Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[FirewifeJess]

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I've never seen the show. Ever.

 

[Totalcolour]

And... I can only imagine what the neighbors, who have full view of my backyard, must be thinking when they see me running around, reaching down, getting back up and running again. They can't see the ground, so they can't see the chickens, they can just see me. I'm sure they probably think I've completely gone bonkers with my new exercise routine.

I can relate! Back in England, many years ago, my first hubby had a pet squirrel, named Alice. He use to take her for walks on a little harness. One day, I was having tea with my mom and saw my hubby running around the back yard, then diving at the ground, getting up again and starting all over. Next thing, dad ran out and started doing the same thing, followed by big brother. Finally, mom and I saw Alice and realized our menfolk hadn't all gone berserk!

[Alice had slipped the harness and was having fun]

 

[RonB]

I'd need a spread sheet program to calculate the eggs I've gotten because I am not going back through the calenders and counting them. Brown eggs are marked on the left upper corner, blue eggs on the right upper. Silkie eggs go on the bottom. When they are laying, those silkies out lay most of my other girls with 6-7 eggs a week.

My chickens are my hobby. My DW's hobby is collecting shoes and purses

I keep a calender in the barn where my coops are. I mark down every day how many of each color I get. My best month was last April with 544 eggs. I was getting 15-20 eggs a day then. Thats what 23 White layers and sex-links will do for ya

when I'm on vacation I take all the chickens with me LOL . No my DD counts the eggs for me.

 

[CarolynF]

ONIONS! I had never heard this!!!

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu...
Many of the farmers and their families had contracted it and many died.

Myth Myth Myth Myth

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/onions-flu-remedy.shtml

Farmin Momma... Thanks for trying to give us another weapon in our fight against the flu, but this one shouldn't be passed any further. It's been shot down many times.
Hope you're family is ahead of the game and staying well.


Oooops, I see others have already commented. Sorry for being redundant.

 

[mikeyb]

Quote: I don't remember but given the risque tone of the song I betcha it was my dad. Mom was wayyyyyyyy too straight laced for any of that.
Al Dexter wrote it and it was somewhat bluesy. I know that now, didn't back then of course.

Others were; "You Are My Sunshine"; "Jimmycrack Corn (Blue Tail Fly); Camptown Races. Seems I knew them b4 starting school and of course the normal children songs. I didn't care for them, I liked the songs my Dad and his brothers sang. When we went down to Tenn for a Fam Reunion it usually turned into a hoe-down on the front porch in the evening when all the chores were done. Yeah, red clay of Tenn country folk. Good memories.
I still can't sing a lick but I keep trying!

 

[JennS]

Pictures of them standing would help give a guess. I would say #1 male. #2 Standing pictures would help. Both standing side by side would be even better.

It may be another month or so before you can really start to tell. It is so hard to tell from pictures of just the head. Sometimes it's the way they carry themselves and behave. It usually takes longer to tell on good quality silkies.

I haven't been able to watch their behavior yet. On Friday Lamont will be back to work on my coop, and I'll be doing more painting in the garage, so all the chickens out there will get the chance to wander around and I can watch them. I'll try to get a pic of the whites standing together.

Jennifer

 

[Slinglings]

Quote: Well Poo, Crud, and fluffin ducks! Guess I better tell my stupid friend to take her onions back to the store or find a better use for them.....

Note to stupid self, take all those stupid onions back to the stupid store or find some thing stupid to cook with them!
Also DON'T FALL FOR STUPID STUFF AGAIN!
LOL

Ethiopian food uses a TON of onions~ You can easily use 8 large onions in one dish.

 

[LaughingFeather]

When you quarantine, that means the chickens can't have access to each other and should have at least 30 yards between tehm as the air they breathe can be contaminated too. You can put the new chickens together in the basement, or the garage, but don't put them in the same yard as your existing flock. That's a recipe for disaster.

Unfortunately we have neither a basement or a garage. No outbuildings except the coop they built me.

 

[CarolynF]

Quote: Originally Posted by Farmin Momma
Well Poo, Crud, and fluffin ducks! Guess I better tell my stupid friend to take her onions back to the store or find a better use for them.....

Ethiopian food uses a TON of onions~ You can easily use 8 large onions in one dish.

We get a lot more onions from our garden than we can use before they spoil, so we chop them and freeze in ziploc bags. I was pleasantly surprised last week when I sauted some for soup, it worked really well. And wonderful to have on hand when you need some!

 

[FirewifeJess]

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I highly recommend NOT bringing in new flock member then. You take a huge risk with both the new birds and your existing flock. I now have a closed flock due to illness scares, and won't ever bring another flock member in unless it's through hatching them ourselves!