The Front Porch Swing

[LindaB220]

Choosing certain shaped eggs for certain sex of chicks doesn't work. I have tried it for years........ literally I have hatched 300 - 400 chicks per year.

My chicks still hatched roughly 50/50. But since I raise my own layers, I have noticed one thing, the only thing I have managed to do is raise hens that lay odd shaped eggs.

Well, shoot, I was hoping it was something new. Well, we'll take what we get.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Choosing certain shaped eggs for certain sex of chicks doesn't work. I have tried it for years........ literally I have hatched 300 - 400 chicks per year.

My chicks still hatched roughly 50/50. But since I raise my own layers, I have noticed one thing, the only thing I have managed to do is raise hens that lay odd shaped eggs.

This year when the birds came off their molt (terrible molt!), they all laid practically round eggs. Gradually, the eggs have become more pointy. This week's eggs are practically triangular. Very eeeenteresting.

 

[chickenboy190]

One more thing, has anyone heard about this?

http://www.motherearthnews.com/home...ed-chicken-eggs-zmaz74zhol.aspx#axzz31uNZqlN8

Yeah some Amish guy told me about that once. He might not have been Amish. He said it worked

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

More Praise of the Freedom Mutts and the Freedom Hen who brooded them. The hen has figured out to take the chicks to the bottom part of the run where the chicken wire is 2" instead of the 1" kind. That way the chicks can get through the fence. Clearly the hen likes to have them ranging in the tall grass outside the run. She keeps watch along the fence line inside the run, and clucks them back to her and takes them all the way up to the coop when we come bother her.

Chicks are chicks, and they still get stuck on the wrong side of the fence several times per day, so we have to get them back in. Today we propped up a section of fence up near the coop so the chicks can crawl back under, and now a couple of the other hens have scurried under so they can free range.

 

[MichalBeth7]

do yourself a favor find out who the horse's trainer is and get some lessons. Showmanship and halter are kind of intense Get some training for yourself.... Western Pleasure too. If you can find out what bit he uses... VERY important. Even if you are an experienced horse woman I have no idea.... but having a second set of eyes and insight to your new horses personality is one thing I always recommend

deb "whos had horses for 47 years now"

I didn't see your post till today, I'm sorry! I most definitely will! Thank you for the advice!

 

[Blooie]

Ahem....AHEM.... I have an announcement to make, now that I don't have to worry about black sedans pulling up in my driveway or being shot at dawn....

After a 7 month deployment as the nuclear reactor operator on board the USS San Juan, my grandson is back in the arms of his wife and baby boy! I am so proud...and emotional. I remember all of the goodbyes, the deployments, and the joys of homecoming so well, but when it hits home in my family again I feel all of those things so strongly it physically hurts. I am so proud of him and of all the young men and women who work long hours with too little pay and, too often I'm afraid, too little respect and gratitude from their own government. I told Jamie tonight, "May they have quiet times, may they have rowdy times, and may all of them be family times....until the next deployment."

I think I'm gonna go out and hug my husband. I feel the need to tell him how much his sacrifices for 26 years meant, just one more time.

 

[LindaB220]

Ahem....AHEM.... I have an announcement to make, now that I don't have to worry about black sedans pulling up in my driveway or being shot at dawn....

After a 7 month deployment as the nuclear reactor operator on board the USS San Juan, my grandson is back in the arms of his wife and baby boy! I am so proud...and emotional. I remember all of the goodbyes, the deployments, and the joys of homecoming so well, but when it hits home in my family again I feel all of those things so strongly it physically hurts. I am so proud of him and of all the young men and women who work long hours with too little pay and, too often I'm afraid, too little respect and gratitude from their own government. I told Jamie tonight, "May they have quiet times, may they have rowdy times, and may all of them be family times....until the next deployment."

I think I'm gonna go out and hug my husband. I feel the need to tell him how much his sacrifices for 26 years meant, just one more time.

Woohoo!!! Give your hubby a hug from me.

 

[Beekissed]

Ahem....AHEM.... I have an announcement to make, now that I don't have to worry about black sedans pulling up in my driveway or being shot at dawn....

After a 7 month deployment as the nuclear reactor operator on board the USS San Juan, my grandson is back in the arms of his wife and baby boy! I am so proud...and emotional. I remember all of the goodbyes, the deployments, and the joys of homecoming so well, but when it hits home in my family again I feel all of those things so strongly it physically hurts. I am so proud of him and of all the young men and women who work long hours with too little pay and, too often I'm afraid, too little respect and gratitude from their own government. I told Jamie tonight, "May they have quiet times, may they have rowdy times, and may all of them be family times....until the next deployment."

I think I'm gonna go out and hug my husband. I feel the need to tell him how much his sacrifices for 26 years meant, just one more time.

Give both of them a hug for me! What a wonderful thing to get to come home...there's nothing quite like it.

 

[jmoeller]

Ahem....AHEM.... I have an announcement to make, now that I don't have to worry about black sedans pulling up in my driveway or being shot at dawn....

After a 7 month deployment as the nuclear reactor operator on board the USS San Juan, my grandson is back in the arms of his wife and baby boy! I am so proud...and emotional. I remember all of the goodbyes, the deployments, and the joys of homecoming so well, but when it hits home in my family again I feel all of those things so strongly it physically hurts. I am so proud of him and of all the young men and women who work long hours with too little pay and, too often I'm afraid, too little respect and gratitude from their own government. I told Jamie tonight, "May they have quiet times, may they have rowdy times, and may all of them be family times....until the next deployment."

I think I'm gonna go out and hug my husband. I feel the need to tell him how much his sacrifices for 26 years meant, just one more time.

Blooie. I am so happy for your family to be together again. Thank You Thank You Thank You to your husband and grandson, but also to your family whos love and support allowed these fine men to do what was needed to serve our country. Thank the Lord for their safe return.

 

[Beekissed]

Today was a WORK day. I'm filthy from head to toe, I'm exhausted, I'm aching in every cell of my being....and I'm overjoyed about it all!

In the Bible it says God gave man work as a gift and I truly know what is meant by that...what in the world would we do with ourselves if we didn't have some kind of productive, creative work to occupy our time? Get up to mischief, mostly.

Now, granted, most of what folks call work in this world is not something to get overjoyed about, but good ol' get yer hands in the dirt and build, grow or otherwise make something useful or beautiful? THAT'S a gift! That I have the health and mobility to even do anything at all is a gift. That I live where I don't have to ask permission is a gift. The freedom to come and go, the abundance to buy tools or have electricity to use them, to buy materials, the ability to learn how to use them to make something...that's all a gift from the Lord and I thank Him for it all. I love You, Father!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful day today!

Give a shout out if you had a great day, a great moment, a great thing happen to you today!