Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[TurtlePowerTrav]

I hope everyone had a great holiday. I have lots of reading to do now that things have finally settled down.

We had my mom here for a week. It was good to see her. She's a lot less independent than she was when we moved her down to Oregon last May. That took me by surprise. It was a little difficult to accept. I'm not sure if she's really going downhill that quickly, or if she's just starting to act like the others that she lives with in the Continuing Care Retirement Center.

The birthday party went great. The kids loved doing science experiments and were begging to do more than I had planned.

Blackie and Latte are currently housed in a "walled" off section (hardware cloth wall) of the big girls coop. It seems to stay pretty warm in there with 5 birds in the coop. That's good. I feel bad for Blackie and Latte because their section of the coop doesn't have access to the pop door, so they have to wait for me to get them out each morning. The big girls are going out the door as soon as it is light, but I'm not getting out there that early.
Drama and Caunnie gave us a late Christmas present... they started laying again the day after Christmas!

I was shocked to find three eggs in the nest box yesterday morning. Happy to see an olive egg again, after so long of just a RIR brown egg each day.

The 8 chicks are growing like weeds. We are trying to hold them each day to get them used to being held. I used to hold Cocoa and Rocha a lot more than Blackie and Latte, and it is showing in Blackie and Latte's attitude toward being picked up, so we're trying to get better at it with these littles. Even DH has stepped up to chicken holding each day. I have my favorite - I really hope she's a she... so far, so good - she has the smallest comb of them all. She's an OE. Her name is "Snow" as in Snow White because she had the cutest white eyebrows, a light face, and very white wingtips for a while. If I can ever figure out how to get a picture off my phone, I'll post it here.

Use the mobile version of the site, you can post iPhone pics that way directly using the mountain icon.
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[itsren]

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CR, I'm so glad you are OK. One year we think we had bats hibernating in the house above our bedroom. The screening over the vent in the attic was torn, and we think they were flying in and out through there. We could hear them sometimes - it was weird. DH fixed the problem the following summer.

After the Hobo spider ordeal we had in the yard last summer, we're not so fond of spiders any more, either. I just hope we got them under control. Bleh!

 

[itsren]

Quote: Trying to copy the link.... it's not working. I heard there was a mobile version - just haven't found it yet.

 

[itsren]

So does this work? I found the mobile version. If the picture upload works, this is Snow, my sweet little OE.

 

[Hinotori]

Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click mobile.


ETA, way to slow when I'm on the phone. I see you found it.

 

[itsren]

Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click mobile.


ETA, way to slow when I'm on the phone. I see you found it.

I agree! I'm back on the computer. But, at least I got the photo of Snow posted here from the phone.

 

[itsren]

I gotta tell ya.... Blackie - he's almost as big as my Rhode Island Red. It is so funny to hear my RIR make big girl noises, then to see and hear Blackie stand right next to her and chirp! That cute little chirp does not sound right coming out of a bird that big.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

So does this work? I found the mobile version. If the picture upload works, this is Snow, my sweet little OE.

It was a screenshot from my phone. Don't know why it did not post. But you figured it out.

 

[Pacachick]

Pacachick, Lacey around 1900 was a resort town- fishing camps on all the lakes, a horse race track (and just after the turn of the century, a big motorcycle culture), and some hunting guide businesses; it was smaller than Union Mills, where my father was born in 1917 when the sawmill here was still the biggest in the lower 48, although within a couple of years of running out of logs.

Here I thought Lacey sprung up as an offshoot of Oly. I havent seen much history about Lacey. Where was the sawmill in Lacey?

 

[Pacachick]

I'm in the Kitsap area and have just 3 girls, my EE (avatar), a Barnevelder, and a Black Sex Link who is my sweet puppy-like hen.  We're in the process of enlarging our run and coop (my christmas gift) so I can up the population by one or two.

Did I see that you have cuckoo marans hens?  If so, are they good layers and are the eggs dark brown? 

. Cuckoo marans do have dk brown eggs. They do get lighter as they get older. They arent the best layers also not the worst. Love the color though. What kind of hens are you going to get next?