Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

Lots of good stuff there

Did I tell you I got 7 gallons of Syrah going too ?.....................I racked it for the 2nd time (and added clarifers) yesterday......after a few days to settle, we'll bottle it & age it in my Dad's basement...so far it is really yummy...I have not briz scaled it since fermentation so not sure what the ABV is yet.....probably pretty high.............in most ALL commercial wines, they have to add water to the final product to lower the ABV to a "reasonable amount"......not me.............

Next year I am making pear wine again !

I made pear wine in California (lotsa pears there) and used Champagne yeast, and it was so delish!!! It was dry and not too sweet, in fact, it was so much like champagne you'd be hard to tell the different, no 2nd fermentation but it did have a bit of fizz...VERY very good !
Katie (TotalColour) is in FL now & she says she is making wine with what she has, that being pineapples !
She is sending me some & I am sending her some of my boring Syrah...LOL

Pineapple wine...sounds great !

 

[Chickielady]

Back to work for me....later peeps !

My sister says I am like a seagull.....
She says "I fly in & poop everywhere & stir up lots of poop & then fly away again."

maybe she's right ?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: I still have 5 of the 11 I picked up from her

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: need the great guffaws nice to see your shining face

 

[pennyJo1960]

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: Guffaw, Guffaw, Guffaw, Guffaw,

 

[junebuggena]

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.

She's an Australorp. All my Australorps go broody, but only one gets to sit on eggs. She goes broody every 4 months.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ok first look at Blues

my F-! cockerel offspring.. only thing that hatched was 2 green eggs
one brown
both are from the green eggs the last is the one I had to help he/she came out
wrong end of the egg...
the rather looking blue is my favorite sure hope it turns out to be a pullet

 

[chickenmomma16]

Love it! Haven't spent enough time by the fire this summer. Only been camping once this year... What's up with that?

Oh! Oh! Sold my last 5 chicks this afternoon. Bitter sweet, I wish I could have grown a few out myself, they were all neat little chickies. Some day!

Which ones did you sell ?

There you are! Good excuse though, I wish I had the time to can! Yours look great

I hatched a bunch of chicks from my BW cock to see if he was was double mb (double beard/muff) And he is! I had a friend that was going to take the chicks as they were just EEs but she backed out at the last second. One of them might be a purebred from that Ameraucana hen I got from you. Penny has that chick now. I am moving to Buckley (which fell into our lap so it is an unexpected move but a good one!) and my coop is going to be too small initially for all by adults AND the chicks. I already have 16 Ameraucanas that are only 14 weeks old So these babies had to go ASAP. Quite unfortunate because I wanted to keep a few for myself but I just couldn't. This move will allow me to expend and setup breeding pens for my Wheaten/Blue Wheaten/(one) Splash Wheaten Ameraucanas.

My Wheaten Ameraucanas:

 

[chickenmomma16]

 

Love it! Haven't spent enough time by the fire this summer. Only been camping once this year... What's up with that?

Oh! Oh! Sold my last 5 chicks this afternoon. Bitter sweet, I wish I could have grown a few out myself, they were all neat little chickies. Some day!

Which ones did you sell ?

I still have 5 of the 11 I picked up from her

Which ones did you keep? Got any updated pictures?