Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[theceltichorse]

YOU WON 3 of them ?????????????

COOL !!!

We each won three! Beyond excited.

 

[Chickielady]

I have had to set a dozen Bielefelder eggs this week, to do fertility tests on...................

and I will have to set 12 more in another week to continue to test for fertility.

The problem is, I do not need any more birds...so I am thinking of having a lottery myself.
How about any interested send me a PM....
This will be for pick up ONLY, I am not shipping chicks this year, and I am out of chick boxes.

It would be fun to get a few of the WA thread breeders to do a Chicken Stock Lottery thing like they did the Rocky Mountain Chicken Stock....and benefit 4-H out here ..or ?

Any ideas ?

I could sell them at the feed store I guess................they are expensive birds !








ANY IDEAS HERE ?????

 

[theceltichorse]

I have had to set a dozen Bielefelder eggs this week, to do fertility tests on...................

and I will have to set 12 more in another week to continue to test for fertility.

The problem is, I do not need any more birds...so I am thinking of having a lottery myself.
How about any interested send me a PM....
This will be for pick up ONLY, I am not shipping chicks this year, and I am out of chick boxes.

It would be fun to get a few of the WA thread breeders to do a Chicken Stock Lottery thing like they did the Rocky Mountain Chicken Stock....and benefit 4-H out here ..or ?

Any ideas ?

I could sell them at the feed store I guess................they are expensive birds !








ANY IDEAS HERE ?????

What beautiful birds! If I wasn't living in the city I would absolutely get in on this! One of these days, oh, one of these days I will have my little private farm...

 

[Chickielady]

We each won three! Beyond excited.

OMG that is soooooooooooooooooooooooo cool !
So, get a GRAPH tablet, and a ruler & pencil/eraser and draw out the beds to scale on the graph pad.....
and make a list of what you & your family like to eat/can/pickle.

Then figure out/ask about the varieties of these favorite veggies from people in your area.

When I moved to Idaho I had to toss my seeds from maritime Washington...and then I went to Norcal to care for my dying Grandmother, I had all new seeds there...every place can be vastly different !

This is not THAT different from AK though....

One thing I LOVE is my HOT FRAMES........

A box made with a dual pane window, hinged, and HEAT tape in the bottom, cover with sand...and you can be growing basil in it RIGHT NOW !




On a warmish day, I open the boxes & have to put wire over them so's the chickens do not get in them & eat the plants & styrofoam lining !









The "Corn ball Express".......this is the chicken tractor we built for the cornish cross meaties (cornballs) we raise every year.........



Installed a skylight so they have light & know when it is daytime


Heater inside attached to a wafer thermostat so the heat comes on instantly if there is a chill...the regular heater thermometer is not sensitive enough


Holes on the side for fresh air & covered by screen to keep the no see ums out


trailer hitch made from a old bed frame & attaches to the lawn tractor




baby corn balls.plastic keeps rain off.rain gutter for water

 

[Chickielady]

Getting tons of fertile Exchequer eggs !

 

[theceltichorse]

OMG that is soooooooooooooooooooooooo cool !
So, get a GRAPH tablet, and a ruler & pencil/eraser and draw out the beds to scale on the graph pad.....
and make a list of what you & your family like to eat/can/pickle.

Then figure out/ask about the varieties of these favorite veggies from people in your area.

When I moved to Idaho I had to toss my seeds from maritime Washington...and then I went to Norcal to care for my dying Grandmother, I had all new seeds there...every place can be vastly different !

This is not THAT different from AK though....

One thing I LOVE is my HOT FRAMES........

A box made with a dual pane window, hinged, and HEAT tape in the bottom, cover with sand...and you can be growing basil in it RIGHT NOW !




On a warmish day, I open the boxes & have to put wire over them so's the chickens do not get in them & eat the plants & styrofoam lining !









The "Corn ball Express".......this is the chicken tractor we built for the cornish cross meaties (cornballs) we raise every year.........



Installed a skylight so they have light & know when it is daytime


Heater inside attached to a wafer thermostat so the heat comes on instantly if there is a chill...the regular heater thermometer is not sensitive enough


Holes on the side for fresh air & covered by screen to keep the no see ums out


trailer hitch made from a old bed frame & attaches to the lawn tractor




baby corn balls.plastic keeps rain off.rain gutter for water

I have no idea what to grow. I love sugar snap peas. Salads with spinach, kale, etc. Love all of the bell peppers. Green beans. LOVE summer squash. Radishes. Herbs. Tomatoes. Basically, not many veggies that I don't like that I can think of- well, don't care for lima beans! LOL

 

[Hinotori]

 

[Chickielady]

Why did the blonde bring a ladder to dinner? She heard the drinks were on the house.

A devout cowboy lost his favorite Bible while he was mending fences out on the range. Three weeks later, a cow walked up to him carrying the Bible in its mouth. The cowboy couldn't believe his eyes. He took the precious book out of the cow's mouth, raised his eyes heavenward and exclaimed, "It's a miracle!" The cow says, "Not really. Your name's written inside the front cover!"

The husband had just finished reading a book entitled "You Can Be The Man of Your House." He stormed up to his wife in the kitchen and announced, "From now on, you need to know that I am the man of this house and my word is Law. You will prepare me a gourmet meal tonight and when I'm finished eating my meal, you will serve me a sumptuous dessert. After dinner you are going to go upstairs with me and we will have the kind of sex I want. Afterwards, you are going to draw me a bath so I can relax. You will wash my back and towel me dry and bring me my robe. Then, you will massage my feet and hands and fluff my pillows and make me comfortable for a good night's sleep. Then tomorrow, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair ?" The wife replied, "The funeral director would be my first guess!"

About midnight, two strangers happened to be walking down the same trail through a desolate and spooky part of the woods. The moon played tricks with the shadows around them and strange, noisy animals were running about just out of sight. Pretty soon, this began to make the first man nervous. He turned to the second man and said, "Wow, I'm starting to get a little scared." The second man replied, "You think you're scared? I've gotta walk back alone!"

A man was sitting in a bar all night and was pretty well oiled at closing time. He fell on the floor and couldn't walk out. So the bartender, a gentle soul, helped him out the door and propped him up against a lamp post, leaving him there. But the man fell again, so he crawled to the next lamp post, couldn't get up, and so on to the third, fourth until he got home and collapsed on the porch. He banged on the door. His wife answered. "You must have really tied one on tonight," she said. "How did you know that?" he asked. "You left your wheelchair in the bar," she answered.

A wonderful funeral was in progress and a country preacher talked at length about the good traits of the deceased — what an honest man he was, and what a loving husband and kind father he was. Finally, the man's widow leaned over and whispered to one of her children, "Go up there and take a look in the coffin and see if that's your Pa."

 

[Chickielady]

 

[pennyJo1960]

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