Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[FirewifeJess]

My babies are finally out of the house! 3.5 weeks of the most disgusting filth imaginable inside the house. I was having to completely wipe down the kitchen counters and table 6-8 times a day and dust the upstairs every day just so we could function as a family who eats and does school at the table!! Ew. I rigged the lamp in the run for nighttime and will now work for the next 2weeks getting them off heat entirely. If my broody can do it by then in lesser temps, so can I! I'm already dying to get my friend her chicks so I can focus just on my flock, but she's due in 10 days....doh! Gonna be a while.

 

[nikki1]

My sweet little ninja turtle is asleep for the night :-D

Okay, now that's just plain cute!

 

[VelvettFog]

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You goof.

 

[RainMom]

My babies are finally out of the house! 3.5 weeks of the most disgusting filth imaginable inside the house. I was having to completely wipe down the kitchen counters and table 6-8 times a day and dust the upstairs every day just so we could function as a family who eats and does school at the table!! Ew. I rigged the lamp in the run for nighttime and will now work for the next 2weeks getting them off heat entirely. If my broody can do it by then in lesser temps, so can I! I'm already dying to get my friend her chicks so I can focus just on my flock, but she's due in 10 days....doh! Gonna be a while.

I know the feeling! We just got the laundry room cleared of silkies/showgirls today- and the smell is sooo much better! I almost WANT to do laundry again (well, ummm...never mind...let's not go that far, okay?)

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We put the silkies in a cute litte house and gave them their own run, but DH thought they were cold, because they were all huddling together in a corner, so we gave them a lamp too. As soon as he turned it on, then ran across the house to get under it. Yep- it's cold out there tonight!

DH and I decided we are going to make the tractor 2 foot higher as soon as we have free time. It works great, but would be even better if we could stand up in it.

It was our first chicken project we made together last march.

It's still in EGGcellent shapre too, so we did a good job! The 16 chicks we hatched in the inCOOLbator are loking like full-grown chickens, except smaller. We have not ever taken the time to count how many hens or roosters we have, so we plan to catch them and do that this week. I am not going to like sending any off the roosters to freezer camp- they are all going to be gorgeous. We might have to have my son enter some in a poultry show once before they move on.

I've been feeling super dizzy and whimpy for a week now,

but managed to get some projects done today with a few breaks to sit down. I am wondering if it's been caused by the Kombucha I've been drinking to help my gut is detoxing me - like a herxheimer reaction.

Not sure, but wish whatever it is would go away. I've got stuff to do!.

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I sure hope the weather is better this week. We're getting pretty discouraged trying to plant stuff- it;'s all drowning!

If we actually got stuff planted this week we MIGHT end up appearing at the vancouver chicken show. DH and I were just talking about how much we miss taking road trips. Hmmmm....

Hello to all the new folks -

and be sure to say what area you are in!

3arthM0mma - you are welcome to come out this way to check out my portable chicken tractor- I'm not far from you- just up hwy 18. Send me a PM if you're interested sometime.

Time for my last cup of tea before bed.

 

[3arthm0ther]

Definitely use a ramp for them to go up to the coop, but it's funny to watch them. Much of the time they flap their wings a bit and jump half way up the ramp, as if to say "why walk when I can jump?" They won't fall off, perching on a roost is their natural habit. Can you imagine a robin falling off a branch? Same thing. I use a 2x4 turned so they sit on the wide side. That way when it's cold their feathers are down over their feet keeping them warm. Not a big issue here in W. Wash. but it makes me feel good to know their toes are warm.

If you have only 4 chickens you don't need 3 different roosts. Take a peek at my coop by clicking on My Coop a few lines below my avatar. It's a bit bigger now because I extended it's length to the right, but little else. Four hens will easily roost on the perch. And I can reach every corner easily.

thats too funny that they jump! i cant wait to see the silly little things mine do.

i figured it wouldnt be an issue but i love to give them options. plus i think i might build one big enough for 8 even though im only allowed 4.

oh another question. my backyard is half hill and half ground level with a 4' retaining wall. the bottom half turns to almost muddy water during our rainy season but im sure our hill stays "together" is this a potential issue for the chickens? their coop would be in a spot that raised about a foot or 2 from the main ground

 

[3arthm0ther]

I know the feeling! We just got the laundry room cleared of silkies/showgirls today- and the smell is sooo much better! I almost WANT to do laundry again (well, ummm...never mind...let's not go that far, okay?)

.

We put the silkies in a cute litte house and gave them their own run, but DH thought they were cold, because they were all huddling together in a corner, so we gave them a lamp too. As soon as he turned it on, then ran across the house to get under it. Yep- it's cold out there tonight!

DH and I decided we are going to make the tractor 2 foot higher as soon as we have free time. It works great, but would be even better if we could stand up in it.

It was our first chicken project we made together last march.

It's still in EGGcellent shapre too, so we did a good job! The 16 chicks we hatched in the inCOOLbator are loking like full-grown chickens, except smaller. We have not ever taken the time to count how many hens or roosters we have, so we plan to catch them and do that this week. I am not going to like sending any off the roosters to freezer camp- they are all going to be gorgeous. We might have to have my son enter some in a poultry show once before they move on.

I've been feeling super dizzy and whimpy for a week now,

but managed to get some projects done today with a few breaks to sit down. I am wondering if it's been caused by the Kombucha I've been drinking to help my gut is detoxing me - like a herxheimer reaction.

Not sure, but wish whatever it is would go away. I've got stuff to do!.

. it could be! your body heals in reverse if that makes sense. i have candida and gluten intolerance, my son might them both as well. im just starting to dig into detoxing....no fun at all!!!

I sure hope the weather is better this week. We're getting pretty discouraged trying to plant stuff- it;'s all drowning!

If we actually got stuff planted this week we MIGHT end up appearing at the vancouver chicken show. DH and I were just talking about how much we miss taking road trips. Hmmmm....

Hello to all the new folks -

and be sure to say what area you are in!

3arthM0mma - you are welcome to come out this way to check out my portable chicken tractor- I'm not far from you- just up hwy 18. Send me a PM if you're interested sometime. hell yeah id love to come hang out and see your tractor sometime!!! ill pm you for sure when the weather gets nicer!

Time for my last cup of tea before bed.

 

[DiamondDust]

What part of WA are you in? Maybe we have some peeps close

I'm in Belfair...small town in the North part of Mason County...let's see...if you traveled from Bremerton to Shelton you go right through the town, lol!

 

[RainMom]

I'm in Belfair...small town in the North part of Mason County...let's see...if you traveled from Bremerton to Shelton you go right through the town, lol!

My inlaws lived in Belfair until 2010. They were halfway between Belfair State park and the Safeway/QFC in that weird mobile home community up Sand Hill Road (the community that's half nice retired or family folks and half tweekers.)

Welcome to BYC!

 

[DiamondDust]

Lol, my husband and I lived in that community when we were first married (many years ago)! I live on the other side of Hood Canal now though.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

All this talk of ties to Belfair... in October and November of 1957, Dad and Uncle Chuck were cutting Christmas trees on contract for a shipper; part of the contract was two truck loads, his choice, for us to sell at the country store my parents ran. The last weekend he was out there he brought the first load home on Friday night, and then took Mom and my sister and I up there for a treat. We went way up on to the top of the ridge between Belfair and Dewatto on one of those rare cold clear November days and cut a special load of trees he'd cruised and kept back (which was legit under the contract) and five-and-a-half-year-old me yarded a dozen or so out to the truck before crashing out in a branch bed next to the fire where Mom was cooking lunch, where my three-year-old sister had been napping for an hour.