Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chicken Rustler]

Hello, all!

The snake talk is creeping me out! I'm from the Mojave Desert, and I was raised to stay away from snakes, as pretty much everything in the desert has venom, stickers, or both. Our yard has a bumper crop of harmless ribbon snakes, and even though I know they're perfectly safe, I cringe when the kids handle them! Early training trumps logic.



Nice to be back in the chicken forum!

--Nikki

Having grown up on the dry side of OR and WA I agree. I had a few too close encounters.

 

[Hinotori]

OK all looks good for us to be at Monroe. Now it's just a matter of packing all the stuff we are taking into the pregnant roller skate we call a car.

Are you going to have room to take home those chains?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I forgot about them. YES I will make room. Was there anything else? Sorry I suffer from CRS !!!

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

I am excited. While I can only own one more chicken right now I am hatching and taking care of chicks for my mom. And this week I get to go get her two turkey poults to raise around the chicks so they will bond.

And here is your daily dose of Zeus

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

well apparently I'm not getting turkey poults. My sister in law got them wet this morning and they have died. All I can think is WHY would ya get them wet.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well.

So Bjorn was, apparently, the rooster who woke all the other roosters up by crowing at 4am every day, then. Good to know.

Maybe the neighbors will hate me a little less, then?

Probably not, we weaned the last calf Friday and her mom is still complaining. She should have left last month, but being short one truck has made this winter very tricky. I hope her mother bred back in August, because May calves are infinitely less tricky than June ones. At this point I'd be fine with her being empty, since she's the youngest cow in the herd and had a heifer last year, anyway, but my BIL gets all hinky about young cows who skip a year. Farming would be a lot easier if reproductive biology wasn't so inflexible. If, you know, you could make eggs hatch at 26 days if you hadn't quite finished the brooder, for instance?

The count so far is five heifers and four bulls, of which the heifer with the sick mom died, as did her dam, persistantly going downhill after due medication and supplemental feeding. On this place, the Polled Shorthorn supplemental herd: there's a lot of Angus calves and Shorthorn/Angus and even a few Hereford/Shorthorn/Angus at the other place, and a lot of cows left to calve there.

 

[CarolynF]

OK all looks good for us to be at Monroe. Now it's just a matter of packing all the stuff we are taking into the pregnant roller skate we call a car.

Looking forward to seeing you again, and returning our little friend to his rightful "parents".

 

[CarolynF]

Hello, all!
Nice to be back in the chicken forum!

--Nikki

Hey Nikki1, nice to have you back, I was wondering where you wandered off to for so long. Congrats on the cute little dog.
Are you going to Monroe next Saturday?

 

[TacomaChickNMom]

Do you guys ever get together for like... Washington Chickenfest 2013? LOL. That would be cool....

 

[CarolynF]

Do you guys ever get together for like... Washington Chickenfest 2013? LOL. That would be cool....

Well, unless I'm missing something, I think it's safe to say we use shows like the one in Monroe on Sat., or the one in Vancouver next month to do some pretty good sized get togethers. They are nice enough to allow us to do a two-fer. Are you planning to go to either of those? It's great fun to meet everyone and take part in a pot luck.