Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[lindz8504]

[COLOR=800080]Brrrrr...... It is a cold start to 2015. I need to go to the local Walmart and I am dreading it. You probably heard on the national news that a 29 year old mother was accidentally shot and killed by her 2 year old. It is such a sad a preventable thing, but I wont preach.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=800080]Off I go to see if there are any frozen eggs in the nest boxes.[/COLOR]

I needed to go to the grocery store but I think I have talked myself right out of it! Lol. Good luck on your adventure!

 

[Scrambles55]

The girls are NOT happy with the cold and snow. Heck.... the pullets will not even let the white stuff touch their delicate little feet.

Penny and Smoke however will walk on the shoveled trail and fly over the snow and sit on the patio. Their favorite spot is on the dog bed. My DH does not want the chickens on the patio for obvious reasons, but I tell him that it is so cold out that the poop freezes quickly and can be swept off. He is not amused.

Only one egg so far from one of the Lav Ams. Maybe Nugget is finally taking a break.

 

[Scrambles55]

The whole story about the shooting is this. The mom was trained in gun safety. She had a carry conceal permit and had a gun in a zippered compartment of her purse designed for guns. (I have a similar purse) Her toddler found the gun and shot the mom in the head. I didn't think that a 2 year old had the strength to do that, but ..... I quit carrying in my purse because that is the target of thieves.

Aw heck!!! I have a flock of turkeys on the roof...... Grrrrr.....................

 

[lindz8504]

[COLOR=800080]The whole story about the shooting is this. The mom was trained in gun safety. She had a carry conceal permit and had a gun in a zippered compartment of her purse designed for guns. (I have a similar purse) Her toddler found the gun and shot the mom in the head. I didn't think that a 2 year old had the strength to do that, but ..... I quit carrying in my purse because that is the target of thieves.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=800080]Aw heck!!! I have a flock of turkeys on the roof...... Grrrrr.....................[/COLOR]

It is a really sad situation. Both Hubby and I are going to be getting our CC-permits, but I think if I am carrying it will physically be on my body. I feel that it is safer than having it somewhere that someone else can easily get to such as a child. Accidents can happen to anyone but you can do lots of things to prevent them.

 

[mortie]

Scrambles, how do you know that? I haven't been able to find an article that says anything like that and I was just saying to hubby today I wish I knew the details.

Both dh and I have our CCW permits. Neither of us has ever carried, aside from transporting occasionally. If we did, we would never ever carry with one in the chamber. We have at times had our .45 loaded in the house but never with one in the chamber. It's a slide action that is so stiff my kids couldn't operate it anyway. I can do it with a lot of effort and it's even pretty stiff for dh. But never one in the chamber. We feel like if we were carrying and there wasn't time to rack one, you're kinda screwed anyway. It takes a split second to work the slide so we see no reason to leave a round in the chamber when you're just grocery shopping.

99% of the time our hand guns are in the safe, unloaded. I know a lot of people say "what good is a locked up gun" but I don't feel the need to have loaded guns all over the house with my kids around. They've been taught proper gun safety but i don't feel the need to take risks. We have our first line of defense already. If anyone wants to come past my big, hackles raised, loud barking german shepherd...well I say bring it. With her letting us know the person is there, we'll have plenty of time to unlock the safe and grab a mag

So I feel like we are pretty middle of the road about it. We have a couple of guns and we have our ccw permits, but we don't feel the urge to pack heat at wal mart (or anywhere else for that matter) and we aren't the type to leave loaded guns laying around in case we have to blow someone up who is coming into our house or anything like that. We enjoy target shooting with them and it's kind of a hobby that my husband and my dad share, so we're good.

It's a sad, sad situation. I feel the worst for the little boy who will find out sooner or later what happened. I hope when he does, he has the wisdom to understand that it wasn't his fault.

 

[Scrambles55]

@mortie I put Wal-Mart shooting in my search engine and several articles came up. I live one mile from that Wal Mart, so it hit very close.

DH and I both have CCW permits and took classes for them. We have no kids in the house and we keep a loaded gun in the bedroom. I used to carry in my purse, but will not carry on my person until I have a better holster. My current one is a back pocket holster. Ya right... can you say pick pocket?? We open carry when we are in the woods or just plain camping and fishing.
My personal thoughts are that kids should not be near Moms purse. Ever..... there can be a lighter, meds, a knife or a gun. Kids are very curious.

 

[Scrambles55]

Here I thought that Nugget was taking a day off, when I heard the egg song. There was Nugget bawking away and a warm brown egg in the nest box.

 

[mortie]

I haven't looked up any articles since yesterday morning so maybe they are newer. Or maybe I was just looking at the wrong ones. I will check again.

I don't even carry a purse lol.

 

[mortie]

I realize looking back at my how do you know that it sounds... Incredulous. I was sure you did know I just wanted to read up on it because I had some major questions about it and didn't want to speculate. I had no doubt you really did know.

 

[Scrambles55]

I realize looking back at my how do you know that it sounds... Incredulous. I was sure you did know I just wanted to read up on it because I had some major questions about it and didn't want to speculate. I had no doubt you really did know.

No worries mortie. Written words are hard to decipher when inflection is missing. I understood what you meant.