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[VelvettFog]

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Must be South Bay -- I remember it was blue

I lived on JP from 72 to 73, moved to Yakima in the summer of 74 when my father took the County Health Officer job here.

Dave

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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Susie -

Yeah, I'm planning on doing the coop tour. Can't wait!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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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

Yeah, I've heard something similar- although from my cousin's friend who is a masterful prevaricator, if you know what I mean.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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(My maternal grandmother was born in Muncie; the family moved to Prosser when she was a child, sometime before 1905).

 

[Ogress]

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You and I are the same age. I grew up in CA as well, but in the Bay Area.

I am from the bay area too

Hayward, CA

My dad was in the navy

San Jose - my dad worked at IBM.

Also lived in Davis CA for my last couple years of college and my first job with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (various times and addresses 87-92), Georgetown in the Sierras while working as a firefighter (89), Sacramento - 3 addresses in 6 months, including my car, all downtown while looking for employment after graduating (90), Los Gatos back with my parents while I was working at Stanford and could not afford rent on my wages (92), Woodinville WA (93), Bothell, WA (94-95) was able to buy a house on my salary and my payments were less than half what rent was in the Bay Area at the time!, Woodinville WA (96-2003), North Bend (2003 - ?)

 

[RonB]

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You left BOTHELL and even Woodinville to move to North Bend?

What were you thinking?

. Like the rain I guess

BTW check is in the mail. Thanks

The other day all my older chickens were out free ranging, so I let the two new ones out of their coop to run around in the barn

when I went to put them away, they were up in the rafters

I used a big fish net (big enough to catch jaws) to catch them.

I clipped their wings as soon as I got them down

 

[Ogress]

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I was in second grade when mom also went to work. She did not trust us in the house when she was gone, so when she left in the morning, my brother (2 years older) and I waited on our covered porch until it was time to walk the 1.5 mi to school. My sister 3 y younger was dropped off at preschool by mom until she got to Kindergarten and joined us on the porch. Everyone around us walked as well. Only crossguards were on Blossom Hill rd where we had to cross 6 lanes of traffic.


In the summers all the kids would dissappear into the hills and build forts in the big oak trees and slide down the dry grass on cardboard. No cell phones, no supervision. We'd just head back in time for dinner. Sometimes we'd even find men who were likely running from the law in the caves nearby. We'd all sneak them food. No one was ever hurt by them. My brother and his friends found stacks of nudie magazines in someone's dugout fort in an empty field when they were too young to care, but they knew the teenage boys would pay money for the pictures, so they cut them out and I walked around selling the centerfolds to all the teen boys I could find. We took the $ and stocked our tree houses with cinnamon red-hots, Jolly Ranchers and bubble gum. I think I'd have a seizure if I found my kids doing the stuff we did back then.

 

[chickens4gramma]

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Suzanne: I can't wait either! We seem to be in the same phase of chicken aquisition, lol!

New question from those of you who live with lots of predators. We are converting an 8 x 10 shed into a coop. We are putting a new floor on it because it is old and rotten and chewed through (field mice, or ?) Hubby went out and bought "really sturdy" chicken wire to put under the 7/16 OSB (whatever that is!) for the floor and up the sides a few inches. He says it has very small holes that no mice or rats could get through. I read that rats can chew through chicken wire. I want hardware cloth. He says that is lots more $$, but will do what I want ('cause he is a sweet guy, and spends plenty on HIS hobby of fishing, lol). What do you all think? Is there chicken wire that would keep out mice and rats? I don't think the coons could dig under AND then chew through wire and wood, or could they? If I can save $ here, gives me more to spend on other goodies, like feeders, window boxes for the coop, etc. Thanks for your help!

 

[Ogress]

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I left for land with a view that didn't cost an arm and a leg! Even though we get A LOT MORE rain here than in Woodinville, I don't think we have any more overcast days. It's just that when it rains here, it comes down HEAVY! I'm not in town, I'm up near Rattlesnake Lake. I did not want the floods! In town I think they average about 80" per year. Up here, before the winds destroyed my weather station, we'd get 30% more. Quite often in the fall it will be sunny but cool and windy here. I'll drive down to Issaquah and it will be socked in with thick, wet fog. I'd rather have the wind.

Glad the chicken looks to be a pullet! I have 2 roos for free. You can eat them if you don't tell me. So far my neighbors have not complained, or there may be 6+ more in the near fututre!

 

[Ogress]

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Suzanne: I can't wait either! We seem to be in the same phase of chicken aquisition, lol!

New question from those of you who live with lots of predators. We are converting an 8 x 10 shed into a coop. We are putting a new floor on it because it is old and rotten and chewed through (field mice, or ?) Hubby went out and bought "really sturdy" chicken wire to put under the 7/16 OSB (whatever that is!) for the floor and up the sides a few inches. He says it has very small holes that no mice or rats could get through. I read that rats can chew through chicken wire. I want hardware cloth. He says that is lots more $$, but will do what I want ('cause he is a sweet guy, and spends plenty on HIS hobby of fishing, lol). What do you all think? Is there chicken wire that would keep out mice and rats? I don't think the coons could dig under AND then chew through wire and wood, or could they? If I can save $ here, gives me more to spend on other goodies, like feeders, window boxes for the coop, etc. Thanks for your help!

I don't like chicken wire, it is too flexible. I used hardware cloth