Minnesota!

[Coffee 1st]

Minni.....OK I'm making it my goal to have my coop done today...wish i would have made my run longer but it should be fine since they will free range... Minnie i think you are about 2 hours from me but from what Ive been reading you are the one to get pretty and healthy girls from.. I was wondering do you have 6 pretty girls PULLETS,, would like all different ones and if they lay different colored eggs that would be nice since I'm just going to give most eggs away since i don't eat them. i will use some for baking and stuff. i would like to come get them this weekend. Sat would be perfect. Thanks Tina

 

[duluthralphie]

Coffee,,Did I mention the beautiful blue eggs the creamettes lay????


I got to check the turkey hens nest this morning. After she had the chicks off the nest last night for about an hour she went back to the nest and sat on the eggs.. She had 3 turkey eggs in the mix, so I have them in the incubator now. I am afraid she would abandon them before they would hatch.

 

[destiny_56085]

Wildchild.... I'd have some silkie cockerels available. There are 3-4 pet quality blacks that I'd go $10 each on. If you are looking for something show caliber there are a couple of black cockerels and probably 3-4 partridge cockerels that are a bit younger for $25-100 each. I also have 3 smooth bantam buff laced polish cockerels and 2 frizzled bantam white crested black polish cockerels too. Located in SW MN and am NPIP.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

There is a little girl who got 3 pullets from me that she is using for therapy chickens. She has had epilepsy and has suffered her whole short life with seizures. Now that the doctors have been able to find where they are coming from and help lessen them, she wants to help bring comfort to others with her chickens. She is 9. SO, she got a Cochin, a Welsummer and a New Hampshire. All were spoiled in less than a week and the Cochin is the most social, people loving one from the sounds of things.

I absolutely love this! I've seen a few nursing homes are getting chickens now for their residents aside from the canaries and finches in the hutch that you usually see I suppose. I can think of nothing better than watching chickens. I heard once that watching chickens is like looking out over the ocean. There is constant motion and movement in them that is so relaxing.

The hands-on chores of doing something worthwhile and caring for something that gives back in eggs or love is a powerful thing. I remember my husband's Grandmother had to be moved to assisted living after 90 some years on a farm. She obviously became depressed and expressed her dislike for the assisted living. Some of the family members tried to keep pursuing her to like it...but I understood and I let her vent with me. Can you Imagine? But she would leave ovens on and such...you get the picture. Well I just made it my goal to bring a pumpkin to carve with her at Halloween or bring her out to the farm and have her help me husk sweetcorn for dinner. These simple things--her using her hands-- I think helped her. I still remember those ears of corn shucked to perfection. Not one silk left on the ear and mine with threads stuck and hard to get off. Her hands remembered with all their experience.

Those chickens in those settings....just wonderful.

 

[Cyrus83]

I leave town for 4 days, and come back to 500+ posts. like I have the time or ability to read all that!

 

[Coffee 1st]

Coffee,,Did I mention the beautiful blue eggs the creamettes lay????


I got to check the turkey hens nest this morning. After she had the chicks off the nest last night for about an hour she went back to the nest and sat on the eggs.. She had 3 turkey eggs in the mix, so I have them in the incubator now. I am afraid she would abandon them before they would hatch.

Ralphie are you offering 1 up...LOL... and what kind of girls do you have?? you are allot closer to me,,, but sounds like Minnie has a good variety...tell you what I will trade u a pair of stiletto for a creamtte...LOL

 

[Minniechickmama]

I absolutely love this! I've seen a few nursing homes are getting chickens now for their residents aside from the canaries and finches in the hutch that you usually see I suppose. I can think of nothing better than watching chickens. I heard once that watching chickens is like looking out over the ocean. There is constant motion and movement in them that is so relaxing.

The hands-on chores of doing something worthwhile and caring for something that gives back in eggs or love is a powerful thing. I remember my husband's Grandmother had to be moved to assisted living after 90 some years on a farm. She obviously became depressed and expressed her dislike for the assisted living. Some of the family members tried to keep pursuing her to like it...but I understood and I let her vent with me. Can you Imagine? But she would leave ovens on and such...you get the picture. Well I just made it my goal to bring a pumpkin to carve with her at Halloween or bring her out to the farm and have her help me husk sweetcorn for dinner. These simple things--her using her hands-- I think helped her. I still remember those ears of corn shucked to perfection. Not one silk left on the ear and mine with threads stuck and hard to get off. Her hands remembered with all their experience.

Those chickens in those settings....just wonderful.

What a wonderful grand-daughter-in-law she had to recognize what she needed to feel like herself! You definitely had a connection with her.

 

[Coffee 1st]

and Ralphie whats up with your screen name with Duluth in front of it 1st thought is you would live in Duluth???/

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Thank you Theri. She was a treasure. I lost my grandparents at an age where I was too busy for them. High school and college years. And when I married DH...I latched on to Daisy pretty quick. And sponged up all our conversations and tidbits she shared.

Ralphie. Thank you for the eyecandy of a broody with chicks. OMGosh. The cuteness could not be denied.

Welcome back Cyrus. 500 eh? That's when I skip and skim to the last couple pages and pick out the relative bits...and jump back in. I don't know how coffee 1st read 890+ pages. My goodness.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie are you offering 1 up...LOL... and what kind of girls do you have?? you are allot closer to me,,, but sounds like Minnie has a good variety...tell you what I will trade u a pair of stiletto for a creamtte...LOL

Do you have a stiletto is a size 13E?


I lived in Duluth area for 30 years. I was there when I set up the email address years and years ago. I have no imagination so I just use the same "name" over and over.....

actually you are better off with Minnies birds. My creamettes lay diamond encrusted eggs and as such they are costly,, besides I do not know who are the boys and who are the girls, I did not mark them when I could tell.