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eggsforsale,
Imagine my surprise when my chosen name didn't get rejected, only to find out it's because I wrote mine the lazy way! Well, if there's room enough, I'm in good company! But if you want, I can try to think up something less chicken-y so there's less confusion.
Sure wish we had as much land as you, but that would just mean more plants to kill. Sure glad I don't have empty nest yet. I think of it every day and tell myself to stop it and enjoy what I've got, but then I watch Fiddler on the Roof and there it goes again!
We won't have so many roosters soon. We're just waiting for those skinny little things to fatten up. They're all breast bone and wattle.
Are your steers as yummy as ours? I wonder if you can feed them a Lawry's salt block so they come pre-seasoned.
 
I think your name is just fine...leave it! I guess great minds think alike. Your's is just more clever.
Here in Idaho we have had rain rain rain and hail hail hail for 2 months. Summer didn't really get here till about a week ago. Finally this week we have heat and sunshine. (high 80's) So much rain is very unusual for us. We have set a record this year. Our garden is slow because of the cool and waterlogged weather. My beans are shredded, apples have pock marks, and some flowers look bad also. However, some things have loved the rain and survived the hail and they look fabulous (like the grass which needed mowed twice a week!) We have several potato farmers who have lost whole fields to the hail. I don't know if they'll come back. In spite of it all, it is home and we love it. "Home is where the heart is"!!!!!!
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I'm moving to Idaho.
It has reached that season here where farmers harvest their fields and there is nothing, nothing, nothing but dirt left there for more than two months. We NEVER get hail, and rarely get rain. Winters here are just gorgeous, though, and so we have to suffer through the heat just waiting for the sun to go away. But every June, before it gets REAL bad, I always start thinking of moving! Then in January, I'm saying "I LOVE this place!" I guess it's like that everywhere. Some good, some bad. I sure look at pictures of snowed-in cabins fondly, though!
 
Lots of retired people from here go to Arizona in the winter. Seems like winter lasts forever here. I guess there probably is no perfect place. But, if we didn't have opposition we wouldn't appreciate the change and beauty of the seasons.
As for chickens, this is our second round with raising chickens. Used to raise meat chickens, layers, and turkeys. Lot of work butchering chickens. This time around I think we'll forgo that adventure and just let the grandkids gather eggs.
We really enjoy the beef we raise. Usually buy two weaned calves every spring, winter them over and butcher them the next fall. Keeps us in meat and is like having food storage mowing the pasture for us. The only drawback is the price of hay some years.
$200 a ton last year!!!
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It sounds like you are loving life and family. Enjoy those little ones......they grow up too fast. Then they are just gone...forever, those babies you once had. They are replaced with independent adults that don't need you anymore. (Yay!! But kind of sad .)Oh, I take that back...they need me to babysit sometimes. Grandkids are wonderful!
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Idaho, Tennessee, Montana, New Jersey, Kentucky.... Sure seems like a small world when you can talk chicken to folks from so many places at once. Thank you for the welcomes!
 
Texas,
My husband wants to move to Texas or Montana for the freedom. Do you really have people living along the border being asked by BATFE to show their weapons for "registering"? El Paso?
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