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[RedReiner]

I use baled shavings inside the coop on the floor, much easier to clean. the bedding pellets work well in the brooder. I use pellets in my horse stalls too. nobody I know uses straw for even the baby horses anymore. to dusty, does not absorb much.

 

[RedReiner]

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I have two litters of miniature pinschers cooking lol.

uh oh!! red or black and tan? I might take a runt! lol! when are they due? it's one of those, if I dood it I get in tweble, I dood it! LOL

these will be red with the possibility of black. parents are AKC champs. I show my dogs

the colts are sired by my stud horse so are half brothers. chesnut mom is a cutting bred mare and the grey mare is also but different pedigree. my stud horse is a show winner also. he is a reiner.

 

[KMHunter]

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Since I am sure I will miss yer B-Day I wanna wish ya an early happy 50th !!!

woah just saw pics on the news FUNNEL CLOUD in Mt. Vernon !!!!

Nice one CR!!! Good try!

 

[SadieSue]

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Hi
So are you on the west side or the east side? We have been talking about getting together a few place's.

Hay Sadiesue did you figure on a date yet?

I've narrowed it down to a Wednesday evening, leaning toward mid- May right now. Maybe May 18, or May 25? Do those dates work for you guys who wanted to attend the informal meeting in Tacoma at my wine shop at 6:00 pm?

 

[KMHunter]

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Chickielady is awesome! So glad she could hook you up with your EE's. And Happy Early Birthday!!!!

Thanks! She hooked me up with one of her OE's and a Blue Wheaton Ameraucana. Sooo pretty!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Since I am sure I will miss yer B-Day I wanna wish ya an early happy 50th !!!

woah just saw pics on the news FUNNEL CLOUD in Mt. Vernon !!!!

Nice one CR!!! Good try!

Hey I didn't say how MANY YEARS early I would be !!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I've been reading a lot about various beddings, and I'll be using pellets in everything but the nest boxes; I'm being really old school for those, and harvesting and drying moss out of my poor beleagered entry yard perennial garden (the one that will eventually be repurposed as a banty run). When it stops raining (faith is a lovely thing, isn't it?) I'm planning on gathering and washing/drying waste hay from the pasture.

Straw is hideously expensive; no-till and short stem wheats have put its price at a premium (there are other minor straws, but except for oat straw, which is magical stuff, sweet smelling and soft, rye, barley, et'c are not distinguishable from wheat). It's pretty and relatively durable (and hard to compost, as a result) but it's also in need of protection from ground and rain, harbors rodents and insects almost as badly as two-wire hay bales, and is a problem to handle: I've got scars from dragging it across my hands making up show-cattle stalls. The best thing about straw is that it doesn't support disease pathogens; my BIL keeps some around for bedding sick piglets.

Wow! that's interesting! We got our straw in Echo Or, think we paid 3.00 a bale, I didn't think that was bad, guess I hadn't gotten it in a while. MY BF asked me if we should start using wood shavings, I'm just being frugal cause I have some straw left. So you are using pellets on the coop floor? I haven't' gone as far as pricing shavings vs pellets, I would assume tho that pellets are more expensive? I guess I'm thinking of the comfort factor, would it be more comfortable to walk on pellets or shavings? ( that's the vet tech in me) lol!

Are using-> intending to use. Right now the coop is a work in progress and the kids are in a wire-and-plastic chicken tractor; I finally got a gate panel and just finished leveling it; I hope to out the external wire up tomorrow and Sunday and finish building everything Sunday (weather finally permitting, please please, please).

I only know Puget Sound retail prices; Echo Or is a long way from me, and anything I get from there has transportation and retail mark-up. The last time I bought straw it was $14 for a three-string bale!

 

[pettec63]

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Wow! that's interesting! We got our straw in Echo Or, think we paid 3.00 a bale, I didn't think that was bad, guess I hadn't gotten it in a while. MY BF asked me if we should start using wood shavings, I'm just being frugal cause I have some straw left. So you are using pellets on the coop floor? I haven't' gone as far as pricing shavings vs pellets, I would assume tho that pellets are more expensive? I guess I'm thinking of the comfort factor, would it be more comfortable to walk on pellets or shavings? ( that's the vet tech in me) lol!

Are using-> intending to use. Right now the coop is a work in progress and the kids are in a wire-and-plastic chicken tractor; I finally got a gate panel and just finished leveling it; I hope to out the external wire up tomorrow and Sunday and finish building everything Sunday (weather finally permitting, please please, please).

I only know Puget Sound retail prices; Echo Or is a long way from me, and anything I get from there has transportation and retail mark-up. The last time I bought straw it was $14 for a three-string bale!

DANG!!! that's not marked up! That's getting Robbed!! HOLY COW!

 

[Zgoatlady]

I cant wait till Sat. Im getting some English orp chicks

, not sure of the colors want to be suprised when I see them.. Im not going to be able to sleep now

 

[pettec63]

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I use alfalfa pellets for my brooders, that way when its time to change them I just toss into the garden.. When they are older I go to the shavings.

Good idea!!