The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

had to quit driving when I still had my bus 1989 Beaver Contessa sold the utility trailer 16 ft I towed behind for equipment at dog shows, anyways lost my license in 2012 due to vision young friend was trying to drive my bus to park her clipped a neighbors fence they called police... she swore I was driving well me no drive told them then who did, didn't want the kid in trouble so they took me.. stayed 3 days to stubborn to call help.....

My story is so crazy. I had a friend who had chickens and guineas. She let me get guinea eggs any time. Then she asked me to order polish chicks with my chicks. Once they got there, she didn't pick them up so i just put them in with some other chicks i got locally. When they were about half grown, she comes and picks them up. Then some time later, her chickens get sick. Automatically, it's my fault. I was not going to fight with her about it. I just avoided her. One night i couldn't sleep so i drove over and parked by the horse pasture. Got out and looked for guinea eggs. I mean, she said i could have all i could find. I was not going to wake her up at 3 am. Next thing i know, all kind of people are running around with flashlights and shooting! Shooiit! I hid. Then the cops showed up. I figured they had my truck so they would find out any way so i walked over to them. And she wanted me arrested for Trespassing! So i went to jail. They had a hard time getting hold of my husband and they towed my truck. Those cells are awful. Everything made of concrete and they took my shoes. I was never so glad to get out of anywhere, even the hospital. She ended up dropping the charges but it was so crazy!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yup, never lie, does no good.
I've many funny stories of being pulled over and let go without a ticket. Almost every single LEO I've met when I've been 'bad' has been decent people. Even the only one that did give me the only speeding ticket I've had I thanked and said have a nice night

Every cop i meet i thank them for being officers. I would not want that job.

 

[Beer can]

Still no internet or phone at our house.
I don't watch much tv except for late, miss Netflix and Hulu. We only have basic on the dish, not much I'm interested in at that time. Been watching Bonanza and Big Valley and a couple other old westerns on a religious channel lol.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Still no internet or phone at our house.
I don't watch much tv except for late, miss Netflix and Hulu. We only have basic on the dish, not much I'm interested in at that time. Been watching Bonanza and Big Valley and a couple other old westerns on a religious channel lol.

Westerns are great. We get a lot of MASH here.

 

[microchick]

You must be watching INSP. Love those old westerns. They had everything in them needed for entertainment. Horses, cowboys, guns and more horses. All they were missing were chickens.

 

[pertnear09]

You must be watching INSP. Love those old westerns. They had everything in them needed for entertainment. Horses, cowboys, guns and more horses. All they were missing were chickens.

Yea if you saw any chickens in them it was just what they were serving up for supper.

 

[Alaskan]

Huh...

Now I wanna rewatch them all.... really? No chickens?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Huh...

Now I wanna rewatch them all.... really? No chickens?

Actually, there were a lot of chickens in the series like Gunsmoke. Usually if they had Indians you never saw chickens. Maybe the Indians killed them for their feathers, idk. When we watch westerns here i always point out the "famous chickens".

 

[microchick]

Seriously. Every now and then you would see the haggard prairie housewife standing out in the dirt throwing scratch to 5 or 6 hens. Those few hens provided all the eggs she needed to bake and feed her family both eggs and meat....yeah right.

Then there was the occasional band of rowdies, stampeding through town scattering chickens that were roaming the street but that's about it.

Stop and think about how many of these westerns actually showed livestock near the house, tucked safely in the barn that provided the family with milk, meat, eggs, etc.

Somebody brought that point up in some old article that I was reading about High Chaparral. Where was Victoria's garden? You never saw her working out in it or coming into the house with a basket of green beans or peas that she would have to provide for not only the family but the cowhands in the bunk house. They would have had to haul in dirt for her to even have a garden where they lived. There were no chickens, ducks or geese roaming around. No placid milk cow that needed milked twice a day. No new orphaned calves or foals that needed bottle fed. I remember seeing in one rerun episode her sitting at a table shelling out about a pound of peas.......huh? To feed how many working men?

I love those old westerns but I'd love them more if they were more realistic.

My almost blind from Marek's disease little Buff O hen is hankerin for some chicks. Great. Not really. She is a fantastic broody and mother, but can I even consider letting her brood, hatch and raise chicks considering how much contaminated dander she is going to rain down upon them the minute they are hatched? She is such a sweet little hen, completely gentle and friendly. But is it sane to let her brood at this point?

Sigh. I've been moving the chicks and moms out of the coop the moment all their eggs hatch just to give them a fighting chance.

She is sitting on three bantam eggs right now. I could break her except Aggie doesn't break. She is the Gallus Gallus Domesticus version of Superchemicalgirl's turkey hen without the attitude. No fus, no attacks, no having to hold her off with a 2X4. She just won't break for longer than a month, then she is right back at it again.

What to do?

 

[drumstick diva]

Not Westerns but first "Lassie series," Jeff frequently went to the hen house to get eggs. Of course the chickens never bit or scratched him. "The Real McCoys," show with Walter Brennan, he used to have chickens running around and sometimes talked to them or threatened.