The Front Porch Swing

[Faerie]

So much to get caught up on after a busy weekend!!

Thanks for the birthday wishes, I had a great day, filled with family. And my most special present was from my mom, an egg basket that a friend of hers had made for her years ago in honor of my great grandpa who raised chickens.

Prayers for the family who lost their young son.

Love the new coop, I am so nervous about building mine, have never built anything before.

Hope you get the house if it is meant to be it will happen.

Got my seeds in the mail too, and am going to be starting a bunch of stuff this week. Also going to be out in the yard getting the garden ready for planting.

Michelle

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Here is a question for you thoughtful people. It falls under the general heading of some research I've been doing, but I just read something I've never heard before and wonder if you guys have heard it either.

I sell eggs through a buying group with an active message board where people discuss their satisfaction with various Buys. Another egg farm also sells eggs through this group. Their eggs are "organic" and "soy free." Mine are not.

Someone just wrote in to say they got a fishy egg, one of the organic eggs.

Other people wrote in to say they have been told some chickens metabolize their feed differently and "just" lay fishy tasting eggs. This is the part I've never heard and haven't been able to verify.

I suggested it was perhaps the feed ... I had a guess at what brand of feed the other source is using, and I have chosen not to use it because it contains camelina meal, which studies indicate make both meat and eggs taste bad.

I also suggested it could be the "scraps" the birds are fed ... "too many fruit peels" can do it. Also, how you wash the eggs can do it (scented detergents are a big culprit). Also, how you store your eggs can do it (which is why I have a designated egg refrigerator into which no other food is stored.

Thoughts?

 

[Gldnrose]

I am doing a happy dance!!!!!!! The new coop is finished and open for business! It is a beautiful day, and the girls are already checking out the nest boxes! The girls are enjoying scratching around in the new leaves and laying in the sun soaking in the rays!

Beautiful coop! And those are some happy looking chickens )

Guys, I just got a message that some good friends of mine's grandson was just found dead. The boy was about 20 years old. PLEASE PRAY FOR THEM! I don't know what happened.

I am so sorry. Prayers for the family.

 

[Gldnrose]

Woke up today to a couple more inches of snow. Big storm coming on Wednesday, so far calling for about 14 inches.
Anyone else in the path, keep safe.

Just when I was dreaming of seeing the grass again. Oh well.

Hope everyone is enjoying their day.

 

[Faerie]

Woke up today to a couple more inches of snow. Big storm coming on Wednesday, so far calling for about 14 inches.
Anyone else in the path, keep safe.

Just when I was dreaming of seeing the grass again. Oh well.

Hope everyone is enjoying their day.

That sucks. I am very sluggish today, I think it's the time change.

 

[TexasLisa]

I think you guys will like this link! http://www.thescoopnewspaper.com/node/3483

Wyodreamer I thought of you when I saw the house. Look down toward the bottom and you will see 25 chicks for $1.90!!

I love these old catalogues!!

Lisa

 

[Faerie]

That is so cool! I love old catalogs/magazines too!

 

[luvblues7]

I think you guys will like this link! http://www.thescoopnewspaper.com/node/3483

Wyodreamer I thought of you when I saw the house. Look down toward the bottom and you will see 25 chicks for $1.90!!

I love these old catalogues!!

Lisa

Love it..... the cost per chick is .08 each I just paid $3.74 per chick a couple of weeks ago. But of course I would NEVER want to go back to the pay scale they had back then either.

I would love to see those women walk in those dresses. Not this country girl.....not giving up my blue jeans!!!!

 

[luvblues7]

Ooooops hit the submit button too soon.

Lisa how's the new babies? Thought about you all weekend.

 

[Blooie]

I got a big chuckle out of reading the "gramma" posts, so bear with me while I resurrect it! Until my first grandchild was born 25 years ago I didn't know I could love someone else's kids that much! Six months later my other daughter had a little boy and suddenly here I was, 38 years old and grandmother to two amazing little guys, Jamie and Austin! I remember looking up at the sky and thinking, "God, what are you DOING? I'm only 38 and a grandmother?" Now I know - He knew I was going to end up raising two of them. We raised Jamie, our oldest, off and on from the time he was 2 years old and then when he was 10 we took custody of him and his little sister, Little Diane. Jamie is now married to an amazing young woman with a baby of his own and is a nuclear reactor operator on board a US Submarine. Our second grandson, born 6 months after Jamie, was killed in a car accident last year. He and his wife had only been married 9 months when the front axle on his car failed on the interstate. She was fine, but he didn't survive. Our granddaughter, Little Diane, is now 19 and doing very well living out on her own.

My son, his wife, and their two daughters, Katie (8) and Kendra (2 1/2 years old), live across the street from us, and my older daughter - the one who lost her son last year - lives two blocks down with her 8 year old son Evan. Kendra was born with Spina Bifida. God forgot to tell her she has a disability, and we aren't going to tell her either!

The hardest part of raising Jamie and Little Diane was not getting to be a "Coco Puffs gramma". A "Coco Puffs gramma" is one who, when the grands turn up their noses at meatloaf and green beans, gets to say, "Okay, I'll fix you some Coco Puffs...just don't tell your mom!" LOL Nope, I had to make them eat the meatloaf and green beans. They forgave me.

And the talk of memories is special to me. We take Evan and Katie to Yellowstone every year, and do all kinds of other things together. Even a simple trip to Billings to stock up on supplies is special when they are with us. I turn to them and say, "What are we doing, guys?" And in unison they chime, "Makin' memories!"

When we ordered the chicks, Katie and Evan, on their own, decided that Kendra would get to see them first. That plan was torpedoed when Kendra's doctors thought she'd be having surgery a few days later, so Evan and Katie got to see them first. But her doctor called and told us to let that baby see the chicks - and she was captivated. And now that I've probably worn out my welcome on the front porch, I'll scoot on out.