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    Grrr, Wanting Something for Nothing & No Appreciation for Fine Hand Quilting....A Rare Speckledhen

    My oh my! I don' have the words to describe how beautiful those quilts are! What a find. Like buried treasure! So happy for you to be able to receive something like that and share it with the rest of us envious folks. lol Absolutely beautiful. What a quilter your grandmother must have been.
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    Roosters To a Good Home. Please I need Help!!!!

    Might help if you post your location. Good luck.
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    Grrr, Wanting Something for Nothing & No Appreciation for Fine Hand Quilting....A Rare Speckledhen

    Maybe thats what it is. Not ever having much. We didn't either when I was a kid and I guess it seems each generation gets more and more to the point things just don't mean that much to them anymore. Really I think I could sum it up that way. Having too many things distract from the really...
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    Grrr, Wanting Something for Nothing & No Appreciation for Fine Hand Quilting....A Rare Speckledhen

    Thank you for the welcome! I guess my previous reply to this was lost in space so I will try again. How awesome to have so many family heirlooms from so many different Grandmas! I hope you have appreciative family to hand them down to when the time comes. What an incredible piece of history to...
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    Grrr, Wanting Something for Nothing & No Appreciation for Fine Hand Quilting....A Rare Speckledhen

    OMG!! Sorry ladies, I know this is basically a ladies thread but I started reading because as a kid I got to sleep for years with a hand made quilt my grandmother made when I was little. It fit on my twin bed and in my eyes was the most beautiful thing I ever owned. It wasn't exotically made...
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    Hens stopped laying in nest boxes

    Before my 15 girls started laying, I put 2-3 golf balls in each of the four nesting boxes attached to the coop. I put plenty straw in each one and made a deep circular nest and then added the golf balls. Sure as Sally when they started laying, every egg was layed in the nesting boxes. My girls...
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    How many Eggs did you Sell today?

    AuntNomi Sounds like you have a little entrepreneur in the making.That's awesome and should be encouraged. It's never too early to teach kids the value of money and the workings of business. It will stick with them for life. At 3rd grade I was selling Daylight donuts door to door and then got a...
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    How many Eggs did you Sell today?

    I hear you bluecoondawg! Someone up the road from me 2 miles is selling for $2-$2.50 a dozen depending on size. I still charge $3.50 a dozen and have enough orders to keep up barely. No matter how hard it gets, i'll make scrambled eggs for my dogs to eat before I sell my eggs For 1/2 of what...
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    How many Eggs did you Sell today?

    I am selling approx. 3 dozen a week to my wifes coworkers who absolutely love them! We get $3.50 a dozen and it helps pay for their feed. Just sold 4 dozen this week. We also try to hold back enough for our needs and family who enjoy free eggs too. It's a balancing act but is working so far. I...
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    Wet chickens am I doing it wrong?

    Pretty sure one of the reasons they won't come out of the rain is because of the worms coming up to the surface and a lot of crickets are flooded out of their holes in the ground.
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    Wet chickens am I doing it wrong?

    I have a 16 chicken flock of mixed breeds, no roosters. I feed them well and have a nice coop for shelter and my girls free range all day in our large yard with a five foot fence all the way around it. There are plenty of places outside of the coop for them to hide, get under cover, stay dry...
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    Please ID this bird

    She is low girl in pecking order. Wish she would stand up for herself. She even does her own thing and rarely hangs out with the other girls because they run her off. But she seems indifferent to everything.
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    Please ID this bird

    Got it. Thanks for all your help
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    Please ID this bird

    Ok. I also noticed her comb is different than all the other birds too. Will it eventually get bigger? Or is that unique to langshans?
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    Please ID this bird

    Rhoadbarlover Thank you so much! Surprised that I received her from Atwoods as I believe that is a rare bird to get in a batch from them. I saw a picture of a langshan and thought she resembled that pic a lot, so you confirmed my suspicions about that possibility. Again thanks so much! She is a...
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