Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

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

 

[KlopKlop]

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.

My DW is the activities director at a nursing home here and I have been telling her that she needs to get chickens there! She brings residents to the farm on their bus occasionally and we bring some hens on the bus for the residents to hold and see since our farm isn't exactly accessible by wheelchair. It really opens them up and gets them reminiscing about their old days on the farm

 

[Wild Child]

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.

Sorry but with six roosters already and two potential cockerels I'm roosterd out!

 

[Cyrus83]

Thank you ralphie, you are very thoughtful. I never bin much fer book lernin

 

[The BlanchRanch]

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 great story!! I really enjoy the company of those much older then me. I lost both my parents and they were in their early 90s and miss them all the time.

I wouldn't mind starting a business putting up coops and taking care of chickens at the nursing homes. I wonder if there is a demand in the city. That way I could enjoy the company of folks that have so many great stories and untapped wisdom, have a lot more chickens and make a few bucks too. Pipe dream? Maybe not.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I think it's a great idea. Start with proposals to nursing homes close to your house (so it's easy at first...to get there...so on and so forth) . Not so much a pipe dream...I don't think.

 

[KlopKlop]

What a great story!! I really enjoy the company of those much older then me. I lost both my parents and they were in their early 90s and miss them all the time.


I wouldn't mind starting a business putting up coops and taking care of chickens at the nursing homes. I wonder if there is a demand in the city. That way I could enjoy the company of folks that have so many great stories and untapped wisdom, have a lot more chickens and make a few bucks too. Pipe dream? Maybe not.

Look up a group called 'henpower' in the UK. That is what they do, they say 'turn pensioners into Hen-sioners' haha

 

[Coffee 1st]

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.

you guys kept it interesting...

 

[duluthralphie]

Thank you ralphie, you are very thoughtful. I never bin much fer book lernin

Thank you!

You know me, I am always trying to be as helpful as I can be.

 

[Rhetts]

DD got her first Polish egg today! She said she is the happiest girl in the world today! Isn't it funny how a chicken laying an egg can make someones day! (I know how happy it makes me feel!)