Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

For me, I think it is the mold that develops a couple of days after they are delivered. The pile gets super hot, and when you dig in lots of gray dust goes up in the air. I got my last wood chips in late August, spread them as fast as I could throughout early Sept, so they were never rained on or anything. If I dig in the garden even now where the chips are, I will cough the next day.

Fresh or dry wood chips don't bother me.

My last chips came from that same CL ad, btw.

Asperilligosis (sp?) yeah that stuff can get to you !

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001326.htm

 

[Chickielady]

Certainly the older the bird the longer it needs to stew. I've not personally ran into one that was inedible - but CL has made comments before that she's cooked a rooster for days and it was still tough as a car tire

I have indeed.
A cock bird at age 5 is tougher than a rock !
Stringy, all tendon & loads of silver skin, which shrinks up on the meat (what little there can be)
There is a difference in various breeds however.
I have found Ameraucana both cock & old hens very tender & sweet meat, seriously nice.
If at all, the bird can be breasted, toss the rest.
Some breeds have more meat & more tender meat than others.

 

[Chickielady]

I got a nice email this morning from the woman in Yakima who drove over the pass to buy my beautiful "Mr. Darcy", the blue English Orpington. He should be just over 6 months or so now I think. She let me know that her young daughter showed him at the show in Salem last week and that Mr. Darcy took Reserve Champion English in the Youth show!
I'm not really sure if that's good or not,

, but I'm so pleased that he has such a nice home where he has his own girls and is being shown.

That is excellent !!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Man, if I was you I would hurry up and grab the wet ones and put them in your bath tub and give them each a towel. Blow-drying them would help

! Or ya could do like CR does. put them in the oven at 350 for an hour! that should dry them

Getting ready to go let my girls out now. some will come out in the rain others just stay under the barn

Oh you are so funny !!!!!!!!!!!!
If mine are out in the front yard/garden free ranging, they all run to the front porch & hide under the redwood picnic table !!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

PS squared I had to have a blood test today and behaved myself and they let me have a kids sticker. Whooppee - it says "I passed my blood test." Last time I got one that had little blood drops with smiley faces.- how sick is that!! I wouldn't say I'm imature but parts of me are distinctly older than others.

What ?
No sucker ????????????
Bad dr there !!!

 

[Chickielady]

If ya want a good time. Have an arterial blood draw. The tech warned me that it was going to hurt really bad and then ask me if I would be able to hold onto the handles of the chair or did he need to use the straps??? He wasn't joking.

I have Raynaud's Syndrom, where the veins & arteries in all 4 extremeities go bye bye if it is below 50-40 degrees.
In the hospital (COLD) last March they did a CT scan with dye on me, for abdominal reasons, and had to inject about a pint of dye in my hand.

I told them it would not work...so they took forever to find a vein, and then once on the table, PUSHED all the dye while shoving me into the CT scanner (It is scarey enough without the dye) horrible noises................and of course the vein ruptured, and made a HUGE black tennis ball of goo under the skin on my hand...scared the YKW outta me...and instantly I could feel HEAT going through ALL veins/arteries.
I guess enough dye went through to get good pics...I will NEVER EVER do it again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Farmin Momma]

The chickens and chicks are gone. Now I have 5to chicken coops I need to sell..Plus about 50lbsto of starter feed and one bag of layer feed.best offer gets ehat they want.

I hope that some one here can take advantage and maybe grab one of these

. If they were not that far I would but to far for me! Boo.

 

[Chickielady]

I need to go get all my shots updated. I hadn't had any since 1995. I had a DTaP a couple months ago. New baby in the family so we took care of the risk. I needed a tetanus with how much I cut and scrape myself outside all the time. I really have no excuse for not getting them. What age to they recommend shingles vaccine at?

I had shingles pop up years ago, when my kids were 4-6 yo.
They are in their late 20s now...NO Dr I went to knew what the heck was wrong...my skin on both collar bones fell off...raw meat underneath was oozy & exposed, nothing helped with the burning except ice...yes ICE.
It looked like I had been skinned.
It was horrible !
Oddly, after a week or so, I awoke one morning & it was gone, skin back in place...with little more than a pink area where it was.
The hardest part was trying to sleep always applying ice.
IF the vaccine works, get it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

I was reassured of the fact the the shot was a killed virus, but the timing was terrible. Now it's easier to blame it on just getting a flu shot the week before. lol It probably hasn't helped that I have been struggling with having had to go cold turkey from one of the drugs I had been taking for nerve pain. The doctor did renew the prescription for a 4th of the amount that I had been taking. I can't bring myself to restart drug again. I will say that it made a difference with nerve pain, but I don't want to back though the past couple of weeks. I am going to see the doctor again on Thursday, and ask about alternatives.

When any vaccination is given, including those given to chickens, it "occupies" the immunal system.
While the immunal system is busy "blueprinting" the vaccine virus, other creepies can invade.
This is likely what happened to you.

 

[Chickielady]

And here we shall stay. They just locked the doors and threw the keys away!!! To the old WA thread.. kind of interesting who had the last post on the Old thread before Nifty locked the door andwho had the first post in the new

The chattiest one is who !!!!!!!!!