Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[lovinchickypoos]

Yes I did. Got home around 8:30am, in bed by 9:15(after catching up on BYC and FB) and slept til 4pm. Just part of the job.

Hey everyone, I just decided to check out this thread for the first time. I'm in Walla Walla Wa.
Lovinchickypoos- your practically my neighbor!
I look forward to jumpin in and talkin to some other Washington chicken-ers.

YAAAAAY, ANOTHER DRY SIDER!!!

I love Wally World! My in-laws were from there so, until grandparent passed, we made many trips there. It's prettier there!

I'm in Oly! Have had 5 laying hens for a month now, no problems at all so fay HOORAYY!!!

Olympia is GORGEOUS!!!

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.

So sorry you are going thru all those crazy emotions

Its virtually impossible to keep from getting your hopes up even when you know, logically, you shouldn't! THERE IS STILL A CHANCE!!!

 

[RainMom]

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.

Love, love those blue Orpingtons!

 

[Farmin Momma]

Ok so that page about dehydrating eggs.... Yeah I'ma do that!!!! I think it would be really cool to have on hand.

 

[lovinchickypoos]

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

Thanks so much for the info!!!! It shoots to my elbows also. It made it really hard to restrain animals at the vet clinic which led to me doing reception there, which I hated, and therefore led to me not working. I have Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, so I'm sure that contributes to it in a big way. Thankfully, my wrists aren't in constant pain like they used to be when I was working, but gardening brings it out, especially when fighting the Bermuda grass that invades my beds!
I've been good at taking my vitamins and was taking an extra B-complex until I ran out

. I'll look closer at the dosage when I buy more. I'm gonna get serious about finding a N.D. since conventional medicine is doing me no good.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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.

It does take them a long time to start, I have 3 pens and the eggs I had shipped from FLorida. That group is laying now. 3 blues and 1 black rooster is blue and such a nice boy. My other group that hatched Easter hasn't started to lay from Carol they need to get started that's for sure. The splash have started, going to put eggs on this weekend . I love English orpington my husband calls them our Turkey's he's so funny. Would love to see pictures..

 

[refamat]

the B6 sounds great!!

 

[SadieSue]

Beautiful birds sadiesue! Where did you get them from?

I got them last May when a BYC'er in Monroe who used to raise them was dispersing her flock. She had one week old chicks and knowing I'd been looking for English Orps for over a year contacted me to find out if I wanted to buy any chicks. I paid $20 each for 4 chicks. 2 of them turned out to be roos but I was able to sell them for a good price, so the net price for my girls was much lower.

They were worth waiting for. Every time I look at them it makes me happy all over again. But I feel that way about my entire flock!

 

[RainMom]

Thanks so much for the info!!!! It shoots to my elbows also. It made it really hard to restrain animals at the vet clinic which led to me doing reception there, which I hated, and therefore led to me not working. I have Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, so I'm sure that contributes to it in a big way. Thankfully, my wrists aren't in constant pain like they used to be when I was working, but gardening brings it out, especially when fighting the Bermuda grass that invades my beds!
I've been good at taking my vitamins and was taking an extra B-complex until I ran out

. I'll look closer at the dosage when I buy more. I'm gonna get serious about finding a N.D. since conventional medicine is doing me no good.

sent you a PM on a really good ND in your area. One of my best friends lives in yru area and works for her.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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.  

Lucky you, so what are you going to do with all the chicks you'll have? Your going to have a lot.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Anyone know how much it is at wilco for a bag of chick starter? and if dels farm supply is doing the free chicks with purchase of a bag of feed? I tried looking at the dels ad but it froze my computer.