Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[clucknpeck]

Sorry for the double post.
Whiskiranch- how exciting! This is the first time I've run across people near by.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

I'm a bit of a zombie too. Didn't sleep much, thinking about moving. I use wood eggs in the nest boxes

I didn't sleep to excited. I believe it was tacomafarms offered the free chicks and I begged to be the one to get them. because they have EE's there at the feed store. They are supposed to be dropped off later today YAY. Excited.

 

[SadieSue]

Does anyone know of anyone selling Large Fowl Chocolate Orpington hatching eggs right now?

I have not seen any large fowl chocolate orpingtons - just the bantam. I was looking at some bantam 100% English chocolate orpington hatching eggs the other day and realized that by having limited space I was saving myself a ton of money! Those babies are 'spensive... but very pretty!

 

[Farmin Momma]

Quote: Hey, Does your friend have a paypal account? If she does I want to send you some money to send to her.

Quote: This is the first night in a long time that I have actually got to sleep. We had put an offer on the house we wanted, and they came back with a counter offer. The amount we offered in the first place, we felt was still to high for how much work needs to be done, so when they came back with a higher number we decided that we should wait. DH wants to see if they will think about the fact that NO ONE else has put any offer on the place and maybe take our first offer. I want to counter their offer with and even lower number than what we gave in the first place to see if that would make them except our first offer. If not (stupid tears

) we will have to look for a different place.

I also bought wooden eggs for our nests, but I was stupid and bought them at Bothell Feed Center and they were like $2.00 each. Oh well.

To all the new Peeps. This is the cool place to be

!

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Hey, Does your friend have a paypal account? If she does I want to send you some money to send to her.

Yes she does hang on will PM you with her paypal info

 

[SadieSue]

Speaking of Orpingtons - the other day my English girls, Charlotte and Emily (Bronte) came up to the back deck looking for a hand out. I went out to shoo them away as it was nearly dusk and if they didn't hustle they were going to miss the auto door closing on their coop. As soon as I rushed out there Charlotte did a quick squat for me for the first time! Hooray! Their combs and wattles have been red for some time so I knew they were close to laying but I'm pretty sure Charlotte is giving me eggs now. I found one laying in the shavings just outside the nest boxes the other day. Looked like a newbie "oopsie, didn't quite make it" egg to me! The girls are nearly 10 months old, but I had heard the English Orps are slow to mature.

I don't add supplemental light to the coop so it is very exciting to finally be getting 3 or 4 eggs per day from my 12 LF girls. Soon we'll have enough to share. Thank goodness for those silkies and seramas I had this winter keeping me in enough tiny eggs for scrambling or baking.

The English girls have gotten SO big and fluffy. They are just adorable. I'll have to post some newer photos of them. Here they are when they were just 4 1/2 months old when their brother and protector Mr. Darcy still lived with us. He is with a loving family in Yakima who have given him a new harem and enter him in shows where he has done quite well. But even at 4 1/2 months they were just as large or larger than most of the grown up girls in our flock.

 

[clucknpeck]

Beautiful birds sadiesue! Where did you get them from?

 

[Zgoatlady]

 my state thread isnt active, is it okay if i join you all? I like washington.. its a cool place to live.  

You sure can.

 

[RainMom]

So it looks like it's a night for sleepin in wrist splints!!! At least I got a jump on weeding. Bermuda grass is wicked and vicious, getting thru everything. Plastic sheeting and rubber mats are no match for it

I just know weekend after next we'll be coming home from the feed store's Chick Day with a few more chicks, a couple ducklings and maybe even two goslings. I'm HOPELESS!

Hope everyone gets a good night sleep!!!

Hey- FYI- I was supposed to have carpal tunnel surgery years ago- had severe wrist and hand pain, sometimes felt all the way to elbows. A highly respected "alternative medicine" MD told me- nonsense- before you do that, go research vitamin B6. I went away, rolling my eyes, but not wanting to have surgery. Sure enough, googled B6 + carpal tunnel. I took 200 mg's B6 with some digestive enzymes for a couple months and cured my "severe" Carpal Tunnel.

Check it out- from Mayo clinic, who now reccommends the same thing!:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vitamin-b6/NS_patient-b6/DSECTION=dosing

 

[RainMom]

Well DH is setting up a time to go to Dallas for an all day interview about the job position in MD. I'm still nervous about this whole thing but much more at peace and I'm thrilled that DH could have his dream job if this works out. We could be moving by summer if he gets the job!


Have extra eggs in the summer? Have a dehydrator? Make your backyard eggs into powdered eggs for use during the winter when you have less/not enough eggs! Cool huh?!
http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-make-powdered-eggs.htm

Nice idea for dehydrated eggs- I've heard of freezing them, but that was new!

Maryland's cost of living is really high. When we were at NIH and stayed there for 3 days, I was surprized it was more expensive there than Seattle. I really loved all the old architecture though!