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[Zgoatlady]

Oh my gosh you all have been busy.

Chickielady I love the the dog

, is there anymore? Id make the drive gosh I drive to Calf and pick up goats lol...
OH my gosh love your place.

Jessica Rabbit
Some one said you might want a banty Welsummer Roo and Hen have a great deal for you. I also have 5 more and thinking of not keeping them. Let me know

So my sweet son is moving out now getting ready for his new life with son to be wife. July 10 is the date.. I just want to

and be

happy at the same time. I know this is what we want for our kids but will miss him. Oh yes he still works close to me and lives abut 20 min away not far...

When you incubate Lock down is when you dont open the lid so you until the chicks are hatched and if you do open it make sure you have a warm water spray bottle to put moisture back in.. and also if you do the egg carton thing make sure you cut the bottom out so air can get to your eggs. I wouldnt put newspaper on the bottom put paper towels better for the chicks when they walk..

So if anyone want to get build a big incubator I can let you know what we got for ours but Im going to warn you once you start its hard to stop. I have about 20 BCM chicks that need homes becasue its to much fun. Husband isnt to happy with me right now for all of them.

Oh great he just told me the neighbor has 2 raccons that are eating there cat food! So now I'll have to open all my fences to keep my chickens safe.

 

[Chickielady]

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I used to live out that way in Tonasket, and yes out there a well can cost you a freaking fortune.
Here, we can dig a 5 foot hole and hit water as we are on a slight hill our home and septic are higher, and down in front of this parcel is swampy, and across the street is floodland for the Willapa River.
During a high + tide, the river rises clear up to the road.
It is a sea of tall grasses, that wave in wind just like green hair.
Beautiful here !
But our septic system was in and the meter base in, underground power

in and the barn and rain water tanks here when we bought the place last fall for $50K !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a steal !!!!!!!!!!!!

CHICKIELADY! were did you live in Tonasket??? Remember I said my family moved to EW in the 70's... it was to property up Havillah Road... about 10 miles outa town.. a different way to grow up, but I wouldn't change it for the world! lol! We lived across the street from Spring Creek--if that rings any bells.....

We bought property across the road, and up the hill from round lake in Aeneas Valley in about 1985, and lived there for 1 year and lost the job, mill shut down, we forfeited our rent to own land and left.
SSSSSSooooooooooo dry there, and lotsa fires all summer, cold winters, it makes you a better person wo live that way and appreciate things more.
Nowadays a 7 year old is complaining cuz he does not have enough minutes on his cell phone.
I think we should take every american citizen and give them warm clothes, a gun and a knife ONLY and drop their pansy-arses off in the alaskan bush for a summer.
Not even winter...and let them fight their way back to town.

 

[Chickielady]

Raymond is on thhe Willapa River right a few miles from Willapa Bay, western Pacific County.
We are just a bit North ofAstoria, so have great beaches, fantastic fishing with the satsop, willapa, chehalis, mary's and more rivers.
It is about 35 minutes north on 101 to Aberdeen, highway 12, and if we then turn right we go another 30 minutes and end up on I5 in Olympia.
We are close to everywhere but in the woodsies.
Across the street is the fllod plain for the willapa and across that is the river and the town of Raymond .
We see the harbor n town lights off the river at night.
This is awesome !
So cold here this year tho_

And welcome more new people !!!!!!!!!

I am not going to drive to E Idaho to get the pup, gal there said lots of interest in the pups and none would be euthanised, and it is blizzarding over there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man, will it ever get nice ?
Just the same, better this weather than a drought.
Have any of you heard about this horrible grasshopper invasion Wa and OR is supposed to have this summer ?????
Chickens could come in very handy !

 

[NWChicks]

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You mean the Marans ?
Are you doing all this in your 'invented' incubator or the little giant you bought ?
You are crazy girl !
Dh just may build you 1 more chciken house, and put you in it !!!!!

Hahahahaha!!! My hubby said the same thing (about building another coop with three rooms) for me, jess and fran!! Plus our 150 chickens we all plan on having!!

SSSSHHHHH!!!!!! My DH is sitting right here reading over my shoulder! You're getting me in trouble!

He's already giving me "the look" Think it'll work?!

 

[Zgoatlady]

Chickielady
So true, the kids on my bus all cry becasue they cant use phones on the bus. Oh my gosh its crazy they dont need them in school why do parents do this to them? I so worry about this world and what we are teaching our kids. But you know my motto now is Im making old new again. Doing a dairy and making cheese at home. Now with that all said I was the city girl who didnt want a husband but wanted kids and to live in Seattle over looking the water. Now thats the stupidest idea I could have ever had. I want to be in the MT and live off the land. My DH said he would have picked up chicken at the KFC but he knows I wouldnt eat it becasue what they have done to it..

Have you seen Food Inc? that changed my life more than I know..

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Jefner and Chickielady:

CHICKIELADY! were did you live in Tonasket??? Remember I said my family moved to EW in the 70's... it was to property up Havillah Road... about 10 miles outa town.. a different way to grow up, but I wouldn't change it for the world! lol! We lived across the street from Spring Creek--if that rings any bells.....

We bought property across the road, and up the hill from round lake in Aeneas Valley in about 1985, and lived there for 1 year and lost the job, mill shut down, we forfeited our rent to own land and left.
SSSSSSooooooooooo dry there, and lotsa fires all summer, cold winters, it makes you a better person wo live that way and appreciate things more.
Nowadays a 7 year old is complaining cuz he does not have enough minutes on his cell phone.
I think we should take every american citizen and give them warm clothes, a gun and a knife ONLY and drop their pansy-arses off in the alaskan bush for a summer.
Not even winter...and let them fight their way back to town.

Ladies, how funny. I know where Round Lake is, if you were up on the hill you really could have been roughin' it. Sorry about the job loss, we do have some of the highest unemployment rates, sad to see people loose things they worked so hard for. I have a 16 yo, 14 yo, and 9 yo...I hear the complaints because we don't let them live on the TV or Wii. Regarding dropping off into Alaska....LMAO...

heck you could drop them off up here and they wouldn't make it...too many mosquitos and not enough Starbucks (we do have 1 and it is in Safeway ). I am in Omak, and I love it here, but hubby and I have talked about RVing South for the winter when kids are gone. I dunno, maybe just a dream. Yes, hot summers, cold winters...but beautiful springs and fall. Spring Creek....hmmmmnot sure where that is....I was just up on Swanson Mill Rd the other day. Also up on top of Tunk. There is so much beautful country here. Well off to go play with chickies and let them loose in the yard. Everyone have a good day.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

One last thought:

Chickielady: I read about the grasshopper and cricket explosion we are too have....I am so glad for my chickens and they should all be fat and sassy by winter time with all the extra critters they are gonna have to munch. One reason I got chickens (cuz I like them, cuz I wanted eggs, but also...) was for bug control. I love watching chickens run after grasshoppers....it is way too comical.

 

[jbear]

chickielady~i agree... I think there are a lot of soft spoiled people. Part of the reason I got 'farm animals' was to teach my son to learn to care for something before himself.. to meet someone else's needs before his own, simply because that person or animal can't do it for themselves.. and so that he could feel like he was a bigger part of something. It's really hard to do that in the suburban rush we are in these days I think. he gets all crabby about it sometimes, but i think he'll be glad of it eventually! lol!

My really great friend lives up Aeneas Valley .. I love going over to see her! I don't miss the fire season though..

Oh Oh -- along the lines of Food Inc.. watch this if you have time...
http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Okay, so I haven't quite made it outside yet....I think having farm animals for kids also teaches them that food does not just come from the local store...there is work involved behind it and from your own backyard is much tastier. And the satisfaction of having grown it yourself. I have as big a vegetable garden as I can fit and I am excited for eggs to start rolling in. Your son will someday appreciate what you have taught him. I'm going outside now for real....bye bye....

 

[jbear]

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Spring Creek--was actually a 'commune' back in the day.. lol! There was another one up near Tunk Mt too.. didn't live on it, but played with all the kids there. we all had hossies and rode like hoodlums all over the place... The kids like to go to the barter faire too, but we leave at dusk lol! That's my favorite time of year over there--crisp clear days, kinda warmish but kinda not. I do like to visit my dad too, in the summer, cuz he isn't too far from a river so we spend most of the day on it..

(he lives in the Methow Valley, not to far out of Carlton--which is were I grew up after we moved from the Tonasket area....
I am an EW girl stuck on the west side!