Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[hallerlake]

Quote: With both my parents gone, my boys have decided it's about time they spent Thanksgiving with their father. I'm going to miss them.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: Hawthorns smell pretty bad and have red berries. The mountain ash berries are orange and the birds don't eat them until after we've had a frost. Red and falling off now sounds more like hawthorn to me.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: The first person who saw some other animal eat it.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote:
My mom works at a stained glass warehouse. She gets her supplies there and fixes old stained glass windows that she has collected. We modified a few cabinet doors to be stained glass window cabinet doors. She enjoys stained glass work.
Now I really need to meet your mother.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: As much as I hated to do it, I have blocked Greg. He cannot keep politics in it's proper place.

 

[Greg Richardson]

Quote: There was nothing political about it.
If you read my comments it was about accountability for all people in government.

If our property taxes were used properly you'd have more money to have more chickens, more land.
You'd be able to afford more.

If you like the way things are people spending your money that way then that is your right.

I don't and pointed that out. That's my right.

That article is what is happening in Washington State.

I said nothing about one political party to cause any trouble.

I did mention them all because it's not about any one party it's about accountability with consequences for EVERYONE!

 

[JennS]

Quote: Oh boy. That is actually a loaded question.Lots of conversations on Silkie threads here on BYC and on FB. Judges have differing opinions and the ABA and APA book have different definitions. But generally it is a split or space between the primary and secondary wing feathers. It's not a defect,It is a disqualification, so if you aren't breeding or showing it doesn't matter. I am going to be trying my hand at breeding, so I do not want to have wing issues to try to correct. It is the hardest thing to breed out, and then it may never be totally gone.
Interesting. I had never heard of it, but then I do not plan on showing my birds so I haven't researched it! Google brought up some good pictures. That's a shame, sorry the ones you kept are showing it.

Thank you for the information!

Jennifer

 

[JennS]

Quote: He's only 3.5 week old.

I have no idea how good he will look as an adult. I'd like to raise him up and enjoy him as long as I can. Roosters are prohibited here, though, so he is going to have to find another flock.

He came from Baxter Barn, so he is hatchery stock but I don't know which one. I bought 4 chicks from them and they are all sweet tempered and healthy. He's starting to grow in a lot of black feathers, so hopefully he will be pretty, too!

Jennifer

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, you know, once again I have had my Hamburgs disprove their flighty and hard to manage reputation. When I went out to do chores, Malvina, Tegan, and Sarah were out; the wind last night had angled their cage door open about .9 chickenwidth open, and there they were. I put down a line of scratch and the baby girls went in; then I spent about 40 minutes building corral wings and chasing Malvina all over the yard before she gave up and went in. I usually just let her run until bedtime, but she is in full naked moult and I think the ravens would have gotten her.



Does anyone remember where it was that Kaneke got food-grade DTE? I had about a pound left but it's vanished, and I should get more this week.

 

[Ogress]

Well, you know, once again I have had my Hamburgs disprove their flighty and hard to manage reputation. When I went out to do chores, Malvina, Tegan, and Sarah were out; the wind last night had angled their cage door open about .9 chickenwidth open, and there they were. I put down a line of scratch and the baby girls went in; then I spent about 40 minutes building corral wings and chasing Malvina all over the yard before she gave up and went in. I usually just let her run until bedtime, but she is in full naked moult and I think the ravens would have gotten her.
Does anyone remember where it was that Kaneke got food-grade DTE? I had about a pound left but it's vanished, and I should get more this week.

I bought a huge 50 pound sack of DE at the Issaquah grange a couple of years ago. It was cheap.