Washingtonians

[Totalcolour]

The Tally So Far​

1. Family Room Brooder - 12 day-old ducklings
2. Basement Brooder - 20 (12 ducklings and 8 chicks, 7-10 days old)
3. Outside brooder - 45 Cornish meaties; 1 week old and huge already!
4. Grow-out pen - 6 chicks (5 weeks old)
5. Barn - 2 baby goats

Hatchrite Incubator/hatcher


75 muscovy eggs (?) eggs

Rabbitry Pens

1. 7 Champagne D'Argent/Rex 1 month olds
2. 8 Spot/Rex 3 week olds
3. 1 Black bred doe
4. 1 Champagne D'Argent bred doe
5. 1 Spot unbred doe
6. 1 Rex Buck

One dog and one husband

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[Totalcolour]

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This is our first - we are so very excited! And for a first freshener, she sure is being good. She let them nurse right away, and she even let me hold them. They cried, and she checked on them, but I think she knew I wasn't hurting them. She even let the "teenage" brat goat girl come and look, but she was very watchful.

I gave her some extra sweet feed, but she sure seems to have plenty of milk - must be the Nubian in her!

Do they need shots or anything?

 

[KMoran]

So cute. Your gonna be a busy bee Totalcolour

 

[Majombaszo]

The ONLY benefit I ever found to living in Western Washington has been rendered null and void. I was in the yard pulling out these mystery invasive plant things and I found a snake. Of course I was kind of lying on the ground and the ****** snake was right next to my face! I swear it was NEARLY A FOOT LONG!!!!! I'm never going outside ever again! My husband won't let me go back out there with my pistol to render said snake null and void. Killjoy. At the same time, he refuses to go out and get the yard tools I left behind and it looks like it's about to rain. I wish I could quickly teach the dogs to retreive the tools for me but they'd likely bring me the snake instead.

And, yes, I know that it's harmless (to everything but my psyche) and that it's a tiny snake but growing up in The South (of the US, not Washington) instilled in me absolute terror of snakes.

*shudder*

 

[KMoran]

Hey guys I have a quick question. I am planning on making a brooder as I am tired of chickens in my bathtub with all the dust its killing my allergies. I plan on doing an 4 ft x 8ft x 4ft out of plywood with a hinged lid that open on each side. It will be outside between my shed and my fence. MY question is should I raise it up off the ground and if so how high and how much support do you recommend. I was thinking doing on post every corner and then one in the middle of the 8 ft side. does this sound about right or every 2 feet would be better? Thanks for your help

 

[Stumpfarmer]

The ONLY benefit I ever found to living in Western Washington has been rendered null and void.  I was in the yard pulling out these mystery invasive plant things and I found a snake.  Of course I was kind of lying on the ground and the ****** snake was right next to my face!  I swear it was NEARLY A FOOT LONG!!!!!  I'm never going outside ever again!  My husband won't let me go back out there with my pistol to render said snake null and void.  Killjoy.  At the same time, he refuses to go out and get the yard tools I left behind and it looks like it's about to rain.  I wish I could quickly teach the dogs to retreive the tools for me but they'd likely bring me the snake instead.

And, yes, I know that it's harmless (to everything but my psyche) and that it's a tiny snake but growing up in The South (of the US, not Washington) instilled in me absolute terror of snakes. 

*shudder*

My husband has overcome his Texas-acquired ophidophobia. Does it help to remember that gartersnakes are the only thing that really eats a lot of slugs?

I mean, really: slugs are much more horrific than snakes.

 

[jesss]

Man, it's tough to keep up with this fast-moving thread!

I grew up in Oklahoma, and my fear of snakes has never really gone away. I know there are no poisonous snakes in Western Washington - it's practically my mantra - but I can't get over the [FONT=arial, sans-serif]heebee jeebees[/FONT] when I see an evil, slithering monster in the garden. I wish I could train my chickens to eat snakes. My hens do pretty well with the giant slugs, so it's a possibility!

I bought two lavender orpington pullets from a farm in Moroe about a month ago. I have been trying to introduce them to my (tiny, two bird) flock for the last week, but our barred rock hen just does not want them to live with her. At All! She's been on solitary confinement for the last two days due to bad behavior. Also, we're buying a half-dozen SF eggs from Cloverleaf, which will hopefully find their way into our brand-new Brinsea Mini Advance sometime this week. I love Spring!!

 

[Imp]

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Your so right. My yard is currently overrun with these:

Wonder if they prey on chickens?

Russ

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Hi All!!!!

Love all the baby pic's!!! Too cute!!!!

Welcome to all the new folks!!!!

Everyone is sooooooo busy!!!! I took today off and did NOTHING!!!! It was a nice change.

Figgy the puppy got spayed yesterday, so I thought we'd just be vegetating today, but she seems to have an excess of energy!!! Hard to keep her settled down!!!!

I still have oodles of chicks if anyone wants any please let me know. Mostly black and cuckoo (barred) Olive Eggers, a few black Orps too. They were hatched on Easter, so just a bit more than a week old and straight run.

I have 6 bantam Salmon & Blue Salmon Faverolles in lockdown and due to hatch tomorrow, than lavender ameraucanas 3 days after that, then more Marans & Lav & Split Orpingtons after that, and more Marans after that!......Going to have to do another brooder shuffle tomorrow!

Happy to say I got all my cold crops into the garden now. Also weeded the huge strawberry bed and asparagus bed and saw the first few asparagus coming up! Anxious to start on neatening up the flower beds before the warmer veggie starts & seeds need to go out.

Anybody going to Stevenson next weekend who lives in the north end? I have a 4-H kid that would love a couple of polish chicks.....if anyone would be so kind to pick up two for us, please let me know.

OH! I forgot to tell you guys we lost our blue birchen Marans rooster over the weekend. I had my trio of Marans in a temp coop/run, and the run wasn't covered. Overnight a coyote I'm guessing, went in an took him.

Jumped the low end of the fence, where we HAD our chicken tractor stored until 2 wks ago when we moved it and put some teenagers in it to grow out!!!

He was actually a big old meanie, meanest roo we had, so he wasn't going to be long on this earth, but I was trying to get more babies hatched before it was his time. So very thankful he did his job protecting his two ladies and they were not touched. And I think I have close to +/-18 more eggs in the incubator from them. So far I've hatched out 3 boys, and I have 4 more chicks from the Easter hatch, hoping to get a few more girls from the rest of his eggs!

Anyway, I put his two ladies in with my Olive Egger Cuckoo roo, and they lay really dark eggs, so should make for some nice olive eggers.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Your so right. My yard is currently overrun with these:

Wonder if they prey on chickens?

Russ



That is one scary picture!!!! LOL!