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[OvertheHenHouse]

Yes, Clover, what a gorgeous fella. So sorry you had to let him go, but glad he's made a difference somewhere else!

X2 - absolutely beautiful, and it's great he helped out the other horse -

 

[Ogress]

Hi Everyone,

Been a member here for awhile, but never post. I lurk CONSTANTLY! Love, love, love BYC

. Anyway, in Roy which is about 45 minutes south of Seattle. I'm the proud mom of 4 beautiful human children and a school bus driver to support my chicken habit (oh yeah, and to pay all those pesky "other" bills!). Anyway, I started with Polish (smooth & frizzle) & RIR's. After much soul searching I recently sold my entire Polish flock to a gentleman in Idaho. We still breed and sell our RIR's as well as EE's and LF Light Brahma's (my new passion!). We are also starting with Black Copper Marans but are having terrible luck with shipped eggs! I'd love to find someone locally that sells quality Black Copper Maran hatching eggs or chicks. Suppose my constant BYC lurking days are over now that I have officially made a post. Love all the information and entertainment I find here and so glad to see there are so many chicken and incubator addicts in the world such as myself

. Glad to meet everyone and introduce myself!

I have 2 nice BCM's from other members here, both real nice hens now. One is from zgoatlady, and the other I got as an egg from cowgirlgrace. One of my broodies hatched her, and her shape and coloring are beautiful! She just started laying nice, dark eggs. I don't have a good photo but I'll see if I can find a coulple to post. Both my BCM's are the first in the coop each evening, and the one from zgoat has HER spot on the roost, always the same one. If for some reason she does not get it ( she sometimes enters the wrong pop-door and ends up in the wrong coop), she gets flustered and stops laying for a week or so! 5 eggs a week when her routine is not disturbed.

They all saw me head to the coop, so they ran in from all over the yard hoping I'd give them some goodies!

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

Thanks, and thanks CL too. I emailed his owner right after I posted the pics, and heard back from him already. He's going to send me some new pics!

I've been blessed with a couple pretty special horses in my life, and it's going to take an awful special horse for me to get another one someday.

My horsey history:

First horse I ever rode was a green-as-grass 3 year old Appy gelding. We went off a cliff together when I was 5. He was my 4H horse. Bad pairing to say the least. LOL

Welsh pony mare - brief 4H horse, also not the best for a kid.

Went several years sans horses.

Leased a wacko mare at my friend's barn (this is the wackadoodle that broke my shoulder).

Got one of my dad's horses back when I was still a newlywed. (This is the tree climbing mare, if anyone here remembers that story). She was a Fadjur grand daughter, for those that know Arabs...
Had a psychotic proud-cut Appy/Thoroughbred gelding that was given to me as a "kid safe, lesson horse". 17 hands / 1400 pounds. Massive beast. The day he stalked up behind me in the pasture and I turned around to see him standing over me with his teeth bared and his ears pinned was the day I called the woman who gave him to me and told her she had 24 hours to get her P.O.S. horse off my property before I put a bullet in his head and fed him to my dog. He was gone the next day. (For those that know horse drugs, we have him 6 ccs of Acepromazine orally and he still flipped himself over in the trailer before he was out of my driveway).

Bought my APHA colt, "Ellis" as a weanling. Best horse I ever had. Had SO much potential. Would lead over ANYTHING by 4 months of age, I could do anything to him. DS is only 6 weeks older than the colt was, and I had DS on his back when they both his 12 months of age. No problems at all. He was already driving by then, and was 100% comfortable with a swinging rope (was destined to be my roping horse so I started roping him when he was really little). He was so amazing in so many ways. He was a natural cutter. He LOVED to haze the barn cats when they'd venture through the arena, and he was cat like himself, in that his favorite past time was laying in the sun and taking a nap. I lost Ellis to acute renal failure when he was just 13 months old. I still can't look at pictures of Ellis, and I'm tearing up as I write this...he's a 10 year old heartbreak that has yet to heal...

Tig was his replacement, I bought him just 3 weeks after Ellis died. I probably held onto Tig for too long because he was Ellis's replacement, but I'm glad I waited because the right home really did come along. Lots of people came out to look at him, and I turned them all away, until I met Wes. When he rode him that day, they were two peas in a pod, and the rest is history...

Broke my heart when I read about Ellis ...

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

Clover girl..I must say that man is very nice looking as well as the hoss.............lucky gal !

I put my DH on a standardbred mare (my Dad's ) and she wipped him off under a tree & then turned around and came back through between the fence & tree & stomped his ankle..poor baby.
I had to ride my appy bareback down 2 blocks of asphalt (hard shod) to get to my parents house where his parents were visiting,, and then HIS Dad drove the new cadillaic into the pasture to rescue poor DH.......he still tells the story of how I tried to kill him with a horse...barn sour GIANT mare.
Wimp.

OMG - hilarious, especially the last line

 

[Chickielady]

Well I tried to do "my coop" and in the process altered my avatar....not a bad pic though, it is my exhibition java Cockerel at 4 mo old.
Anyways, we have had nasty winds to about 35-40 sustained & gusts to 50-60 all day, until of late.
And now they are 50 sustained & gusts WAAAAAAAy over 60~~~~~~~
nasty howling frieght train winds.............horizontal rain...the weather channel says we have 35 MPH winds with no gusts

WRONG !!!!!!!!!

It is really really nasty winds..........feels good outside if ya walk out there though...sweet & clean out of the fir & spruce...kinda like you're flying but only just standing there.
yet another Pineapple express~~~~~~~

Goodnight all !

 

[Kaneke]

Hi All;  I hope that everyone is recuperating from the storms this past week.  We had over 2 foot of snow up here and my birds stayed in their coop looking out the door as if to say "I am NOT stepping foot outside."  They were all very happy to see the Sun today. 


  I have 2 beautiful English orpington splash pullets that are just starting to lay.  I would like to sell them, if anyone is interested let me know.  They look a little rough cause of being a little wet, but they are healthy and happy birds.

those of you that like the english orps so much, these are two english pullets and should make some really nice blue babies.

They are very nice and if I were able to do any breeding here I'd be picking those ladies up in a hurry.  As it is I'm sorely tempted by them, but still want to hold out for my one blue English Orp girl.  I am so taken by the lacing on the blues. One of these days...  Hmm, maybe a splash AND a blue?...

you get the nicest lacing from the splash parents. black to splash gives you 100% blue offspring

Well as it is I am trying to get rid of the EE cockerel that has to spend every night in my garage because he's an illegal here in the city.  The garage is right under my bedroom and when DH has to work overtime until 2 AM, he sure doesn't appreciate 5 AM wake up crow from the EE who continues crowing for 3 hours until it's light enough for me to let him and the girls out to free range in the yard.  I'm trying to avoid having the chicken police show up at my front door so they don't find out I'm over my limit.  So stupid - in Tacoma you can have as many as you want, but since I'm right NEXT to Tacoma in University Place, I was told we could have 12 hens only per acre.  I'm a 1/4 acre so that puts me just about 7 chickens over my legal limit. 

If I could have a rooster I would be thinking seriously hard about breeding those English Orps!  4312 should have these for her English Orpington breeding...

Kaneke - I sent you a PM this morning - did it go through?  I heard that CL hadn't been getting her PM's.  Wondering if that's been resolved yet.

nope, no message came through, BYC is still messing up the PMs I think

I think you will have to find him an alternate home -- with this lousy weather I haven't been able to get a quarantine coop set up, even if I were in good health which I'm not

I have barely been out of bed the last week to ten days -- coughing so hard I get dizzy, still getting flashes of fever now and then

DH doesn't want any more chickens ... I might be able to stick that silver pullet in with the girls, but no way could I supervise an Omega rooster, I am afraid Roopert would kill him, and I'm not too sure the girls wouldn';t gang up on him either

FINALLY we have power again, for how long ??? who knows ??? the power has gone out here three times today, on for just a short while and then whoops ! flash ! we are in the dark again

we have just let the generator keep on running, keep a couple of lamps going on gasoline power ...

 

[Kaneke]

Hi Everyone, 

Been a member here for awhile, but never post. I lurk CONSTANTLY! Love, love, love BYC  . Anyway, in Roy which is about 45 minutes south of Seattle. I'm the proud mom of 4 beautiful human children and a school bus driver to support my chicken habit (oh yeah, and to pay all those pesky "other" bills!). Anyway, I started with Polish (smooth & frizzle) & RIR's. After much soul searching I recently sold my entire Polish flock to a gentleman in Idaho. We still breed and sell our RIR's as well as EE's and LF Light Brahma's (my new passion!). We are also starting with Black Copper Marans but are having terrible luck with shipped eggs! I'd love to find someone locally that sells quality Black Copper Maran hatching eggs or chicks. Suppose my constant BYC lurking days are over now that I have officially made a post. Love all the information and entertainment I find here and so glad to see there are so many chicken and incubator addicts in the world such as myself :yiipchick . Glad to meet everyone and introduce myself!

check with the gal on BYC who signs in as wsdareme

she's just a little east of me ... more or less Yelm but like me, north and east

she has beautiful BCMs .. I think from Wade Jeane lines

she sells fertile eggs so those would do you

she doesn't get on this thread, but check on the Marans thread -- she also has a BYC webpage

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Hi Everyone,

Been a member here for awhile, but never post. I lurk CONSTANTLY! Love, love, love BYC

. Anyway, in Roy which is about 45 minutes south of Seattle. I'm the proud mom of 4 beautiful human children and a school bus driver to support my chicken habit (oh yeah, and to pay all those pesky "other" bills!). Anyway, I started with Polish (smooth & frizzle) & RIR's. After much soul searching I recently sold my entire Polish flock to a gentleman in Idaho. We still breed and sell our RIR's as well as EE's and LF Light Brahma's (my new passion!). We are also starting with Black Copper Marans but are having terrible luck with shipped eggs! I'd love to find someone locally that sells quality Black Copper Maran hatching eggs or chicks. Suppose my constant BYC lurking days are over now that I have officially made a post. Love all the information and entertainment I find here and so glad to see there are so many chicken and incubator addicts in the world such as myself

. Glad to meet everyone and introduce myself!

Glad you have finally decided to uhm come out of hiding. We are enablers and I bet there is somebody who has what ya are lookin fer.

BTW I am just a wee bit south and within distance for a midnight shopping trip. Does yer dawg like dawg bonz or steak?

 

[Ogress]

Wow, is it WINDY out! I'm surprised we have power. Was driving home around 8pm and saw 3 flashes of lightning , BOOM,BOOM, BOOM right in a row! Sky was blue! Or maybe it was a transformer blowing up near the casino.....

202 between Snoqualmie Falls and Fall City is a huge mess, I've never seen so many downed trees. Now that they restored power (on very crooked poles) it is likely going to be out again for a while with these killer winds! SOunds like a freight train running through the trees during the calmer moments!

 

[Chickielady]

Hi Everyone,

Been a member here for awhile, but never post. I lurk CONSTANTLY! Love, love, love BYC

. Anyway, in Roy which is about 45 minutes south of Seattle. I'm the proud mom of 4 beautiful human children and a school bus driver to support my chicken habit (oh yeah, and to pay all those pesky "other" bills!). Anyway, I started with Polish (smooth & frizzle) & RIR's. After much soul searching I recently sold my entire Polish flock to a gentleman in Idaho. We still breed and sell our RIR's as well as EE's and LF Light Brahma's (my new passion!). We are also starting with Black Copper Marans but are having terrible luck with shipped eggs! I'd love to find someone locally that sells quality Black Copper Maran hatching eggs or chicks. Suppose my constant BYC lurking days are over now that I have officially made a post. Love all the information and entertainment I find here and so glad to see there are so many chicken and incubator addicts in the world such as myself

. Glad to meet everyone and introduce myself!

What you need, for BCM's, is Zgoatlady, hands down, for either BCM or (I think) Wheatens.

Currently she is having power issues due to the storm, but she will be back.
And she is in Enumclaw~~~~~~~~~Excellent birds & eggs !
And she is "one of us"