Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[itsren]

I guess it takes 7 to knock it out of view... good grief!

Here's another random science experiment pic...

 

[RustyHen]

Welcome Keri. Get ready to

if you wanna keep up!!!

Cochin's I want Cochin's!!! Quit with the Dang Chickin Math Already!!! Anyone know a good Dr.? I needs some help

I have bantum cochins just love them. No rooster tho.
will put up some pics I took today, the 3 SS in my avatar have really grown.

 

[CarolynF]

Door is open! Also my prototype workbench is nearly finished. After I use this bench for awhile and decide upon changes (if any) I will then remake the bench. So if anybody wants to give me their planer, jointer that they have just laying around I'll be happy to put it to use.

Mikeyb... I seriously wish you lived close by! My daughter learned to make bowls and such on the lathe in high school. She did some pretty amazing stuff -- paper thin sides and very nice shapes. I'd drag her over and chain her to the lathe! Lol.

 

[bikerchicky]

me threeeeeeeee- this is crazy making. Why do we pay these weather forecasters?
I've got to get outside and clean stuff up for the party this Saturday- don't want all the folks coming to see my mess. Besides that, all the critters are bringing muddy paws in the house. argh!

I'm in the same situation, but mine is Sunday. Friends are coming over for a BBQ. Gotta clean, but I also need to turn the garden with chicken manure (can't wait to use my own next year) and work on getting my pen/coop ready for my girls to come home. Too much to do, not enough time.

 

[mikeyb]

Quote: The lathe's off/on needs to be fixed and my chisels need to be honed so it's not "ready" to work just yet. Once the weather warms just a bit more, most of my days will be spent in the shop I'mma thinkin'. Lots of work todo. Barely recovered form last summer's garage sale. That was a beast but gained lots of my shop space back. Now for the final cleanup and dump runs. I've already started the spring cleaning in my house, but it's a jumbled mess also although I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Hope it's not the express train!

 

[CarolynF]

Not sure if I am doing this right. I introduced myself in the new member section, but thought I should do the same here? My name is Keri. My husband and I have a smallish farm in the Spanaway/Graham area. We have had chickens before, but not for quite awhile.

I have been lurking on this site for quite a while, but joined today so that I could interact with other people who understand chickens, in case I have any questions.

Hi Keri! I'm glad you decided to jump in. Don't fret if this group talks too much, just jump in with questions and comments whenever you feel the urge.

WELCOME!

 

[bikerchicky]

Pigs bring people together.....
That sounds weird but that is what's happening here lately. We have lived her for just over two years now and have met a few of our neighbors and like all of them but one. But now that the pigs are in an area where every one can see them from the street, I have not only met more of our great neighbors, but also have some regular walking people that come to talk to the pigs and us about the pigs. I guess we should have put them out there a while ago, I hate that we are meeting these people now that we are deciding to move. We have one neighbor that can look right out to the pigs from their front porch and I have been told that the DW there goes to the store and buys carrots for the pigs all the time. Then today a neighbor I have never met, we have seen him and he helped us get the mail man unstuck last year from the snow and mud, came into our drive way. So I went out to see what he needed and he had food for the pigs! How awesome. He said he did not want to just through it over the front fence because he wanted to make sure it was ok and that I was not feeding them a certain diet for slaughter. Well they are for slaughter but we are just letting them forage on their own and they are doing great. Plus this means that some of our neighbors may be a bit sad this weekend as the pigs are set for Saturday. Oh well I guess.

Funny how having animals brings people around when just being there keeps them away. It's like animals are a sign of a caring person that others want to get to know.

I'm envious of the fresh pork you will have soon.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

[COLOR=FF0000]OOOPS - CHICKEN MATH again![/COLOR]

Well now I've gone and done it. Ordered some chicks - SG Dorkings. Oh, well, himself has 25 ducks, so as long as I have less than 25 chickens I'm okay, right? I won't have to worry about separation until the fall. And if the little cockerels get along with the Barnie Cock, then I won't need to separate until next spring.

Went to collect eggs this morning - fell in the mud wallow, so had to do an extra load of laundry this week. Ick, mud and cackle spackle. Have to go down several times a day so the crows don't get all my eggs.

Hope everyone is having a good day - mine just got worse - doing tax paperwork

Ooooo, I do want Dorkings some day. Some day when a brave prince/princess/commoner of either gender gets rid of the plum thicket so I have room for more chickens.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Thanks. I'm up to 5-7 eggs a day, here, and trying to hustle round to get a new pen so I can set my broody, or whichever of the EEs is hiding eggs. The squirrel problem used up the few hours of help from healthy young people last week.


Anyway, the rose is Lyda Rose and is available from Heirloom in St Paul Oregon, viz http://www.heirloomroses.com/lyda-rose.html. The one in my avatar is the climber New Dawn, which is more widely available although also at Heirloom; it's an everblooming sport of the Dr. W. Van Fleet which was THE Western Washington rose of the early 20th century, capable of growing 60 feet into the north side of a cedar tree and blooming there.


Lyda Rose would involve less pruning.

Does it produce tasty hips? I'm really looking for a rose that will grow well and produce lots of tasty hips since I love rose hip tea and jelly. The wild roses here suck. 

No, it's not a hip producer; for that you need Rosa rugosa and its cultivars.

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: So Julia, how many chickens are you at right now? Surely you could fit just a few more . . . !?!?!?