The Front Porch Swing

[enola]

No at least they were smart enough o take out the ovaries. But, I still think that vet saw them coming !

 

[enola]

There are fireflies in the pastures around my house. I love fireflies!

 

[Lacy Blues]

Well that's something anyway, but still! Admittedly I didn't read the article, just the headline.

 

[Beekissed]

Ok....... I posted before I read all of everybody's opinions. I am glad we see eye to eye on this subject. If one of my hens has that problem I will cull her and eat her. $4500 is a down payment on a piece of land for Pete's sake! And they make life time homes for cows and hogs...... that is good meat completely wasted!!!

Getting off the soap box now.

ps. Boy did that vet see them coming or what?

Laughing all the way to the bank on this recent upsurge of people going gaga over chickens, I'm sure.

Blooie, I know what you mean. It actually hurts my stomach to think of that money going to work on a chicken when so many kids need so many things, in this country and in others. It's a sadness that so many animals are rescued and so many children are not. Lovers of creation... instead of the Creator.

People wonder why I'm so frugal and, what did one person call me? "CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP!" and it wasn't a complimentary post....

It's not to save me money so much as it is to not waste money on something so trivial as chickens. By being frugal in my living and food production, I have money left over to give when the Lord asks it of me. If I seem parsimonious by not buying incubators, organic feeds, not feeding chickens that do not lay, etc., it's because there are other priorities in my life where that money can be more fruitful.

People think me hard because I can kill an old favored chicken when they cease to be productive, but that's not it at all....my heart just belongs to the Lord and His work and not to my own pursuits and interests. Chickens mean absolutely nothing to me in the face of greater need and when the Lord asks it of me to give, I want to be able to give.

Everyone has a place where they invest their heart, time, efforts and money and though I spend a lot of time on here talking of chickens, they are the very least on my list of priorities. If it would serve the Lord I would go immediately to that coop and kill each and every one of them and not have a moment's regret for it. I may seem cheap, hard hearted even, but I won't invest one single cent more into food production than I have to when others out there don't even have food to eat at all.

 

[enola]

My electricity has been off since 6:30. I just called the electric company and they are claiming the lights will be on by 8am tomorrow morning! What the heck?

So much for all these eggs in the incubator!

 

[Blooie]

There are fireflies in the pastures around my house. I love fireflies!

We had tons of them growing up in Eastern South Dakota, but not here in Northern Wyoming. Just too dry for them. When my little granddaughter Katie was 4 or 5, she looked just like Tinkerbell, and that's not an exaggeration as you can see by this picture of her. She grew up hearing me call her "Little Tink", and when she watched the movie she would giggle about it.

Ken and I take her back to South Dakota to visit her other gramma and cousins, and see my family, every single year. A few years back the fireflies were just thick at the lilac hedge in my sister's back yard. Katie, who was and still is, terrified of any insect, was sitting on my lap on the deck without moving a muscle.

Finally she breathed, "Oh, Gramma! What ARE those?" I knew if I said anything even remotely close to "bug" she would be gone and I'd never get her back out of the house.

So I put on my serious face and said, "Why, I think they're fairies!"

There was a long silence and then she said, "Like me?"

"Yep, sweetie, just like you. Should we catch one?" My sister brought me out a canning jar and suddenly the older cousins were having a great time seeing who could catch the most and fill up Katie's Fairy jar. They brought it up to the deck in the darkness and she studied them. Then she said "Eww, Gramma, they're BUGS!"

"Now Katie," I told her. "If you were a tiny little fairy in a great big world would you try to hide by pretending to be something else, or would
you let everyone see you? You know if you're a fairy and you are seen, you will

lose all of your magic."

She stared at that jar for a few more seconds and then she said "If I'd have to be a bug I'd rather lose my magic." So much for touching 'Gramma moments.'

 

[RoseMarie1]

Laughing all the way to the bank on this recent upsurge of people going gaga over chickens, I'm sure.

Blooie, I know what you mean. It actually hurts my stomach to think of that money going to work on a chicken when so many kids need so many things, in this country and in others. It's a sadness that so many animals are rescued and so many children are not. Lovers of creation... instead of the Creator.

People wonder why I'm so frugal and, what did one person call me? "CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP!" and it wasn't a complimentary post....

It's not to save me money so much as it is to not waste money on something so trivial as chickens. By being frugal in my living and food production, I have money left over to give when the Lord asks it of me. If I seem parsimonious by not buying incubators, organic feeds, not feeding chickens that do not lay, etc., it's because there are other priorities in my life where that money can be more fruitful.

People think me hard because I can kill an old favored chicken when they cease to be productive, but that's not it at all....my heart just belongs to the Lord and His work and not to my own pursuits and interests. Chickens mean absolutely nothing to me in the face of greater need and when the Lord asks it of me to give, I want to be able to give.

Everyone has a place where they invest their heart, time, efforts and money and though I spend a lot of time on here talking of chickens, they are the very least on my list of priorities. If it would serve the Lord I would go immediately to that coop and kill each and every one of them and not have a moment's regret for it. I may seem cheap, hard hearted even, but I won't invest one single cent more into food production than I have to when others out there don't even have food to eat at all.

I see what you mean Bee. This is what you have chosen and you have the right priorities.

 

[Faerie]

We had tons of them growing up in Eastern South Dakota, but not here in Northern Wyoming. Just too dry for them. When my little granddaughter Katie was 4 or 5, she looked just like Tinkerbell, and that's not an exaggeration as you can see by this picture of her. She grew up hearing me call her "Little Tink", and when she watched the movie she would giggle about it.

Ken and I take her back to South Dakota to visit her other gramma and cousins, and see my family, every single year. A few years back the fireflies were just thick at the lilac hedge in my sister's back yard. Katie, who was and still is, terrified of any insect, was sitting on my lap on the deck without moving a muscle.

Finally she breathed, "Oh, Gramma! What ARE those?" I knew if I said anything even remotely close to "bug" she would be gone and I'd never get her back out of the house.

So I put on my serious face and said, "Why, I think they're fairies!"

There was a long silence and then she said, "Like me?"

"Yep, sweetie, just like you. Should we catch one?" My sister brought me out a canning jar and suddenly the older cousins were having a great time seeing who could catch the most and fill up Katie's Fairy jar. They brought it up to the deck in the darkness and she studied them. Then she said "Eww, Gramma, they're BUGS!"

"Now Katie," I told her. "If you were a tiny little fairy in a great big world would you try to hide by pretending to be something else, or would
you let everyone see you? You know if you're a fairy and you are seen, you will

lose all of your magic."

She stared at that jar for a few more seconds and then she said "If I'd have to be a bug I'd rather lose my magic." So much for touching 'Gramma moments.'

She is adorable! And

at the bug quote!!

Michelle

 

[Lacy Blues]

My electricity has been off since 6:30. I just called the electric company and they are claiming the lights will be on by 8am tomorrow morning! What the heck?

So much for all these eggs in the incubator!

Don't write them off yet. Wrap the incubator up in a big warm blanket and wait for morning. Put in somewhere in the house that might be a little warmer than everywhere else. It may set them back a day for hatching but they should be ok.

 

[enola]

Don't write them off yet.  Wrap the incubator up in a big warm blanket and wait for morning.  Put in somewhere in the house that might be a little warmer than everywhere else.  It may set them back a day for hatching but they should be ok.

The very first thing I did was wrap it in two wool army blankets. They came off of my bed. My bf says now you will freeze tonight!

But I won't it is 60º here tonight.