Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pettec63]

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Yuck!!! I'm not EVEN ready for that yet!! but, Tis the season!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Yup and now that she was kind enough to give us the grande tour of all coops and the lay out of everything it will be much easier to find my way around in the dark. and the dogs not an issue either!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Thanks Robin!!! man that's means I'm gonna have to bone up on a lot of poultry breeds, and the APA standards too

I'm having a hard enough time tryin to figure out my own breeds!! LOL!! well, that could be a good first assignment, figure out what poultry breed you want to raise, the pros, cons, and know the basics of the SOP for that breed, too much??

If I were you I'd start with nutrition, care, housing, then breeding, broodies, hatching, chicks, incubating, feed & care of chicks, and all that before I got into the SOP.
Kids just need to know how to..before they learn what is perfect, otherwise it would not be so fun.
Out here, Andrea works with the 4-H kids.
They all bring birds to the Fair and few are breeder birds.
Most are hatchery stock.
But the important thing is they learn life, death & all care, handling & showing before they under take an expensive breed and the SOP.
Older kids (like Tamara's girls) then get into the serious stuff....teenagers that have experience raising birds.
That's just my opinion...
It sure is fun working with the younger kids, watching them show & all...very cool & makes ya happy to see them happy.
happy and doing something educational, instead of getting into trouble and/or doing nothing.

 

[Chickielady]

Yup and now that she was kind enough to give us the grande tour of all coops and the lay out of everything it will be much easier to find my way around in the dark. and the dogs not an issue either!!!!

Not to mention she has great birds, and usually lots of veggies too !

 

[pettec63]

Ya know I don't often get far from home and travel a pretty limited number of trails. Today when we went to see CGG I learned how they (state) can sucker one. See going over to Gig Harbor, over the Narrows Bridge was free. BUT once they have you trapped guess what??? If ya wanna get home ya gotta pay their toll. Yup I think they have been to a few poultry shows and figured out the system. They let ya in for free. Getting out is what costs.

LOL!!!!

That's funny CR!!
When did they start charging?? My foggy memory doesn't remember paying for it back in the like 80's when I was stationed up at Bangor?? Or maybe they did and I just didn't have to pay cause I was going one way??

 

[pettec63]

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x2!!! LOL!!

 

[Chickielady]

Jules, they do train you, at least here in Snohomish County. You have to pass safety checks, and then they offer various workshops like leadership and what not. No specific trainings on the poultry info stuff. First you need the kids to join the poultry program, and then they have to determine what they want to learn, and then you help them! And yes, you will learn together!!!!

I imagine they wanna make sure you aren't a perv or chestermolester too...have to pass a background check ?
They should....they should in Scouts also.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I live for the snow, the top reason I could never live over on the other side of the state. The scorching heat of summer and blizzards in winter keep me happy.

About the race thing, I always got along better with the foreign kids in school. My heritage is German, Welsh, Scottish, with some Indian (from India, not Native American) so I am fairly diverse. The thing that makes me chuckle, is that the whole time I went to school, everyone always thought I was Russian. Then in high school I took Russian for 2 years so I can speak it fairly well (better than English some days). Even with my shiny bald noggin, folks still say I look Russian so I just learned to go with it.

 

[Chickielady]

Well, I can't say I'm the most organized person on the face of the earth, but, if it's kind of basic stuff, I'm good. What ages do they start at?? I am partial to the 8,9,10s they seem to be more curious and helpful, I have no clue, in any case, I would do my best to teach what I know and have fun!!

YOU and TERRY have to be the most take charge and greatest organizers I have ever met ! ALL THOSE NAVY SKILLS just come bursting forth !!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

I hope this isn't confusing to anyone. But hi!!
No, I know it looks like I'm a new peep but that's not true. I've been here since 2/2010.
Apparently my machine eliminated the "cookie" and I had to re-sign in. That didn't work. So after trying all day to sign in and contacting the powere that be (with no response) they kept telling me they sent the info to my mail box. Funny, I never received it. Huh, every tom, dick and harry can get me a message but not these guys. IDK.
Hopefully I will get this corrected in the near future. Mike

This is your first post I see................