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[chickenmomma16]

The Enumclaw Sales Pavillion is another place to find roo's. My expierience has been that the bigger the roo the more they go for at the auction. Still it is a lot of fun seeing all the chickens on a Saturday morning.

For those that don't know me well I am out in Enumclaw. I am in the city of Enumclaw, and it is easy to find the place.

I refuse to go to ESP because 1. I will come home with another horse(come back on sunday) 2. WAY to many animals available I'll want them all 3. I Will come home with more than 1 new pet

 

[FirewifeJess]

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That's crazy!!! Though, I do put stock in using colloidal silver. Jeanine has been badly burned twice in her short life, poor thing! When she had just turned 2 she put her palms flat on our fireplace glass and burned the snot out of them; had to go to the hospital and the doctors sucked and didn't treat them very well; we used silver instead of the crap they gave us and she healed quickly and almost painlessly, after the first day of agony. Then just this last 4th of July a couple weeks ago she stood up and ran out of her chair on the lawn barefoot, right into the road where a firework had just stopped firing. There was still sparks on the ground and she was burned; the bottom of her foot had a blister the size of a quarter on it and now it's barely noticeable because of the silver. Oddly enough, when we just left it alone the blister would swell up and threaten to pop, but as soon as we applied the silver it would go back down to being flat and not so scary looking. Silver rocks!

 

[chickenjane82]

That's crazy!!! Though, I do put stock in using colloidal silver. Jeanine has been badly burned twice in her short life, poor thing! When she had just turned 2 she put her palms flat on our fireplace glass and burned the snot out of them; had to go to the hospital and the doctors sucked and didn't treat them very well; we used silver instead of the crap they gave us and she healed quickly and almost painlessly, after the first day of agony. Then just this last 4th of July a couple weeks ago she stood up and ran out of her chair on the lawn barefoot, right into the road where a firework had just stopped firing. There was still sparks on the ground and she was burned; the bottom of her foot had a blister the size of a quarter on it and now it's barely noticeable because of the silver. Oddly enough, when we just left it alone the blister would swell up and threaten to pop, but as soon as we applied the silver it would go back down to being flat and not so scary looking. Silver rocks!

I agree. Collidal silver is great!
That guy was using it to an extreme and if I remember correctly, he had some other issue going on.

 

[Rainwolf]

That's crazy!!! Though, I do put stock in using colloidal silver. Jeanine has been badly burned twice in her short life, poor thing! When she had just turned 2 she put her palms flat on our fireplace glass and burned the snot out of them; had to go to the hospital and the doctors sucked and didn't treat them very well; we used silver instead of the crap they gave us and she healed quickly and almost painlessly, after the first day of agony. Then just this last 4th of July a couple weeks ago she stood up and ran out of her chair on the lawn barefoot, right into the road where a firework had just stopped firing. There was still sparks on the ground and she was burned; the bottom of her foot had a blister the size of a quarter on it and now it's barely noticeable because of the silver. Oddly enough, when we just left it alone the blister would swell up and threaten to pop, but as soon as we applied the silver it would go back down to being flat and not so scary looking. Silver rocks!

I agree. Collidal silver is great!
That guy was using it to an extreme and if I remember correctly, he had some other issue going on.

The Blue guy needs to play Papa Smurf

 

[itsren]

(Except that one time she almost dremeled off her finger, but we won't tell a single soul about that time, shhhhh)

Jessica, your chickens will probably be out there at 5:30 in the morning - and Rickie will probably learn to crow and wake your neighbor up.

I had a great time today. It was a great visit.
I asked DH if it was OK that I returned his gloves with a nice slice in them. He just shook his head. I think he's used to it by now.

Gosh, I don't know why... but, for some reason he thinks my youngest son inherited his clumsiness from me.

Ironically... Drama is my youngest son's bird. Must be why I love that chickie so much.

We're like the three clumsy musketeers.

We made it to the races just as my BIL's horse was being called to post. Whew! I can't believe we cut it so close - but we got there in time. Single N Lovin It placed 3rd. It was a little disappointing. They expected her to do better than their other horse who has now had 2 first place wins. She was very ancy as the horses made their way to the gate. The jockey said she lost the race in the parade. But, no one can complain... between their 2 horses and 4 starts, they've had 3 first places and one third. Not too shabby for a newly formed stable owned by a group of friends who bought a couple of horses just for the fun of it. We went back to the stables after the races were over. I was standing next to what I thought was an empty stall. Suddenly I had this feeling that someone was looking at me. I looked back only to find a huge horse face right next to my own. Scared the living daylights out of me!

 

[itsren]

I thought that people were talking about keeping them in the brooder until 8wks.

Ummm... some of us kept them in the brooder for 11 weeks. Not because of heat though... but because some of us had no clue how long it would really take to design and build the "perfect" coop/run. And even after all those hours of planning, and re-planning... some of us are still looking back and thinking "I wish I had done such and such."

 

[FirewifeJess]

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I think she meant keep them in the brooder with heat. I know you kept them in the brooder but you're still one of the best chicken owners I've ever seen Yours didn't have heat in there for the full 11 weeks right? I thought you turned it off when they had their feathers?

 

[itsren]

The Blue guy needs to play Papa Smurf

I really shouldn't be laughing as hard as I am right now... it's not nice. But, goodness, this comment got me laughing so hard I have tears running down my face.

 

[itsren]

I think she meant keep them in the brooder with heat. I know you kept them in the brooder but you're still one of the best chicken owners I've ever seen Yours didn't have heat in there for the full 11 weeks right? I thought you turned it off when they had their feathers?

No... not heat. I did that drop by 5 degrees each week process and then turned it off. And, their brooder was a huge dog kennel. From the way they occasionally line up at the sliding glass door, sometimes I think they still wish they were in their brooder.

 

[Rainwolf]

Ok I have a question for all....

Of those here who have roosters...
can you hand feed them?
pick them up?
carry them around?

All my birds normally don't like the initial pickup but once in hand they are sweet as can be.
All will eat out of my hands and stand on my feet
When I dig around or move things for them to get bugs etc I can hardly put the shovel in the ground before a bird is ON my shovel.....

But as for my roosters I can carry them under my arm with no issues, feed out of my hand... (in fact I have to be careful with hand feeding or they jump on me to get more food)
My bantam rooster goes under my arm and the LF rooster rides on my hand every night to their inside dog crates......
Is this rare behavior for a rooster?

I get asked about it all the time so just wondered... Its normal for me but others find it strange or unusual I guess.... so I thought I'd ask you guys.

(I'm also quick to cull mean roosters and hens so that might be part of it)