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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Really? I did not know that. I never really knew what/who it was named after/for.

oh, and BTW...the baby photos are gorgeous. You think 7 weeks went by...just wait it will seem like tomorrow and she will be 7 and then you will go and blink and she will be 17. Truly, it is that fast. enjoy every second...even when you are so mad at her because she just took all your makeup and played with it or painted the walls....or whatever.

Loup is wolf, why its doubled is beyond me, but in Native Languages sometimes saying things more than once pluralizes it.

Today, I heard a BBC'er call Maryland Mary Land

I always thought that the Loup-Loup was named after a wolf/for a wolf...but never knkew why it was doubled. By maybe that is not what it was named for.

 

[Kaneke]

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Loup is wolf, why its doubled is beyond me, but in Native Languages sometimes saying things more than once pluralizes it.

Today, I heard a BBC'er call Maryland Mary Land

I always thought that the Loup-Loup was named after a wolf/for a wolf...but never knkew why it was doubled. By maybe that is not what it was named for.

loup is French for wolf -- yes, doubling the word usually means "lots of" -- apparently name was applied by fur trappers, primarily French speaking -- and a Google search shows that is the explanation usually given for the place name

 

[VelvettFog]

I hate snakes.

I can't wait to go to the Central WaRshingon State Fair (starts today). I'm very excited to go to the poultry barn this year!

I get new chicks next week!

I hate snakes.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Holy Moly - that is one large egg! Could it be a double shelled one?

No, it was one big egg, and this is the pullet's second egg.
BTW~ She laid the same size egg again today!

I LOVE BUCKEYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RFF:: I think these would be fantastic 'over there'
In as much as they are an herimloom breed, very fully plumed, and pea combed.
The breed comes from Ohio, and is cold tolerant to the winters there, which are colder than here.
So they may be exactly what MiL is looking for.
They are also excellent layers, mothers, and are extremely human-friendly!
The down side is: cock birds are not tolerant of each other in most cases.

Well, you'll have to let me know if you have any chicks or started birds next spring in Monroe (if you're coming?!?) My MIL won't be in the market to add anything until then anyway....her current roo is straight up nasty....they are going to process him as soon as they can catch him...if they don't shoot him first!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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You're entitled to hate snakes. It took me about 50 years to get past the impulse to kill them when I saw them (although I stopped giving in to the impulse long before that) and there are no venomous snakes where I live. If I lived anywhere near Oak Canyon*, or even that pile of granite** boulders across the road from my Uncle's orchard in Tieton***, I would be in the midst of full-blown screaming ophidiophobia all the time.






*Long ago I worked for a project of The Nature Conservancy that was surveying proposed reserves. The botanist who was doing plant inventory at Oak Canyon came home after one day in the field and refused to go out again until his snake-proof leggings were delivered. And he was from snake country.

**for some values of granite: pale volcanic rock, not basalt, either BC batholith white granite or grey-green cascade granodiorite. I never looked closely because of the rattlesnakes.

***TI eh TUN

 

[LiLRedCV]

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Try Craig's list. Im in Yakima, and there are folks here who will process for about 3 bucks a bird. I think there is an outfit in Ellensburg too.

I've looked there for several months now... nothing except someone willing to teach us how to do it ourselves on their farm and I think they're out by Snohomish.

Will keep monitoring tho'! Thanks.

 

[LiLRedCV]

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Thank you! Will see if I can find them.

 

[LiLRedCV]

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HI RED ROOSTER!!!!!!!!!
Long time no see!

And if anyone needs help butchering, maybe we can help?
Do you need help, to be taught, or ?
And what type & how many birds do you want to butcher?

I've done butchering before, but that was back when I was a teenager. Took me MONTHS to eat chicken again afterwards!

I would prefer someone else do it for me - they don't have to cut them into pieces after the fact. I can do that part all on my own!! LOL

I don't have any to butcher right now. All my girls at this point are keepers. However, next spring I'd like to get a flock of meat birds to raise and have butchered... again, would prefer someone else to do the job for me and either on our property or be able to take them some place else to have it done.... Putting out feelers now so I can judge whether it's feasible or not.

 

[Illia]

And here I LOVE snakes.

Had 2 Burmese Pythons in my life, both over 11 ft long, plus a couple Ball Pythons, a Ribbon Snake, a Corn Snake, . . . And then of course we've helped a few baby Garters now and then.

 

[VelvettFog]

Thankfully there are no snakes to speak of in my immediate vicinity. I've been in my current home for close to eight years, and I've only see a few very small green ones. No rattlers. Mostly because there are no large rock piles around