Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[TurtlePowerTrav]

L to R: Paint, Porcelain, Light Partridge, Dark Blue. DW's chicks

 

[Slinglings]

Quote: Ok~ thank you for the advice! The only reason I want the RIR is because I've heard they are good layers AND I want a red chicken to name Rosie I certainly don't want to risk getting anything aggressive. My hens are all sweeties.

I'm having trouble finding an olive egger. Where do people buy pullets/young hens? I've only bought on Craigslist. Does a hen need to be laying to know if it is an olive egger?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Quote: Ok~ thank you for the advice! The only reason I want the RIR is because I've heard they are good layers AND I want a red chicken to name Rosie I certainly don't want to risk getting anything aggressive. My hens are all sweeties.

I'm having trouble finding an olive egger. Where do people buy pullets/young hens? I've only bought on Craigslist. Does a hen need to be laying to know if it is an olive egger?

Surely some one on here has gotta be selling OE's. I think there are a couple of adds here in the PDX area, but that is quite the drive for ya.

 

[RonB]

I think I might be the only person on this board who doesn't really care that much about silkies.

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike them. I'm just way more fond of the more typical-looking chickens. However, I love me some nice butt-fluff/fluffy britches. Orpingtons and Australorps are brilliant that way!

RonB doesn't care for them either! I have tried to convince him otherwise but it didn't work. Lol!

I think silkies are ugly and pointless. And I also don't see the point of having bantams, but that's only because I'm in it for the eggs. That's the ONLY reason we got chickens! So if I ended up with a chidken that didn't meet our egg standards (size, quantity), there would be no point in keeping said chicken. I'm sure people who are just looking for pets get lots of joy from those chickens!

FirewifeJess

Right on Girl

silkies & bantams are a waste of time in my book

I'm into chickens for the EGGS, I love the LB and I have a variety of breeds and lots of different colors

I love Kimmy dearly BUT she just don't get it when it comes to Chickens

I've tried talking some sense into her ! But its no use

If people want a pet they should get a dog

. Cats are border line pets in my opinion

 

[itsren]

Quote:

Quote: Last year one both of my DD's asked for Easy Bake Ovens for Christmas, My Grandmother came up with the idea to buy them a baking gift bag for the both of them. Cup cake tins measuring cups, spatulas and many other things as well as boxes of cookie and cake mixes. All the stuff she bought had some sort of kids theme or matching colors, and I went to the craft store and bout them blank colored aprons so that they could decorate their own aprons too. They loved it and still do.

My daughter has wanted one of those, too, for a few years. Unfortunately, the mixes that come with it are manufactured around nuts. Good idea for the toaster oven!

 

[itsren]

Renee, what about the one where you suck a hard boiled egg into a bottle?
Here is a site about it: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/egg-in-bottle, and Steve Spangler has some really great experiments that you might use at the party. Have fun!

We did this one, it was fun: http://www.ehow.com/info_8122302_raw-egg-vinegar-experiments.html
We've also done a lot of these and they're great! My own science teach did #2; he stood on the book that the eggs were holding up!! http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/egg_experiments.php

Thanks guys! We'll see if we can do them.

 

[itsren]

Can a pullet sound like a roo when her "voice" is changing? Tiny Latte let out a sound this evening as he picked her up that startled both my husband and I. DH looked at me and said "Our other 3 girls NEVER made a sound like that!"

 

[itsren]

Well, I'm off - again. Today is DS's birthday. This Sunday is his "Wacky World of Science" party - and hatching day!

I tell ya - I'm SOOOOOOooooooo glad I'm super busy right now. I don't have time to stare at eggs hoping to see movement. No time to get freaked out about 'em this go around.

So far so good - as far as we can tell. They're just eggs in an incubator right now. We haven't attempted to candle these dark eggs, and have no plans to, so Sunday will be surprise day.

 

[itsren]

L to R: Paint, Porcelain, Light Partridge, Dark Blue. DW's chicks

They are so cute! And the Nativity scene has real life barn animals to go with it! Awesome!

 

[itsren]

Quote:
I think Silkies are cute, I love the fuzzy mop tops, but DH doesn't like them - so he said no to getting them. Now we're incubating EEs and BCMs instead. The skin won't be black - but the BCMs should have black feathers - at least we have DS's favorite color covered in feathers.