Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Hinotori]

You're going to love the silkies. They are so sweet and good at putting up with snuggling.

I have that little blue cuckoo chick out there I think will be so cute as an adult. I don't need another male silkie, but it's tempting to just keep him. As long as he behaves and gets along when he matures, there shouldn't be any issues. I could cross him with a few EEs. I'd really like a few silkies EEs. I have one half silkie hen I could put him with and cross my fingers for the 50% chance for the feathers.

 

[CarolynF]

Aww CR!! Thanks but you don't have to do that. It's ok if you take it, I don't mind...you did speak up first. No worries.

No it's fine really. I only wanted it for bee food. I think it is the cooking kind and that you want it for such. At any rate PLEASE take it.

My Plant Update

CR and Nikki99... just fyi... The lavender I'm bringing is Provence, a fench one that's not good for cooking, but looks and smells lovely. Great bee food and good for sachets, crafts, etc. Since Nikki mentioned wanting to start a garden I went out and got a start from my oregano plant, too. You two will just have to work it out.

I have a few more dahlias now, too, so besides the red one I have a "Black Spider", a few "Little Red" which is a small mauve colored one, and a "Japanese Bishop" which is an rich orange daisy-like blossom on dark foilage.

Lots of crocosmia and liatris as I mentioned before. I've already packed all of this and the other ones I've already promised earlier. And our chairs!

Please bring bags and a way to mark what you're taking home with you!
All the bulbs look alike and you'll probably want to know which one is which when you get it home.

I'm bringing smoked salmon dip, crackers, satsumas, my DH and my BFF.
I'll have a name tag that says Carolyn and maybe my "Chicken Farmer" baseball cap I bought at Stevenson last fall. Can't wait to meet you all!

 

[Chickielady]

September 17th I got 2 new birds from HoneySuckleHills. That was 8.5 weeks ago and all has been well with the birds since, with the exception of Tilda. DH and I talked; we're gonna confine them all to the coop and run for a week and clean up the yard as best we can. We have a lot of trash lumber piles, random junky items, yada yada. Just stuff that could be harboring still water (bacteria, molds??). We will get rid of all the mushrooms and give the yard a really good inspection. I need to know I've done my best. If y'all agree we should treat for Cocci I can certainly do that much easier while they're confined in the run as well. Do you recommend Sulmet or Corid? I have liquid Sulmet and powder Corid. I need instructions!

 

[Chickielady]

CR recommends pastries for my contribution, so I feel inclined to make something like oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I can make them GF and egg-free so that everyone (hopefully) can have them if they'd like. If anyone has any objections, please say so and I'll come up with something else.

I made a big batch of GF Toll House Cookies (chocolate chip) already....but they have walnuts in them.

Also got about 5 packs of lunch meat, reg & GF bread...tater & corn chips, and that is all I am bringing, for food.

Canopy & chairs already loaded...do you think we will need the generater ??????????

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Heres the latest on the HT. Just need to put doors on but I need to bring in a couple dump truck loads of top soil and it will be easier to get the tractor in there with the doors off.

That strange green glow you're seeing on your southern horizon is the ferocity of my envy for this structure.

 

[Chickielady]

OK, it was deleted the first time by the powers that be so here it is again with the objectional parts deleted in case you are sensitive. This is two of my favorite artists together. Enjoy. PS, it's a link so you don't have to open it.

LOL You are still on the "How Great Thou Art" thing ????

**** I got her going on it.....**** I guess it is all my fault, right ???????????

 

[Chickielady]

So I'm stuck in either my recliner or the bed right now. I pulled something in my lower back on Tuesday while carrying strawbales to the chicken coop. I probably would have been fine if I hadn't went and got refills in the two 5 gallon water jugs the next day. Bending just is full of pain right now.
I will still be at the show, just may be moving slow.

Bring a chair & sit with all us other cripples !!

 

[Chickielady]

Alright, I'm reconsidering my offering for tomorrow. How about some sort of homemade dip and chips?

P.S. CR is a naner cream pie freak !!!
Maybe dye it pink !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

I wonder why they deleted it. You can have stuff like that in your Sig line. They deleted mine and FireWifeJess's thumbs up too.

Is it a glitch or an on purpose deletion ?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

 
She died after I posted this morning.

Sorry  

I put Louise back in the coop and she went out to the run for some scratch, then lay down in a corner. What is wrong with her? She *can* open her eyes, they aren't swollen, but appears that she just wants to rest with them closed.

Sounds like poisoning, are they getting into something moldy or mushrooms?

Are mushrooms that grow in the grass poisonous for chickens? If so, we have a terrible problem. There are hundreds of mushrooms all over our yard that cropped up in the last couple weeks with the start of the rain. Help! Do I need to go scour the yard for them and get rid of them?

I think all mushrooms(could be wrong) are toxic to fowl. I don't have a lot but I do have some. My kids seem to not be eating them, they have 20,000sf to roam around and if you took all the mushrooms i have maybe 1-2sf of them. If you have a lot then they may just be eating them. I don't know what your ratio is. I would glove up the little kids and have them help ya pick them out of the yard. Maybe you could give your sick hen a little honey to help flush out her digestive system(I read that honey does that to birds). 

I've noticed that my cousin's free-ranging chickens very carefully avoid all the mushrooms in the orchard, including some very prime edibles (The Prince, Shaggy Mane, Giant Puffball).