Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[bikerchicky]

Or the back of a large turtle when upside down..

Or cover for a chicken dust bath????

 

[bikerchicky]

So is the food that ducks can eat different than the food that chickens can eat? I just googled feeding chickens lettuce and spinach - many sites say they can. Here's a couple...

http://www.ehow.com/info_8105142_vegetables-chickens-eat.html

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/chicken-treat-chart-the-best-treats-for-backyard-chickens

And - it's good to know they can eat asparagus - 'cause my girls are known to dust bathe in my asparagus bed. I sure hope they didn't kill it. I've often wondered, as I watched them chow down on the ferns, if it was OK for them.

My babies have already tried asparagus and it was a hoot to watch. Took them about 2 minutes to discover they could eat it, then the chase was on to see who got to eat it.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Hi all! Good day today, just because. It's the little things, right? The kids let me sleep until 7:30 and we watched Elmo until 8. It only took an hour for us all to finish breakfast and do all the house chores for the day. School from 9:15-10:45 and then playtime. Pleasant playtime. Anyone with more than 1 child knows it can be challenging to train and encourage siblings to play kindly and selflessly, so....

Early lunch at 11:30, Siesta for all from about 12:30-2pm, then we ate air popped popcorn and watched Star Wars II...all the while running around the house fighting with the many light sabers we have here.

Finishing up the movie right now, house is clean for DHs arrival which still won't be for quite a while.

The chickens managed to cross the creek today because it's so skinny and shallow so my fence is now rendered moot until we lengthen the fence, but they were happy to have long grass again since they've sufficiently eaten all the grass on their side. Tomorrow night Flirty31 will come get 2 of my big girls to add to her flock; I'll miss them, but we needed to make room for babies who will soon grow up and take much more room on the roosts than they do now!

DH is bringing home a pizza for the kids for supper and we're having shakes. Shakes, you ask? Yup. Just found out we get to take a whirlwind trip together to FL mid-May, so I now have 6.5 weeks to look amazing in a swim suit. Doh! I'm SORE. Been working out like a crazy person and my new routine is rotating through: Couch to 5K (running program), 30 Day Shred, and 6 Week 6 Pack (both by Jillian Michaels). I've needed a kick in the buns to get in shape anyway, nothing like bathing suit season to do so huh?

OK, back to our movie and hanging out, bummer of a wet day! Only 5 eggs so far today, hoping there's a bunch more out there when I lock up this evening.

 

[bikerchicky]

Anyone have any tips on how to keep chicks from spilling all their food... UGH it sees like such a waste...

Have you tried wet feed yet? I use SO MUCH LESS now, and I still keep some dry in the crate for day time nibbles, but with the wet twice a day they don't seem to be eating as much dry. My girls are also getting grass twice a day, so they are filling up with wet feed and grass twice a day. The dry seems to just sit in the crate, or they spill a little then scratch in the shredded paper.

 

[bikerchicky]

we are a non-dairy family (not by choice!) and love Karam's Garlic sauce. (google "lebanese garlic sauce recipe"- its very easy to make). I make a super fast dinner with it (or the homemade version, which takes 5 minutes to make and is far cheaper- make in a blender to emulsify it).

My 1 dish casserole made from Garlic Sauce - takes 5 minutes to make:
in greased 9x13 pan, (or whatever size your household is- adjust pan size to fit your needs
Add frozen vegetables- either frozen green beans, broccoli, broccoli/cauliflower mix, or mixed veg till pan is 2/3 full. (we love green beans best)
Add salt & pepper, then bite size chunks of raw boneless chicken breast, in a sparce layer on top. (I use about 3 medium size 1/2 breast portions per 9x13 pan)
Pour garlic sauce over everything
Put in 375 degree oven till browned on top and bubbling, about 45 minutes.
Serve over rice or noodles, or baked potato, or just eat plain.

AWESOME RainMom. I will try this. I love garlic sauces, but am trying to stay away from dairy. I'm excited to try this!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, I didn't sleep much last night, but I did, sort of, figure out where everything except the bantams will be when I get stuff moved around, and what needs done first- that being swamping out Ian's old digs, which I was going to do Monday and Tuesday of this week, except for the part where I stood and talked with my knees locked for MUCH too long on Easter, and could barely stand or walk for the last two days. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Anyway, the only tricky bits are moving the nest house/perch to the north end of the Hamburg extension, roofing the airlock for that structure, (both of which need help) and figuring out where I'm putting the bantams (which comes down to wanting them near a door, but also easily visible from the windows I look out of most.).

I will end up with these final pens: BLRWs in Ian's old digs with the rooster I'm getting from Rob; Quinta and Ginjur the bearded EEs and Sara the straight-combed Hamburg in the HD kennel structure with a splash Ameraucana cockeral I'm picking up at the Vancouver show, Elvis and the two hens he's with and Tegan his daughter and Quinta the Columbian silver spangled beardless EE (who lays a very blue egg) in the extension, with the Tower of Solitude and the Hoop House reduced to quarantine and grow-out pens.

I'm also going to have to put a bigger sheep pen together for this summer: there's no way I can get through the wedding if I have to tether him out that week.

And today I have two cows apparently in a race to drop their calves, both of them hanging out way the heck up on the hill on the far end corner of the place. I soaked through one heavy-weight Carhardt hoody getting up there this morning, and a second doing the chicken rounds. I've got to go out again and check the cows in about a half hour, and am trying to rest enough to do that without faceplanting in my keyboard, because I'm just that sleepy.

 

[ChickAudie]

Well, I didn't sleep much last night, but I did, sort of, figure out where everything except the bantams will be when I get stuff moved around, and what needs done first- that being swamping out Ian's old digs, which I was going to do Monday and Tuesday of this week, except for the part where I stood and talked with my knees locked for MUCH too long on Easter, and could barely stand or walk for the last two days. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Anyway, the only tricky bits are moving the nest house/perch to the north end of the Hamburg extension, roofing the airlock for that structure, (both of which need help) and figuring out where I'm putting the bantams (which comes down to wanting them near a door, but also easily visible from the windows I look out of most.).

I will end up with these final pens: BLRWs in Ian's old digs with the rooster I'm getting from Rob; Quinta and Ginjur the bearded EEs and Sara the straight-combed Hamburg in the HD kennel structure with a splash Ameraucana cockeral I'm picking up at the Vancouver show, Elvis and the two hens he's with and Tegan his daughter and Quinta the Columbian silver spangled beardless EE (who lays a very blue egg) in the extension, with the Tower of Solitude and the Hoop House reduced to quarantine and grow-out pens.

I'm also going to have to put a bigger sheep pen tofether for this summer: there's no way I can get through the wedding if I have to tether him out that week.

And today I have two cows apparently in a race to drop their calves, both of them hanging out way the heck up on the hill on the far end corner of the place. I soaked through one heavy-weight Carhardt hoody getting up there this morning, and a second doing the chicken rounds. I've got to go out again and check the cows in about a half hour, and am trying to rest enough to do that without faceplanting in my keyboard, because I'm just that sleepy.

Oh boy, I do not envy you one bit! I got tired just reading about all the work that's to be done!

Big hugs, you got this!

 

[BantyChickenLuv]

Is anyone taking their kids to the rocking roosters youth invitational!?

I'm going, and showing my Wyandottes. I'm also going to the PNPA show this month.

 

[ChickAudie]

What are you thinking guys? Can she stay Princess Leia, or will we need to change it to Hans Solo?

 

[KMoran]

Any tips on getting my turkey poults to eat? I keep dunking their beaks in the feed...

I just dont want them to dye again this year....