Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Totalcolour]

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I thought "snowdrops" were flowers?

 

[Hinotori]

Hahaha! Too cute!!!! The few I've known have been energizer bunnies and live almost forever!!!! Funny little creatures!

Very much full of energy. I have a cheap wood gate laying against the bedroom doorway sometimes to keep the dogs off the bed when wet. The aussie cross and gsd are totally stopped by it. They can't figure out how to get around it. It didn't work when they were puppies because the schipperke we had would just reach out and grab the edge and pull it over so she could walk over it and they would follower her. I miss that little girl. She'd have be thrilled with the kittens. She loved cats as much as she didn't really care for dogs.

 

[Hinotori]

How about a slingshot and pingpong balls?

I can kill small rodents with my sling shot. I remember back when I was 16 and the neighbor woke us up really early on saturday morning claiming my brothers had shot his dog that never shut up with a BB gun that morning. My brother who were still asleep and my dad had the ammo. Dad told him that it was most definately not my brothers, and when the vet removed the bullet it was a steel sling shot bullet. The dog lost the use of the leg it was shot in. I found out that it was one of the boys a few years younger than me who lived behind me with his sling shot. Man that dog and the other there never shut up. The neighbor totally ignored the poor things. He shouldn't have been allowed to own dogs. Well with all the stupid crap he did, he shouldn't have been allowed anything. I can tell stories. Stupid apparently ran in his family because HIS father was just as bad. I really felt bad for the son who was my age, since the father was rather abusive.

 

[LaughingFeather]

Of all the dogs I have owned through the years I think my favorite is Rottweiler females. Wonderful dogs. I had 3 females that where the light of my life. I swear they can read minds.

 

[lovinchickypoos]

We have meat goats here just outside Olympia. One is pure Boer, the other is Boer/Nubian. The little boy will be going into the freezer at the end of the month. Goat meat is simply fabulous. Himself prefers them to all the other critters regarding cost. They are very easy keepers. They have a mineral block and we feed them supplemental hay and some meat goat chow. They are terrific browsers, and they do a fine job of getting rid of brush. We trim hooves a few times a year, and they are wormed regularly. They are quite personable.

Agatha when we first got her. She's a sweetheart to work with

What an awesome pic!!!!!!! Their personalities are what is really attracting me to them! I have yet to try goat meat but I do like their milk.

 

[LaughingFeather]

Question for those of you who do not slaughter your own birds. (neither of us want to do it) How do you go about doing it? Where do you take your chickens to and how much does it cost? How do the chickens come from the butcher? Is it cost effective to do it and at what number of birds does it make sense? Does it make sense to run like 50 ? birds for how ? long in an fenced run over our septic field (really the only cleared area of our property)?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Over the years we've lost far more calves, cows, chickens, pigs, horses and sheep to dogs than to any wild predator; for one thing, wild animals are usually hesitant to come into structures where humans are in and out (well, except Barn Owls, and I think we lost a few bantam chicks to those, a tiny price to pay for rodent control). The worst was when a pack of pet dogs chased a group of weanling Angus through a fence and into the path of a guy on a Harley: he spent four days in the hospital, the steer he hit had to be euthanized, and two others had to be butchered early because they'd been hamstrung by the dogs. The Harley had the faring cracked. Well, probably the worst-worst was when a GSD dug under the door to the hog barn and went nuts, killing eight half-fed-out hogs. I didn't see that one, though.

Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!! Has the dog pack "been taken care of" yet???? Gah, that is just horrible! Hope you received no blame in the accident. I can see some scummy lawyer trying that.

That one is gone; the current problem dogs in the neighborhood are idiot French Bulldogs who spend their day barking at the cattle from a high deck, and a pair of border collies in a fenced yard who have already dug out and kept the cows from grazing for a day.

All it takes for a pack to form is for a few people to decide they've moved to the country and let their dogs run; it's the good thing about the increasing population density around me: too much traffic for that to be a common response, lately.

Our insurance ended up paying for the biker's hospital cost, although they tried to find the owners of the dogs and also go after the construction company which had taken the fence down and put it back wrong: it's a long, long, long story which I am still too angry to tell.

 

[mikeyb]

BEAUTIFUL, wonderful SUNSHINE here in Rochester.

 

[FirewifeJess]

SUN!!!!! I can see it!!!!! It's only about 10' above the horizon so it won't last long, but SUN!!!!!!

 

[Totalcolour]

BEAUTIFUL, wonderful SUNSHINE here in Rochester.

Hey, I saw the sun today too! In fact, it's still there