Washingtonians

[chickens4gramma]

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Okay, I'll bite. since I am home with the flu anyways!

Born in Seattle, WA (Ballard area until 5)
Grew up in Shoreline area of North Seattle (Shorecrest High School)
Apartment in Edmonds briefly
Married, lived in Mountlake Terrace for 4 years
Graham, WA for 7 years
Auburn, WA for 10 years
Lake Tapps, WA last 16 years

Never lived outside of WA!

To hallerlake--DH and I used to walk to Haller Lake to swim when we were high school sweethearts, lol

 

[hallerlake]

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Okay, I'll bite. since I am home with the flu anyways!

Born in Seattle, WA (Ballard area until 5)
Grew up in Shoreline area of North Seattle (Shorecrest High School)
Apartment in Edmonds briefly
Married, lived in Mountlake Terrace for 4 years
Graham, WA for 7 years
Auburn, WA for 10 years
Lake Tapps, WA last 16 years

Never lived outside of WA!

To hallerlake--DH and I used to walk to Haller Lake to swim when we were high school sweethearts, lol

I'm on the west side of the loop, on Densmore.

 

[VelvettFog]

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I was born in Madison

 

[renart]

Sheffield, PA

Warren, PA

Uijeongbu, Korea

Ft. Hood, Tx

Warren, PA

Boise, ID

Kingston, Wa



With other small misc. stops a long the way.

 

[RonB]

VelvettFog

I DON'T have any chickens I want to get rid of (yet) took my Austra White rooster on a one way trip to Monore Feed this morning . Glad to get rid of him

You had mentioned a few weeks ago that you were looking for 4 or 5 pullets that were laying or close to it. I PM'ed you and told you to look on craigslist at the adds from the people on Bainbridge Is. I see they posted three new adds today. Their birds are vaccinated and are 4+ months old. They have Ameracauna,Gold Star,Bl. Australorp, BR, RIR, and even the hard to get White leghorns

You know the ones that lay the WHITE eggs

Ive been reading their adds for about two years. I think this is a place that can be trusted. I think I will get a few from them in the spring. I'm done with baby chicks and the heat lamp thing

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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That's all just Seattle. See from here when ya get north of Tacoma it is all just MORE Seattle.

 

[chickens4gramma]

Quote:
Okay, I'll bite. since I am home with the flu anyways!

Born in Seattle, WA (Ballard area until 5)
Grew up in Shoreline area of North Seattle (Shorecrest High School)
Apartment in Edmonds briefly
Married, lived in Mountlake Terrace for 4 years
Graham, WA for 7 years
Auburn, WA for 10 years
Lake Tapps, WA last 16 years

Never lived outside of WA!

To hallerlake--DH and I used to walk to Haller Lake to swim when we were high school sweethearts, lol

I'm on the west side of the loop, on Densmore.

Tried to shorten this quote but messed it up I guess! I was on 148th and Burke Ave. We would walk all the way on Meridian. Long walk but we were young!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Hey Stump!

We were semi-neighbors. While I said I lived in Oly - it really was closer to Lacy. I went to two different elementary school -- Lydia Hawk, and South Sound Elem. We had moved out on to Johnson Point towards the end of our stay on the wet side.

I love small worlds

South Sound= South Bay? That's the local school for Johnson Point, or was then, I think there may be an additional one now? Funny that I just talked to an old 4-H friend on the phone about her Araucana cockeral who may not be; she lives on Johnson Point as does one of my cousins.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I have a cockerel who is "nearly" mature, he is crowing, he is getting frisky with the hens

no he isn't an Ameraucana, he's an Easter Egger .. but he is sure purty, and he is going to have to find a new home, I doubt that the neighbors will put up with crowing (will definitely get him out of here when we get back next week)

he's either a silver duckwing with gold leakage and dominant white, or a black breasted red with dominant white and gold leakage

not sure of my terminology here .. I don't have a pic to post yet, or I'd ask Illia

black/silver head and breast with white blotching on breast; gold bordered saddle and hackle feathers with teal in the saddle feathers

and now some "red leakage" coming through there too

mostly white wings with teal at the tips

teal and black iridescent tail feathers

pea comb, small red wattles, slate colored legs with a slight green tinge

clean faced

pleasant and "just one of the girls" most of the time, chest bumps the girls and is now starting to pursue just a bit

will occasionally eat out of my hand but mostly stays about 2 feet away

I'll try and talk to him again this week. He really likes the two EEs he has but I think the idea was to breed EEs from an Ameraucana rooster, to eventually replace the mix he has now (which I forgot includes a couple of SLWs and a GLW) with a green-and-blue laying flock. We're sort of opposites on how we got into this chicken thing, at least in that he's raised chicks for the most part, and also hatched some stuff, including the pheasants, and had an egg route before my few hens were even laying.

 

[Kaneke]

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I have a cockerel who is "nearly" mature, he is crowing, he is getting frisky with the hens

no he isn't an Ameraucana, he's an Easter Egger .. but he is sure purty, and he is going to have to find a new home, I doubt that the neighbors will put up with crowing (will definitely get him out of here when we get back next week)

he's either a silver duckwing with gold leakage and dominant white, or a black breasted red with dominant white and gold leakage

not sure of my terminology here .. I don't have a pic to post yet, or I'd ask Illia

black/silver head and breast with white blotching on breast; gold bordered saddle and hackle feathers with teal in the saddle feathers

and now some "red leakage" coming through there too

mostly white wings with teal at the tips

teal and black iridescent tail feathers

pea comb, small red wattles, slate colored legs with a slight green tinge

clean faced

pleasant and "just one of the girls" most of the time, chest bumps the girls and is now starting to pursue just a bit

will occasionally eat out of my hand but mostly stays about 2 feet away

I'll try and talk to him again this week. He really likes the two EEs he has but I think the idea was to breed EEs from an Ameraucana rooster, to eventually replace the mix he has now (which I forgot includes a couple of SLWs and a GLW) with a green-and-blue laying flock. We're sort of opposites on how we got into this chicken thing, at least in that he's raised chicks for the most part, and also hatched some stuff, including the pheasants, and had an egg route before my few hens were even laying.

what I am hearing is that the hatchery chicks from Privett (which is where my lot came from, via Del's) -- usually lay green or blue eggs, and the roos of course would be carrying the blue egg gene ... he does have a triple-row pea comb which I understand means he DOES have that gene

though I haven't noticed any pictures on BYC of EEs with metallic blue-green feathers, which he has (and two of the girls have that color also in their neck-shawl area --- teal edged with rusty bronze .. noticeable really only in bright direct sunlight

also, what I'm reading is that some of the Ameraucanas are exhibiting "throw back" characteristics, and laying pink, olive, or tan eggs rather than the normal-for-them blue to minty green ... I guess it depends on how carefully the breedings were, back several generation