Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[cheeka]

Yeah ACW... what are you thinking??? you can't leave! you are a major participant in this thread... it might die without you and we cannot let that happen!
we've started to attract new poets and new expectant egg people... we need your knowledge and advice... so same here, i'll have to send my Violet up to your mtn with Roger as a tag team!

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

I could go nowhere without checking in on my buddies and their pie eating Cuties..I think I am just bummed about my friend - that's life - but there is a much bigger really controversial deal that is bugging me - strip mines - the ones you can see from outer space. My friend has managed to stop them from tearing off the top of the highest mountain in the county because he and his family is buried there...the very top. Miles and miles and miles of devastation and destruction that can never be repaired. Now I know why we shared a hatred of coal. He had more reason than me. Don't want to drag anyone down, but people should know the real cost of electricity.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I could go nowhere without checking in on my buddies and their pie eating Cuties..I think I am just bummed about my friend - that's life - but there is a much bigger really controversial deal that is bugging me - strip mines - the ones you can see from outer space. My friend has managed to stop them from tearing off the top of the highest mountain in the county because he and his family is buried there...the very top. Miles and miles and miles of devastation and destruction that can never be repaired. Now I know why we shared a hatred of coal. He had more reason than me. Don't want to drag anyone down, but people should know the real cost of electricity.

So many crazy and terrible things in this world. I'm the kind of person who gets pretty depressed over all the unnecessary insanity, so I find I need my daily dose of little miracles, like my lovely, healthy, happy chickens who give us eggs, the acorns forming on the giant oak which started as a little acorn itself, the doe with her twins whose spots are starting to fade, and even that fearless little skunk facing down my big beast of a dog. If people didn't take these little wonders for granted, it would harder to allow them to be destroyed.

(I just got done bringing a load of laundry in from the clothes line. We rarely use the dryer - don't want to give any more money to the electric company than we have to!)

It's OK with me if you need to talk about the bad stuff. Share the burden, share the joy.

~Lynda

 

[cheeka]

we are all here for you ACW, especially for your grief over your friend, pick him up in your mind and your heart, talk to him... tell him you miss him. I lost a great friend last year, he was 79... had had a good long life, not quite the same as the loss you've suffered, but I miss him just the same. He was my first friend on my route, and I heard a lifetime of stories in the four years that I delivered his mail. we got to be such great friends that I would take him out to lunch and out to run errands, I even picked out a tie for him to wear to church on a shopping trip... I miss him everyday, and I have to drive past his now vacant home twice everyday. So... I pick him up and take him with me from time to time. I enjoy remembering his rosy cheeks and crooked smile... and how he would laugh out loud when he would start to tell a story and his eyes would glisten... I'll never forget my first friend in Gilboa, NY...
Our fight here on this mountain, is natural gas Fracking. it will destroy everything.
but sadly, people here are more interested in fighting windmills...

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Thank you for your understanding, it really does help. I think the kindred spirits are why I like this thread. I could say I am as guilty as anyone for even bringing electricity to this property in the first place, but I think the company thought we'd use alot more than we do. (Not) I try to balance it out, I have five hummingbird feeders because I cut alot of gov imported kudsoe off the trees, that had alot of necter blossoms though, so I try to balance it out. I got out of the town became city because I couldn't stand the pavement any longer...I remember staring at a little plant that had worked it's way through a crack in the pavement, and heard a voice saying - i can repair all this in just a second of time. God?! I think so. I am thankful for all the special interest groups that have set in motion alot of good works. Without them there wouldn't even be any reclamation, and there would be a highway through the monongahela national forest...so I try to look on the good side...thank you for helping me do that. I do still talk to him! I'm glad I'm not the only one! He is in these trees and woods, no one knew them better, and free to come and go as always. I think he derives enormous satisfaction at holding those bulldozers back, I pity the poor workers when they are startled by the clink of a bullet off there earthmovers because now they are for sure haunted
, ha! He would never harm anyone for no reason, but would love to give em a good scare! Sigh. I know there is poverty here, people think bringing in the big boys will help, but only for a short while then you are left with nothing but true poverty. You know what I'm saying huh cheeka, there is a project called marsella shale that alot fought to allow to proceed...now they are finding out they aren't even employing local help, and going under the properties that would have been compensated..screwed again! OK! Enough...thanks for letting me mush through this, now I have to do something about it in some way, some how, to make a difference...in this world of internet it can be accomplished. I think I will start with a senator.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

It is finally starting to rain a little! Yea! I am watching my orphans, they have definetly picked up a little friend, I think i will name her scrappy, because she wants to be leader of the little group, but that is hazels position. Haxel and gretel would come to me and hop onto my arm, but scrappy is being a bad influence and tells them to be afraid of me (little scappy and I must have a talk) one of my layers had a hard time yesterday. She was late to lay then when i checked her a few hours later, she was still on the nest and had laid a double yolker. I moved all the days eggs and gave her some cool water (so darn hot out) and she moved over to cover all the eggs. Could it be she will go broody? Almost impossible idea for a production layer I think, but she did show enormous interest when all the others hatched out chicks. Wouldn't that be neat. Today she is out and around with the others. (My h laughed at me for bringing her cool water - sure are some spoiled chickens he says well you don't know the half of it!, I say)

 

[cheeka]

it's back in the 90's up on my mountain and humid as all get out... as soon as i got home from work i brought them fresh cool water too, even tho' there was plenty of clean water... they drank heartily, and after i eat my supper, I have a nice container of slightly mushy fruit that i put in the freezer this morning, they will be so happy...
I had to deliver a really large virtually weightless package yesterday from My Pet Chicken, and when I got there, the chickens were making one heck of a racket, so I asked... and sure enough! it was the "egg song" ~ couple of weeks ago, ACW... you posted the way it sounds.... that was very funny btw... and really very accurate as compared to what I heard with my own ears! wish they were my chickens........................................
the package had egg cartons in it... no wonder why it didn't weigh anything...!

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Aha! And they say roosters are noisy! I'm glad my girls are abandoning the poarch nest box, one by one, and laying in the coop, funny though, I am getting too many eggs now, so some of march hatch is laying there now, I need to watch to see who! The best price for new boxes has been tsc for 24¢ each, on sale...I'll have to look at my pet and check their prices. Time to clear out the fridge, I know there' s some watermelon in there!

 

[okallthis4eggs]

Mine are not much on singing egg songs. They hop in the nest, lay their egg, and run back out to the run so they don't miss out on any treats. However they have all perfected the peacock scream that they think (and usually they are right) gets them attention and treats.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

They do seem less vocal as they get older, but I've noticed mine seem to do it to call the rooster over for an escort back to the flock, he comes running, down the hill, across the driveway..thunk thunk thunk thunk, over the rr tie through the garden thunk thunk thunk...through the yard...skids to a halt at the coop and crows. The hens runs over, then is immediately distracted by a bug or something, then they both meander back to the flock. He'll be dancing most of the way, her, mostly interested in sights along the way. Once in awhile he stops and turns his head slightly and gives me a long look, like...I AM important! Then, back to his rooster world. Comical critters.