Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Smokerbill]

The little chicks are living it up on woodchips in the brooder box now. Top left and lower right chicks are Rhode Island red pullets. The other two are New Hampshire cockerel chicks.

 

[Smokerbill]

Weeded the garden, fed the chickens a lot of lettuce, watercress and weeds.

 

[ValerieJ]

DH is out mowing with the DR the areas that the lawn mower can't handle. I'm making pizza. Made the poolish (starter) yesterday and will make the dough here soon so it can rise for a couple hours. Pesto and candied tomatoes on one and traditional sauce and pepperoni on the other.

In chicken land, I would say the pullets are fully integrated, but are still careful not to take an older hens morsel of food. But they are out and about and regularly roosting on the lower roosting bars. There are two long bars on the two long walls and two smaller ones on the short walls. One short roost is the lowest roost and one is the highest. They seem to all know how to best sort themselves out, and all roosting bars are in use every day. Pretty amusing.

Ralphie moves around on the roosts, I guess to give equal cuddle time to all his ladies.

 

[ValerieJ]

DH thought I should capture the "beautiful" snow on the river. This is cottonwood seed probably responsible for my coughing all night right now.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We were in the car most the day.
Did stop at the feed store pickup two bags of pellets x-cell.
We are doing as new well with Richard he has a grab bar on hie bed now.

Told him need to get busy living or get busy dying and he wants to live.

 

[Smokerbill]

It's supposed to get kind of warm this afternoon so I watered the garden and gave the chickens fresh water, cleaned out the coop, mixed up a few big bowls of wet feed for the girls and only got one dirty egg for my efforts. Not fair!

 

[ValerieJ]

Were getting an average of 4 eggs a day all spring, but we have a broodie now so she is hoarding some of the eggs. That's okay. Hopefully we'll get chicks from her.

The littles are getting so big! I'll have to get a new photo of them today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning second cup up at 8.
yard work to finish.

 

[Smokerbill]

I'm going to plant my peppers in the garden today, and maybe my tomatoes too if I'm not hurting too bad. I have the mycorrhizal innoculant and the Tone's organic fertilizer ready to go.

I still need to clean up the mess I left from working on the chicken run and building the door. Tools, nails, screws, chicken wire and wood are scattered everywhere. I'm going to hook the little trailer to my riding mower to haul stuff around so I don't have to walk too much on my bad knee.

I gave the little chicks in the brooder box some shreds of cooked chicken thigh yesterday evening. They definitely like chicken meat.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Made DH his pancakes with a pair of eggs and my mcmuffin.
About to sit for 20 minutes getting warm today.