Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[DeltaBluezTess]

Yes I am reducing my Red and Jubilee Orps due to illness. I have two adult red Pullets and two adult Jubilee Pullet and five straight run Ops (maybe 2 red and three Orps).....Red pullets are from Fancy Chicks, Jubilee pullets are from Greenfire and chicks are part Greenfire/Papa Poultry lines. I am in Carnation.

(spoke too soon)....we are going to keep them for a little bit longer.....

 

[Amberjem]

Good morning a pretty day to make a ferry trip over to port townsend today

 

[Hinotori]

I don't have the best wheaten ameraucanas, but a few of the girls are nice as is the rooster. Hopefully this spring I get some really nice chicks.

Now the partridge silkies are nice and have been giving me some very nice chicks. I had to break one of the hens from going broody last week, though. No more hatching until next year. The current chicks are 6 weeks and I still can't tell who's a boy and girl yet.

 

[jbkirk]

They lay BLUE eggs.

The rest is correct.

Thanks MK

 

[Amberjem]

great meeting you today and once again thanks so very much

 

[1TurkenLover]

Lewis County : \ Powers back on after 3 or so hrs. ....

anyone going Ol School limited " modern Convenes " Kinda like Mennonite, Just thinking, . . My Fore Parents managed ?
Got to be a Simpler ▬ another way.

 

[Hinotori]

Lewis County : \ Powers back on after 3 or so hrs. ....

anyone going Ol School limited " modern Convenes " Kinda like Mennonite, Just thinking, . . My Fore Parents managed ?
Got to be a Simpler ▬ another way.

When we lost power for 5 days a few Januaries ago, we did just fine. I had to set up the generator for the fridge and freezer (WAY to much meat in there to lose). I was cooking on the wood stove for all our meals. Bacon and egg breakfasts. Steak and veggies one night for dinner. Hamburgers. Stew for a few days.

I was collecting snow from outside in really big pots and melting it to use for washing ourselves, water the birds, and flushing the toilet. Our well water has to much iron and I can't stand to drink it so we always have filtered water from the store for drinking and cooking.

 

[CarolynF]

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It would probably be good for all of us to "go without" every now and then to really appreciate what we have. But I don't have a wood stove or a generator!

Keeping my fingers crossed that the upcoming winds they're predicting don't knock us out, and doing a little pre-planning.

 

[ochochicas]

HInotori - We did the same thing when the power was out for five days, expect for melting the snow part. Our well pump works off a generator and the water is excellent. We would heat up water on the wood stove though to bathe and also to pour in the water troughs to melt the ice off. We survived somehow, although I'd prefer to not have to do it again.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

HInotori - We did the same thing when the power was out for five days, expect for melting the snow part. Our well pump works off a generator and the water is excellent. We would heat up water on the wood stove though to bathe and also to pour in the water troughs to melt the ice off. We survived somehow, although I'd prefer to not have to do it again.

I have filled up all the waters. An extra 6 buckets of drinking water for the horses and 2 large water founts in each coop. I just filled 3 jugs of drinking water for us. Our well is a shared well on the neighbors property. Hoping that they might have a generator but haven't had that conversation with them yet. The longest we went with out power is 36 hours. Apparently a big wig for PSE lives on our grid.