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[KMHunter]

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I'm pretty sure someone down in Eatonville has these, RedRoosterFarm. Yes, here is her website: http://www.freewebs.com/redroosterfarm/comingin2011.htm

You realize we have to enable each other, right?

Yeah, saw her website too. She got her stock from the guy in Wisconsin. I bet hers are expensive too. I am not really looking for birds that big. I would get English Lav Orps first.

Thanks though!

 

[Ogress]

I just met VF and his DW; very nice folks.

They chose a black orpington rooster, gorgeous boy, big and gentle. He will make a good flock protector, he has already proven himself when my dogs got loose. I got to see his girls too - gorgeous! I especially liked the Coronation Sussex. I think I need to put some of them on my next wish list!

I better get back to weeding my yard; I can't believe how bad it has gotten. Usually my perennial garden in my front yard is my pride and joy, but I did not weed it in June as it was too wet, and the weeds have exploded! I have not been around much this month to get it cleaned up as I have been either away or focusing my time on my vegetable garden and backyard. I've never used a ground-clear herbicide before, but I am tempted now. I also need to find an herbicide to use along my vegetable garden fence that is chicken-safe. That fence is only deer netting, so I can't get the mower too close.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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If you are clumsy and trip and fall in they will rescue ya.

Dang...why didn't I think of this. Shoot. Wish I would have read this on my phone earlier...too good an idea. I could have at least tripped into the kiddie side while the kids competed.

 

[KMHunter]

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I caved this year and sprayed weed killer in my garden.
I netted it off so the chickens couldn't get in there.
Next spring I will take out most of the soil and replace it with generous amounts of chicken fertilizer!
We need to cut down some trees around the back of the garden so it gets light. Hopefully this fall.
If not, I may take out the soil and fill it with pea gravel and get me some ducks or replace with sand and build me another coop!
Oh the possibilities!

 

[Kenshan1]

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Yep, that's it! I guess I bought DH the Wahl and got them confused. The body of the shaver is quite large, but I have large hands, so that is not an issue for me. An ergonomic grip would have been nice. I'll contact you when I need the blades sharpened, I have an address is Seattle for a repair place but I'd rather use someone who comes recommended. I am still trying to figure out what size blades to use. I like the dog to look a little fluffy, though the vet thinks I ought to keep her in a lion cut as her fur serves as velcro with all the brambles in our yard, they especially get tangled on her back half.

Well I personally like to get 2 blades of each, that way if one blade get warm then switch them out. If they do get warm place them on metal to draw the heat out or a block of marble. I use the #5/8f or #3 3/4f for fluffy trims. With you saying she gets tangled you probably don't want to get the comb attachments as the dog has to be tangle free to go through the coat but you can achive a longer clip that way with a comb attachment. The #10 I believe you said you had gotten I use for sanitary clips, short faces on poodles or cockers & sometimes poodle feet.

Shannon

 

[Ogress]

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Yep, that's it! I guess I bought DH the Wahl and got them confused. The body of the shaver is quite large, but I have large hands, so that is not an issue for me. An ergonomic grip would have been nice. I'll contact you when I need the blades sharpened, I have an address is Seattle for a repair place but I'd rather use someone who comes recommended. I am still trying to figure out what size blades to use. I like the dog to look a little fluffy, though the vet thinks I ought to keep her in a lion cut as her fur serves as velcro with all the brambles in our yard, they especially get tangled on her back half.

Well I personally like to get 2 blades of each, that way if one blade get warm then switch them out. If they do get warm place them on metal to draw the heat out or a block of marble. I use the #5/8f or #3 3/4f for fluffy trims. With you saying she gets tangled you probably don't want to get the comb attachments as the dog has to be tangle free to go through the coat but you can achive a longer clip that way with a comb attachment. The #10 I believe you said you had gotten I use for sanitary clips, short faces on poodles or cockers & sometimes poodle feet.

Shannon

Thank you very much for your reply - this is very helpful. I felt really guilty when I shaved her and found some small blackberry vines stuck in her coat. I completely missed them when I bathed and brushed her! Apparently the teeth on my brush were not long enough because she had some matts under areas that appeared to be nicely brushed. One of the matts was about 3" x 5", my duaghter stuck it to the head of my short-haired dog like a toupee! When I first got her, I had wanted to let her grow dread-locks, until I read through the process of how to form them! A shave is much lower maintenance - it doesn't have the cute factor, but that hair style is just not practical. Shaving her was much easier than I had expected. I used to leave her at the groomer for 6+ hours, but it took me less than two (I bathed her the day before). I'm sure that most of the time the groomer spends must be what it takes to brush and dry her coat. Before the shave, when her hair was long, I'd spend 3 to 5 hours brushing her after each bath (baths made her fur matt), and now it take just a few minutes.

 

[hallerlake]

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I caved this year and sprayed weed killer in my garden.
I netted it off so the chickens couldn't get in there.
Next spring I will take out most of the soil and replace it with generous amounts of chicken fertilizer!
We need to cut down some trees around the back of the garden so it gets light. Hopefully this fall.
If not, I may take out the soil and fill it with pea gravel and get me some ducks or replace with sand and build me another coop!
Oh the possibilities!

Make them leave you the wood chips from your trees. Arborist's chip are my favorite mulch.

 

[Rainwolf]

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don't forget I have some old gas tanks for you too

 

[Kenshan1]

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It really shouldn't take that long at a groom shop but its the mass amount of dogs a shop has to do to pay their over head bills. I went Mobile so I could do one on one grooming, no crates. Sure it costs a little more for this specialty grooming but I am finding alot of people don't want their dogs sitting in crates for 6hrs waiting their turn to get groomed. Usually a poodle mix takes me about 2hrs depending on the type of groom, fluffy or short etc. Drying the coat does take a while depending on the length of coat the dog has but if the dog is matted or long coat then yes that takes longer too.

Shannon

 

[Rainwolf]

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/grd/2518573888.html
White Houdan rooster... don't see them much around here.

Someone looking for serama's
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/grd/2517928985.html

I still have some EE boys if anyone wants just pretty sweet boys...


Oh and how can ya tell a OE black roo from a AM black roo? sigh both the oe black and the am black turned out to be boys.

wanna keep the am but can't tell them apart.