Washingtonians

[pettec63]

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Hi All;
My name is Carol and Red Reiner turned me to this thread. I live in La Center, Wa which is just a few miles north of Vancouver Wa. I very proudly raise English Orpingtons. I got my birds from Bamachicken. I am just thrilled with how they turned out. My girls are starting to lay consistently and I cant wait to start hatching after the first of the year. Here are a few pics that I took last week. Hope you enjoy looking at them.

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glad your here!Very NICE girls!!!​

 

[pettec63]

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glad your here!Very NICE girls!!!

opps and I think I saw a boy!!!

 

[pettec63]

Uh yea about the way Chehalis is laid out?? It's ridiculous!! I hardly EVER get lost or turned around, by the time I left there I was so

It did NOT make sense to me at all, all the stupid one way streets and then trying to get back to the freeway?? Give me a break, the guy that put that road system together must have been smokn somethin!!!

 

[justbugged]

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I assumed they were strangers because after taking the food they wandered off with it. That's a big assumption on my part. I'm properly ashamed.

I wandered off to go talk to people, check my show birds, check my birds in the sale area, ask the raffle people if they wanted to be spelled for a bit, and I didn't bring a chair (couldn't fit one in my car) so I didn't have a place to sit. Also, I can't sit still at a show for very long to save my life! To many people to talk to, tease, things to look at, stuff to do, etc etc etc. I was in the ASBC apron and had a shirt with a syringe on it. I wandered in and out... talked with some people, and didn't stay in any one place too long. Don't feel guilty, as I am certain there were probably some people, especially kids, who thought the food was for everyone and helped themselves. The boy with the plate of baklava might have been a boy who I am fairly certain is special needs that was at the show.

Well I for one am very grateful that for the sake of my rather ample hips that more of the baklava didn't come home with us. As is was there was just the right amount left for DS and his wife. I do know that I ask a woman pushing a stroller who she was, and I know that she wasn't one of the group. I don't think that she knew anything about BYC. I figured that it was more gracious to let it go, than than try to explain what we had going on there. The party was definitely being held at the Rustler's booth. I think I missed a few people there. I spent way more time trying to figure out where I wanted to put my raffle tickets. I won enough that I felt like it had been worth it, but I may need to be reminded when the Jersey Giant eggs all hatch. I didn't need any JG hatching eggs. I don't have room for a JG either, but the bator was all ready warmed up and running any way.

That is some very poor logic if I don't say so myself.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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LOVE your logic!

My JG is a wonderful girl; she's been broody twice in the last year and when laying she gives us nice, big brown eggs about 5 days a week. Can't wait to what pops out of your bator!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

CRANKY!!!

Once again, when I went to add brown material and turn the compost, the composter was full of stuff like full heads of broccoli (victims of the no stove problem, and meant for the cattle) along with rubber bands, some vegetable bags, and lettuce and rice which should have gone to the chickens. So now I get to pick the cattle stuff out and rinse the coffee grounds off, pick out the garbage, and THEN turn it. HUGE hassle, and taking up time I had six other things to do, but if I leave it like that it'll go anaerobic, kill the red worms, and stink to high heaven.

That's just a single annoyance: I spent a lot of yesterday putting stuff away that had been yanked from the Wyandotte coop when it was done, in a hurry, in the darkening dusk, the night before Thanksgiving. Which was supposed to be PUT AWAY Saturday and was instead stacked in nested buckets with visegrips, tinsnips, scissors, and *pencils* in the bottom of the bottom bucket, in a place where I need to be able to put my feet to lower the kitchen blinds and cover the window. Both my husband and the hired hand should have ^@&#!!! well known where the stuff in that bucket goes, and the other stuff has places it belongs, too- or at least places less totally in the way than the last open stretch of floor in that end of the kitchen. I swear, the first thing that happens this next work day will be putting big red duct-tape Xs on that piece of floor and also the place where she absolutely every week stacks the glass recycling only for me to kick it over when I walk in the kitchen door.

I did get some 2" poultry mesh over the place my cousin's chickens came into the yard yesterday- they can still get into my side yard and (most dangerously) down into the plum thicket, where I think there are evil chicken-eating mammals but, hey: not my problem, right?

 

[VelvettFog]

I am an evil, chicken-eating mammal .. but I promise that I do not live in Stumpfarmer's plum thicket.


Promise.

 

[Totalcolour]

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It's a pretty damp, dark, sinister and evil plum thicket - just the sort of place for an evil, sinister chicken eating mammal.

So, while the description of an evil chicken-eating mammal may fit, and a very fitting place for an evil chicken-eating mammal, it's a pretty tight fitting thicket, so I don't think you'd fit! (whew, say that more than once)

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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It's a pretty damp, dark, sinister and evil plum thicket - just the sort of place for an evil, sinister chicken eating mammal.

So, while the description of an evil chicken-eating mammal may fit, and a very fitting place for an evil chicken-eating mammal, it's a pretty tight fitting thicket, so I don't think you'd fit! (whew, say that more than once)

Seriously- between the plum root-suckers and the blackberries it looks like the brambles around Sleeping Beauty's castle. There is the ruinous cabin in the middle of the thicket, but I suspect that's where the raccoons are living now.

 

[birdnbeast]

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Very Nice and it's good to know there is some place closer than RR's for me to go late night chicken shopping.

Well, If Mr CR thinks he is gonna rustle up some of Carol babies before my DH (twelvestring) get a chance me thinks Mr CR has another think a comin' !!!! He has fallen in love with the little guys (serama) and the big butts (eng Orps) and will probably keep one of my fluffy girly silkies (as she is my only partridge). He has a 'bitty' a 'fluffy' and now just needs the BUTT. Carol and her babies/eggs will be fought over! Just saying -- DH may be a bit older but he is tall and long-legged and has managed to not get killed being with me for over 3 decades -- I divorced two and said that this time "I look better in Black!" He is still breathing so must be determined =:~)

Welcome to RSNGSTR -- and yes, You, your dogs, and your Orps are Rising Stars!!!

k/

too little time, too little $$$, not enough chickens