Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

I have dealt with a few crazy nasty ladies too and it has made me more cautious. I try to educate people whenever possible but it is the know-it-alls who don't know what they are doing who don't listen anyway. I have raised so many healthy birds that sometimes I would rather just raise them myself and then sell them when they are not so dependent but people love babies to socialize and I prefer to sell them at 3 days old so people (especially kids) can enjoy watching them grow.

I had some Lavendar Orp cockerels for sale last fall, for $10 to good homes only...and had a guy call & want one.
It took DAYS of hemming & hawwing to finally set up a time he could come pick up the bird...at 4:30 PM on a week day, and me with dinner cooking on the stove and a hungry bunch waiting for food........I caught & crated the big cockerel in a cardboard box....and waited by my gate..........and waited and waited...and at 5:30 I released the bird back into his pen and went inside to get dinner on the table & I tried to call the nutjob back...finally he answered the cell at 6 PM...and I said HI, he said " OH HI.is that your place with the cute chicken sign out front ?"
"YES" I said........................
He said" OH OK, we went by a while ago & now we are at the boat launch and letting my kids play out at the water."

I said "I thought you were going to be here at 4:30 to pick up this bird, and when you did not show up, I released him."

He began to sound rather angry now, and said "Oh, well, we can make it back there is about 20 minutes"
I said "we will have to make another appoinment, we are already sitting down to dinner"

Now he was really angry and he says "WELL, you don't understand how difficult it is for me to get off work, and pick up my wife at her work, and the kids at school so we could all get over to your place" and I interuptted him and said, "This is our home, not a petting zoo, and it is also a bio-secure area. We do not have people walking in around here.
If you want the bird, you can come tomorrow, I will catch him again for you and you can once again meet me by the gate, the bird will be once again in a cardboard box, as we arranged about in the last meeting."

He hung up..very very angry !
As if this was some sort of petting zoo to bring the freaking family..after 5 PM no less !
And playing in the water at the boat launch instead of meeting me to pick up the bird in the first place....a bird worth an easy $50...................

He never called back, and he can kiss my grits if ya know what I mean.

 

[Chickielady]

I am so tired of rubber boots it is horrible and the ground is
so saturated any high traffic areas like going to the coop or
my b grow out coop por the greenhouse it is pure mud to to walk through

me too!

 

[Chickielady]

Lockdown day for the Swedish Flowers and Black & Blue Double Laced Barnevelders............

 

[Chickielady]

Chickens naturally eat vegetarian. Yeah right egg marketing people.

If they can catch it, and tear it up small enough, they eat it. Everything already small enough goes down whole. Nothing like seeing a hen with a mouse tail dangling out of her beak.

Chickens, will even eat each other..............true story !

They are not only oppurtunistic omnerverous feeders....but cannabalistic as well !

 

[Chickielady]

Goat shed 3/4 done, pen paddock 75% done...need the hot wire put up.......and roof on the shed done...we are only 2 weeks late !

 

[Chickielady]

I have not seen any snakes here but I saw them everywhere when we lived in Issaquah. I was afraid they would get the baby bunnies because they were always near the rabbit cages in large numbers.

We have hordes of garters and racers here, and one other beautiful brown checkered type pattern, with tiny red stripes down both sides of his back...caught sunning in my green house....never seen another in there since.............

We have those rubber hose looking snakes too..(racers ?) .and Salamanders.

 

[Chickielady]

sure can tell when the weather is nice here in weatern washington.cuz NO ONE is on BYC !!

Funnies :

A man and his dog went to the movies. All through the movie the dog was laughing. After the movie, a woman came up to the man and said, "I can't believe your dog was laughing during the movie," and the man replied, "I can't either — he hated the book!"

Why did Noah kick the chickens off the ark? Foul language!

here is one for @Hinotori 's punny collection :

Why did the tree have to go to the principal's office? Because it was a "knotty" pine!

A man got on a bus with both of his front pockets full of golf balls and sat down next to a blonde. The puzzled blonde kept looking at him and his bulging pockets. Finally, after many such glances from her, he said, "It's golf balls." Nevertheless, the blonde continued to look at him for a very long time, thinking about what he had said. After several minutes, not being able to contain her curiosity any longer, she asked, "Does it hurt as much as tennis elbow?"

A guy goes into a bar and sees a sign that reads, "Lawyers are slime-balls." The guy says to the bartender, "Hey, I'm offended! Take that sign down." The bartender asks, "Are you a lawyer?" The man spits on the floor. "No, I'm an a slime-ball!"

more later !

 

[Hinotori]

Yes, nice weather is good.

So plywood is my friend for pictures. Put a sheet on the wet ground so I can lay down and get some good ones

 

[JesusHChicken]

Goat shed 3/4 done, pen paddock 75% done...need the hot wire put up.......and roof on the shed done...we are only 2 weeks late !

Good job! Oh how I love digging post holes and pounding T posts into the ground. This summer the goat shed gets a new roof.

 

[Hinotori]