Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Gatewayto]

Good Evening Washingtonians!
I am actually writing this from Phoenix Arizona currently but I am planning a trip out there next month to check out places to live. I currently have 19 chickens of my own and I know as far as AZ goes there are a lot of places that do not allow any chickens or only a few hens max (up to 6 hens with no roosters and that is if no neighbors complain...). Me and my boyfriend are looking to buy a house in a chicken (and potentially other livestock - goats, cows, pigs, llamas, etc?) city and would like to know the areas to check out when we are there? Where I am currently the only slight threats are feral cats but for the most part they have left the chickens alone or at least I have not had any injuries to them - crosses my fingers and knocks on wood - so can you also enlighten me on the normal chicken dangers in the said areas you suggest? Thank you so much in advance and I look forward to speaking with you all soon!!

Welcome Pins2danes -
Clark County allows as many chickens as you like, no rooster in the city limit. Interesting enough, you can actually have live stock as well within the city limit (as long as you are able to summit a plan to the county).

A long the I-5 inter state: La Center (350k is about 3 to 5 arc with an older home) is a very nice farm community and it's only 30 minutes from Portland OR (where most jobs are). Above La Center is Woodland (350k 5 arc with older home) and price for land is a little better. Above Woodland is Longview, price floor land is much better. The further north you move from Portland OR, the price for housing/land is cheaper in general.

We purchased a home in Battle Ground WA at the beginning of the year.

Hope the information help.

 

[Gatewayto]

Wohoo - our baby quails just hatched! super cuties

 

[Duck Drover]

Good Evening Washingtonians!
I am actually writing this from Phoenix Arizona currently but I am planning a trip out there next month to check out places to live. I currently have 19 chickens of my own and I know as far as AZ goes there are a lot of places that do not allow any chickens or only a few hens max (up to 6 hens with no roosters and that is if no neighbors complain...). Me and my boyfriend are looking to buy a house in a chicken (and potentially other livestock - goats, cows, pigs, llamas, etc?) city and would like to know the areas to check out when we are there? Where I am currently the only slight threats are feral cats but for the most part they have left the chickens alone or at least I have not had any injuries to them - crosses my fingers and knocks on wood - so can you also enlighten me on the normal chicken dangers in the said areas you suggest? Thank you so much in advance and I look forward to speaking with you all soon!! 

Interestingly, the suburbs place more restrictions on keeping chickens since small town city councils seem to be striving to become more urban. You can have 8 chickens in Seattle on any sized lot but here you are limited to 5 and only allowed more if you are wealthy enough to afford more property. While Seattle is trying to be more "green" so people can be more self-sufficient, the surrounding areas are discouraging people who chose to live in less populated areas from enjoying rights they have had for many years by changing the codes in favor of those wanting to join the urban sprawl. If you can afford acreage, that is probably the only way you will have the freedom we all once had before small town politics allowed city people to destroy our small towns.

 

[torrelee]

Git the broody down and into the grow out run. 2 babies so far, and 8 eggs under her still. Crazy thing!

 

[Gatewayto]

Git the broody down and into the grow out run. 2 babies so far, and 8 eggs under her still. Crazy thing!

exciting for sure!

 

[Gatewayto]

Just read that chicken can actually lay 2 eggs a day! A red sexlink does that?

 

[junebuggena]

Just read that chicken can actually lay 2 eggs a day!  A red sexlink does that? 

It's not an everyday occurance, and the second egg of the day may be shell-less, but it can occasionally happen.

 

[pennyJo1960]

It's not an everyday occurance, and the second egg of the day may be shell-less, but it can occasionally happen.

was not aware of that as my 5 barreds decided to take the day off only gave me 2

 

[Chickielady]

Losing my Dad at 14 lead me to genetics that took him at 52, finding answers in dogs kept me there till the **** stroke
then graves took most my vision I was forced to surrender but not give up.. my spinal column is closing in my neck no relief
but to keep moving..
I envy your work as a cna I couldn't handle the humans it was tough enough with animals...
I am now watching my Mom go from a very strong always able women to a frail cannot walk on her own
a liquid diet so she does not choke and aspirate into her lungs and I long to fix it but cannot.

It is so hard...to see it happening yet have no control over how to deal with it.....
CNA work is awful...these people are paid minimum wage to lift, feed and bathe not to mention change diapers (sometimes 4-5 X an hour) on adults, not just geriatric pateints...and often morbidly obese adults, adults with MS, Parkinson's and so many other debilitating diseases.
many can be combative, slapping biting & hitting...geriatric patients can be really mean, and demented...some accusing the caregiver of stealing, even eating their food.
Even though they themselves just finished their meal, they scream for help cuz the caregiver has eaten their food, or stolen their purse, or car keys, or house keys...etc.
Some think their caregivers are angels.....some think they are their own family members or old lovers.
It is extremely hard to do this job day after day.....the bed sores, the strokes, the massage to prevent more bed sores, the mal nutition (really upsets me !) the combative pateints really upset me too...especially the ones who slap & bite and hurt themselves in the process !
Mechanical lifting of morbidily obese pateints & lowering them into a gargantuan wheel chair & rolling them nude under a sheet, down the hall & into the giant shower room...bathing them, drying them, rolling them back meanwhile another has changed their bedding...it is exhausting, and can really mess with your head.
Most patients that have swallowing issues are given a thickener in their water & other fluids to thicken it & make it easier to swallow so they do not choke.
Your Mom must have chewing issues ?
She on a mechanical diet ?

 

[Chickielady]

Wohoo - our baby quails just hatched! super cuties

CUTE ! What kind ?