Washingtonians

[Stumpfarmer]

LOL_ she is a buff laced brahma. Not a serama-lol


 

[COLOR=0000CD] OH MY she found herself in quite a pickle. Hope she is doing well... I am new to chickens so I must ask what she is she is beautiful.[/COLOR]

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Sort of the alpla and omega of domestic chicken variation, there!

Hello Washing ton.  My neighbor next door feeds the feral cats, and doesn't care that she is feeding raccoons and possums.

When I was a kid, in Southern Oregon, California King snakes and timber rattlers by the coop.  Yikes.  DH assures me that here are only garter snakes here. ( I haven't lived here for very long)

We have a woman in our area who feeds and has been encouraging the growth of coyotes, including one that has mange. It came into our yard and was sleeping on a bale of straw not too far from my chickens. My two dogs saw him or her off though, and it hasn't been back.

The sheer idiocy of people feeding coyotes is beyond my abilities to understand. For one important thing, they get bigger when well fed and then need to eat more to support their body weight, and even more importantly, females have larger litters when well fed. When I first moved here we had foxes and ringnecked pheasants, and larger ground-nesting birds like meadow larks, and my mostly outcoor cat could hunt rabbits to his heart's content (he died of bone cancer, for the record) then one of the new neighbors started feeding coyote pups and all the ground level diversity disappeared.

Coyotes, and people who subsidize coyotes, are not good neighbors.

 

[Totalcolour]

I was told that colors have pigment and white is the absence of pigment (only true in the "LIGHT" spectrum) therefore not considered a color. But personally, I have always thought of white as a color. Just think of all the shades of 'white' available at the paint store!

In the "light" spectrum, white is in fact the absence of colour, or lack of pigmentation. An object that has no colour pigment will reflect all light so it appears white, unless it is glass and the light will pass through. Conversely, an object that appears black, is one that absorbs all light and reflects none back.

But, every SOLID object has to have some "colour" - for example, you couldn't have a cup with no colour, (unless it is glass, but even that has a small amount of colour or you couldn't see it at all) so pigment is different from light. I use "lead" white for most of my painting, although it has been replaced by many artists with titanium white (some people are afraid of lead).

So, if white isn't a colour, you couldn't theoretically have a white pigment, and all those lovely whites at the paint store wouldn't exist!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

In the "light" spectrum, white is in fact the absence of colour, or lack of pigmentation. An object that has no colour pigment will reflect all light so it appears white, unless it is glass and the light will pass through. Conversely, an object that appears black, is one that absorbs all light and reflects none back.

But, every SOLID object has to have some "colour" - for example, you couldn't have a cup with no colour, (unless it is glass, but even that has a small amount of colour or you couldn't see it at all) so pigment is different from light. I use "lead" white for most of my painting, although it has been replaced by many artists with titanium white (some people are afraid of lead).

So, if white isn't a colour, you couldn't theoretically have a white pigment, and all those lovely whites at the paint store wouldn't exist!

Silly girl of course we are talking about the "LIGHT SPECTRUM" see because if we were talking about the "DARK SPECTRUM" then there would be nothing but black !

 

[Totalcolour]

Well yes actually white is any color that has had bleach applied to make it look white.

And PINK is just RED GONE BAD ! ! ! !

That is the custom Flag I had made to fly on the sandrail

RED GONE BAD ! ! ! !

Uh Uh! na, na na. Pink is red, with white eggs! Add white to red and you don't get pale red!

Think of it this way, if white didn't exist, all we would have is pure, BRIGHT colours, no pastels!.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

*If* I sell everything and move into a tent, I'm taking the Hamburgs and Bacchus with me and leaving the whiny, needy troublemakers behind, I am.

Also the dogs who have learned how to open treadle-type garbage cans, although that's just an additional qualification.

 

[Totalcolour]

Silly girl of course we are talking about the "LIGHT SPECTRUM" see because if we were talking about the "DARK SPECTRUM" then there would be nothing but black !

Ok Chicken Rustler, I see you have now gone over to the "DARK SIDE"

ETA : (sorry, I should have said PINK SIDE")

 

[Chicken Rustler]

O O O O BTW yesterday while we were at Del's I got my mits on the new copy of BYP with CMSDVM's article in it. haven't had a chance to read it yet as DW promptly removed it from my hands and told me I could peek at it when she is done!

But I was proud to be able to tell several people at Del's "see this I know this very nice lady" to which a couple of them replied "oh yes she is up north and hasPolish" !

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Uh Uh! na, na na. Pink is red, with white eggs! Add white to red and you don't get pale red!

Think of it this way, if white didn't exist, all we would have is pure, BRIGHT colours, no pastels!.

And that is just the way it should be. IF it ain't bright or FLUORESCENT it ain't color ! ! !

 

[Totalcolour]

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[Chickielady]

Chickielady:

the persimmons wine is really delightful! I took the cap off yesterday - I thought of giving it to the chickens because it smelled so good. Then remembered it was alcoholic so I didn't think that was too good an idea. Don't want the chickens becoming alcoholics

So, the wine is at 16brix, and tastes really good, light and delicate. So, where did you get them, I can see this becoming a favourite

DH brought them back from CA on his last trip..came from his freind John in Santa Rosa, and yeah...we'll have to get some more !
And so's you do not feel all alone, I have 3 Ameracauna that are slight birds, but healthy, and lay HUGE eggs.
It is a common misconception that the bigger the bird, the bigger it's egg will be.
Cochins are a good example, a huge bird & a medium size egg........ha ha
Sometimes I wonder how my OE manages to lay the monster XL olive eggs she does !
I have had birds that have laid frosted eggs every so often & think it had something to do with the egg just being slow on lay, and so it gets calcium redeposited over the paint job.
Never seen it happen on any of my breeds except Marans, though.