Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[naillikwj82]

Would anyone be bringing exhibition grade Delaware, or Light Brahma pullets/hens for sale to the Monroe show? I would be coming from Sequim. Kindly pm a note, thanks,
jeff

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well now I've gone and done it. Ordered some chicks - SG Dorkings.

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.

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

I still have one in the laundry room...

(I've got three roosters I need to give away on CL this weekend, eleven hens, two roosters In use, and Michael's Australorp/Ameraucana who thinks I am her person but goes to his coop at night, plus the Barbu d'Anvers in the laundry room. I need a Blue or splash Ameraucana rooster, a different BLRW rooster so I can give Bjorn to Christie, as many EEs and SSHs as I can hatch so I can sell eggs at the market by 2015, and a couple more Bd'As before I can get Dorkings). (Which means I need two more coops/runs this year). (I'm feeling parenthetical tonight, what can I say?)

 

[FirewifeJess]

EVERYONE COMING TO MONROE on the 16th, please visit THIS THREAD: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/751538/monroe-wa-wff-show-meetup-potluck-join-us

Please reply in the thread with what you can bring.

I would LOVE to meet around 11 to start the food, so people can hang for a couple hours before needing to leave for work and other Saturday afternoon/evening functions.

reposting this once or twice a day until the show. we still need people to bring paper goods and drinks.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Is there power available at Monroe? That may determine what I bring.

There has been in the past. I hope so because IF we are able to make it I plan to bring S-n-S roadkill.

 

[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.

[COLOR=008000]Thank You Stumpfarmer[/COLOR], I order my new roses from heirloom all own root, the only way to go around here. Once in a while DH will talk me into a rose from local nusery  then we end up with these mess's.
A shoe sugestion, I have a pair of mary jane's by Hushpuppy that have a slight heel. they are stable and I get compliments every time I wear them.

Found my shoes. I'll need a pedicure.

Nice. I wish my feet worked well enough to wear pretty sandals!

 

[CarolynF]

I've tried this a couple of times today on my iPad with horrible results, so let's see if I can manage better this time. I wanted to share some pics of the new chics. The AMs are 10 days old, the gold star is 12 days and she's the friendliest.

I built them a mini feeder along the lines of what the big girls have. There are 2 small holes at the bottom of the container to let the feed fall into the tray. It works pretty well but they still manage to kick a lot of it onto the floor and mix it with poop! (eta: It sits up on a thick piece of granite, not flat on the floor) What type feeder do you all think is best for chicks?


(click these pics to enlarge)




The gold star really likes this feeder!




Seriously, she REALLY REALLY likes it!
So much so, she sleeps up there....




The Ameraucanas prefer to sleep in my hands

The towel is just my "spackle" guard
I'm having SO much fun with these little tiny birds!

 

[RustyHen]

WE need ideas. Our coops are nearly finished, we have some work to do on window location vents and fencing for the lower pen . Buutttt What color to paint them????? I thought I loved the colors I started with on the upper coop( a driftwood color that in our light looks total grey, wanted brownish grey. Plus light plum trim.


but now (not realy) and the lower one looks so barn like should it be red and white. should we have match? I don't really like red so much....

 

[RustyHen]

Nice. I wish my feet worked well enough to wear pretty sandals!

Same here.

 

[Lutefisk]

My Triumph is actually the T100C Trophy 500 twin. It's a sweet vintage ride (once I get her restored). I also have an '83 Yamaha Seca 650. She needs a tune up so I can commute this summer.

.Nice bike! I actually hate mechanicking (though I love building stuff like chicken coops, go figure) so I admire people who enjoy restoring bikes, cars etc. The T100 Bonneville is one of the new retro models. Triumph made an effort to make the new ones look like the originals. The fuel injection is hidden inside real carb bodies etc.

I put a pic of my Streety in my gallery - don't want to post it here since it's probably of no interest to most people here.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Carolyn - Use a disposable pie tin instead of the tiny lid.