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[Cloverleaf Farm]

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It's so nice to see you posting in high spirits!!!

 

[cheryl98117]

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One BIG tip for raising critters for food! Don't name them PET names. Like Chickielady's White Rock roo... His name is M.O.T. for Meat On Table! Also try your best to not turn them into pets. Give them the best life you possibly can, not matter how long or short it is, and you will do just fine.

Oh and Welcome to the Washingtonians thread!

 

[cheryl98117]

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Sorry hun, can't help you in the Man department. lol

 

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to all the new folks!

This group will QUACK you up!!!!!!!

 

[justbugged]

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It's a Happy Happy Day. Yeah!!!!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Welcome! I'm sure someone can hook you up with some pullets.

Hope so; the promising ones on Craigslist were gone before I could get to them, darnit. Ian and Sylvia are sweet on each other, but I am not thrilled with the concept of just having one hen when he hits the full flush of his roosterhood.

Of course that gives me more time to get my larger run and coop built. I just went up to take another hard stare at the cousin's chook accomodation, and wish I had his access to tools/carpentry skills: he has his eight assorted LFs and pair of what I'm pretty sure are OEGB in a dog pen with a 4X8 by 8 wooden bank vault of a coop. They free range all day under those huge old oak trees in his back yard, buthave survived untouched even when we had a Goshawk come through with the first wave of migratories (for those not hallerlake, I live about five miles as the Eagle flies south of the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge).

I'm still debating the proper sort of other hens to get; I love Wyandottes above all other chickens, the way I love inconveniently large smelly roses, but slogging through the Wyandotte thread (I'm up to March 2010 in my reading!) leads me to believe that other than lucking onto other BLRWs I'd be better off with some white-egg laying hens so it'll be easy to sort out eggs I'm interested in having hatch. I am open to- actively seeking- advice on that matter, along with information about stuff like how many red worms and slugs it's wise to supplement with.

J, more worried about feeding the chickens right than I ever was my kids

 

[justbugged]

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Congratulations!!! It almost sounds like a dream come true. I will have to remember your technique if I ever find a way out of suburbia.

 

[justbugged]

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Welcome from the Chief of the Washington's night crew. I know I shouldn't be here yet, cause it isn't dark yet.

Just keep posting and with a few more posts you will be able to post the pictures. I would love to see them.

 

[justbugged]

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[Stumpfarmer]

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Welcome from the Chief of the Washington's night crew. I know I shouldn't be here yet, cause it isn't dark yet.

Just keep posting and with a few more posts you will be able to post the pictures. I would love to see them.

I need to figure out how to put up an icon/avatar/userpic and add to the info under my name; I've been online so long under so many forms of coding that I'll probably post a whole lot of the wrong code.

Must get into town shoes and run off to the first weekend of the Oly Farmer's market, see if any of my friend's there have clues as to hens!