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[DuckLady]

Hey those of you in NE Washington...
Check out this news story about Ione!
http://www.kxly.com/news/23714889/detail.html

 

[Jessica Rabbit]

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YAY! you get to go with me?? his highness said yes????!!!!

I am so excited

he said YES! !!!!!!

 

[maralynn28]

HEY WASHINGTONIANS!!!
I'm looking for LOCAL meat producers...I see plenty veggies sold at farmers markets but not so much meat. Any idea where I can get some humanely treated, small farm meat in Western Washington? So far only place I know is in Tacoma/Puyallup (Pig Lady?) but have gotten no replies.

I am so tired of supporting factory farms but not willing to give up meat.

Please PM if it would be easier to reply...
THANK YOU!!!!

 

[justbugged]

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THats what happened to me. I found my polish hen really sick just kind of laying around. I picked her up and found a worm hanging out of her. THat was yesterday. I started them last night on the wormer you recommended. I found the polish dead today

I am hoping I got to the rest in time. On a side note for some reason I also found my blue laced red dead this morning too. Not sure what happened to her. THen to make matters worse my momma hen decided she doesn't like one of the babies anymore so she was treating her kind of bad. I moved the chick in with the other chicks that are about 8-16 weeks old and they seem to have accepted her ok. She went over and layed next to one and also got some water and food so I hope she makes it, but I am considering bringing her inside the house and taking one of the other chicks to keep her company.

Update: The 26 day chick that hatched did not make it. Not sure why but she seemed to really have a slow start to life.

Hope everyone has a good day

Oh so sad !
I had the same kind of thing happen a month ago with a faulty thermometer/hygrometer and a slow hatch !!!
darn it !
I am starting to think that heavy worm infestations can do alot more internal injuries than we know of, such as they bore right into the liver, lungs and go through the inntestinal walls...I am going to get some wazine ASAP...do you think the wazine itself may have been too strong for your birds ?
In other words like dogs with heavy infestations of heart worms, if you worm the dog 100% it kills off all the worms at once and can cause mortality in that all the dead worms can clog up the heart valves and arteries, and those dead inside vital organs must be resorped by the immunal system, killing them all at once is too much...with dogs, they get a heart worm test, and are given a little wormer at a time, so to kill off a little worms everyday so the dog can heal and resorp the dead parasites.
Does that sound like what may be happening as you worm the birds, the next day they die ???

No none of my birds have died since I wormed them. Tomorrow I am going to give them Ivermectin. I will have to let you know how that goes. A number of my birds started to lay after I wormed them 2 weeks ago.

 

[Sparkelrose]

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Good luck and hope you get the offending bad cat !!
I am truly worried for you !

You are so sweet. I haven't caught him yet I haven't seen him since Wed. night. I don't know if that is because of the rain or the shots my friend fired at him. LOL you have some strong opinions on cats. I don't feel the same I love cats, so much that I would love to be a cat groomer. I have 5 that live in my house and we have at least 10 ferrals that we fixed in december and kept on the property. they have never gone near my chickens, I evenb have all my quail in my kitchen in cages on the floor and my cats don't think anything of them. We keep them all well fed lol.

Congrats on the new puppy! He is adorable, and so neat you have been with your hubby your whole life, what a great story!

 

[justbugged]

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My husband and I did meat birds this year. We didn't do as many as I thought we were going to do. I am rather relieved that it worked out the way it did. I had a number of people that wanted chicken meat. But I found that I am not able to care for more than about 15 birds at a time. I did about 28 this year.
I have figured out the cost to produce a bird, and without considering my time is at least 10.00 to 12.00 per bird. If I take my time into the equation, and I consider that my time is only worth minimum wage. Then I would need to ask almost 20.00 per bird. I am thinking that this would price the end result out of the realm of affordable or reasonable. On the other hand I am interested in knowing if there is a market for meat chickens. I think that if I had better set up to care for that many birds, that next time I would find the process easier to manage by myself. If I have to DH help me much then I pay a bigger price for all the hassle.
P.S. I ended up de-boning all of the meat that I kept. I find that it is much easier to use that way. I kept all the bones in order to make stock during the year. I also packaged the wings in packs i in order to make hot wings on the grill. I am just waiting for the weather to warm and dry up. I also vacuumed packed all of the meat I put in my freezer.
I hurt a lot more for days after we put the birds into the freezer. It’s just too many hours of standing on my feet. I want new feet that don’t hurt. Sometimes I think it would hurt less if I just had them cut off.

 

[justbugged]

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Thank you for the help this morning. I have been to Ione WA It is a beautiful town, in a truly beautiful area of Washington. I really liked the area around that part of the state. There is nothing like backing up to one of the last stretch of true wilderness in the USA

 

[justbugged]

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That is one cute pup. He looks really smart. A girlfriend and I debated one time about the value of a smart verses a dumb dog and that maybe sometimes a dumb dog is easier to live with than a smart dog. I don't think I have made a conclusion to that idea yet. But then I have a dog that will talk back at me, and ignore me if he wants too. Sometimes I wish he was not quite so smart with his mouth.
I am real glad that you were able to give that Jack a great home. Are there other litter mates still at the pound?

OK Big Dog say he needs me to go to bed NOW!!! goodnight all

 

[Sparkelrose]

I'm still up waiting for my DH to come home, he is at a friends house working on his truck. I'm going to go to the g-sale tomorrow and because I am so shy I am posting this pic so if you see me you can come say hi to me. Either that or I will just come in by some stuff and leave lol. That's what I did at the poultry show in monroe, so if you see me please come say hi to me, I want to meet some of you guys!

This is my DH and his mom and me, we were at our friends wedding this past saturday. It was a Tudors style wedding with a dragon theme, they both love dragons.

 

[cheryl98117]

Oh I'm SO MAD!!!

And I know its my fault...

Was woke up at 5AM by my hens squaking up a storm. Looked out my window, and a coyote is in my pasture chasing my chickens, while being chased by my daughters pony. The girls didnt get locked up last night.

The coyotes got one of my White Wyandottes. Two days ago I lost my Banty Delaware "looking" cross.

"Not sure what got her. But now im thinking it was a coyote."

My girls are getting an updated coop, with their run wrapt in hot wire. I'm thinking about putting the wire just below my knee, or should I go lower? I would also like to get a rifle, but I think my neighbors are too close for me to keep one and be able to use it.

I cant believe how BIG this Coyote was. It was bigger than my Sheppard / Chow mix! He was about the same size as my moms Sheppard / wolf hybrid!!! Probably 60 - 90 pounds, and if it was standing next to me, its head would have come up to my thigh! And I'm 5'11"!!!

I know it was my fault... I know the coyote is just doing what a coyote does. But Darnit!!! I am now down to 3 adult layers, and 3 four week old pullets...

Now I need to fix the problem. Rebuild the coop, make it as close to fortknox as possible, run hotwire along the outside of the run. And make sure the girls are LOCKED IN every night... Then start the search for more mature layers... In two years, "up until now" I have only lost 1 bird from predators... And now I have lost two in one week...

I want to scream, cry, and camp out in my chicken coop all at the same time. My poor sweet girls...

On the other hand I do SO love my daughters Welsh Pony. What a good and brave little boy! By the time I had made it outside, he had the coyote on the run. Running circles trying to not get kicked that is...

Good boy Teagan! He's an awsome worthless pony! And I wouldnt trade him for the world!

I call him our worthless pony because he is usually only good for eating, making messes, and tearing down my fences. Oh that and he is untrained...