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[Chicken Rustler]

Wow! I haven't been on in SOOO long! I took a little break from the internet and electronics for the most part.
I will try to catch up a little in the next few days.
I have been down with the flu for the last 4 days. I am just starting to feel better.
My oldest DH came to us a few weeks ago and told us he wants out of his school and to go to a small school where he can get more one on one and be less distracted. So we have been jumping through a few hoops to get him into a private "alternative" school here in Woodinville.
I hope it is a better fit for him.
I was getting kind of worried that he wasn't going to have everything he would need to graduate.
Keeping my fingers crossed that this works.

I hope everyone has been doing well and your chickens are also doing well.

XO,
Kim

P.S.- I think I have a white egg layer in the flock! One of my youngest ones has white earlobes!

Nice to see ya back Kim. Hope the school stuff all works out well.
BTW I know this old guy just down the road from ya. I am sure he wouldn't notice if ya dropped of that defective (white egger) chicken !

 

[KMoran]

I am so jealous you guys have such beautiful eggs... My girls just lay medium brown eggs. I need to add a variety to my coop.

 

[KMHunter]

She was supposed to be a Blue Wyandotte. I have known for a long time that she isn't, and she is built more like a Leghorn or something. But she is light grey, with some little black flecks. I will be waiting to see if she does lay white eggs. I guess it will add some contrast to my egg basket? Lol!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Elk-a-mania here, actually just on the other side of the fence, waite, there is no fence there !
LOL

I love elk so very much, but there really are more of them around than there are supposed to be.

(And they make such great cube steak, chili, and slow-roast tenderloin).

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Went out a little while ago - it was, wait for it. . .

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

SUNNY and over 50 degrees!

What happened to winter?

Oh, it'll be back. Remember the last week of February/first week of March last year?

 

[Chickielady]

So, I'm thinking that the egg second left bottom is called an Olive Egg? Looks much more like Khaki to me. The darks are they Marans or something else? (I have one Blue Copper Marans, but she's at a friends house with his Marans Cock, trying to get some purebreed eggs)

I like the speckled ones - are they Javas? I have a Java and I get one speckled egg about 4 times a week, but since all the hens are together, the only ones I really know are the AmsX and the Icees. I guess when I want to hatch some, I just put them in solitary until I know which ones are which.

Lets see, I no longer have the phot before me, but yes the dark olive is Cuckoo Marans X Ameracauna 1st generation ...the light green are those birds bred back to the marans...which technically are EEs at this point.the light brown speckled are Rocks.
The javas & Buckeyes produce a light brown egg that has no spots.

 

[Chickielady]

Oh, it'll be back. Remember the last week of February/first week of March last year?

Remember when it snowed like h**l on Easter Sunday ?????????????
Hard to find the eggs~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Stumpfarmer]

...

yep, for that you truly do need an arborist ... I completely miscalculated there ...

wish I knew a helicopter pilot with a slung-cargo endorsement --

you might consult this fellow, obviously out of your price range but he might know of a good referral


Kevin McFarland, owner of Sound Forestry LLC of Olympia and the city’s consulting arborist

I've got a tree guy but not any money to pay him, currently. I suspect he's doing big-job stuff right now, anyway, he lives in the middle of the 5-10 acre forested lot parts of Lacey (north of I-5) and the overgrown alder out that way look like they got hit with the Almighty's own weed-whacker. I'm picking away at the bottom with a pair of loppers so it won't get pulled down by a cow walking under it (the parts closer to the ground are last year's spurs) and hoping somebody who knows what they're doing gets to it before the saddle break rots through.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

 

Oh, it'll be back. Remember the last week of February/first week of March last year?

Remember when it snowed like h**l on Easter Sunday ?????????????
Hard to find the eggs~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Which time?

I remember it snowing on my May birthday at Grayland once: that was spectacularly unpleasant.

 

[Chickielady]

Straight from the forum , and myself...the jersey Giant is bred from the Black java, and has the same light brown eggs...........
Same as Buckeyes, and Rocks, although my Rocks will lay spots on their eggs from time to time (as shown in the pics I posted earlier)

This is a Jersey Giant egg: zippin' !

This is the color they should have, unless interbred.