Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

Never had a bear here thank heavens.

 

[ValerieJ]

We got another gallon bag of green beans yesterday. It's the vine that just keeps on giving.

 

[Smokerbill]

We got another gallon bag of green beans yesterday. It's the vine that just keeps on giving.

Pole beans?

 

[ValerieJ]

Pole beans?

yes. I'm wondering if we should keep some of the beans for next year. I did order some already, but these have been so great.

 

[Smokerbill]

I was going to save bean seeds but ended up picking them all to eat, so I'll be buying seeds next year. The Blue Lake pole beans produced all season, the Provider bush beans gave me one big picking and another smaller one.

I couldn't make myself wait until tomorrow to candle the eggs so I did it today, on day 6. Looks like all of them are fertile and growing inside. I saw dark spots in all of them and some veining in most.

The dark spots moved around some when I rotated the eggs over the light. Is that normal?

 

[ValerieJ]

I was going to save bean seeds but ended up picking them all to eat, so I'll be buying seeds next year. The Blue Lake pole beans produced all season, the Provider bush beans gave me one big picking and another smaller one.

I couldn't make myself wait until tomorrow to candle the eggs so I did it today, on day 6. Looks like all of them are fertile and growing inside. I saw dark spots in all of them and some veining in most.

The dark spots moved around some when I rotated the eggs over the light. Is that normal?

That is totally normal! You have life!

Blue Lake is what we planted this last year and it turns out I ordered the same thing. I also have seed left in the package from this last year. Not sure I would need to use them, but I haven't thrown them away.

 

[Smokerbill]

I think bean seeds are good for several years.

 

[Hinotori]

They are good 3-5 years on beans. Some even sprout after years longer

 

[TeePants]

Fellow rainy people, is any amount of rain in the coop acceptable?

We have been battling drips. We didn’t extend the roof enough because as you can see; we have neighbors. They’ve been cool about the poultry but I imagine they wouldn’t be happy with extending the roof into their egress.

We are debating on climbing onto the roof to install a gutter, as there isn’t enough clearance between fence posts to hang a tarp. Alternatively, I can climb up onto the roof and just attach a short tarp that tucks into the fence but doesn’t go all the way down.

My wife is annoyed because she’s already climbed up there once to extend a roof panel and all it seems to have accomplished was to create a dedicated drip zone.

Tbh if we didn’t have silkies I wouldn’t be as worried about it, but it’s going to stay wet and cold all winter as it always does and I want to keep them as dry as possible.

On the front side of the coop I’m putting up shower curtains; which was a much easier solve…

 

[ValerieJ]

I'm all for no rain in the coop or coop run at all. But, that being said, my chickens have a large fenced area for free ranging available to them during the day and you can often find them running around in the rain.