Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[ChaeBird]

Orange pies! XD The yolks made them so pretty and orange-y.

 

[fikeyismybaby]

Hey! Save some for us!

 

[fikeyismybaby]

Orange pies! XD The yolks made them so pretty and orange-y.

Hey!Save some For us!

 

[ChaeBird]

Hey!Save some For us!

It's my party and I'll eat all the pie if I want to!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Heydiho! I'm down (temporarily) to one rooster, and just as I was thinking how I'd be able to pull up the tower of solitude without taking it entirely apart, two young men from Montana showed up and that problem was solved. What with robj's kindness and having an old friend show up from craigslist and the two alumni of White Sulphur Springs High School in the nick of time, well, all my cards were aces.

Well, except losing Suzzie. I was sorting eggs last night and noticed, finally, that three of the last five eggs she laid were WAY over sized- USDA Jumbo instead of her usual large. The chicken mavens of my childhood all insisted that hens suddenly laying very large eggs was a Bad Sign, that they were the ones more likely to prolapse or become egg bound.

Oh, well, time to go get a few million other things dome, including emptying the non-food galvanized can and washing thoroughly it so I can swap it with the Layena can with the busted bottom seam.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

*sigh*

Nobody's here to chat, darn, guess I've got to stand up and go work in the gorgeous sunshine and icy wind again, then?

 

[walady944]

Did you mean Dale as in Dale Evans, wife and side kick to Roy Rogers?

Love the names!

 

[TacomaFarms]

Hinotori - Thank you for the reference for GSDs. I am checking them out now!

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It is very pretty. However, considering the havoc that my chickens have made of my newly placed gravel paths and brick patio last summer, I'd suggest that any chickens added to that beautiful yard be confined to a nice run or that gravel with be all over that pristine garden along with any dirt that could be kicked up and out. Then say goodbye to your Better Homes and Gardens submission.

My girls are hoodlums I tell you! I'm making sure to keep the spray paint out their little claws or next they'll be painting my new wooden fence in grafitti.

Mine probably would too... Back to the drawing board.

Quote: Now that I've owned chickens, I have to agree. Being that was my first batch of chicks I was determined to not lose a single one! It's the strong mama in me, now.... Yea, survival of the fittest has sunk in. Sorry future chickees.

Quote: The trick is to get Paphiopetallums or Phalionopsis. Don't underwater the first and don't overwater the latter. Those are the easyest.
How on earth would I know what I have? It was a gift.

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*Great* actually... So I already poured water into the crown, which I suspect is why the stems are turning yellow/brown.

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So was I (38 hours, natural home birth)

HOLY CROW AND A HALF!!!! I'm not even going to mention mine, because y'all would find me and stone me for how short it was. And you had more than one!?! Good Lord Almighty woman!!!

#1: 36+ hours, naturally in the hospital
#2: 14 hours, naturally at home
#3: (You can imagine why I would have stayed home again after the amazingly short and wonderful birth of #2...oops) 38+ hours naturally at home
You're going to punch me-- #1, induced for preE no pain meds, 9 hours start to finish. #2, I went to the doctor because I "felt wierd" and was told I was 5 cm and they sent me to the hospital. 2 hours of non stop screaming and I had a baby. I much preferred the 9 hour birth to the two hour one!
I'm condemning myself up for the "get punched" group, I was in labor for 5 hours and my daughter practically jumped out, all 8lbs 4 oz of her, and did a jig.

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YES! And, if anyone is interested - in Tacoma, is The Birthing Inn. They are WONDERFUL! You might as well be at home. I abhor hospitals!!! I have checked myself and baby out early EVERY time. There was no reason for me to stay 48 hours other than to charge my insurance!

The Birthing Inn is beautiful. I will probably opt for home birth next time, solely because they discharged me, giving up my room, for the elevator to stop working and I was stuck at the nurses station for 3.5 hours waiting for the d*** elevator to be restored.

Never again! Granted, I will have an awesome midwife on staff.

Off to Wilco to get my meat chicks(free with my feed purchase) and then out to get my Silkie chicks. Then a busy day working on coop stuff, bathing the older Silkies, friend coming over for dinner and chicken edumacation(getting chickens next week). So I will attempt to catch up tonight. Later peeps

I COULDN'T RESIST!!! We stopped in to get some emergency kit items for the bunnies and birds, and out with 10 chicks. If my daughter hadn't've begged I might've made it home kid chick free.

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[Breshcandra]

My barred rock is laying again and one of my ee's started laying. I had 2 silkie broody's. But after a month of them trying to hatch eggs. I moved them into an area that I made to put the broodys so they won't be disturbed. They decided they weren't broody any more. Then I had another broody hen so moved her to the broody area. She did not like it. She wanted the next box that is with all the others. So Will let her alone. And hopefully these won't be rolled to much which is what was happening with the others. I know they are fertile as I have some growing in the incubator.

 

[ChickAudie]

ugh..I gathered eggs this morning, sat them down to do some other chicken related task and forgot about them. Remembered an hour later and found them smashed up on the patio, uneaten. At least *eat* them if you're going to smash them. I left them in a place that normally the chickens don't go, so I think some crows did it. 5 whole eggs.

JennS, Imp and friend, and I went to Rainwolf's place yesterday to help her clean up her back yard. I had to leave early because I wasn't feeling well, but I think we got some stuff done. Her mom made a lovely lunch. I wish I could have stayed longer!


For the first time I didn't secure my chickens last night. I was so sick, and I know I went out to the coop with DD ~ DD shut the pop door going to the run and shut the run door, I thought I shut the human door but must not have latched it. I woke up to all 8 hens waiting outside the house back door bocking and complaining~they couldn't get to their food in the run. That's when I screwed up with the eggs.

Now DH is sick. DD was sick Wednesday. We're dropping like flies.

That's too bad, feel better soon. A lot of my family are taking Zinc suplements and staying healthy, I haven't gone down and picked some up, but planning on it if anybody shows signs of getting sick.

Hope you guys get better soon.