Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[hallerlake]

Quote: There are a number of things that can cause vertigo.

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: Mine don't actually crow very much in the coop, but I have 4 outside right now and they had a crowing contest this morning. I would think about creating a space in the garage or a dark place that you can keep them confined in at night and put them out at an acceptable time in the morning. I have a shed that muffles the sound and plan on putting them in there tonight. This morning was a little too much at 7:30 on the weekend! I don't think you will be able to get your coop sound proof and still have enough ventilation, so I would have a plan B.

If these are Bantams you can sometimes find show cages that you can stack for putting the boys in at night. Small dog crates work good too, you can stack them also. JMHO

 

[KMHunter]

Oh geez, how do I keep having the worst chicken luck??? I did some googling, and my chick might have a cerebral hernia. She wobbles like this one, but only when picked up or when she puts her head down to catch the worms:

She was in the brooder with her siblings, and I have no idea how she could have gotten injured unless maybe one of them pecked her? But I never saw them pecking each other. Would the stress of the move and cocci be enough to do it?

I guess I'll just keep caring fer her and see how she does.

*grumble* What next???

Jennifer

I have one that has done this since pretty early. I think she got injured. But she is doing just fine. Keep them on high protien food and maybe see if she will eat cooked oatmeal with the crumbles mixed in once iin awhile. Mine is the sweetest thing! But she is a little slow and not very bright. I had to clip the feathers around her eyes and her foot feathers, because she is a little uncoordinated and kept tripping over her own feet. She is much better since I did that. Other than the head nod she is just fine, but does get pushed around by the others more, so I watch pretty carefully.

She also looks like she may have a pretty high vault on her head, so she could have gotten injured really easily even by hatch mates. That is what I think happend to mine. But her head nod has gotten better in the last month or so and she is much stronger. But the balance thing can hinder eating and drinking so just keep an eye on it.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Since were taking a little stroll here. Does anybody remember these??? I have actually ridden in one. See when I was about 4-5 my dad was working on one for somebody in Yakima. So when he got done we (the whole family) took it for a test ride from Gleed to what was then the Golden wheel Chinese restaurant in down town Yakima.

Weirdly enough, I remember seeing that little car creeping up Naches-Teiton Rd towards us when we were going toward White Pass from my Uncle's orchard out on the east edge of the bluff.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

[COLOR=0000CD]I have always loved Mr. Bean!!!![/COLOR]

I like Blackadder better.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: My sons loved Mr. Bean. I don't much like humor based on people making fools of themselves.

 

[KMHunter]

For the noise complaint you could say you have a large parrot that has learned to sound like chickens. Darn Parrot. What can you do? They are not illegal are they? I used to have a cockatiel that whistled the Mayberry theme from Andy Griffith Show all the time, could hear it next door when he got going good. But I am lucky with the neighbors I have in my CA home. They can't even hear their own 5 small yippy dogs barking nonstop all day and night. I think I can sneak my hens there and use my greenhouse to hide them if I have to take them south. And in my WA home, I just helped my neighbor chase his dozen chickens out of my yard and he offered me a rooster which I said no to. I know which one he want to give me. Don't want that any closer than it is. No problem there.

Very interesting conversations going on here to a new chicken momma. The comment on the silkies not being good mixed coop birds caught my attention. I was thinking of adding a few to my flock of 4 EE and one RIR. Is this not a good idea? The breeder in Port Orchard was recommended? Is there a better breed to go with. I bring my chickens in to sit in my lap to watch TV at night so am looking for a gentle breed. I have been lucky that all the ones I have now are very friendly and love to cuddle. And yes, My family and cats thinks I am nuts also.

You have used the term DE. Is that diatomaceous earth? Like they used to use to clean rugs with?

For blood stopping I have even used sugar. I had a rosy breasted cockatoo that was insane and kept attacking himself on the wings and chest. Hubby showed up from work one day with this screaming, bloody, featherless bird saying it was his last chance and he thought I could save the bird. Oh such faith in my skills. The bird shrink said it wasn't the bird but the people who caused his insanity. Had been their only baby that went everywhere with them and then the baby came... He got shut in a back room and yelled at to shut up and not wake the baby. Must have been hit with welders gloves because he was terrified of them. I got the vet to give me old X ray
film to make collars for him out of so he couldn't attack himself as much. I finally got him tame again after years of work and every time he would get upset he would attack his wings. Sugar worked really well to stop the bleeding when I was afraid to stick my finger in there to stop him. He lived another 6 years as a quadriplegic bird. Frozen legs, wings mangled, lived in a box, not a cage. Hated cages. I miss Rosebud. He was a pain, bit me through the lip, ugly, abused but he still was a loving bird to me. No animal deserves to be imprinted like that on someone and then thrown away.

Sorry for rambling. I am new to your forum and wanted to join in. Hello from Poulsbo, WA. and Fairfield, CA. It's good to be retired....

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I have been told by reputable breeders and others that since silkies are so docile and small they get bullied and injured easily. I have had a few with vaulted skulls, which is where the there is basically a hole in the top of the skull and the brains are protruding slightly and are not protected by bone. If they get pecked or take a hard hit it can injure or kill them. I just decided to have them in their own area for safety reasons.
And yes DE is diatomacious earth, food grade, not the garden stuff.

 

[FirewifeJess]

So I just accidentally scared the living daylights out of all my chickens. I took our red holiday tablecloth off the table to shake it off over the deck railing. Um, first they all came running because they knew there would be treats (crumbs) and then they all flew away in every direction as I shook it out! Apparently a red tablecloth doesn't just make bulls mad, it scatters chickens across the earth Poor babies, LOL

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: I think you are right and being a silkie she could have easily gotten injured in the brooder! I guess that is what mine has too, but she is so much better! She is 5 1/2 months old now. I am just planning on keeping her around for eye candy and maybe a broody. She is so fluffy and pretty!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Check this new tomato out. 
I'm thinking of trying this come spring...........
https://www.nicholsgardennursery.com/store/product-info.php?pid1564.html
 
Picture at link.
 
 
 
 
Indeterminate  High anthocyanins
 
Open pollinated, Indeterminate 70 days A new release from Oregon State University, from the breeding program of Jim Myers, dept of horticulture.
 
Indigo Rose has beautiful eye-catching hues of deep purple where sunshine hits the fruit to red/orange where a leaf or stem shields an area from the sun. The saladette sized fruits are excellent in salads, for snacking and I even canned a few quarts this summer.
 
 There has been a buzz about this breeding program for some years because the deep purple colored skins and surrounding tissue are extremely high in anthocyanin. The flavor is quite pleasing, much more so than early selections several years ago.
 
 
A classically bred tomato like Indigo Rose is the result of ten years or more painstaking selection. Dr. Myers steadily walked the fields, tagged and numbered the promising lines, and grew out the seeds from those selected plants the following year. These tomatoes were continuously evaluated for color, flavor, and yields. In future years we expect to see offspring of Indigo Rose with additional traits. The presence of a high anthocyan content offers some disease resistance.We are delighted to introduce Indigo Rose as the first high anthocyanin tomato. From fighting cancer to fighting wrinkles anthocyanins are regarded as one of the chief reasons to eat our deeply colored fruits and vegetables.

There needs to be a warning for going to Nichols Garden Nursery: I can easily come up with a thousand dollars worth of utterly necessary $5 and under items when I go through that site!

(random not in response to Greg, but I've been guilty of what we call, at my other habitual BB, pattiitus, lately, so I'll just ramble on)

I've got to come up with new accomodations for the BdA junior misses today, and that means they need to go out on the porch, which means the container must be utterly rat-proof, because the coyotes have once again cleaned the neighborhood out of feral cats and the rats are back. I'm failing to properly deploy the rat zappers as they need to go in dry areas and I barely have those INSIDE at this point. If it weren't for the fact we need new tires, I'd grit my teeth and buy a 50 gallon fish tank or enough plexiglas to put something of that ilk together, but: need new tires. Merry Christmas!

Also, well, yeah, here we are, it's December again. I've actually got clothing bought for my husband and three out of four of the younger generation, and am most of the way through two sets of bead stitch-markers for my aquantences the young knitting women. Other than that, though, the most I've got going toward the season is making sure to drop the curtain over the window with the Christmas Cactus at dusk every night toward having it bloom sometime this month. Last year I turned it late and it was randomly Christmas until May on the back-side of it.