaten ameraucana eggs about halfway done.

 

[JulesChicks]

I had thought that Janelle had brought some Blue Barnies too????? Maybe was a hen?

The longtime breeder i was referring to is Erhard Weihs,( Kummer Poultry Farm-website and BYC), Enumclaw,He also raises bantam varieties of Barnie, Welsummer, and others…. as well as some of the few LF Mahogany Orloffs in the country. He was selling Barnie and leghorn eggs at the show…

.Royce Van Blaricome, Granite Falls, was showing both Barnie colors as well as Buckeye and Wheaton, Blue Wheaton Ameraucanas and ??? often on the BYC Barnie, and advertises in the Snohomish Co. Craig's list often.

Anyone remember what variety the big white rooster/cockerel was that was best or reserve variety????? LF Mediterranean? Before i left it had already been placed in the show row cage….he was pretty impressive….so was the New Hampshire.

Yes, the other Blue Barnie was a hen, don't know if that was Royce's (I think not because I think he said the only blue he has is the cock). I don't know of Mr. Weihs, I'll have to look him up. I just preordered some of Royce's Ameraucanas and Wellies, I may get some of his Barnies too. I think he raises one or two other breeds but I don't think he showed them.

I didn't see the big white rooster you mentioned, but I did like the Partridge Chantecler rooster than won Champion of the American class....