Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[beausonge]

Welcome to the new peeps!

I get the feeling I'm being stalked sometimes.

That is so stinkin cute!



Vickie et al
Kelso. WA

 

[robj]

That is so stinkin cute!

Vickie et al
Kelso. WA

That's funny!!!!!!!!!

 

[WhiskiRanch]

Sorry I haven't been on here in awhile. I have been having my old riding student out here for the last week or so. We ended up giving her a horse of ours because she has been the only one that this horse likes and trusts. If she comes out and helps me around our 5 acres and works the horse than she can have the horse and in return we will continue to house the horse and feed it. My student is only 15 and her mom cant afford a horse for her right now. So for the time being, she gets a horse and her mom doesn't have to pay anything for it Hanna, my student, will probably stay out here with us for the summer once we get the spare bedroom cleaned up. As for the chickens, I pretty much have almost all of them spoken for. Everyone is wanting pullets but if they take pullets, they get a cockerel as well ;-) the only way I can get rid of the cockerels unless I want to deal with people that don't speak English because I don't speak Spanish...lol. Someone is wanting 4 or 5 pullets so they will get a cockerel with those. a neighbor wants a couple pullets and a cockerel and someone is going to trade us a pair of turkeys for 3 pullets and cockerel. Ive decided that I will only keep 10 hens even though I want 12. Right now, I have 9 that are laying and my tenth one is a pullet from November's batch. She is so cute. She looks like a Dalmatian. If we find people that are wanting chickens, we may hatch out a couple batches but they will all go in the brooder/rabbit hutch with momma when they are first hatched since they will already be sold before coming out of the shell pretty much

Anyways, Ive rambled enough....

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Teriyaki, the Buff Silkie pullet, passed over night. Lesson learned for me, smaller meat pieces for the chicks.

 

[sarahkatie]

Teriyaki, the Buff Silkie pullet, passed over night. Lesson learned for me, smaller meat pieces for the chicks.

:-(

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Teriyaki, the Buff Silkie pullet, passed over night. Lesson learned for me, smaller meat pieces for the chicks.

Sorry to hear Travis. For goodies our chooks get I have a rule of thumb. Pieces must be small as a pea or bigger than a walnut. See if Chooks can get it in their mouth and gobble it down they will.

 

[Slinglings]

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That's a pretty neat idea! I think we'd like to go more for the natural stone looking ones though, just for looks and longevity IYKWIM.
Do you want real flagstone or the fake ones like you linked to? I have had good luck on Craigslist~ I just watched and watched for cheap flagstone from people who have leftovers from jobs. I have also asked for free flagstone on Craigslist and Freecycle. It took a while to get enough, but the total cost ended up being around $100 for what should have cost much much more.

 

[robj]

Sorry I haven't been on here in awhile. I have been having my old riding student out here for the last week or so. We ended up giving her a horse of ours because she has been the only one that this horse likes and trusts. If she comes out and helps me around our 5 acres and works the horse than she can have the horse and in return we will continue to house the horse and feed it. My student is only 15 and her mom cant afford a horse for her right now. So for the time being, she gets a horse and her mom doesn't have to pay anything for it Hanna, my student, will probably stay out here with us for the summer once we get the spare bedroom cleaned up. As for the chickens, I pretty much have almost all of them spoken for. Everyone is wanting pullets but if they take pullets, they get a cockerel as well ;-) the only way I can get rid of the cockerels unless I want to deal with people that don't speak English because I don't speak Spanish...lol. Someone is wanting 4 or 5 pullets so they will get a cockerel with those. a neighbor wants a couple pullets and a cockerel and someone is going to trade us a pair of turkeys for 3 pullets and cockerel. Ive decided that I will only keep 10 hens even though I want 12. Right now, I have 9 that are laying and my tenth one is a pullet from November's batch. She is so cute. She looks like a Dalmatian. If we find people that are wanting chickens, we may hatch out a couple batches but they will all go in the brooder/rabbit hutch with momma when they are first hatched since they will already be sold before coming out of the shell pretty much

Anyways, Ive rambled enough....

That's a very cool thing that you're doing for Hanna! It's something she'll take with her forever and not just the horse. You're teaching her that if she works hard she can get or do just about anything. Best of all your teaching her how to help others and that you don't always have to get big bucks in return. People with good hearts are hard to come by!!!
Thanks for Ramblin

 

[FirewifeJess]

Do you want real flagstone or the fake ones like you linked to? I have had good luck on Craigslist~ I just watched and watched for cheap flagstone from people who have leftovers from jobs. I have also asked for free flagstone on Craigslist and Freecycle. It took a while to get enough, but the total cost ended up being around $100 for what should have cost much much more.

I need to start looking on CL too. It's hard when I don't have a car most days because DH takes it to work, but I wonder if I could get enough over the next couple months to be able to do this whole project by summer. I just want to improve the backyard so much, the chicken run looks so out of place and unfinished, these would help a ton! I need to get some sort of natural stone to stack all the way around the coop/run too, since the coop is up on concrete blocks and looks trashy, boo.

 

[FirewifeJess]

This is exactly what I want: http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/mat/3587442584.html Although I'm also totally willing to pay $280 for that...it's a pretty good price!