Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[bikerchicky]

Anyone close to Federal way? Im hoping to get chickens this summer but dk where to start breed wise!

Welcome to a great, informative, and friendly group of chicky folks. Ask lots of questions as they have lots of information (opinions) to share.

 

[bikerchicky]

Welcome aboard.. Save all the steps and start with these!!!!

Blue Laced Red Brahma

Sorry I just couldn't resist.

This one sure looks a lot like a Blue Lace Red Wyandotte. Are you sure you aren't confusing your breeds????

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Also, should have mentioned this earlier: the 54"X16' galvanized livestock panels (the ones with eight inch vertical interval, horizontal divisions grading from 4" to 8") are on sale at Del's for $27 and change, or five dollars off. You can have them cut for free if you need smaller pieces (they can be cut with bolt cutters, hand grinders, any saw that will cut metal, or rotary pipe cutters otherwise). They can be used for rigid framing for both hoop houses and large runs, and it's much easier to attack small-mesh wire to them than to other framing media.

And if you have large livestock outside your yard, they are the only thing that won't get smashed down.

I'm getting a bunch to give the sheep a new larger movable pen.

 

[VelvettFog]

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How are the eggs "more nutritious" ? I do not believe that the nutrition varies from breed to breed.

Also - and I'm being quite picky - there is no such type of bird as a "Americauna".

 

[Stumpfarmer]

OH CRUD. my son just came home and said were is the car.... That's right someone came and stole it from our house... I'm so mad, the cops said with the car down the street with its dome light on was also most likely stolen too. I'm mad....

Oh...(editorial comment withheld) that's the worst!

 

[bikerchicky]

OH CRUD. my son just came home and said were is the car.... That's right someone came and stole it from our house... I'm so mad, the cops said with the car down the street with its dome light on was also most likely stolen too. I'm mad....

NO KIDDING THIS SUCKS! I had a car stolen from an apartment I lived in. Went to bed and it was there. Woke up the next morning, looked out the kitchen window and it was gone. Couldn't believe my eyes so I ran to the door and ran out to the parking spot and sure enough, it was gone. I lived a block from work so I walked to work and got the car back a week later with only a flat tire (very lucky to get it back). Hope they find your car with little to no damage.

 

[bikerchicky]

Wat=ev=er!!!!! Really!!!! You gotta Rub it in???

It's a swap over here at my place. Do you know where I can buy some pontoons for my ridin mower??

HMMMM...now that's an interesting idea. Pontoons for a riding lawnmower. Really.....does your grass grow that tall through a swamp that you need a riding lawnmower????

 

[bikerchicky]

I lived in Oly when I was a little kid - thankfully we moved before I evolved into:

VF....showing your age here aren't you??????

 

[bikerchicky]

DH had a big super fat Tuxedo cat named Moped...cuz of his motor.
This cat ate everything & was really overweight.
His favorite thing was plastic (like the bread wrapper) and tinsil off the X-mas tree...which would be around his mouth and out his hiney, and would scare him so bad that some monster was chasing him !

Visual of this happening is too funny!!

My tuxedo cat (Tuxedo) like plastic bags but not grocery bags. Those bags are toys and as a kitten we could carry him around in the grocery bags. Now he's a big boy of about 15 pounds and those bags are too small. He LOVES my laundry bag (very large with a shoulder strap) so when I bring it down to do laundry he needs his "play in the bag" time.

I love my cats, they are so entertaining.

 

[Totalcolour]

When I had chickens, the Aracaunas (spelling!) were my favorite because their eggs are more nutritious and better tasting than other eggs. They come in blue, green, and pink depending on the chicken and it seems each hen lays her own unique shade (my flock was free range so we had regular egg hunts looking for colored eggs and we did not have to color them for Easter). If it were not for raising this breed for so many years, I never would have acquired a taste for eggs. I looked for them before I decided on ducks and they are difficult to find but the Americauna (spelling, Ameraucana is a cross of Aracauna so they have many of their desirable qualities. The Aracauna chicken has almost a mane of feathers giving them an attractive head and they have a "beard" of feathers that also gives them a unique look. Because they come in a variety of colors, they don't all look alike and that makes them easier to name and note their personalities. I still think about getting some myself but ducks are so much easier on my yard and more beneficial to my garden, plus they love the rain so they are much happier roaming the yard when chickens would seek shelter in rainy weather. If I end up raising chickens again I would definitely want Aracaunas.

The Araucana is a rumpless chiecken and only lays blue eggs. There is no nutritional difference in these eggs compared to other breeds. The Aruacana doesn't have a mane or beard, is has ear tufts.
Araucana




The Ameraucana: They are not a cross with the Araucana and other breeds. The more current, more accepted theory is that a different breed from Chile, the Quechua, was the parent stock from which the Ameraucanas were developed. These birds have beards and muffs and also lay blue eggs. EE's (an Ameraucana/X) can lay various coloured eggs.