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[Hinotori]

Quote: LMAO! No coyotes for my rat traps!

I'm going to teach them to come inside at night to prevent them from being coyote food, like my great aunt does with her cats.

Luke thinks he's a dog I think. He keeps trying to imitate my GSD. Doesn't help that the dog likes to play with the cat toys and show them how it's done.

 

[Hinotori]

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You got it right. I knew they were EEs and not ameraucanas when I got my girls. I just wanted the colored eggs then. They are all over in size and body shape with just the 12. A couple of the EEs almost match my wheaten girl in shape.


Even wet, the light colored girl in this picture has such a huge beard in comparison to the EE's (please ignore their half dressed state, we had a bad molt this year) (click for bigger pictures)




Here is one of the wheaten girls I picked up at the show. (Only one that would let me take pictures of her.)



Here are the couple silvers I got at the show. OMG I think I've totally fallen in love with a new color if they are all that soft. These two are getting pretty friendly from me picking up and petting them all the time.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Hi hope everybody is ok. I have kind of crawled in a shell for a bit. I am now so far behind that the history will just have to be a mystery.

In skimming a bit I have noticed some talk about bantam's. It seems that some are of the opinion ALL bantams lay tiny eggs. THIS IS NOT CORRECT.. There are Bantam breeds that lay very nice size eggs for the size of bird. I had B RIR and currently have B Faverolles both of these lay eggs that will match some of my smaller LF eggs. Yes there are B that just lay tiny eggs but not all of them do. Also if you look at the feed to food conversion. The B who do lay larger eggs will win over LF. See Bantam require less space, and eat less food. I kind of find find Silkies a little cute in all their fluffyness. But they are high maint (like women). When my Silkie is laying She will ALWAYS lay 4 skip a day lay 4 skip 1 and she is the best incubator around.

This is what started the Bantam vs. LF debate. I posted a pic of the 4 Silkie chicks I get for my DW. Who new it would start a debate?

Quote: No room for a tree at our house, either. Well - at least no large trees

Here is our tree this year!


We love our CB Christmas tree, but we also have a full size tree too.

 

[CarolynF]

You got it right. I knew they were EEs and not ameraucanas when I got my girls. I just wanted the colored eggs then. They are all over in size and body shape with just the 12. A couple of the EEs almost match my wheaten girl in shape.


Even wet, the light colored girl in this picture has such a huge beard in comparison to the EE's (please ignore their half dressed state, we had a bad molt this year) (click for bigger pictures)

Here is one of the wheaten girls I picked up at the show. (Only one that would let me take pictures of her.)

I think the wheatens are soooo pretty. Did that one come from Jean? She sure has pretty birds!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Hello all! I'm a major newbie! I have recently (Saturday) acquired my first batch of 5 chicks, 2 Buff Orpingtons, and 3 Barred Rocks I'm so excited!!! Then Sunday I was given 6 BA's, but Monday am I woke up and two were dead. :-( I kinda freaked out... Now my babies are spoiled rotten and my daughter, the dog, and, probably, the rabbits are planning a "coupe de coop" for my attention, I think.

We've got quite a few folks in the Tacoma area that can fill you in on the best places to buy stuff, etc. Enjoy your chickens, they are a lot of fun!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

i has a sad this morning- something is wrong with Blossom, and I fear it is that Dearie, who is twice her weight, dropped down on her from a high perch and broke her pelvis. Trying to figure out how to house her separately for a bit and having 100% lack of success.

Oh no! Is there any way you can set up a separate area within their flight cage so they can still see each other without Dearie's being able to injure Blossom further? A few small cage panels or screens, maybe? Hope she recovers!

 

[FirewifeJess]

OK here's the revised list of the hens I'll part with sadly

1 white/tan Easter Egger, 6 months old today; she lays a light green egg ($25)

1 blue (feather color) Easter Egger, 18mo approx; she lays a blue/green egg ($25)

1 Black Copper Marans with a very bare bottom from some feather plucking in her previous home ($30) Lays a nice large brown egg 5/7 days, she looks ragged but is healthy; needs a good molt to regain her beautiful feathers again.

1 Olive Egger (Cuckoo Marans x Easter Egger), 7.5 months old; she lays a sweet little dark green egg 5-6 days a week. ($25)

$90 for all 4

 

[Stumpfarmer]

i has a sad this morning- something is wrong with Blossom, and I fear it is that Dearie, who is twice her weight, dropped down on her from a high perch and broke her pelvis. Trying to figure out how to house her separately for a bit and having 100% lack of success.



Phooey.



Also sleep deprived and in need of feeding the last of my hay and rebuilding the hay table so there is 100% no chance of water infiltrating under the bale.



(And also trying, in my modification of the physical environment, to figure out a way to get a Christmas tree into the house past my husband's apparent resistance to that whole concept, along with the idea of having empty horizontal surfaces anywhere, although I've finally broken him of using the actual BED to store clean socks and underwear.)



ETA: and today my whiny post triplicates, how very fun that isn't!



ETA, again, argh, no, it's quadruplicated! This is weird!

You've seen my house. There's no room for a tree inside. I found two and three foot artificial trees at Joanne's for 60% off. I brought home a heavily flocked one, Attached a star to the top, and strung lots of red beaded garland around it. It's out on the porch table by the front door. I put the same stars and garland on my little Coprosma topiaries on either side of the steps. Did you see the beaded snowflakes I made last year? I hung some of them on the light fixture in the dining room with a holiday centerpeice underneath. I have a holly arrangement on the little table on the porch, too. I fine a bunch of smaller decorations easier to manage than a tree.

I don't have a porch, at least not one with a roof/ not occupied by farm stuff. The tree thing has always been tricky here, but now it's insane: Franklin has six months worth of newspapers stacked next to his chair, for instance.


I need the smell of fir as a SAD treatment almost as much as I need to figure out which of my first things gets to be first this morning- not counting the "get BG up over a number which makes it safe to go outside" which is also being a real trick this week.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love having a porch.

If there was some way I could steal it, you'd have to padlock it down.

Which reminds me, my favorite house in the world is for sale again- a 1 1/2 story with a full porch on the north side and a laundry porch on the back (Dad called the style"perfect pattern mill houses") with two shed dormers; I fell in love with it when I was a little kid showing at SW Washington Fair, and then looked for it every morning on the bus to Centralia College (back when SPSCC was a trade school and CCC was the academic junior college and there was a yellow school bus that came down from Olympia in time for 8am classes every day). It's on Harrison, so would need cheap commercial teleportation to get it where I need it (here: RIGHT HERE).

Got all my outside stuff done, including moving the sheep pen and upgrading the hay table. And then it started to rain, right after I got 100% done, so there.

 

[Hinotori]

I think the wheatens are soooo pretty. Did that one come from Jean? She sure has pretty birds!

That one came from N8ivetxn along with another blue wheaten. She's a bold hen and after two days in the main flock has put herself in a pretty good position in the pecking order.

The two wheatens I got from Jean are slowly warming up, but ran off from the camera. The two silvers are from her culls. They will make perfect little layers for me. They are soooo soft.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

i has a sad this morning- something is wrong with Blossom, and I fear it is that Dearie, who is twice her weight, dropped down on her from a high perch and broke her pelvis. Trying to figure out how to house her separately for a bit and having 100% lack of success.

Oh no! Is there any way you can set up a separate area within their flight cage so they can still see each other without Dearie's being able to injure Blossom further? A few small cage panels or screens, maybe? Hope she recovers!

I'm still trying to figure that out; I was thinking about it while I was charging around outside, but I've got to have a snack and think on it further before I do anything. If I didn't think my husband would through a noisy fit, I'd put her in the 10 gallon aquarium and put that in our bathroom, where it's nicely warm, but I am so not armed for that snit fit right now.

So far today I rebuilt the hay table, staked the sheep out for a while, fed everything, moved the sheep pen, watered everything, put down bedding in everyone's pen, filled the EE's seed feeder with safflower seeds, helped the hired hand unload a new bale of hay, a sack of the wrong kind of layer feed (Del's instead of Layena: paper sacks do not work with my storage system) a sack of alfalfa pellets and two sacks of wood pellets, put the sheep back in his pen, overcooked the sweet-potatoes for the rest of the chickens (darn) and cleaned up two puddles of old-dog urine. OH- and shut the last pasture gate to the orchard and bungee corded it good and firm, and did it without having a random cow on the wrong side of the fence. Hooray!

Oh- and washed two loads of Franklin's shirts.

And somehow run a hay-sliver through a pear of rubber gloves and into the end of my pinky finger, which is not fun.