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[Beekissed]

Originally Posted by Beekissed

Anyone else want to chime in on why you got your birds and why you chose the breeds you got? I'll try to work on it tomorrow to get some of these answers consolidated and see if I can come up with some advice on what breeds I think will be suitable...though there are many, many suitable breeds for any given purpose but I can give you some info about the breeds I have had and why

Bee....I want to answer really bad! Maybe before I go to bed.....Geesh, I feel like the poor woman ya'll beat up so bad about why she couldn't feed FF....I really am trying, but Atlanta life is fast and tiring......I would much rather be tired from doing what ya'll do.....Just want you all to know....I'm so envious of your lives.....I know it has been hard....but a tighter group of ladies and their love I have never seen and I want that so bad! Be back soon I hope.......I get up at 4:15 every morning......and fall in bed probably about 9:00.....Be back.....ya'll are So Blessed The Right Way.......I want to feel that!

Lovey, you get some rest and see us when you can. I've been there and done that and felt that way.....we'll catch you up on all the skinny when you can get back here. Promise! And you are both blessed and a blessing in each and every way. Don't forget that!

Susan, you are already blessed...the right way!

What he said. DAWG!!!! Where ya been so long???? We really, really missed you!

So happy you came to visit! Sit a spell and chat?

Dawg, your in Jacksonville? Great to see you!!

What she said.

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

Had to share my most recent thrift store find!! Just found this at my local Rescue Mission Thrift Store for $6!! So happy! It's $45 on Amazon. I have just recently begun to bake sourdough bread and have read so many recipes that state to put dough in a cast iron dutch oven or brick cloche...as I don't have one, I've just been putting the bread on a cookie sheet....
Starting today, I'll be baking in this!

So great!
Score!

 

[aoxa]

The chicks I started on FF 3 weeks ago are HUGE. Biggest chicks I've raised all year. Crazy fast feathering too! Almost 100% feathered out already. Crazy. And I haven't lost ONE SINGLE CHICK! That is saying something.. Usually I have one or two that fail to thrive. I think it's a combo of their parent's diet and their diet.

They are doing so well. Crazy..

They hardly eat anything. I still have half a bucket of FF and only purchased one small bag of chick feed for $3.50

 

[aoxa]

So great!
Score!

I'm ashamed to say I've NEVER had sourdough bread

It sounds amazing..

 

[Mountain Momma]

Originally Posted by Beekissed

Anyone else want to chime in on why you got your birds and why you chose the breeds you got? I'll try to work on it tomorrow to get some of these answers consolidated and see if I can come up with some advice on what breeds I think will be suitable...though there are many, many suitable breeds for any given purpose but I can give you some info about the breeds I have had and why

Bee....I want to answer really bad! Maybe before I go to bed.....Geesh, I feel like the poor woman ya'll beat up so bad about why she couldn't feed FF....I really am trying, but Atlanta life is fast and tiring......I would much rather be tired from doing what ya'll do.....Just want you all to know....I'm so envious of your lives.....I know it has been hard....but a tighter group of ladies and their love I have never seen and I want that so bad! Be back soon I hope.......I get up at 4:15 every morning......and fall in bed probably about 9:00.....Be back.....ya'll are So Blessed The Right Way.......I want to feel that!

Please relax. It is all in His timing. Of everyone here I know that the best. I killed myself to make other men rich for way too many years. I worked harder and smarter and ethically and proved myself ten thousand times and still got overlooked for the best positions, the glory and the respect. On the last day I worked in my industry at 45 years old I got smacked on the tail with a clip board. Can you imagine? I communted an hour each way for over 16 years and all I wanted was to smell the mornings and notice the seasons. Then my kids came and it tore me apart to be away from them so much...to the point where finally I said (after hearing it for years) the things that matter are the things you will still care about in 5 years. I narrowed it down to those things and then I sunk our battleship. DH has been faithful and supportive the whole time. You know what? You dont need a battleship to be happy. I was just like you I could not see a way out until I wasn't sleeping at all, sometimes I would wake up with tears in my eyes and I resented every after hours minute I spent at work. I hated people that wasted my time and my kids were closer to their nanny than to me. And now, for better or worse I work a few hours a week for my DH, I pick up and drop off my kids and I pinch hit for other moms on holidays and events. I'm improving as a cook, I know my kids' friends parents and teachers and my kids get to be with their impatient demanding dont tell me the bar is too high mom who keeps them home from school to go sledding occasionally. For Christ's sake I'm on the PTA. And you know what? The toughest thing I deal with is that my coup is cleaner than my house and I chalk that up as a failure. But I'm working on that. There will come a pivital moment that is tailered to you and you will have either had enough like I did or you will have a more graceful exit opened up for you. I've never had a knack for graceful so I texted that I quit to a coworker, but I'll pray a little prayer for you to get a graceful way into the life you were designed to live. All my best wishes. I understand how you feel.L

 

[aoxa]

Please relax. It is all in His timing. Of everyone here I know that the best. I killed myself to make other men rich for way too many years. I worked harder and smarter and ethically and proved myself ten thousand times and still got overlooked for the best positions, the glory and the respect. On the last day I worked in my industry at 45 years old I got smacked on the tail with a clip board. Can you imagine? I communted an hour each way for over 16 years and all I wanted was to smell the mornings and notice the seasons. Then my kids came and it tore me apart to be away from them so much...to the point where finally I said (after hearing it for years) the things that matter are the things you will still care about in 5 years. I narrowed it down to those things and then I sunk our battleship. DH has been faithful and supportive the whole time. You know what? You dont need a battleship to be happy. I was just like you I could not see a way out until I wasn't sleeping at all, sometimes I would wake up with tears in my eyes and I resented every after hours minute I spent at work. I hated people that wasted my time and my kids were closer to their nanny than to me. And now, for better or worse I work a few hours a week for my DH, I pick up and drop off my kids and I pinch hit for other moms on holidays and events. I'm improving as a cook, I know my kids' friends parents and teachers and my kids get to be with their impatient demanding dont tell me the bar is too high mom who keeps them home from school to go sledding occasionally. For Christ's sake I'm on the PTA. And you know what? The toughest thing I deal with is that my coup is cleaner than my house and I chalk that up as a failure. But I'm working on that. There will come a pivital moment that is tailered to you and you will have either had enough like I did or you will have a more graceful exit opened up for you. I've never had a knack for graceful so I texted that I quit to a coworker, but I'll pray a little prayer for you to get a graceful way into the life you were designed to live. All my best wishes. I understand how you feel.L

This video is very suited to this conversation. Please watch. It is very inspirational.

 

[Mountain Momma]

This video is very suited to this conversation.
Please watch. It is very inspirational.

I agree with this. My time will come. Right now I'm getting back to the basic me, without the adrenelin and the deadlines and the youre only as good as your last deal attitude. I am being told to be still and work on my relationships with everyone in my life. So I'm trying to listen. Thanksfor the video, its so true. Bill Gates parent were hot when he dropped out of college and started playing with electronics in the garage all day.

 

[aoxa]

I agree with this.  My time will come.  Right now I'm getting back to the basic me, without the adrenelin and the deadlines and the youre only as good as your last deal attitude.  I am being told to be still and work on my relationships with everyone in my life.  So I'm trying to listen.  Thanksfor the video, its so true.  Bill Gates parent were hot when he dropped out of college and started playing with electronics in the garage all day.

I wish I could just up and leave work and run a farm. That is my dream. That and to raise a couple of children in the simple life, and homeschool.

However, how do you do that without money?

I'd like to cut hours at work at least once I have kids. Here in Canada our maternity leave is a full year. After that is over, I'll cut back to part time. Maybe take a couple of clients at home. I am a bookkeeper. I work with my mother. I have a lot of flexibility, but paperwork gets very dull when I am daydreaming about being on my farm. I just love animals, and have always wanted to do something related to them.

I left home before I graduated high school though, so college or university were not options for me at the time. I could always do it eventually, but there is nothing I want to do that needs a college education. I don't want to be a vet.. I don't want to have a degree in animal science.. I want to breed, raise and be self sufficient.

I'm currently attending the school of BEE

 

[Bulldogma]

Just one little thought, BDM~
In order for the circle to be complete, we have to be as good at receiving, as we are at giving.

This was a hard one for me. Ever since I could form words, and realized the world was not my friend (I'm gonna guess about 3) my motto has been "I'll do it, myself!"
But I always had a heart for giving. I would give my new, cool thing away in HS if I thought the person who needed it, needed it more than I did.
I was not, however good at receiving. This short-circuited my ability to bless the givers by receiving what they offered. Then they get their needs met, and so on...
Once I realized that they needed to get blessed by giving, too, I employed this as part of a balanced life.
Now, people give me fridges and stuff.
Just throwing that out there.

And that's a very good perspective. That said. 5 years ago we lost our house and a lot of our "stuff" to medical bills - my youngest daughter was in the NICU for 16 weeks and came home with a g-button (feeding tube through the belly). I couldn't go back to work, but because of how much my hubby made, we couldn't get assistance. Had to let go... rehomed 6 show/breeding dogs, stuffed what we could into one rental truck and moved the family from Dallas, TX to VA... in my parents' basement for 4 months until hubby could find a job out here. At that time, we really, really needed help.

5 years later, we don't have a lot of money, but we're rich in blessings. We feel so happy and so blessed that it just seems there has to be a family out there worse off than we are... and if I can pass off this wonderful, generous offer, someone else who needs it more might get it. If I truly need something, I 'm OK with accepting help. It just wouldn't fee right to take charity when we are so blessed right now. Does that make sense?

Took me a long time to learn that one. Got it now. Still can't take a compliment, though...that one is still very, very difficult.

LOL - compliments are the hardest! I blush bright red when people compliment me.

This is for you Bee

Clementine LOVES the snow. Bounces around like a puppy.

Such a beautiful puppy!

Originally Posted by Beekissed

Bee....I want to answer really bad! Maybe before I go to bed.....Geesh, I feel like the poor woman ya'll beat up so bad about why she couldn't feed FF....I really am trying, but Atlanta life is fast and tiring......I would much rather be tired from doing what ya'll do.....Just want you all to know....I'm so envious of your lives.....I know it has been hard....but a tighter group of ladies and their love I have never seen and I want that so bad! Be back soon I hope.......I get up at 4:15 every morning......and fall in bed probably about 9:00.....Be back.....ya'll are So Blessed The Right Way.......I want to feel that!

Hang in there, LOVEIGEE! We've all been there. It's just part of this crazy ride we call "Life." This group is blessed to have you with us!

 

[Melabella]

Anyone ever see this? God it had me laughing so hard.
Drop the food kid! DROP THE FOOD!

The fluidity of those birds is something else!

Oh my heck people... out all day with the horses, and riding...(unseasonably warm today here in NY), and I have 100+pages to catch up on dailies.

This poor baby.. after I got passed feeling for him, my first thought was... those poor hungry chickens! Not sure what country this is,, but they sure could use some DL, and good forage and some nice FF to fill their crops instead of that silly bag of corn! Their yard is one big dust bowl!