Washingtonians

[itsren]

Here are the girls playing around on the 2nd coop. That's Rhodie walking around on the top, Drama looking at my daughter, and Caunnie is hiding on the back wall. This is the coop my youngest son and I started building this last week while my oldest son was at camp and my daughter was at Girl Scout Day Camp. We have a lot of work left to do on it, and on the attached run. Keeping an easily distracted 7-year-old boy on task isn't easy - but I made him stick with it and help build this thing. Every few minutes he'd pop off with "Can I have a break?" Silly little boy.

DH said we "over-built" it. I said the wood was free, so we could afford to over-build it.

This is also the coop he thinks would make a great dog house (oh, no it won't!), LOL!

 

[Shyla-C]

Here are the girls playing around on the 2nd coop. That's Rhodie walking around on the top, Drama looking at my daughter, and Caunnie is hiding on the back wall. This is the coop my youngest son and I started building this last week while my oldest son was at camp and my daughter was at Girl Scout Day Camp. We have a lot of work left to do on it, and on the attached run. Keeping an easily distracted 7-year-old boy on task isn't easy - but I made him stick with it and help build this thing. Every few minutes he'd pop off with "Can I have a break?" Silly little boy.

DH said we "over-built" it. I said the wood was free, so we could afford to over-build it.

This is also the coop he thinks would make a great dog house (oh, no it won't!), LOL!

Wow! That looks great.

 

[Chubby Chicken]

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.

Explains a lot.

 

[Chubby Chicken]

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.

 

[LakeBird]

Nice to meet you too! I had a brain fart when you were leaving and called you the wrong name. Doh! Sorry, I do know your name. Hope your event tonight went well too.

No worries

 

[LakeBird]

Here are the girls playing around on the 2nd coop. That's Rhodie walking around on the top, Drama looking at my daughter, and Caunnie is hiding on the back wall. This is the coop my youngest son and I started building this last week while my oldest son was at camp and my daughter was at Girl Scout Day Camp. We have a lot of work left to do on it, and on the attached run. Keeping an easily distracted 7-year-old boy on task isn't easy - but I made him stick with it and help build this thing. Every few minutes he'd pop off with "Can I have a break?" Silly little boy.

DH said we "over-built" it. I said the wood was free, so we could afford to over-build it.

This is also the coop he thinks would make a great dog house (oh, no it won't!), LOL!

Nice free coop!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Quote: You never know, it might become a new favorite...my girls go nuts over leftover pasta!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

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.

Aww, that stinks. Sorry, Kate, that you missed out on the crabbing. But the meal you made sounds delicious!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Here are the girls playing around on the 2nd coop. That's Rhodie walking around on the top, Drama looking at my daughter, and Caunnie is hiding on the back wall. This is the coop my youngest son and I started building this last week while my oldest son was at camp and my daughter was at Girl Scout Day Camp. We have a lot of work left to do on it, and on the attached run. Keeping an easily distracted 7-year-old boy on task isn't easy - but I made him stick with it and help build this thing. Every few minutes he'd pop off with "Can I have a break?" Silly little boy.

DH said we "over-built" it. I said the wood was free, so we could afford to over-build it.

This is also the coop he thinks would make a great dog house (oh, no it won't!), LOL!

Looks good, and sturdy!

 

[Hinotori]

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

Why do you think I'm crazy and own chickens? It's from being born and growing up there.

At least the Army Depot is pretty much done now. So no chemical worries anymore.