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[Chickielady]

Hello again, congrates to Broody for your 1000 post !

I had such a great time yesterday at sister Susan's, in Puyallup...and she gave me 4 starts (2 heel cuttings and 2 runner "cuttings" with roots) of her clinbing hydrangea.
It has small white inconspictuos (?huh?sp?) flower clusters not as big as regular hydrangeas, but it SLOWLY curls and wraps around posts & lattice and looks alot like a corkscrew hazel nut type of bush, really cool.
So I gotta root them today, and she also gave me a handful of pumpkin seeds from her beautiful Cinderella pumpkin from last Halloween.
Gotta get them going too.
Outside of that, making a hardware store run, need several bales of peat moss to mix in my compost, and then plastic the green house !!!!!!!

Got 2 walls done already, gotta do the roof, and 2 walls, and 2 doors.

DH has built the plucker!!!!!!!
It is a tabletop type, made out of a 4" ID PVC pipe about 12" long, and attached to his big 1/2 horse drill, which runs on rechargeble batteries, and we just need to finish the wooden box that will house it, and put the grate on top. YIPPEE!!!!

Slowly, we are getting caught up, despite the bi-polar weather.
It looks like sunny spots inbetween fog-like clouds right now, and cool, 50 or so, but hoping for all sun today!!!!

4321~~What color are Tilly's eggs ?
Are the other 2 laying yet ?

CR: Have the dutch oven & griddle polished up yet ?
When you get the dutch oven done, and washed, heat & rub olive oil into it and cook a whole body roater chicken in it, lid on, in the oven...best seasoning I have ever done to my new CA.

I have 1 old single round griddle with a raised handle, kinda cool...that will have to do me until I score another double griddle, and have to find one for JB.
How is JB, anyways ????
OK, bye peeps..it is off to work for me !!

 

[Chickielady]

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Impentigo is a rashy-type disease kids can get, usually right after they get over something like measles or chicken pox & it infects the bumps and prevents them from healing up.
What you have sounds like a good old infection...what I do is very warm water like 120 degrees, in about 4 cup measuring cup and add a Tablespoon of Epsom Salts and maybe 1/4 tsp bleach.
Stir well, and stick your finger in it.
You can squeeze as you soak, and the epsom salts hould help 'draw' any infection out.
When the water cools, dry & put triple antibiotic ointment on it, and bandage.
repeat after about 6 hours until all better.
And go get a pinch!!!!!!!

 

[VelvettFog]

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I get those once or twice a year. A small infection along the edge of the nail. Usually I get the icky stuff out once or twice and it heals up just fine. If it gets really bad you'll want a dr to look at it.


Dave

 

[VelvettFog]

I'm on the hunt for egg layers

My current flock of 16 ( 8 EE's and 8 RIR's ) will not keep up with the egg demand from my office (40+ families) Honest! That's the excuse I'm using so no use running to the DW to get her to veto.

I'm willing to pick them up. I'm in Yakima, so most any place is about 3 hrs or less away

I'm willing to trade a small coop ? Or I'll pay cash. Send a PM

Thanks!

Dave

 

[Chickielady]

Looks good outside, partly cloudy.
I am off to staple more plastic on the green house, and plant seeds & get these hydrangeas rooted.
Later peeps!

Broody is gonna catch up on posts and pass me up in a very short time!

 

[pips&peeps]

Still looking for anyone traveling back and forth from the Spokane area to the Puyallup area to haul a pair of geese.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Tilly's eggs are brown - like the BRs, only about 1/3 the size. She is quite the hussy (still) and hangs on Tyson's every word. She lays faithfully everyday. No, the other two have not started and they are both very flighty and freaked out easily. I don't even have them in with the big girls yet as they get beat up so much. I have tried having everyone free ranging together and then let them al coop together, but, but Sophie and Juliette are just so flighty. Sophie tries to hang with the big girls, but still goes back to juvenile pen to roost. Juliette, she just hides all the time. Juliette is the black Ameracauna and Sophie is the gray one (don't remember what she is). They both have an amazing hawk-like look.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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NOPE as much as I REALLY want to...not gonna do it. I am at 5 days and not gonna give up now.

Over the last couple days I did manage to finish setting the post and hanging gates at Michelles. Then I got to get back on the RIR B coop. I got the side window in and got the door and doorway done. Now I can work on closing in around the bottom of the coop and then do the netting.
Yesterday I aso managed to dodge the rain enough to get about 1/2 of the yard mowed. Hoping for some more dry weather so I can finish. I also really need a day of warm (50+) so I can open hives and check on the bees to see how they are doing and maybe feed em.

BTW If there is anybody in the local area who is interested in bees. We (Lewis County Beekeepers Assoc.) meet most months down stairs in the old CH. We will be meeting This wed 7:00pm. If you have any interest feel free to come see what all the buzz is about !!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Tilly's eggs are brown - like the BRs, only about 1/3 the size. She is quite the hussy (still) and hangs on Tyson's every word. She lays faithfully everyday. No, the other two have not started and they are both very flighty and freaked out easily. I don't even have them in with the big girls yet as they get beat up so much. I have tried having everyone free ranging together and then let them al coop together, but, but Sophie and Juliette are just so flighty. Sophie tries to hang with the big girls, but still goes back to juvenile pen to roost. Juliette, she just hides all the time. Juliette is the black Ameracauna and Sophie is the gray one (don't remember what she is). They both have an amazing hawk-like look.

They are Light Brahma X Blue Ameraucana cross...Brahmacuanas test eggs from setting up the big incubator after cooping the brahma hens with the Ams last winter.
Have you tried sneaking the 2 newbies in under cover of darkness ?
It has always worked for me.
Sometimes the newbies still get picked on, but usually it is harmless 'pecking' order type picking.
If it gets bad, like older birds actually chasing the newbies, then I take them out & try again the next day.
Or, if there is a older bird chasing & attacking newbies, I remove the older bird & dog crate them, for several days sometimes, until they get the message.
I have one "I wanna be broody" blue Am hen that is soooooooooo grumpy & yells at me whenever she sees me or DH outside.
She wants to be broody, she want OUT in the garden, she wants what she wants and she wants it NOW! And she yells!
I have had to crate her 2 X due to her attitude problem.
Best of luck.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I need to take a photo of my climbing hydrangea, and my sisters; mine was slow to get going, and suddenly last year it was everywhere on the north wall of my house. When I pulled it off the house and trellised it I ended up with a four- part trellis, including one eight-foot chunk of livestock panel, one three-foot by four and a half foot chunk ditto, and two bits of decorative trellising I got cheap at Tuesday Morning, each with a rondel of glass in a frame at the top, one set on the porch rail and the other on the top of the dog fence (Deirdre: between my bedroom window and the big mock-orange). I finally got to the Iron Rooster yesterday and bought a second wrought iron bracket to support the final corner of the big piece of livestock panel; I had a single nice hook from the blacksmithery at Puyallup Fair and the bottom of the trellis has eight inches of galvanized steel every six inches pushed into the ground, but I prefer having all four corners stabilized.

For those has not seen one, this is a Climbing Hydrangea in bud:

. They get huge when they're happy; I remember a wall on the Richmond to London rail route which was thirty feet tall and a kilometer long, covered with climbing hydrangea in bloom; there also used to be a huge one out by Bruceport, but then there also used to be a Dr. van Fleet rose on the south side of 101 just past Cosmopolis that climbed 60 feet up into a cedar tree; it was cut down and replaced by a Grays Harbor PUD substation.