Washingtonians

[Sudsy Chick]

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Oh my goodness - they are so adorable! I love how they change so much when they get their feathers! I wonder when we'll be able to tell boys from girls?

Two things Miss Juno (mama) is unable to resist w/ lots for protein is mealworms & scrambled eggs, helps keep her from getting to skinny

And isn't that funny that mama has to take things and then feed them to her chicks? I cannot feed directly either without mama fussing! Too cute!

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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Sorry to hear about your baby that got stepped on - that happened with our last batch (she "scratched" it into a tree), but I think it's so great to let them do all the work and integrate into the flock! What kind of chicks? Icelandic by any chance?

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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Me too! Me too! Now you'll have to figure out who I am since I'm so creative with usernames!

 

[ZOELLERofND]

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Haha... That is for sure... I'm a Clatskanie native and my family and I actually own the feed store there. Usually when I help people pronounce it I usually say Cats-can-fly then for some reason they usually get it right LOL It's funny now that I live in North Dakota those people that pronounce Oregon say it ORE-E- GONE instead of Or-e-gun like us natives LOL Washington here is Worsh-ing-TON... silly people

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Haha... That is for sure... I'm a Clatskanie native and my family and I actually own the feed store there. Usually when I help people pronounce it I usually say Cats-can-fly then for some reason they usually get it right LOL It's funny now that I live in North Dakota those people that pronounce Oregon say it ORE-E- GONE instead of Or-e-gun like us natives LOL Washington here is Worsh-ing-TON... silly people

Unfortunately, even locals say "Warsh-ing-ton". Drives me nuts. My own family does it.
I tell the to spell it for me...they then spell it out: "W-a-r-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n". My dad trys to blame his "scottish" ancestors..he read in some article about this...he is not even scottish.

They do this to drive me mad....I just know it.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Me too! Me too! Now you'll have to figure out who I am since I'm so creative with usernames!

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[Totalcolour]

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Now that's strange - I'm the other way. I don't like meat if it hasn't been bled. We had a drake electrocute himself, and we didn't bleed him (we didn't find him in time) and I thought he tasted horrible.

I'll be fine about it - once it's done and the skin off, they just don't look like animals anymore, just tasty meat

 

[pongoid]

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Haha... That is for sure... I'm a Clatskanie native and my family and I actually own the feed store there. Usually when I help people pronounce it I usually say Cats-can-fly then for some reason they usually get it right LOL It's funny now that I live in North Dakota those people that pronounce Oregon say it ORE-E- GONE instead of Or-e-gun like us natives LOL Washington here is Worsh-ing-TON... silly people

Unfortunately, even locals say "Warsh-ing-ton". Drives me nuts. My own family does it.
I tell the to spell it for me...they then spell it out: "W-a-r-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n". My dad trys to blame his "scottish" ancestors..he read in some article about this...he is not even scottish.

They do this to drive me mad....I just know it.

I am all for original pronunciations over colloquial ones. For instance, Pierre South Dakota is pronounced "peer" instead of the french "pee-air". In Dubois, Pennsylvania they say "do boyz" instead of the french "doo bwah".

For many parts of the USA , towns, lakes, streets and parks have Native american names that were translated into french and no one is left around who spoke the original language so we often have to infer the pronunciation.


My two pet peeves are "Warshington" and "Haaalaa peen oo"

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Now that's strange - I'm the other way. I don't like meat if it hasn't been bled. We had a drake electrocute himself, and we didn't bleed him (we didn't find him in time) and I thought he tasted horrible.

I'll be fine about it - once it's done and the skin off, they just don't look like animals anymore, just tasty meat

I think she meant that she doesn't want them to die by bleeding, like the way people slit their throats while they are in killing cones and let them bleed to death.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Now that's strange - I'm the other way. I don't like meat if it hasn't been bled. We had a drake electrocute himself, and we didn't bleed him (we didn't find him in time) and I thought he tasted horrible.

I'll be fine about it - once it's done and the skin off, they just don't look like animals anymore, just tasty meat

I think she meant that she doesn't want them to die by bleeding, like the way people slit their throats while they are in killing cones and let them bleed to death.

I do have to say, that does seem like a slow way to die. Sounds kind of brutal....and I dont' mind butchuring...but those cones do seem harsh. I mean what is the difference if you chop the head off and they bleed out that way? Course you want to bleed them out.