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[Stumpfarmer]

We let the chickens out late in the afternoon today.  A pair of deer was foraging in our yard, not caring about the three of us milling about near the house.  The chickens weren't quite sure what to think.  Pudge marched right up to the closest one and stood a few feet away from it.  I think she was trying to stare it down. 

I went to town for some groceries and received a call a short time later.  They put the chickens in the pen early because mom noticed a cougar stalking the deer.  So now I have to worry about two kinds of hawks, owls, coyotes, and cougars.  Sometimes I envy you city-folk. 

I'm a city folk owner of three former free-ranging chickens... no thanks to a pair of Bald Eagles, and some other unidentified predatory bird.  My next door-neighbor's chicken was taken a few years back by a coyote, so we know those are around here, too.  Cougars are, as well - police have come through and informed us to be wary of them when they are spotted in the area.   City folk are not immune to wildlife.  Heck, there's a raccoon living in the tree in my Cul-de-sac. 

A couple of years ago, a bear was spotted just a few blocks from me.

That reminds me, we have a bear too. 

When I was looking for the white heifer a week ago, I found the traditional single bear scat full of blackberry and apple seeds right up top of the hill, where I've found one nearly every October for most of the time we've lived here; I suspect we have a very old, very canny, single resident bear who moves up and down the spur line from the lake to the Nisqually and makes a point of avoiding humans. We've had single young bears show up every time there's a big construction project, and random cougars, but the ones who are agressive toward humans or domestic animals don't last long enough to create much problem.

It's the big advantage of being surrounded by denser development: anything that gets to me has learned to avoid people or die.

 

[Greg Richardson]

If you use wood to heat your home as I do Craigs is a great way to get it.

Many times people have trees that either come down in storms or they want trees down for what ever reason.

They don't burn wood so they are very happy to get rid of it.

It becomes a win win for both parties.


Unfortunately there are always people out there wanting to take advantage of people on craigs also such as the person in the ad below.
That is why he is delivering it. Clue #1!!!

Lot of people starting out don't realize Cottonwood is basically sponge wood.
One must cut it up into extremely small pieces and even then takes 3 years bare mininum to dry.

Please don't waste your time with cottonwood.
Not only are you obtaining sponge wood it does not give out good heat.

I learned the hard way about 20 years ago when I was clueless about cottonwood.
When I saw this ad today thought I'd take the time to post.
No reason one of you needs to be taken advantage of by this clown.
I have no doubt he knows it is worthless wood because when he cut it into rounds water actually comes out.
If you go to split a round water will actually spit up on you.



2+ cords firewood rounds delivered (sammamish/eastside)

Date: 2012-10-25, 8:48AM PDT
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This morning (Thursday) I will have 2+ cords green cottonwood firewood rounds up for delivery in my 14 foot dump trailer. The jobsite is in sammamish so those in the closest location will be given priority. Some rounds will be approximately 3' in diameter while others will be perfect for one person to handle. All rounds will be cut to roughly 16" in length. Please have a good area for me to back up a big dump trailer to dump the rounds. Give me a call ASAP, this will go quick. If I don't answer leave a msg and ill get back to you as soon as I can. A donation to cover gas would be greatly appreciated Thanks. 425.269.4279

 

[Flaming Chicken]

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

Hi Mikey,

I had that happen too. I was blaming it on the name change. I emailed "support" who reset my password and emailed it to me (which I did get) and I was back in business. Good luck getting this cleared up.

 

[SweetSilver]

Sticking my head out again (Hi, the kid's still here, and I had way too much fun getting Baaachus into his house tonight) to say that I mentioned to Andrea that I'm hoping we (BYC, and chicken people in general) can find a way to get better birds into the hands of 4-H kids, because my tendency is to think that if the genetics aren't there, the possibility that kids are going to have a satisfying experience with their project animals isn't high. I wish there were more extension agents and really knowledgable senior 4-Hers to advise younger members, too: a lot of the chickens I saw at the fair this year were under-fed, dirty, and in general not what should be shown, and when I was in animal projects it was the Junior Leaders in my club and at the county level who gave me the most guidance on show prep.

Did you visit the Thurston County fair this year? Pretty sorry, if you ask me. I know these are kids' projects, but so many just looked sad. Bathing would have helped enormously.

I know my girls get really attached to which birds they want to show, and luckily their frustrations with the other birds lead them to show our sweet and pretty little d'anvers pullets. But that sumatra cock with 2/3 of his tail missing at the TCF? I'm sure that's because some kid just couldn't let go of showing that bird, even though he looked so bad.

I was particularly upset that even the largest birds were on wire. No excuse for that. Made me happy we were at the GH fair. Still some evidence of not-the-best birds, but at least all the birds were clean. And happily, on sawdust.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

I just wanted to post and say THANKYOU to everyone who offered to help in some way, support, concerns and prayers for my Bellas safe return. I feel very very lucky to know such great peeps! Especially Rustler for organizing a search and rescue and driving all the way up from Chehalis!

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

It is 30x96! 15 ft in the center. I could grow trees!

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[Stumpfarmer]

Sticking my head out again (Hi, the kid's still here, and I had way too much fun getting Baaachus into his house tonight) to say that I mentioned to Andrea that I'm hoping we (BYC, and chicken people in general) can find a way to get better birds into the hands of 4-H kids, because my tendency is to think that if the genetics aren't there, the possibility that kids are going to have a satisfying experience with their project animals isn't high. I wish there were more extension agents and really knowledgable senior 4-Hers to advise younger members, too: a lot of the chickens I saw at the fair this year were under-fed, dirty, and in general not what should be shown, and when I was in animal projects it was the Junior Leaders in my club and at the county level who gave me the most guidance on show prep.

Did you visit the Thurston County fair this year?  Pretty sorry, if you ask me.  I know these are kids' projects, but so many just looked sad.  Bathing would have helped enormously.  

I know my girls get really attached to which birds they want to show, and luckily their frustrations with the other birds lead them to show our sweet and pretty little d'anvers pullets.  But that sumatra cock with 2/3 of his tail missing at the TCF?  I'm sure that's because some kid just couldn't let go of showing that bird, even though he looked so bad.

I was particularly upset that even the largest birds were on wire.  No excuse for that.  Made me happy we were at the GH fair.  Still some evidence of not-the-best birds, but at least all the birds were clean.  And happily, on sawdust.

Yup; it was especially sad that the birds in the worst shape were being shown under the name of my old community club, now fallen from the days that we routinely sent as many as three state winners to Chicago in one year (when I went in 1969 there were two of us). It was especially sad because my cousin the chicken-whisperer (the kid with all the rosettes) was pretty much running a full-time chicken washing demonstration, since his Mom is the barn supervisor. It was really obvious that the leader of that club had no understanding of the basics of showing animals, and the kids were the ones getting discouraged by white ribbons and disqualifications.

I think the Sumatra cock had his tail stolen by a fair visitor, though.

 

[Greg Richardson]

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[Cowgirlgrace]

Silly Chicky! I would have told you except I didn't "talk" to you until this morning! Way behind on emails due to the upset.

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[Cowgirlgrace]

You under estimate those stubby little legs! I didn't tell you Bellas nick name. It's Bullet! That dog can fly! It's so funny to watch her. You can't even see her legs. They move so fast they are a blur. So don't even think about any rustling here!

Quote: Well if I didn't have far to go I could probably out run those stubby legs . But if we are talking distance .... Bella has proven she can do that..!!