Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[BGMatt]

Hey does anyone in Washington raise good Cream Legbars?

 

[mikeyb]

OK, went out in the rain (don't do that normally being an East Coast kid; loose term) and took some pics of the chicks.
Jersey Giants from ChickieLady;

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

OK, went out in the rain (don't do that normally being an East Coast kid; loose term) and took some pics of the chicks.
Jersey Giants from ChickieLady;

I want some My grandma use to have some when I was growing up. She got them because she said if she ever couldn't afford to feed them they have enough meat to actually make a meal from each bird.
Someday I'll get use to this incubator and get some eggs to hatch! so far i've had better luck with a cooler and a lightbulb then an actual incubator (weird right?).

 

[Hinotori]

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I use two gallon rubber livestock dishes for most water. It's dumped and sprayed with the jet setting on my nozzle every day. I have a long handled brush that attaches to the hose I use when I'm cleaning all the waterers. I do have some old fashioned galvanized ones. The little one goes in the silkie pen with the chicks in there and stays very clean with just a spraying if I keep it out of the sun so no algae grows. I have one 5 gallon plastic waterer that is the chickens favorite that I hate. I can't clean it out as well as I like and it gets a bit of algae growing inside even. The plastic bottom grows the algae much more rapidly than the metal ones for me.

I've talked to DH about doing a nipple system, but it would be useless for me for half the year with the freezing at night. With the rubber bowls I just pop the ice out and refill. If we didn't freeze as much, I'd definitely set up something to catch the rainwater off the metal carport roof and use that for the chickens.

 

[Hinotori]

Anyone else getting crazy weather? I don't mind the rain but it rains then the sun is out i go try to do some work in the yard and it starts raining again. And now i think i just heard some thunder... yep dogs are hiding under my chair it was thunder.

Dark, black clouds and nasty wind and rain. Then it eases up for a few and the sun comes out. Sudden changes back and forth. Yeah, got to love it. I let the begging cats out when it started letting up this last time. They'll be back in soon enough. The dogs really want to go play in it. They don't care at all.

 

[SplendidsChicke]

I use two gallon rubber livestock dishes for most water. It's dumped and sprayed with the jet setting on my nozzle every day. I have a long handled brush that attaches to the hose I use when I'm cleaning all the waterers. I do have some old fashioned galvanized ones. The little one goes in the silkie pen with the chicks in there and stays very clean with just a spraying if I keep it out of the sun so no algae grows. I have one 5 gallon plastic waterer that is the chickens favorite that I hate. I can't clean it out as well as I like and it gets a bit of algae growing inside even. The plastic bottom grows the algae much more rapidly than the metal ones for me.

I've talked to DH about doing a nipple system, but it would be useless for me for half the year with the freezing at night. With the rubber bowls I just pop the ice out and refill. If we didn't freeze as much, I'd definitely set up something to catch the rainwater off the metal carport roof and use that for the chickens.

Ya.... We live on Indian Hill above Snoqualmie. Freezing is an issue!

 

[mikeyb]

still no chicks from my broodie. sigh. I'll give her a few more days.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Dark, black clouds and nasty wind and rain. Then it eases up for a few and the sun comes out. Sudden changes back and forth. Yeah, got to love it. I let the begging cats out when it started letting up this last time. They'll be back in soon enough. The dogs really want to go play in it. They don't care at all.

My dogs wont go out in it. I had to leash and drag them out there when they were doing the potty dance at the door (with the door wide open).

 

[Hinotori]

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Friend of mine had a dog afraid of storms. My old schipperke thought hurricanes were the best time to take off to play and make me chase after her. During thunderstorms she'd always try and get my friends dog to come out of hiding and play. Friends dog was more relaxed during the storms when Fiery was there. I've heard that the Thundershirts do help them during storms if they are afraid.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, got the heavy lifting done, and the smell of old dog pee washed out of the house; also improved sheep resistance on the Betty Corning clematis, which is pretty and scented of lemon and which I do not wish the sheep to nosh on. The hired hand went on to help some other non-driving person do her grocery shopping, without the stricken look of facing another day at a job which was going nowhere.

Driving myself spare in the matter of the long-handled loppers and my sports sticks, both of which I've been searching for for days. The sticks I haven't seen anywhere, but the loppers I keep seeing somewhere on my regular rounds, always when I have both hands full. I've got to go out and do another egg round after I have this brief sit-down and am going to try to be extra extra observant.