Michigan

[Olive Hill]

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Me, too! I'm attending a Solstice banquet this Wednesday. Food, drink, friends, laughs. Can't wait!

Yaaaaaaaaay! More heathens! I really only celebrate spending time with friends and family during this time of year, being atheist and all

LOL! I see how it goes. You all wait for me to come out of the closet first and then it's like heathens from a burning stump. Errr, is that ants?

I come from very nice working-class German Catholic descent, but Christianity of any kind just doesn't mesh with my innate beliefs; those are probably best categorized as somewhere in the jumble just before or just after Buddhism broke off from Hinduism. I lean towards just before, but I don't like to commit to anything I don't have a firm handle on understanding so it'll be some years worth of research down the road before I could ever say one way or the other. And then, because I am a farmer, there is a splash of Pagan in there for good measure.

But see, it's so much easier to just say "I'm a heathen!" Less explaining.

We celebrate a mish-mash of holidays and generally just take the entire time between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day as a time for festivities centered around reflection on and thanks for the year, appreciation of the abundance of the year's harvest, giving, and observation of the earth's rest/rejuvenation period. I thoroughly enjoy it all.

 

[erinlee]

Does anyone in MI need (want?)

a Wheaton/Blue Wheaton Ameraucana cockerel? I have an extra one that I hatched out this summer from either peachick's lines or pips&peaps lines (I got hatching eggs from both and I had 1 rooster hatch from each batch). I *think* this one is from pips&peeps eggs but I'm not 100% positive.

Had 2 roosters hatch out and only need 1. The two guys are now fighting over the women so one has to go. Would prefer him go to a good home and not the stew pot.

Located in Baldwin, MI, pick up only. May be able to meet part way or deliver within reason. He's FREE to a GOOD home

 

[Olive Hill]

The second you sell your back-up breeding roo is the second your primary breeding roo will get sick, injured or attacked. If breeding isn't important then it's not such a big deal, but if you'll be between a rock and a hard place without a roo of the appropriate breed and type it might be a good idea to give this fellow his own run and a small harem to keep him occupied in case you should need him. Just something to consider.

He's a pretty boy.

 

[erinlee]

Ugg that's something I haven't thought of. It is just my luck this would happen. Hmmm now what to do..... LOL

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[Stacykins]

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Yea, that is why I have two tufted/rumpless Araucana cockerels, in case something happens to one, I have a backup. Mine established who is top boy, though. Yours should hopefully work it out soon enough, if you keep two!

 

[ChicwannaB]

Welcome Leehaha,

So many errands to run yet. It ain't slowing down where I live. Will be glad when the big commercial rush and push is over and life goes back to mundane and predictable.
Hard to get in the truck and go without the little Buddy who always wanted to tag along. Left chihuahuas home today and took 3 other terriers. The vehicle was less crowded, but no less hectic.

This too shall pass.......................

 

[AngelaB]

Okay, I only have 4 chickens. 3 are laying. I don't have much for eggs. Just a dozen right now. Of course I dropped the egg carton today! 3 broke, but 2, the yolk and white stayed in the shell. I guess I need to make some Christmas cookies tonight. If not, I guess I will cook them and give them to the chickens.

Also, I guess they like thier shelled corn with the scratch that I make for them. The have hardly touched thier feed. No corn in the scratch for a couple days. They are leaving the oats, and eating just the corn.

 

[AngelaB]

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Yep. We're heathens.

Me, too! I'm attending a Solstice banquet this Wednesday. Food, drink, friends, laughs. Can't wait!

chickendales - So sorry about the job. I've been there. You're in my thoughts.

We don't do anything formal. I wish we had something to go too, but oh well. We will do something here. So nice to know I am not the only one!

 

[Olive Hill]

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IME if you do not have oats ground they will just peck through them and make a big, wasteful mess. Which is why we now pay the extra $5 to have our feed ground once it's mixed. Now, mind you, they have no problem picking through oat straw and eating THOSE leftover whole oats, they just don't want them as part of their feed mix. Picky brats!

 

[AngelaB]

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Sorry to hear about your job ((hugs))