Hi everyone. Does anyone on here within an hour or so of Kansas City have an ameraucana, EE, or auracana they are looking to rehome? All my EE chicks are looking like they are pullets (I know, such awful luck, lol), and I am needing to find a roo for them.
Thanks. I'm thinking a roo should be easy to find too, and mine are only 11 weeks so not in a huge hurry. Just thought I'd check on here in case someone who couldn't have one was trying to find one a home.I'm not sure yet. I've got 2 5 week Lavender Ameraucana chicks from eggs I bought from Nancy Geary (Bargain). One looks to be a male, and I'm still uncertain on the other one. If it's a pair, I'll likely keep them. If both are boys, well, they will be leaving. But I won't know for a month or so yet, and you probably want one before then. So I'm not much help. But I'm certain it won't be that hard for you to find an EE or Am roo around here.
So we had a fantastic afternoon! We went down to Yoder and signed up (a few months back) to have lunch with an Amish family in their home. They have a house they live in and then sort of another house-- it has two bedrooms, a nice big bathroom and then a HUGE living room/dining room. It was set up for 15 places and a lot of our extended family all met us down there for lunch. The Amish family cooked us a homestyle served dinner of chicken fried steak, pan fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, chicken stuffing, coleslaw, and then rasin pie and lemon merguine pie. (sp??) Iced tea, and coffee. I drank a gallon of both, I swear. I was sloshing. That coffee reminded me of my grandparents coffee-- can't put my finger on the taste of it, but unique. The entire dinner was to die for delicious! Then they talked a bit about their history (only because we asked) and then they hitched up one of their horses (Saddle Bred) to a buggy and took us all on rides! Then he got out an old Ford tractor and gave the kids and everyone wagon rides! LOL It was like a holiday! It was soooo fun! Here are the kids loaded up in between the home owner.
Yes, this family had a large metal house/barn/garage? It had two bedrooms and a bathroom and an AMAZING kitchen in there. They were really laid back and allowed us to take pictures and showed off this really neat saw they had on the wall and he wanted to get it down for the men in our group to look at closely. I'm pretty sure they live in that house we were at. My MIL heard about this family, so I don't know how she did. But somehow she was able to call them or something like that. They didn't have a phone, so I don't know how she called them. I think they had to drive down into town to use the phone. They had a little farm on the outskirts of Yoder and had their horses, land out back behind the house. They had two houses close together, as the other home was their family that lived next door. Their last name really was Yoder! The husband was telling us that his wife (who was listening) had a restaurant and owned it and ran it for about 15 years before they moved here to Yoder. They lived in another establisment in Oklahoma, I think where they ran the restaurant. Anyway, so she does these dinners/lunches to supplement their income. It really wasn't that expensive to pay, and i bought her cook book that she put together for Amish meals-- a lot of really neat meals and breads, etc are in there. She gave credit to 8 other women that contributed recipes in the cookbook at the front. It it a really nice spiral bound, and it's got a good collection of stuff in there. I don't have anything like it. I want to grow potatoes now, they put them in everything-- almost all their breads!! And in puddings, etc..How neat! Toward the end of May, we ate at a place in Yoder. It's an Amish family and they do family-style meals in a separate building (I think it may have started life as a large garage). They don't allow English into their homes and they don't allow pictures. The food is amazing. My SIL set it up; she'd learned about it when her father had them all go there and eat. We had salisbury steak, meatballs with a barbecue type glaze, mashed potatoes and gravy, the best corn ever, cole slaw (topped with cheese; never seen that before), bread with butter and strawberry jam, tapioca butterscotch pudding with bananas, Nestle Tollhouse pie and lemon meringue pie. All the tea, water and coffee we wanted. I know I probably forgot some things. We didn't get a buggy ride, but DH did decide he wants some Gold Star chickens next time we get chickens. I have no idea when that might be, since we really don't have room for more. He raved and raved about the big eggs they had for sale! Sounds like your Amish family was a little less strict. How did you find out about setting up a lunch?
That's great that your eggs arrived before you left! Less worry that way! I hope those older eggs will still hatch, you never know!
How neat! Toward the end of May, we ate at a place in Yoder. It's an Amish family and they do family-style meals in a separate building (I think it may have started life as a large garage). They don't allow English into their homes and they don't allow pictures. The food is amazing. My SIL set it up; she'd learned about it when her father had them all go there and eat. We had salisbury steak, meatballs with a barbecue type glaze, mashed potatoes and gravy, the best corn ever, cole slaw (topped with cheese; never seen that before), bread with butter and strawberry jam, tapioca butterscotch pudding with bananas, Nestle Tollhouse pie and lemon meringue pie. All the tea, water and coffee we wanted. I know I probably forgot some things. We didn't get a buggy ride, but DH did decide he wants some Gold Star chickens next time we get chickens. I have no idea when that might be, since we really don't have room for more. He raved and raved about the big eggs they had for sale! Sounds like your Amish family was a little less strict. How did you find out about setting up a lunch?
