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[Chicken Rustler]

WOW I just noticed BYC now has over 100,000 registered users. I remember when I started there was a contest to guess when there would be 25,000. And I haven't been around that long.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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You can say "You knew when....." or "I was here from the beginning"..."when I first started they didn't have that or wish I had that when I first started ......"

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Does anyone know what size nut goes on the bottom of a those red-and-white plastic two quart hanging feeders? Elvis has managed to take his apart and dump two pounds of Del's all purpose feed and rolled oats (cheaper at Cost Plus than anywhere so far) on the ground, where he is fighting it out with the slugs and earwigs for possession and/or eating the slugs and earwigs he has cleverly baited into his home with spilled feed.

Yesterday was fun that way: I also found out that my daughter had misunderstood the purpose of her task last Sunday and carefully NOT used the greenhouse plastic, hardware cloth, and $2 worth of screws and fender washers plus two hours of precious, precious, irreplaceble time to block the bottom of the west wall of the Wyandotte coop to weather and rodents (rather applying it as some sort of ornamental frill), which is...a disappointment. Also, our less than a year old washer is not filling, and there is no filter in the hose so we have to figure out where it is in the cute little access doors (hopefully the one in front, although I don't actually know because the manual downloader won't recognize my copy of Adobe Reader). You've never lived until you've had to hand-fill a front-loading washer with pitchers of water to get 90% of your underwear out from behind a locked door.

Looks to be cooler today. That will help.

 

[Ogress]

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If you find out what size nut it takes, let me know. Mine fell apart months ago and I can't find the missing piece, so I prop in up on a cinder block.

Laundry fun - I hope you got the drawer under that front-load washer. I didn't - the builder insisted that he build a shelf instead. Well, if your filter plugs up (on the Whirlpool Duet this will give an error code that has nothing to do with a plugged filter, and will tell yo you need a repairman to replace the pump - luckily a nice repair man has posted all the error codes with detailed instructions on how to do each repair on the internet!) Anyways, if your pump filter plugs, and your washer won't drain, you will need to put a bucket in the drawer to catch all the water that will drain when you detatch the drain hose from the filter. I can't even fit a baking sheet under my washer! My filter has plugged 3X (each time from Alex ... BB's left in his pockets that fit through the drain-holes in the washer drum, but not through the pump filter). Each time I need to empty my laundry room and then put nearly every towell I own on the floor to soak up the flood I release!

Still that is preferable to doing laundry when I was a kid. I grew up in California with water rationing. Mom would always stop the washer during the final rinse before anything drained so the water could be used for the next load. I would have to fish everything out and hand-wring each piece, several loads a week for years. I swear this is why my hands are arthritic. I've had arthritis in them since I was a teen.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Hey guys.....here's my updated list:

2 Black Crevecoeur hens. These are from Duane Urch lines, not hatchery stock.Hatched in May of 2010. Laying well (pretty much daily). Their earlobes are too white & they don't have as full of a beard as I'd like. (I show & breed towards the APA standards). I am sure they carry good genetics as some of their siblings are much nicer--but I don't want to keep anything I cannot show. $15 each or both for $25

1 Pair of Spangled Russian Orloffs (very rare). 1.5 years old. Rooster is proven fertile--and the hen that comes with him is unrelated. The hen is laying daily and I have also hatched chicks from her. $30/pair

Bantam Mottled Houdan Rooster. VERY RARE. 1.5 years old...too much white for my pen of mottleds. Would make an EXCELLENT 4-H or similar project...gorgeous! $30 FIRM

1 Lavender Muscovy Drake, prolapsed. Cannot be used for breeding but would be a nice roast duck or a pretty addition to your yard. $20 OBO

4cats3kids1hubby2many--I'll be emailing you about the Sussex...they do need to go.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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If you find out what size nut it takes, let me know. Mine fell apart months ago and I can't find the missing piece, so I prop in up on a cinder block.

Laundry fun - I hope you got the drawer under that front-load washer. I didn't - the builder insisted that he build a shelf instead. Well, if your filter plugs up (on the Whirlpool Duet this will give an error code that has nothing to do with a plugged filter, and will tell yo you need a repairman to replace the pump - luckily a nice repair man has posted all the error codes with detailed instructions on how to do each repair on the internet!) Anyways, if your pump filter plugs, and your washer won't drain, you will need to put a bucket in the drawer to catch all the water that will drain when you detatch the drain hose from the filter. I can't even fit a baking sheet under my washer! My filter has plugged 3X (each time from Alex ... BB's left in his pockets that fit through the drain-holes in the washer drum, but not through the pump filter). Each time I need to empty my laundry room and then put nearly every towell I own on the floor to soak up the flood I release!

Still that is preferable to doing laundry when I was a kid. I grew up in California with water rationing. Mom would always stop the washer during the final rinse before anything drained so the water could be used for the next load. I would have to fish everything out and hand-wring each piece, several loads a week for years. I swear this is why my hands are arthritic. I've had arthritis in them since I was a teen.

This is a Kenmore, and was purchased the day before my husband's surgery because our old one (a Frigidaire) bit the dust in under five years. The one before THAT lasted nine years, although it had worsening problems for the last five of them, mostly as a result of going through the Nisqually quake and having the barrel mounts crack. I suspect that this is just a plugged filter, since the gullywasher last week apparently swozzled dirt into the well.

I'm going to drop an in-line filter into the feed hose. Our well is dug down to salmon Springs Formation gravel, but above that there's 12 feet of coarse sand. The younger men (my cousin and BIL) need to drag out their trash pump and clean the bottom of the well, but they're "too busy-" Dad did it once every five years, minimum, just like he reset pasture every seven years and kept the fences and gates in good shape, but that's no argument I can use to them because they worked for him exactly enough to resent his drill sergeant ways and not enough to internalize his values.

For most of the last twenty years my sister and I tried to do things Wesley's Way but we also did all the women's work and after a while you just run out of gas/incur too many injuries to continue that level of striving. And of course I married a city boy, and one with a certified actual major back problem, so we're stymied all around here.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

FREE COOP (YOU HAUL!)

Why can I never find these deals around here?

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/zip/2522687090.html

Wow...this is a GREAT deal!

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/grd/2518666725.html

Another FREE coop!

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/zip/2522247476.html

I'm looking for someone to house my culls & extra roosters in....that's small and that DH can drag around with the 4-wheeler or truck....we're overrun by HUGE grasshoppers right now!!!

 

[chickens4gramma]

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/grd/2516483858.html Anybody know what this waterer is? From the pic I don't really understand how it is worth $40. Does it attach to the hose, then work as a little bowl that is automatically fed? I tried to look it up online but couldn't find the same one.

Thanks for your help!

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Don't you kind of live in the middle of nowhere.

 

[chickens4gramma]

An email I just got from a seattlefarmcoop list I am on. Anyone want them? Anyone else here on that list?




Hi. It's me again. We've decided to make some changes in our flock. We have two black copper marans, about 8 or 9 months old. They're excellent layers, laying dark chocolate brown speckled eggs nearly everyday. We hate to give up beautiful birds with such beautiful eggs, but we live extremely close to our neighbors and they are the loudest of all our hens. We need to do something to cut down on the backyard noise. Would anyone like them?

Allison
206-331-2817
(Columbia City / Mt Baker neighborhood)