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[Stumpfarmer]

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Is that geek a short guy with some really big dogs, by any chance?

Dangerous Dan??? I don't know about the dogs, never seen any in his shop .... what I always notice about him is he talks very fast and talks computer but anyone speaking only standard English, has to ask him to slow down and speak as if to a stupid person --- does business as D&D computers & jewelry ... but yes, he's well under six feet ... LOL

Nah, this guy is Mike; he's a friend who lives in Yelm (as opposed to a friend "from Yelm" by which I mean people I met when I still lived there, back in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and early Johnson administrations).

I saw a flock of chickens just north of Salem on 99E; there was what looked like a Dorking rooster and a mixed flock of hens including what looked like some Sumatras; otherwise it was all flowers and mountains.

 

[softemi]

i hope you can liake me .thanks!

 

[blueducklings]

Yo duck mama,
just PMed you. hehehe.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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From yer neighbor to the south in Ethel, WA be fore warned this thread gets moving pretty fast at times but you have now landed smack dab in the middle of some of the kindest, most helpful, most knowledgeable and most caring people. Feel free to jump right in here any time.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

About biosecurity: I try to have field shoes and town shoes, and never the twain shall meet, but sometimes it's really difficult to keep them separate. I though very hard about where I was going today before I wore my comfortable lace-up ropers: none of the nurseries have cattle or chickens on-site. I actually wore my newest shoes when we went to get the Hamburgs, and disinfected my boots before we went to Rainwolfs, even though I had no chickens here then.

One of my daughter's friends was in the UK the last time a Foot and Mouth epidemic happened: she bought new shoes before she came home, if memory serves.

 

[cmsdvm]

Good news for Northwest Poultry Fanciers! There will be one more show for us before it’s time to think about those summer fairs. A group of fanciers headed by Judge Larry Urban is holding a poultry show at the Gray’s Harbor Fairgrounds in Elma, WA on Saturday June 4. This is a great chance for new exhibitors to get their feet wet at a small, friendly little show or for youth to get some Fit and Show practice before the fairs begin. This show will be sanctioned by the American Poultry Association. It is a one day show and there will be a potluck lunch. Birds check in Saturday am from 7:00 to 9:00, then judging will begin. Junior showmanship/Fitting and Showing will be offered in Novice, Junior, Intermediate and Senior categories. Youth need not belong to a 4H club and need not follow a specific dress code to compete.
Entries are $3 a bird. To save money, there will not be a premium book mailed out. Instead, mail entries to: Larry Urban
9425 Lundeen Rd
Rochester, WA 98579
360 273-7705
You may use a plain piece of paper for this or an entry form from any other show. Information needed is:
Bantam or Large Fowl, Breed, Variety, Sex (C,K,H,P) and legband. For instance, I might enter one of my Polish:
B Polish White Crested Black non-bearded C #42
Send along your name, address, phone and e-mail, along with a check for $3 a bird. There is no exhibitor fee or fee for junior showmanship. Juniors are advised to bring a separate bird for showmanship, with a carrier in which to keep it, as judging cannot be halted for a bird entered in both conformation and showmanship.

 

[herbandteas]

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I live at the end of kitsap county in Olalla. We have 4 hen's laying eggs. 16 chicks at different ages. 5 rabbits and a very sweet hubby ;D

 

[Ogress]

Hey all, I have not been on in a couple days - feeling a little overwhelmed Great seeing Chickielady and Gary here on Tuesday though, I hope she won't hate me when Gary spends the next 2 years and savings for their house on gettinging the old motorcycle to work. Maybe it is one gift horse that should've been looked in the mouth! Hopefully it is not too much work to get it running again - worked great last time it was used, but that was about 13 years ago! DH has another motorcycle and saved this old one for me, hoping I would ride with him, but I' just a big

. Instead, he hardly rides anymore.

I will have to catch up on the posts over the weekend - I think I'm about 40 pages behind. Wednesday was a sad day. I checked on the chicks in the morning and found the pretty yellow LF lemon blue cochin dead under the electric chicken.

I don't know what happened. She moved a little slower than the othr chicks but did not seem ill. I tried reading some here, but I just felt too depressed after that; never lost a chick before, and I was really looking forward to seeing these fluffy butts grow up. The other chicks are just fine, still moving around a lot and playing "follow the leader." The LF cochin chick is the leader and all the bantam cochins follow her. When Alex came home from school, I told him about the chick. He started to cry and thought it was his fault because he checked on the chicks just before going to bed on Tuesday and she was not under the electric hen. He was worried she would get cold, so he put her under it with the other chicks. I also went in there Tuesday just before midnight, and again she was not under the heat, but she was real close, she was standing just behind it. At some point she went back under and died

. I was surprised to see Alex cry. He said he goes in every night to check on the broodies because he wants to be the first one to see their chicks, and he bottle feeds the broodies so they won't be thirsty! Sweet kid. I did not know he was doing that! Sometimes I'll find a plate of food in the broody nest, I assumed it was Olivia.

Then today I got a call from the middle school principal. Alex got detention for shoving a kid. "I know that Alex doesn't have a mean bone in his body, so I knew the other boy intentionally drove him over the edge, so they both got detention." I don't get Alex. The principal said he questioned the boys and it turns out they were arguing over 2 days what a moonpie looks like and what a DingDong looks like. We've had moonpies before. I used to by them as cheater smore's for camping trips and told the kids they are great - you don't even have to cook them, just sit around the camp-fire and eat them! It worked till the kids discovered it is more fun to toss them in the fire and watch them burn. Never bought a DinDong, don't know what they look like. I don't get how he could even enter a stupid argument like that, and let it come to shoves!

Edited because I was careless

 

[Hinotori]

I just discovered this thread and thought I'd say hi to everyone.

I hope everyone has been enjoying the nice sun.

 

[stargazingmommy]

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hi and welcome from Spokane. To bad I had to sleep alllll day so only got to see the sun for a little bit this morning.