Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[ChaeBird]

Chances are she attended when the school was in San Fran. By the time I went there, it had moved to Monterery -- not a bad place to spend a year (for Russian) - and an even better place to spend 4 months of TDY (for Turbo-Serbo)

I loooooved Monterey, and studying Arabic meant I was there for over a year. So gorgeous.

 

[VelvettFog]

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When were you there?

 

[lilfarmmomma]

For a few weeks the girls and I had been diligently setting aside eggs from our bantam cochin, because when a breed like that suddenly starts laying eggs every day I get suspicious about impending broodiness. No signs, no signs, no signs, nothing. I finally got bored of setting them inside and moved her eggs left from our 2-day trip to Seattle straight to the fridge. Sigh. Now she's broody and sitting on just one egg. Oh, well. She's not a proven broody hen yet, so I suppose it's just as well. I guess I was hoping to ditch the rooster sooner. He and I don't get along very well, but he's a good guy otherwise and all the chickie-girls adore him and he even loves Useless Chicken "Crown", our Sultan hen, and clucks and worries over her. I thought that a bantam cochin/bantam ee cross would be a fun barnyard mix. I hope and pray that if she hatches this egg, it is a pullet. Please send a lot of girl-vibes our way!

Anyway, we welcomed 6 new chicks from the feed store yesterday. I loved the calmness of getting one- to 2-week old chicks, not worrying about splayed legs or other stuff. And they are such calm birds! None of last year's craziness. And what fun to take the girls to pick them out to take home! Just a few pics because I can't help myself:


Butterscotch

Silver

Daffodil


Forest

Brownie

Hermione

I was pleased to see the Farm Store carrying Golden-laced Wyandottes and ?Welsummers?. They had one bin of "assorted-dark-egg layers", and they were all this last one, I think a Welsummer. I don't know those breeds well enough to say. I was really wanting to try this breed. Pleased they got in their Buff Orpingtons. I miss having those in the flock.

Anyway, thanks for taking a minute to read our family's updates.

(The girls wanted me to post this little chick.)

AWWW!!! I have a Hermione too!! I also have a Buckbeak, whom I am pretty sure is turning out to be a roo.

We (really DH) own 1/4 of a 200 acre family farm in Illinois with a little lake. I don't want to live in the midwest again, I wish it was in WA or OR.

Imagine how many chickens I could have!

We visited last summer, it was the first time I'd been there or the kids. It was hot, buggy, humid, flat and dry. There was nothing living in the lake. But they had corn and soybeans. yippee. The farm house is long gone, the barn is gone, there is nothing except corn and soybeans. What a waste.

We get a farm check every spring though.

A famous quote from my son when we were there: "Gower lake is great, except for the bugs, humidity and extreme heat". It was 104 at one point. My Seattle kids can't take heat like that. They were melting!




I don't know how people live like that. I did live like that and I would never go back to it. 80% of the year it's too uncomfortable to be outside.

Oh, I love the midwest. My DH is from ND and we go back to visit almost every year. I can handle the heat and bugs, it's the snakes that I don't like. I wanted to move there, he of course, thinks I'm nuts. My SIL has a 160 acre (I think) farm and I am SO jealous.

 

[ChaeBird]

When were you there?

'02-'03ish, right out of high school.

 

[SweetSilver]

AWWW!!! I have a Hermione too!! I also have a Buckbeak, whom I am pretty sure is turning out to be a roo.

Yes, we also have a Buckbeak-- the bantam cochin I mentioned, who happens to be blue. She's a girl, though. We've also had a Draco (awful, awful Lakenvelder cockerel who thankfully died), a Pansy Parkinson and Romilda Vane (our Sumatra hens, but those names didn't stick and the girls call them Snowdrop???? and Zinnia).

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: English Marans don't, only French.

Marans are a French breed, so I would only acknowledge them. The English are deviants in every way. Avoid them at all costs.

[The US and French Standard call for Feathers - I don't think there are that many imports of clean legged birds from Britain, - wouldn't makes sense because the cost would be prohibitive since you can't show them. So, sounds like it is not a true Marans unless it has feathers]

 

[Slinglings]

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Marans are a French breed, so I would only acknowledge them. The English are deviants in every way. Avoid them at all costs.
LOL

 

[Totalcolour]

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You don't need to hit the quote button to make a statement or ask a question. Questions are open to anyone - they are not directed to anyone, but rather to the forum as a whole, and anyone who has information can answer, or not.

 

[Totalcolour]

Well - just thought I'd introduce myself - I'll try to keep up, but man I thought the natural chicken-keeping thread moved fast - you guys are pros. You've been great entertainment today for 'sickie - momy'. Enjoyed the monroe show - fun seeing all the different types of chicks - next time I'll be able to introduce myself to you all!

and the WA Thread!

 

[Totalcolour]

we have a lot of bold eagles around here, but I never noticed any problems, but my chickens are in the covered run. My dad said that a couple of eagles were eyeing his chickens the other day, and they live on the city lot next to the highway, I mean his chicken coop is 10 feet away from highway. Its the time of the year, they need food for the little ones.

I don't think it's breeding season yet for hawks and eagles, least, they don't have young 'uns yet. It's just that chicks are easier prey than the stuff in forests. We leave out poultry outside where its so easy for them to get at them.