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[Cloverleaf Farm]

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[jenreinke]

Oh my goodness that's atrocious! One of the worst things I've ever heard! So sorry that happened to you guys My neighbor even said "If he ever hurt your chickens we'd replace them all, don't worry" but that doesn't settle well with me. It just means she doesn't think of them as pet that might not be replaceable in our hearts. They're just chickens to her and pretty meaningless. I'm gonna look into the hardware to block the holes in my chain link that either Rainwolf or Imp told me about a few days ago. Our fence is 5' tall so I think we're pretty safe that way, but that skinny tiny mutt could slip through the gate if he really wanted to.

You can also duct tape pipe insulation to the posts. One on each side does minimize the gap.

 

[Slinglings]

Hi ChickAudie! I am in Seattle, and originally from Iowa I have been here 12 years and will *never* move back to Iowa. Welcome to the WA thread, I am pretty new here also but everyone is very friendly


My father committed suicide when I was 21..it was rough. I was really his only family and I was too young to have to take care of everything that I did. I hope that you and your family were able to help each other through it.

WOW! over 8500 pages in the Washingtonian forum, we rock this chicken thing (well, technically not me yet, I haven't received my backyard babies yet)! I was able to read the first few pages, and the last few pages, but there was a lot in the middle I didn't have time to catch-up on

I was very sad reading a few posts, but so grateful you were able to share. Newbies like me need all the info we can get, the good, the bad & the ugly

I am in the South Puget Sound's very own Tac Town. We just moved back home from Des Moines, IA. What a place! People were amazing, weather, not so much. We came back home to be with my family, we all just had to go through the worst thing imaginable. My brother, 32, committed suicide

May nobody ever have to go through that ever again.




My dog was my best friend when I was told the news 1,600 miles away. I didn't think dogs cried until then, he just leaned against my shoulder and bawled with me :0) such a sweetie-poo. My old boss had a golden-doodle that got preggers by the Australian Shepherd that jump the fence, he said "Ya want a dog?!"


^^^ Isn't he gorgeous! Anyway... I should have posted in Random Ramblings! We are a family who just adores living creatures, they are just so much more sincere than people. One day we will have that farm, but for now, we are stuck in a good sized lot in the city. WE! I keep talking about us and y'all just don't have any idea who "we" are! There are 7 of us total, Hubs & I with our 4 boys (yes, four of them) and our little Ellie, who turned a year last month, poor girl...all those boys! Our dog's name is Raider and we have a chinchilla names Scarface, she was the runt and had her ear clipped by a sibling, poor dear. So that's us in a funky nut shell!

 

[ChickAudie]

Yeah, that's why I didn't quarantine her...I didn't want her to have to go from a box of dead birds, to being completely alone...wanted her to feel as "normal" as possible...can't risk losing her...

Here she is with the d'Uccle....

That is a beautiful chicken! Poor thing had to go through all of that

I hope they are able to find out what went wrong.

 

[ChickAudie]

Hi ChickAudie! I am in Seattle, and originally from Iowa I have been here 12 years and will *never* move back to Iowa. Welcome to the WA thread, I am pretty new here also but everyone is very friendly


My father committed suicide when I was 21..it was rough. I was really his only family and I was too young to have to take care of everything that I did. I hope that you and your family were able to help each other through it.

Yeah, that is something that hits you like a ton of bricks. I can't imagine how you were able to make all those arrangements by yourself, you must be very strong. Without my Aunts and Uncles, I don't know what my parents would have done.

I'm laughing at your "never moving back to Iowa" comment! My thoughts exactly, but it's funny when you leave a place and you have met so many great people, you just wish they would move with you

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[Cloverleaf Farm]

Quote: Thanks...the lady that shipped them to me suggested that maybe the boxes had been set too near a truck exhaust pipe, and maybe this one ducked her head down or something...I don't know, I would think her comb would still be a little blue from that if that were the case...whatever it was happened later in the shipping, because two of the girls laid eggs before they died....

 

[FirewifeJess]

Quote: Isaac won't eat anything burned because charred things from a grill ARE, indeed, carcinogens. They are trained extensively on so many things at the fire department and he's already such a high risk job for cancer due to exposure of any kind to burning things, that he's extra cautious.

Quote: Yeah for now I just set a concrete block on its' end in front of the gap. I think I'll work on minimizing the gap in a more permanent way this coming weekend. Thanks for the tip!

 

[FirewifeJess]

Quote: Thanks...the lady that shipped them to me suggested that maybe the boxes had been set too near a truck exhaust pipe, and maybe this one ducked her head down or something...I don't know, I would think her comb would still be a little blue from that if that were the case...whatever it was happened later in the shipping, because two of the girls laid eggs before they died....

I am so, so sorry to hear of your losses! What a nightmare

 

[TerrorBird]

Hi ChickAudie! I am in Seattle, and originally from Iowa I have been here 12 years and will *never* move back to Iowa. Welcome to the WA thread, I am pretty new here also but everyone is very friendly

I moved here from Delaware ten years ago. I miss my friends a lot, but I don't want to go back ever. Living in Washington just seems to have that effect.

 

[Rainwolf]

Thanks again to Mama Wolf

LOl glad you enjoy the jam!

btw it is Oregon Grape... it is not a real grape but a berry....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon-grape


My favorite jam and I normally go out and pick a few 5 gallon buckets full of berries each year!

Grapes are berries

So are Watermellon.  Apples are not.

Well yes grapes are berries too