Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Hinotori]

Well I found someway that I can eat cooked cauliflower. It works well in stir fry. That covers the flavor of it enough.

I like raw cauliflower, but the cooked flavor is just blech to me.

 

[Hinotori]

That will work out great and color other than white will be preferred

I normally only have partridge. Anything else is is just a random egg tossed in


This is partridge

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: cool well there will only be like 8 to 10 birds total in the new coop

 

[Babybockbock]

just putting a little shout out for two businesses I've had very good luck with.  the Monroe co-op and jenks hatchery in OR.  I'm in shoreline and I've bought chicks a variety of ways, incubated shipped eggs and had meat chicks mailed to me.  the monroe coop is worth the drive!  they get 1,000 chicks a week with 30 varieties and the health has been great with the one's we got this year.  as for Jenks, they carry a specific line of Cornish Cross called the COBB 500 that are healthy, perky and are much more chicken like than other lines.  they grow fast, like all CX but they jump around, flap their wings and do the running flying things I'm used to seeing in healthy chicks.  I've had 100% livability with my Jenks order two years in a row.  Jenks is a straight shot up 1-5 so they arrive in less than 24 hours, their customer service is awesome, the owner spoke with me on the phone for quite a while helping me get my husbandry down, all for the sale of 25 chicks.  these guys care about even the little guy!

I drove all the way to Monroe co op for my Brabanter chicks! Nice place

We lost two within a week and one chick is deformed. No fault of the co op all the chicns there seemed healthy.

 

[Hinotori]

Sun came out a little bit today

 

[Hinotori]

 

[JesusHChicken]

Hey Welcome major rainstorm hitting here right now been working with my younger housmate
James on our garden plan placing weed block under the tires we are going to plant in...
Please do you have chickens? how many what type or breed ?

It's been mostly not raining today. Gave me a chance to do some stuff outside for a change... I'll work in the rain but rather not. Worked on the goat pen. 4 Nigerian Dwarfs, Billy, Snowball, Kiko, Pochi.
Chicks..: 2 Dominique, 2 Leghorns, 1 Wyandotte and another unknown. My wife wants to get 6 more. Maybe this weekend. We'll see.


first pic is a big leaf maple that came down last year. one of my fav trees on our property. hit my truck, crushed the canopy but that's it. The black dog standing up is my boy Cheez, he's lab/pit x. 90lbs The lump laying down is Nando, Neo Mastiff 150lbs.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: it can be allot fun with the animals the mud I am tired of rubber boots how is your lab
with the chickens my darling Moose is a lab he wants to catch them all bring them to me..
chicken math is fun I was going to have a few on my 3rd coop now
with 18 hens in one coop of barred rock, easter egger , black sex-link and one olive egger
then two I hatched one is blue the other is black but they both lay kinda light green eggs
one coop is for cockerel or chicks the other is still in the works

 

[JesusHChicken]

it can be allot fun with the animals the mud I am tired of rubber boots how is your lab
with the chickens my darling Moose is a lab he wants to catch them all bring them to me..
chicken math is fun I was going to have a few on my 3rd coop now
with 18 hens in one coop of barred rock, easter egger , black sex-link and one olive egger
then two I hatched one is blue the other is black but they both lay kinda light green eggs
one coop is for cockerel or chicks the other is still in the works

The mud. I've learned to love it, the pups certainly do. My pitlab does fine with the goats and other small animals. While driving down the dirt road he jumped out of the bed and ran after my neighbors cat. He simply stopped, sniffed the cat, and walked away. He's actually cautious around the goats and does not try to herd.. Not any more.. When they were kids he did. We'll see with the chickens but I suspect he will respect them like when we had a litter or rescue kittens.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: My Pyrenees bought to protect the chickens likes to chase the chicks but treats adult hens
perfectly non pulsed with the birds, In large fenced area moose doesn't run the the chickens
and totally leaves them alone... I personally do have much balance I have nephropathy that
can cause me to fall being legally blind doesn't help I still hate mud