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[SeattleSelkie]

Who's ready for another windstorm?

Sunday is lock down day for the incubator.......after two outages already this batch, I just want to

 

[CoopDeDoo]

Who'said ready for another windstorm?
Recent model runs have been in good agreement, which increases confidence that this event will occur. The exact strength and track of the system's surface low are still uncertain - and crucial to the forecast - but it appears that the low will track northeast toward the region Sunday, deepening to around 975 millibars within 60 miles of the central Washington coast Sunday afternoon, then continue across the northwest corner of the Olympic peninsula and the south end of Vancouver Island, weakening as it moves into southwest mainland British Columbia later Sunday night. This is the classic storm track for a western Washington windstorm.

The forecast calls for sustained winds of 30 to 45 mph with gusts as high as 60 to 70 mph, and for most parts of western Washington the highest winds will probably occur Sunday afternoon and evening. Power outages and downed trees are possible, along with some damage to buildings. Remember that falling trees and tree limbs can cause serious injury or death.

*sigh* Glad my chicks are 5 weeks old and not dependent on heat anymore. Still working on repairing the fencing around the grow-out coop so I suppose they will spend another few shelter days in the garage brooder.

 

[Chickielady]

Oh, yes. Kombucha is good for lowering blood sugars. It can make them to low.


Not sure if it helped my cholesterol as well, since I'd changed my diet drastically as well during the time I'd started the Kombucha. The doctor just couldn't believe the changes I had in six months. Lost 60 pounds, dropped my A1C down to 4, triglycerides dropped over 200. HDL came up by 40 points and LDL dropped by 20. I eat veggies and meat. I skip the grains for the most part since all of them effect my blood sugars badly, even in whole form. I like putting whole wheat, barley, and rye berries in my soups, I like the texture. Potatoes don't effect me near as much so I eat a little of them, just not regularly. Adding the fat into my diet was the hard part. To many years of the "fat is bad for you" propaganda. What I do get is from meat, butter, or the olive oil that I use for cooking.

I need to get off my butt and finish prepping the garden beds so I can plant some peas. Fresh peas sound so good right now. To bad it's so hard for them to actually make it into the house to be cooked. I love the things raw.

I eat mine right off the vine as well!
Good to see your BS level is down !
Try coconut oil, too...it is great for added the good cholesterol & great for your hair (a dot on the palm, massage into freshly shampooe'd hair...) I have a friend who swears by EVOO , like she does a dot on the palm & rubs herself down after a shower...especially arms & legs after shaving...it is great for the skin, but greasy in the bath tub!!

 

[Chickielady]

You know it sounds like you are just going 1000 miles an hour....LOL like so many people asking Q's and not waiting for the answer before they ask the next Q...LOL
Yes it sounds like you are a very excited chickie person!
Nothing wrong with that & nothing wrong with asking questions !

 

[Chickielady]

My geodesic domes handled as the pro they are never twitched a tarp.
I still do not know when the poultypoluzza is happening tomorrow please

Me either, I had to ship a bunch of eggs today and so I gave up on the Palooza

 

[Chickielady]

Who'said ready for another windstorm?
Recent model runs have been in good agreement, which increases confidence that this event will occur. The exact strength and track of the system's surface low are still uncertain - and crucial to the forecast - but it appears that the low will track northeast toward the region Sunday, deepening to around 975 millibars within 60 miles of the central Washington coast Sunday afternoon, then continue across the northwest corner of the Olympic peninsula and the south end of Vancouver Island, weakening as it moves into southwest mainland British Columbia later Sunday night. This is the classic storm track for a western Washington windstorm.

The forecast calls for sustained winds of 30 to 45 mph with gusts as high as 60 to 70 mph, and for most parts of western Washington the highest winds will probably occur Sunday afternoon and evening. Power outages and downed trees are possible, along with some damage to buildings. Remember that falling trees and tree limbs can cause serious injury or death.

My anemometer is busted, or out of calibration, and is reading at half strength, don't know why...I am going to have to dig deep & get the owner's guide out to figure out why...maybe it needs oiling ??????????
Last hurrican force winds (a few days ago) it was ready 35 mph gusts, and I know it was at least 70!
Makes me mad.....the system is only about 6 month old.

 

[Chickielady]

I am close to confirming the ability to produce sex link blue egg layers with my White Leghorn pullet with known barring gene below dominant white. So far about 8 chicks have followed this pattern which I think is a bit too low to say it is confirmed but the genetics make sense as well.

Crossing a dark shank black cockerels to my White leghorn hen so far has yielded boys hatching almost perfectly yellow and yellow or white shank coloring while girls hatch out with obvious black spots and willow or black shanks. This is of course thanks to the barring gene suppressing black both in feathering and leg color and it being a sex linked trait.

Cool!

 

[Chickielady]

Sunday is lock down day for the incubator.......after two outages already this batch, I just want to

Fingers crossed for you!

 

[Chickielady]

So pics of the white Marans popping up on occasion from my French Silver Cuckoo Marans...so super awesome !







Three out of the last set of 18 eggs....






yellow babies are Sulmtalers, white is the white marans, and a few cockerel Bielefelders, the dark babies are Silver Cuckoo Marans


They freak out from the camera flash.I have 4 tubs of babies like this so far...more in lockdown, and 2 big brooders for the older babies, in the lean-to room off the barn.....I can shurely live without more wind !

 

[pennyJo1960]

Me either, I had to ship a bunch of eggs today and so I gave up on the Palooza

You didn't miss anything in my view a very tiny place with
nothing exciting We would not have driven 2 1/2 hours if I had any idea
are you intending to sell any of your pullets? I am getting three from
junnebuggena on Tuesday I hope but would really like a few more
that should have colored eggs other than brown.