Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Flaming Chicken]

I was asked this q. and thought you folks here could weigh in on it. 
 

I have a platform that turns on at 40 degrees. It works with a metal waterer. I will use that in my big coop. I found a plastic waterer that works the same way that I plan to put in my smaller coop.

Khunter-I am planning to try the nipple water method. Let me know how yours works out.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

free large dog crate in kenmore--i'm close but I don't think I could use it~
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/zip/3384139285.html

If in decent shape I would grab it. Hey how close are ya? Do ya have a way to haul it?   any chance?

Boy, I need that: my crate didn't come back from the auction for which I got $6 total for four cockerels.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Thank you. The plan is to put in stuff that won't require water once established. I've put in Mahonia, Garrya, and Snowberry (also volunteers). I'm hoping some of the Spirea will sow itself if I stop mowing along the fence. That first spring after we took out the blackberries, all sorts of shrubs tried to come up. If there hadn't been so many blackberries coming up with them, I'd have let them.

I don't remember watering these particularly; they were planted at the beginning of the series of long wet springs, though, so that may be how they prospered to begin with.


I also have one random Hamamellis seedling to dig up, too: it could be anything, although the leaves look like H. vernalis. And dozens of probably skunky Carolina Alspice, joy of joys.

I may try to start a bunch of spirea cuttings next spring. They still looked good at the end of a long dry summer.

I used to have S. bullata root suckers come up at random, but they seem to have finally gotten discouraged. Or the plum (well, blackthorn, apparently) and Hawthorne ate them.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

South of I-5 exit 111. I'm not sure of lilacs on the wettest south and west bits of the Peninsula; they do need their sun and winter cooling. But, as I sid: if you can come and dig some of the young 'uns, I've got plenty you can experiment with.

We're in a rain shadow and our front yard has plenty of sun - we're on the Hood canal side and our yard faces south.  We have two lilacs in the yard and they were thriving this year even with the drought.  My sister-in-law lives near you so I'll find out when we'll be in the area next and let you know!

Great! PM me and I'll give you my phone number and directions.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: I am not going to submerge them. I will actually make hangers so they hang in the bucket at a safe level. Some others have done this and it's worked, but they definitely didn't submerge them! Lol! I can only imagine what my chickens woud be saying about me, loudly!

If I can't make it work, then I will just bring them in every night or use my heated waterers.
OK so IF Kim's heater shorts out and her chickens get zapped the will have a new feather design. Chickens with a fro and frizzle that are Silkie !!!

What will they be called.
Sizzled.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: I may try to start a bunch of spirea cuttings next spring. They still looked good at the end of a long dry summer.

I used to have S. bullata root suckers come up at random, but they seem to have finally gotten discouraged. Or the plum (well, blackthorn, apparently) and Hawthorne ate them.
I've been sprinkling seeds of the S. douglasii on the other side of the fence on my side of the fence. I also gathered the berries from my yellow twigged dogwood up front, and fed them to the chickens, so they could plant them for me. Cheap and lazy.

 

[Slinglings]

free large dog crate in kenmore--i'm close but I don't think I could use it~ http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/zip/3384139285.html

If in decent shape I would grab it. Hey how close are ya? Do ya have a way to haul it? any chance?

Do you want it? It isn't too far from me, but I don't think I really need it--the last thing I need is something else sitting in my yard getting muddy Here is what the person emailed back~
""It has some scratches from my rescue dog who hates it. It hasn't been used for years which is why I'm getting rid of it. The door is a bit slobbered on. So it could be cleaned up and be reasonable. So far it is still here. I have put it out on the corner by the telephone pole. It is the corner of 57th Ave NE and NE 183rd St Kenmore WA 98028."

Ok..he's holding it for me and I'll pick it up today. I'm not going to chehalis, or I don't ave plans to anyway..is anyone in north seattle going?

 

[itsren]

Shall we just fix this story so it makes sense?

and as for the FB welllll see seems somebody got into the middle of (rustling chickens) where they had no business (not me). Several of us were already helping (rustle some chickens) and then somebody called law enforcement (because their chickens were being rustled). There was NOTHING illegal or wrong in any way (because we had permission to rustle some chickens). So when I spoke out to the one (who had their chickens rustled and) who called the cops. That was the point when I got locked out (and the chickens were locked back in). Then a while later the entire post and most of what I had posted that night went invisible (and the chickens had a good night sleep) !!! All seems OK now.

 

[itsren]

Boy, I need that: my crate didn't come back from the auction for which I got $6 total for four cockerels.

Did you go to the Enumclaw auction? Need to box the birds for Enumclaw. Also, if you box them separately, they'll sell them separately.

 

[CarolynF]

In Portland for October we got 6.14 inches of rain in the last two and a half weeks. That is 194% of normal rainfall for the month. I think we may get a nasty winter. Ugh

Shoot, we got 4.9" in 48 HOURS this week in Bremerton.