Hello! SO happy to find this wonderful website!! My grandparents lived on a farm and I visited often as a a wee lass in the '50s and '60s. I grew up in the beautiful woods of Minnesota.
We are in southern California; we had two bio kids, and adopted two older siblings when their parents died. Sad - died three months apart. Can you imagine? We love them to pieces - love is not about DNA.
AND - ONE of those adopted kids got married and had a baby. ALL THREE of the other kids have NO plans to become parents. Wowzer. SO... we plan to relocate in two years to live near our ONLY grandchild - in Reno Nevada. My sweet husband will be 65 and retire from his job - I'm looking for work there NOW - will move ahead of him if I get it. I'm a professor, so it's not easy to find a spot, but there is some part time work, I hear. Fingers crossed!!!
Our BIG DREAM is to sell our SoCal house and buy a small farm in the Reno area. I've always been an equestrienne; we plan to have a few horses, a pony for our wee lass, a couple of rescue cows and maybe some other rescue farm animals - and CHICKENS. I NEED chickens! I do!!
I read that if you feed them flax, you get some omega-3 fatty acids in the yolks. Wonderful! I'm looking to have Rhode Island reds and some of those hens that lay marvelous "Easter eggs." What fun for my granddaughter!
I know this website will have loads of information for me. How do you handle parasites? I bet it's here in all these MARVELOUS posts by people!
One thing I'm interested in is having a rooster or two if I can manage it. I know they can be a pain - I just feel bad for how the male chicks are handled at egg factories. So I'm hoping to find a vet to caponize one or two male chicks... I suppose doing that when they are very young helps the behaviors? Wondering if it stops all the crowing. I'll have to research that here. I cannot/will not caponize myself, as the Humane Society has labeled it cruel, noting the evidence that birds feel pain. So... wish me luck with that! Doesn't seem there are any vets in Reno who will do that. Oh, dear...
Forgive this long intro, which I'm sure no one much cares about! Too many words - that's me. I'm just so happy to have found this wonderful, wonderful website!!! I look forward to learning from ALL the wise and experienced people here!
Alice Fusco "Science Granny"
https://www.facebook.com/aliceclearman.fusco
P.S. My daughter is VERY excited about the EE experience - I told her I would call her and we would ask my granddaughter if she would come help us figure out a mystery... "did the Easter Bunny come last night?" Hehehe... young kids are so fun.
We are in southern California; we had two bio kids, and adopted two older siblings when their parents died. Sad - died three months apart. Can you imagine? We love them to pieces - love is not about DNA.
AND - ONE of those adopted kids got married and had a baby. ALL THREE of the other kids have NO plans to become parents. Wowzer. SO... we plan to relocate in two years to live near our ONLY grandchild - in Reno Nevada. My sweet husband will be 65 and retire from his job - I'm looking for work there NOW - will move ahead of him if I get it. I'm a professor, so it's not easy to find a spot, but there is some part time work, I hear. Fingers crossed!!!
Our BIG DREAM is to sell our SoCal house and buy a small farm in the Reno area. I've always been an equestrienne; we plan to have a few horses, a pony for our wee lass, a couple of rescue cows and maybe some other rescue farm animals - and CHICKENS. I NEED chickens! I do!!
I read that if you feed them flax, you get some omega-3 fatty acids in the yolks. Wonderful! I'm looking to have Rhode Island reds and some of those hens that lay marvelous "Easter eggs." What fun for my granddaughter!
I know this website will have loads of information for me. How do you handle parasites? I bet it's here in all these MARVELOUS posts by people!
One thing I'm interested in is having a rooster or two if I can manage it. I know they can be a pain - I just feel bad for how the male chicks are handled at egg factories. So I'm hoping to find a vet to caponize one or two male chicks... I suppose doing that when they are very young helps the behaviors? Wondering if it stops all the crowing. I'll have to research that here. I cannot/will not caponize myself, as the Humane Society has labeled it cruel, noting the evidence that birds feel pain. So... wish me luck with that! Doesn't seem there are any vets in Reno who will do that. Oh, dear...
Forgive this long intro, which I'm sure no one much cares about! Too many words - that's me. I'm just so happy to have found this wonderful, wonderful website!!! I look forward to learning from ALL the wise and experienced people here!
Alice Fusco "Science Granny"
https://www.facebook.com/aliceclearman.fusco
P.S. My daughter is VERY excited about the EE experience - I told her I would call her and we would ask my granddaughter if she would come help us figure out a mystery... "did the Easter Bunny come last night?" Hehehe... young kids are so fun.
