Thank you everyone. I'm better tonight. I think it made it harder being there and seeing it.
Ok, on a lighter note. I got a blue egg today. No DiDi, not from the one I got from you, hers is a light to med. cream. Nice. This is the first blue, or green egg I've gotten in a while. I have two more at POL. Also, will be colored, one of the girls is from Arielle. For all I know, that's who laid this one today, but, I haven't seen her checking out the nest boxes, but I have seen my wheaten A. check them out..so that's my guess. Then I have an EE mix, that is part leghorn, and part pure Lavender Ameraucana! Can't wait to see those eggs. Hope they are as blue as the guy says they are.
My girls are producing a lot of pinks. One is nearly covered with white splotches. My fav egg is a green ( lt olive) with a sprinkling of large to small irregular chocolate spots. LOVE that egg, very special. Brown eggs are very boring now after all the awesome colors that the EE and EE mixes produce.
I turned on the lights in the hen house, sure hope the egg production increases soon.
Afraid not, but I'm sure my cousins would. My mother was born in Everett, but grew up in Worcester, after her father died in 1918 from the Spanish Influenza. I didn't live there very long, mostly while my father was in Korea: 1953-54, during the time when the big tornado hit. I remember we lived on Burncoat Street, 127, I believe. I went to Adam Square School. Ring any bells?
The saddest thing happened this morning. We lost our Golden Retriever. He died right in front of me. A freak accident! I was playing with one of our smaller dogs in the back yard, my Toby..that died..was jumping up on the fence, like he has a million times before, when I heard a whimper, then a clunk. I turned, saw him seizing, and knew right away, that he was dieing. But why? How?
I was hysterical. I ran into the house calling for my husband. I had gone in, then back out to Toby, but he was gasping, so I turned and ran into the house, let my husband check him out. I said, he's gone isn't he. One place, just one place in that stupid fence where he was, has a post topper, and he gets his collar stuck on it! His weight did it, when jumped down, his neck just broke. I can't believe this. Why did this happen? I have cried all morning, can't stop seeing him. We took him to the vet to have him cremated. They take him to a special place that does a real nice job with a nice box that I picked out..and the way I want his name on the box. We cremated another Golden just a couple of years ago. But he was old, and ready to be gone. My Toby was only three. I am so glad I just got pictures of him playing in the last snow storm snow. Not sure I posted those pictures.
Quote: Burncoat is next to Lincoln St ( sorry can't spell tonight) where the family business is-- those streets connect actually. My mother moved from Everod St, the triple deckers, to a house in Shrewbury. My grandfather lived there most of his life. My mother lost a friend in the big tornado; fortunately I live in southen worcester county so I hope to NEVER experience a tornado. THe loss of my mother's friend left a lasting impression on me regarding tornados. Sorry I don't know the school. Hmm, wonder if it is still there.
Ron, what do you use for lighting/ I"m not seeing much increase in production. I keep wondering if I am not using the right light bulb, with the correct wave lengths? Or it is just that the girls sleep with their heads away from the light when in comes on in the morning. 25 hens had better get laying!
Ron, what do you use for lighting/ I"m not seeing much increase in production. I keep wondering if I am not using the right light bulb, with the correct wave lengths? Or it is just that the girls sleep with their heads away from the light when in comes on in the morning. 25 hens had better get laying!
I am using a 40 watt halogen bulb. If you have a big coop you would need more light. They are need enough to see, so not too bright. Also, most sources say not to use fluorescent. I don't know about LED. Cool white or a clear bulb. It is set on a timer to go on at 4 am this week and go off at 10:30. I keep in on until 5 on days like yesterday and today. I have 14 in that coop now. My lowest was 1 egg on Monday. I am up to 3 yesterday and I should start getting up to 7 or so by the end of this week. I did the same thing last year and had eggs all winter.
In the Spring I have others that will be at POL so they do not have light. I really do not want to go the the store to buy eggs!
It seems like my chickens get depressed without the light in the winter. They seem much healthier with it.
Burncoat is next to Lincoln St ( sorry can't spell tonight) where the family business is-- those streets connect actually. My mother moved from Everod St, the triple deckers, to a house in Shrewbury. My grandfather lived there most of his life. My mother lost a friend in the big tornado; fortunately I live in southen worcester county so I hope to NEVER experience a tornado. THe loss of my mother's friend left a lasting impression on me regarding tornados. Sorry I don't know the school. Hmm, wonder if it is still there.
My uncles had a spa on Lincoln St., just down from Burncoat. My grandparents had a house across the street from it. They later moved to a triple decker behind it on Bowdoin, I believe (long time ago). We lived 1 mile down the road from where the tornado hit, losing power and had a very large tree branch tetering on the powerline to the house. My grandfather was a dietician at the VA hospital and was the first to spot it and call it in. My uncle had just finished construction on 3 spec. houses in the impacted area, and they were finding pieces of them 50 miles away. People were eating dinner and, suddenly, one whole side of the house was torn off, leaving it looking like a doll house. The sound of sirens kept us up all night, and the entire experience left me with a fear of tornadoes: I'm much better about hurricanes.
Adam Square School was right where Lincoln and Burncoat Streets joined. If I remember correctly, Lincoln forked there, with Burncoat going off to the left. The school was right in the crux of the Y that the roads formed; a big old brick thing that was built in the late 1800's; grades k-8. Boys and girls had separate playgrounds that were only accessed from the basement restrooms and it had no cafeteria or lunchroon. We had to walk home for lunch, so you can understand how close we lived to Lincoln St. I heard that the school was torn down and a funeral home took its place. Do I have my facts straight?
Quote: YES !! You have your facts straight!!!! THAT is the funeral home, in the Y. Sorry your school is gone, One of my first schools was torn down and a parking lot full of cars takes up the area where we played at recess. ALways made me feel sad to see the cars, and the lot empty, the grand old school gone. So I feel for you.
Cousins run the business now. My mother sold off her share of the business a few years ago. I don't go visiting as there is now bad blood, but I have fond memories of the place and remember my grandfathers office well. Funny I never thought about when my grandfather and his brother started their business there-- it was there before I was born so to me it has ALWAYS been there. GUess not. lol
My grandfather's sister is still alive, with dimentia now, but at her 100th birthday party she still recognized most of us. SO I have plans to make it to 100!! IT is in the genes!!
YES !! You have your facts straight!!!! THAT is the funeral home, in the Y. Sorry your school is gone, One of my first schools was torn down and a parking lot full of cars takes up the area where we played at recess. ALways made me feel sad to see the cars, and the lot empty, the grand old school gone. So I feel for you.
Cousins run the business now. My mother sold off her share of the business a few years ago. I don't go visiting as there is now bad blood, but I have fond memories of the place and remember my grandfathers office well. Funny I never thought about when my grandfather and his brother started their business there-- it was there before I was born so to me it has ALWAYS been there. GUess not. lol
My grandfather's sister is still alive, with dimentia now, but at her 100th birthday party she still recognized most of us. SO I have plans to make it to 100!! IT is in the genes!!
Ohhhhh! So, my old school, where I finished the second half of 2nd grade, and all of 3rd grade, is now Nordgren's Memorial Chapel? How weird ... or how fitting, depending on your outlook. I attended 10 schools in 12 years (dad was in the air force, so we moved a LOT!) all over the east coast, and I know several of them are gone: but, they were old back then! Academy of the Holy Name in Rome, NY, Colonial Drive Elementary in Orlando, FL, Perrine Elementary, south of Miami ... they're all gone now. I can't remember the name of the school in Norfolk, VA, where I started 2nd grade, but I remember it being an old brick building, too, so I'm sure it's met the same fate.
That's what happens when you get old.
Small world. With my uncles, Josiah and George Ingham, having a business right there, and my grandparents living across the street, I wonder if our families knew each other?
This is the first blue, or green egg I've gotten in a while. I have two more at POL. Also, will be colored, one of the girls is from Arielle.
