Washingtonians

[Chubby Chicken]

Did I ever tell ya I is up fer adoption! ! ! LOVE ME SOME ICE COLD HERMISTON.

You're not scared of the nuclear waste bunkers that make the melons gorw so huge? Three eyed frog, no biggy?

 

[Chubby Chicken]

I'm so bummed!

So, the Scotch eggs were made, and I made potato salad, and green beans and tomatoes and mustard, and Perrier, napkins, plates, flatware, the whole thing and loaded up the boat. We got the crab pots and bait all tucked away and off we went.

Get almost to the marina, and traffic is at a standstill. After inching along slowly, we get to spot one of those folks in the bright orange jackets - she came over and told us that we were not going to be able to launch today. Seems it's some kind of canoe regatta today and the marina is closed to ALL other boating! This is the first day we actually went out, because the weather has been horrid.

Oh well, I guess dinner is already cooked now.

Your Scotch Eggs are making want Swiss Eggs!

 

[Chubby Chicken]

Is Purina chicken food awesome? it looks like a lot of you use it. I wouldn't feed my dog Purina, so I just sort of wrote the rest of their stuff off.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Right now a few of the Dumor chicken foods are effected d/t low Vit D levels. Dumor is a different line made by Purina.
Also a lot of their fish foods, crocodile feed and monkey biscuits, maybe others that I don't remember.

http://www.fda.gov/animalveterinary/safetyhealth/recallswithdrawals/default.htm

Russ- 'course now I'm worried about my crocodiles.

See that is why my chickenz do so good I feed the Smartor feed. It is only a few cents per bag more but my chickenz have such a higher intelligence level than those I have seen fed the Dumor feed.

 

[CailetTempest]

I am so happy to be back home... We spent the weekend camping above Greenwater. Oh and friday night and all day saturday at the Scottish games in enumclaw. Yup the mass band march always brings tears to my eyes. I got a great seat this year where the pipers and the drummers were marching right towards me. The last song played was of course Scotland the Brave. Very emotional. I got to see the Hairy cows... the scottish highland cow. and surprise surprise there was even a small coop with 2 red chickens in it.!!! Loved every minute of it. After the massing of the bands ended their was the lone piper playing the lament in memory of those that passed in the year. I actually got hubby's cousin's name read as part of that. Which of course made hubby cry. (he never cries) Good moment of remembering.

Saturday was my baby's birthday. He is now a big 9 year old. We got to listen to the band "Brother" loved it. My baby got a surprise from them..a postcard autographed by all 3 of the band members and saying happy birthday.

Got home today, picked up dog from the sitter. Dolly gave me a royal bawling out in dog speak. lol. Then home to my birds. was almost expecting to have lost one over the weekend. (landlady always lost 1 or 2 if she left) but i didn't lose a single one. That makes me happy.

My girls are laying and the ducks are loving their pool. It is good to be back home to the dry side of the state.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I have always wondered if everyone names their first RIR- Rhodie? I did.

Not me I gave mine a very high class name! Red!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I'm so bummed!

So, the Scotch eggs were made, and I made potato salad, and green beans and tomatoes and mustard, and Perrier, napkins, plates, flatware, the whole thing and loaded up the boat. We got the crab pots and bait all tucked away and off we went.

Get almost to the marina, and traffic is at a standstill. After inching along slowly, we get to spot one of those folks in the bright orange jackets - she came over and told us that we were not going to be able to launch today. Seems it's some kind of canoe regatta today and the marina is closed to ALL other boating! This is the first day we actually went out, because the weather has been horrid.

Oh well, I guess dinner is already cooked now.

So did ya go park with in sight of water, get in the boat and eat dinner ???

Some times ya Just gotta make the best of it.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

I have always wondered if everyone names their first RIR- Rhodie? I did.

Ours were Ruby, Rosa and Rojo. Now it seems any RIR that we have that stands out is called Ruby. We just keep using the name over and over.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Nope not one bit!!! I grew up on the big creek. We swam in it, ate fish from it and probably drank water from it. I only get to make this trip once so I am gonna make it one HECK of a ride.

 

[justbugged]

Is Purina chicken food awesome? it looks like a lot of you use it. I wouldn't feed my dog Purina, so I just sort of wrote the rest of their stuff off.

Purina is fine for animals that eat corn. I wouldn't feed anything made by Purina to my dogs either. But Purina's chicken feed works as well as most brands. I have been using Excel brand, and haven't noticed any problems. It really helps to feed the chickens any and all the food scraps from the kitchen. Little to nothing goes down my garbage disposal anymore. Things like leftovers, and food that is left on a plate is all fed to the chickens. We also let the girls forage in the backyard. I have always expected to not get the best feed to egg ratio at my house. I have been collecting many of the rarer breeds of chickens. These often don't lay as well as production egg layer will. I am okay with this difference. But I am now finding that I am going to need more reliable layers, if I want them to pay for their own feed. So I am going to adjust my flock once again.



Last night after everyone left I was putting the meat birds back into the run, and all the girls decided that they wanted to play in the yard. So I let them out for a little bit. Well I thought I had all the hens back in the run, when I heard squawking in the back yard. The puppies found a couple of the girls hiding out in the back side yard. The hens came running and I let them back into the run. That was all but the last hen. She decided to get on top of the run. Then she went over the wall into the neighbors yard. This hen is fairly new to my house and still doesn't like me, so there was no way that I was going to catch her without some help or a net. With less than 15 minutes until the store closed here in town, I managed to go and buy a larger fishing net. You should have seen the expression on the clerks face when he ask me what kind of fishing I was going to do. I had to tell him I was after chicken fish.

Any how, I got back home 5 minutes later, only to have the hen jump into another neighbors yard. They were home and out in the yard. I think that they had a party going on. A large group of young men came out, and I passed my new net over to them, and they caught my flighty little hen. By the time I got her home she was sure that she was going to die. So I held her and petted her head for awhile, and she seemed to be relieved to be back home in the run.

So I now own a chicken catching net. I wish I had bought it years ago now.