Washingtonians

[AriLovesChickens]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=375288

They're beautiful chickens!

 

[Ogress]

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It's raining?

It rained hard here this morning and it was quite cold when I was waiting at the bus stop with my kids. Now it is sunny and warm, barely a cloud in sight.

 

[hallerlake]

It's nice to know their prices come down eventually, because they have imported Brabanters in different colors from Europe, also the Russian chicken that is the grandfather of all the crested breeds. I can't afford them in general.

 

[KMHunter]

I am waiting for the price of the Buff Laced Brahma to come down. Georgeous birds, but I can't rationalize the asking price right now. So I will keep watching!

 

[Ogress]

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Another thing that helps contain them is to put one of those diaper covers meant for cloth diapers over the disposable ones. I usually used cloth with DS but would use disposables when out for a day with him or traveling. The cloth do a better job of absorbing the mess. There is a brand called "mother ease" that is made of soft terry cloth and snaps shut. I liked them best.

With DD, I was always on the road (we were in the process of building a house, we were living in Woodinville but DS was attending school in North Bend becasue the house was supposed to be completed a year earlier), so DD only had cloth at night and on the rare occasion that we were actually home for the day. She was much more prone to diaper rash. I don't claim it was due to disposables because she has much more sensitive skin and even now still has eczema and rashes with various lotions and hair products.

 

[chickens4gramma]

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Yes, I googled them too! They sound great! Where did you get them? I saw one day old unsexed chicks for $19 online. Wow!

I got them from Greenfire Farms. They are the people who imported them just a year ago. The price has come way down in the past few months, fortunately for me!

That is where I saw them! And that was the current price. They sound like they are very hardy and have great personalities. Did you hatch these or buy them? BTW, I am on the North side of the lake too, just past the middle school, by the fire station.

 

[ChristineR]

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Loup Loup's officially the North Cascades, and Disautel's in the Okanogans, which is north of the path I took and west of Spokane, which I was arbitrarily using for a divider. I get to be a bit of a smart*ss about mountains; it started when I was in college and somebody from Colorado complained that the Olympics were "cheating" because their base is close to sea level, and was exacerbated by travelling to Montana too often and hearing that Snoqualamie Pass is no big deal (of course, one year we went over White, which is a big deal: not as big as Washington Pass on 2, but only a couple of hundred feet lower than Fourth of July Pass).

Well, and growing up on Yelm Prairie gave me a strong definition of what a Proper Mountain looks like. (About 40 miles of clear air at 350 feet looking 5 degrees north of due west at a 14,411 ft of triple-crowned stratovolcano makes an impression).

I remember when I was visiting friends in South Dakota. They took me shooting up on the top of the "mountain." I about wet myself when they said we were there, and all we had done was drive of a rolling hill that was no more than 700'! I couldn't help but tell them that THAT is NOT a mountain! It's a hill!

Nobody in that family had been outside of SD, so they really had no clue. But it was funny.

LOL That reminds me of when I drove across the country with my sister, who was moving to PA. We kept seeing signs for the Pocono Mountains... Pocono ski resort...Pocono this and Pocono that. Well, we kept waiting for them...until we realized that we had driven right through them!!! The whole time we thought we were driving through the foothills.

 

[blueducklings]

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Are you wrapping her correctly? 2 times in how many weeks?
Girl, what are you eating???

Hey, when you are breastfeeding, there are several blowouts a day! At least with my kids and grandkids, that's how it was.

Wow...guess my 2 oz of milk just wasn't enough to create the blowouts.

 

[blueducklings]

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If Dad gets a condo on the Big I sland for a month this winter, I'll go spend a week with him.

IFF-- big IF -- we are in the main house when we go back to Maui in late December/early January -- any and all are invited to come visit

three bedroom rambler, plus a studio-apt sized fully enclosed spa room that used to be a lanai


will depend on whether our current tenants have found alternative lodgings, otherwise we will be only in that spa room ourselves

don't have airline reservations yet, waiting to see what the deal is with DS ... and whether he can hold down the fort here while we go there

(supposedly decisions will be made in a couple of weeks)

I would love to go. Eat the lovely island fruits and soak up the warm sun.
Do your chickens "bite"?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Hey, when you are breastfeeding, there are several blowouts a day! At least with my kids and grandkids, that's how it was.

Wow...guess my 2 oz of milk just wasn't enough to create the blowouts.

I'm only getting 1 to 1.5oz per pumping right now.

I am eating a lot of salads, whole wheat bread, cheese.

I kind of graze throughout the day when I get a chance.