Washingtonians

[cheryl98117]

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I have read it, it is very very interesting, excellent research and photos !

Ivebeen trying to follow this thread... It seems the more I read it the more confused I get. lol I think I will stick more to american birds. lol

The lethal tufting gene, kinda makes me want to stear clear of those. Besides I prefer muffs and beards over tufts. But thats just my own personal oppinion. To each their own.

 

[Chickielady]

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Ug Illia... I know exactly what you are talking about... This weather sucks and has made EVERYTHING soggy... I had to go out yesterday and tack a tarp over the horse shed... Its been impossible to get my friend out here to finish the roof for me. Oh what I sight I was up on that latter in the rain... lol The paddock is a soupy slimy mess, and when I climbed up three rungs on the latter, the stupid thing started slipping in the mud, moving me farther away from where I needed to be. lol It was quite funny once I was back on the ground. All I could emagine was the stupid latter sliding and tipping over, and me landing on my back looking up from the mud to two curious equines. lol Luckily I didn't wind up in the mud.

Since it has poured, we will have to waite through a week of solid dry weather (yeah like that is going to happen!) before we can break ground digging the foundation.
We must drill the well tomorrow, and if it passes inspection, we get the building permit, and if that happens and it has stayed dry (snicker:/) then the contractor will get over here as soon as he can get out of his deer/elk blind and start digding and putting up the forms.
I doubt if we will have a long enough dry spell again until next summer

 

[Chickielady]

HI Cheryl !!!
And now I gotta go get some work done...I mistook the timer in the big coop and accidently set the timer for 2 hrs later (than 5) but actually set it for 2 hrs earlier (dislexic artist!)
And I woke up to hear faint rooster crows at 2 :45 AM...OMG, sure enough it was MONSOONING and all the lights were on in the big coop, and the light spilled out all over the yard and pens and all the birds were awake, eating,, scratching, laying....

So I laid back down and went back to sleep...what are ya gonna do ?
They are awake now !!!
So I had to fix that at 5 AM...now maybe me and the Marans will take a nap.....
This is how I walk since I creamed my knee out

I LOVE HALLOWEEN !

 

[cheryl98117]

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Ug Illia... I know exactly what you are talking about... This weather sucks and has made EVERYTHING soggy... I had to go out yesterday and tack a tarp over the horse shed... Its been impossible to get my friend out here to finish the roof for me. Oh what I sight I was up on that latter in the rain... lol The paddock is a soupy slimy mess, and when I climbed up three rungs on the latter, the stupid thing started slipping in the mud, moving me farther away from where I needed to be. lol It was quite funny once I was back on the ground. All I could emagine was the stupid latter sliding and tipping over, and me landing on my back looking up from the mud to two curious equines. lol Luckily I didn't wind up in the mud.

Since it has poured, we will have to waite through a week of solid dry weather (yeah like that is going to happen!) before we can break ground digging the foundation.
We must drill the well tomorrow, and if it passes inspection, we get the building permit, and if that happens and it has stayed dry (snicker:/) then the contractor will get over here as soon as he can get out of his deer/elk blind and start digding and putting up the forms.
I doubt if we will have a long enough dry spell again until next summer

Ah that sucks! I'm not exatly sure how your weatcher is there, but we should be getting SOME dry weather before the end of november. But then again, this has been a really funky year for weather... Where I'm located we have a rain shadow effect from the Olympic mountains, so we really don't get hit with ALL the weather that comes through. If the weather is rolling in from the coast at a western direction typically we wont get hit hard. But when it comes up out of the south like it has been.... Well thats when things get messy.

We didn't get hit with the total 7" that was called for the night before last, but we did get about 3.5" It makes me glad that my property is on a slight slope, and I am also VERY glad that I finished cleaning out my curtain drains early this year... We dont have issues with major flooding where I am, but we do wind up with some localised flooding. Normally in town Poulsbo will flood, up by all the major shopping centers.

I love the rain, it lets my inner puddle jumper come out! My truck is VERY muddy right now! And I LOVE it! The deeper/larger the puddle the bigger the splash!

 

[cheryl98117]

Ugg!!! One thing I am NOT looking forward to is the snow... When my area gets snow all three of my main routs to get out of here get shut down. So what normally is a 12 mile both way commute will turn into a 60 mile both way commute...

And to top that off... I have to travle to the barn twice a day... So that would mean that I would be driving aproxamately 120 miles each day, just to go 6 miles from my house!!!

So I have decided that if my main rout to work gets shut down... I will just ride Lacy... It will take me an hour & 1/2 to get there on horse back, but will save me a TON of $ on gas.

 

[Rainwolf]

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/zip/1998871574.html

free chicken coop!

 

[cheryl98117]

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I cant see why you wouldn't be able to take it across the border. As long as your not transporting chickens you should be just fine transporting a little coop. Unless they say something like it has housed chickens and needs to be sterilized first... Other than that I can't emagine they would give you to much hassle...

 

[Greg Richardson]

Chickielady.

I doubt if we will have a long enough dry spell again until next summer

Go to HD.
Buy the 4 mill visqueen.
It is 100 ft long by 10ft.
Place it center over where your forms will be.
Place buckets, wood, what ever to stop it from hugging the ground. Then wait till you see a few day break in weather and get started.
This will work.​

 

[Chickielady]

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But be soooooo cold, and where do you hide Chloe when you are working ?
Mom's ?
You could travis her behind Lacey !

It will be cold, but better than the big all day drive in the snow.
And we are southwest of you, Illia is north of us, so typically in winter Illia gets it if it comes from the northwest and we get it if it comes from the southwest...from the north, down from Canada into Bellingham is the snowy COLD stuff.
I really do not mind the snow...It is the intense cold, from 30 and down betond, that I am not fond of at all, like 20 below zero, for example, where the roosters' comb freezes and turns black and we have to cut the necrotic tissue off and carterize, where everything freezes and trees explode...been there, don't want that ever again.
North Idaho was cold like that, from late December until the 16th of January, when the Chinook winds blow through and in 24 hrs it was 60 above...everything meted (but the sub soil) and all the snow slid off the roof, and we went outside in wonder...and old Indian said this is the Chinook wind, comes evey year in the vacinity of the 16th of Januray, stays a few days and sure enough by the 19th it was freezing and snowing again.
Watch for the Chinook winds this year, see if we have it here in WA, we should.
I want to learn the whole native story about the Chinook wind someday...

Everyone at Stevenson show today ?

 

[Chickielady]

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Go to HD.
Buy the 4 mill visqueen.
It is 100 ft long by 10ft.
Place it center over where your forms will be.
Place buckets, wood, what ever to stop it from hugging the ground. Then wait till you see a few day break in weather and get started.
This will work.

Dang! I told Gary to do that very thing !!!
I am going to do it right now !!!!!
Thanks !