Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[junebuggena]

I never force my broodies off their eggs.
just sayin'...it can irritate them til they break.

She would not get off on her own for food and water. Even with getting her off everyday, she still didn't eat enough and cannibalized several of her eggs. She sat for about 5 weeks and didn't manage to hatch anything.
The girl brooding now is excellent. She always has good hatch rates, and she knows that she needs to leave eggs in the morning for food and water. A good broody is worth her weight in gold.

 

[Hinotori]

[COLOR=333333]A termite walks into the bar and says, "Is the bar tender here?"[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] And that one is going to annoy my hubby. We have pun contests

 

[Chickielady]

Been 'gone' a while, and no time to completely catch up...here is why:



Apple Butter; 18 pints


Pear Butter; 20 pints


Roma Pole Beans; froze at least 20 pounds in 3/4 # bags


My bean man !


Asian Pears !

Spiced Asian Pears !

Slicing Onions for


Bread & Butter Chips
This takes forever, slicing pounds of onions, slicing bell pepper strips, slicing bags & bags of English Cucumbers...then layering them all with salt...to make them sweat...

Sweating cucumbers...

Cucumbers & onions sweating....

Packing.....
We also did 14 quarts of Red bartlett Pears, and 18 quarts of green bartlett Pears, and 25 quarts of asian pears (some spiced, some not) in Light Syrup...YUMMY!!
Then we did 2 Gallons of sun dried tomatoes (after dehydration there was 2 gallons !) that is alot of tomatoes in 1 jar!
And of course all our spices & herbs dehydrated, Oregano, sage, rosemary (need to do some more of that!) marjoram, lemon grass (need to do that again, too!) and tyme...need to do more of that as well...........
Then we dehydrated buckets of jalapenos...and now I am working on freezing & dehydrating Red Cheese peppers and Sweet bell Peppers....almost done !

Maybe I can finally get the house painting done (needs a picket fence) and cut a matt for it !

 

[Chickielady]

She would not get off on her own for food and water. Even with getting her off everyday, she still didn't eat enough and cannibalized several of her eggs. She sat for about 5 weeks and didn't manage to hatch anything.
The girl brooding now is excellent. She always has good hatch rates, and she knows that she needs to leave eggs in the morning for food and water. A good broody is worth her weight in gold.

What kind is she (the good one) ?
I have had some hens go broody for about 2 weeks and walk away...and had one who pushed her eggs out from under her and she sat there brain dead and let the eggs get cold & die.

 

[Chickielady]

Eggs from a few days ago...shows the common size of the Beilefelder eggs...an everyday size !






On a quart jar to show size...these are commonly Jumbo daily, rare to get an XL.
I have a herd of youngster yet to get to POL...anyday now they should begin lay....excited to have all the new pullets begin lay !

I can hardly wait to see the color of the White marans !

Fingers crossed that their eggs are not too light !!!!!!!
After all, just cuz the bird is white on the outside doesn't mean the insides aren't making dark eggs....I HOPE!!!
They sure are beautiful, so far not in the mud !

 

[Chickielady]

I didn't get it for a long time !
Must be the blonds is still in there despite the gray !

 

[Chickielady]

THIS I got right off !

A priest, a minister, and a rabbi want to see who's best at his job. They each go into the woods, find a bear, and attempt to convert it. Later they get together to compare the results. The priest begins, "When I found the bear, I read to him from the Catechism and sprinkled him with holy water. Next week is his First Communion." "I found a bear by the stream," says the minister, "and preached God's holy word. The bear was so mesmerized that he let me baptize him." They both look down at the rabbi, who is lying on a gurney in a body cast. "Looking back," he says, "Maybe I shouldn't have started with the circumcision."

 

[Hinotori]

Been 'gone' a while, and no time to completely catch up...here is why: Apple Butter; 18 pints Pear Butter; 20 pints Roma Pole Beans; froze at least 20 pounds in 3/4 # bags My bean man ! Asian Pears ! Spiced Asian Pears ! Slicing Onions for Bread & Butter Chips This takes forever, slicing pounds of onions, slicing bell pepper strips, slicing bags & bags of English Cucumbers...then layering them all with salt...to make them sweat... Sweating cucumbers... Cucumbers & onions sweating.... Packing..... We also did 14 quarts of Red bartlett Pears, and 18 quarts of green bartlett Pears, and 25 quarts of asian pears (some spiced, some not) in Light Syrup...YUMMY!! Then we did 2 Gallons of sun dried tomatoes (after dehydration there was 2 gallons !) that is alot of tomatoes in 1 jar! And of course all our spices & herbs dehydrated, Oregano, sage, rosemary (need to do some more of that!) marjoram, lemon grass (need to do that again, too!) and tyme...need to do more of that as well........... Then we dehydrated buckets of jalapenos...and now I am working on freezing & dehydrating Red Cheese peppers and Sweet bell Peppers....almost done ! Maybe I can finally get the house painting done (needs a picket fence) and cut a matt for it !

Lots of good stuff there

 

[Chickielady]

This one is great !!

An Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again. The boy asked, "What is this, Father?" The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is." While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, an old lady in a wheelchair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened, and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed, and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls light up sequentially. They continued to watch until it reached the last number, and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order. Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blonde stepped out. The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son ... "Go get your mother."

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[Hinotori]

THIS I got right off !

[COLOR=333333]A priest, a minister, and a rabbi want to see who's best at his job. They each go into the woods, find a bear, and attempt to convert it. Later they get together to compare the results. The priest begins, "When I found the bear, I read to him from the Catechism and sprinkled him with holy water. Next week is his First Communion." "I found a bear by the stream," says the minister, "and preached God's holy word. The bear was so mesmerized that he let me baptize him." They both look down at the rabbi, who is lying on a gurney in a body cast. "Looking back," he says, "Maybe I shouldn't have started with the circumcision."[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333] [/COLOR]

Lol.