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[Latestarter]

I grew up in a small town, had easy access to a big city (Boston) where relatives lived and where I visited regularly. I also quite often spent time in the national forests of the north east. I've come to the conclusion that I would much prefer rural to near wilderness with a reasonably sized city within a few hours drive time. Would love to own a ranch at the end of the road, head of the valley, with live water and no other access. If I want company I can always invite some. Since most of the time I don't, I'd be near to heaven

 

[bamadude]

Bama   "one is the loneliest number,"   can't you give her a couple bantam eggs?

Nope. She needs to lay my sons breakfast. He only eats her eggs. Lol. That is Krista's fault

 

[drumstick diva]

Bama you've let your son become such a "diva."

 

[bamadude]

Bama   you've let your son become such a "diva."    

Amen

 

[perchie.girl]

I grew up in a small town, had easy access to a big city (Boston) where relatives lived and where I visited regularly. I also quite often spent time in the national forests of the north east. I've come to the conclusion that I would much prefer rural to near wilderness with a reasonably sized city within a few hours drive time. Would love to own a ranch at the end of the road, head of the valley, with live water and no other access. If I want company I can always invite some. Since most of the time I don't, I'd be near to heaven

Pretty much my place... though its not forest. but thats how i feel about it.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

This is scary - you pretty much described my big city/small town/wilderness perspective perfectly. And the background (growing up on a farm/spending a lot of time on a farm and going to school in a city) is pretty much my childhood. Just in a different country....

What country?

Now you're trying to prove Bee Math.

We aren't in prime honey flow here - almost nothing is blooming. We've barely hit spring.

on the bee math thing.

Still? We were very late this year too. Clover just started blooming 2 weeks ago - almost a month later than normal.

I grew up in a small town, had easy access to a big city (Boston) where relatives lived and where I visited regularly. I also quite often spent time in the national forests of the north east. I've come to the conclusion that I would much prefer rural to near wilderness with a reasonably sized city within a few hours drive time. Would love to own a ranch at the end of the road, head of the valley, with live water and no other access. If I want company I can always invite some. Since most of the time I don't, I'd be near to heaven

I'm right with you. Reasonably sized cities have those amenities we sometimes like to access. Otherwise, I'm not that fond of crowds, or even people

I just remembered that I did live in a small town for a couple years, in Germany. We were in the last house at the edge of a river town with an orchard abutting the property. From my bedroom window, I had the view of the orchard, wooded hillsides and the ruins of a castle on the slope downriver.

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It's 1:30 AM and I'm feeding and watering all the birds so my wife/son can just open coops in the morning. I'm heading to Jacob's cave animal swap. It's a huge 4 day swap/sale. I'm taking 15 day old chicks to a guy. I don't really want to go but I didn't want these chicks to spend 2 days in a box.
I hope to be back by noon or so.
http://www.jacobscave.com/jacobscaveanimalswap.htm

I just got a request to speak at the Midwestern Heritage Poultry Conference in September sponsored by the River Hills Farmers Market and Slow Foods.
Apparently, a poultry judge friend of mine and I are tag team teaching about getting started in heritage poultry.

 

[drumstick diva]

That's great Chicken Canoe, your chicken reputation must precede you.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Thank you, Ice Cream Queen.
I view it as a great opportunity. In the past, all of my classes have been for those with little or no experience in poultry. This time, I'll be speaking to poultry farmers that have been raising them for eggs or meat most of their lives.
At the Purina nutrition presentation I attended last week, the speaker, while very knowledgeable, occasionally referred to me for input on things he didn't feel as comfortable answering. I was surprised he had never heard of broody jail. We usually had cages suspended from the roof in the hen house with one or two broody hens sitting out their trial.

 

[apteryx]

What country?

New Zealand


All if this talk of bees is bringing back a lot of childhood memories. Pretty much every farm in our area had groups of 15 - 20 hives. In summer you could hear the steady hum of the bees through the hedges that were common in our area. On our farm I think we had 15 hives. When I moved over here I was surprised and happy to find honey from the company that had hives on our farm in local stores.

 

[perchie.girl]

did someone mention Bee Houses here?

Apparently its an European thing.





Not portable liike ths small ones but I can see the advantage... Sort of like having your chickens in one coop.

deb