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[TheReidHomestead]

Not great color, but here's the eggs I just gave my seester Darkest ones are RIR, middle tan color is Buff Orps. Bottomleft and top right from anEaster Egger, 3rd from the left green egg on top from an easter egger, dark green on bottom, second from right is from Tamara's olive egger (maran/EEx).

So pretty!!! DANG!!! That is olive!!! I didn't keep any of that batch for myself! Now I need to go figure out what I did and repeat it!!! LOL!!!!

 

[hallerlake]

Hello friends,
I've been lurking for months and I've noticed we have so many new people.
A belated welcome to you all!

Some of you know my son was overseas. I'm so happy to report that he's back, safe and sound.

Which means I'm up for a party!

Who wants to get together?

The photo is of my first year "cottage" garden. Mostly fragrant flowers, herbs, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and the yummiest Italian plums.
So delicious to go out and water the gardens these beautiful September mornings!

You must be sooooo relieved!!! Let's get together for sure.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Quote: She is always the first to lay in the morning. I will take a MUCH better picture of the true egg color tomorrow and send it or post it. That egg actually looks a bit ugly on my screen IMO! LOL But yes, they are so beautiful and so tiny still. I NEVER thought she would start laying before some of my big girls!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I can't help but wonder..... IF VEGAN's eat "NO ANIMAL PRODUCTS" Where do ya draw the line. I mean think about NO ANIMAL products REALISTICALLY should also take out all fruits and veggies that require pollination. See if it weren't for the bees that pollinate then there would be NO FRUIT AND VEGGIES ! ! ! But then this is kind of like those who are against logging. I challenge them to convince me that they use NO PAPER products. And just for the record yes I believe in earth first ! We will log the other planets later !!!

And on a little different note. Do you all know that 2 years of no pollination man kind is essentially DONE ! ! ! DEAD ! ! !

 

[itsren]

I will admit that cheese is my biggest weakness.

Cheese is my weakness, too. Since learning that I'm allergic to eggs, nuts, and pork - that limits me quite a bit. To get protein, I either eat cheese, meat or beans. DH prefers that I stay away from beans, and I'm not a big meat fan, so my choices become even more limited.

We end up eating junkier, processed foods over the summer, and then get better on our diet as soon as they go back to school. I always gain about 15 lbs. over the summer because of the poor diet. I call it my "Summer 15".

Jessica, sorry about the lack of food in my house when you came over. I hadn't had time to clean out the food in the fridge from our 12-day vacation, and heaven knows what nasty things were lurking in there!

Plus, I had not gone grocery shopping either. There's one thing in life that will just about put me over the edge - and that's grocery shopping with my kids. My oldest can't handle it. We know he's sensitive to fluorescent lighting, but he can handle them at school and such - there's something about shopping that seems to get him to completely lose it. We haven't figured it out. I don't know if it is visually over-stimulating to him, or what. So, in the Summer, I end up relying on what DH buys from the freezers at Costco or Sam's Club.

 

[itsren]

From what I understand it is BREED that matters most, not diet or individual birds, re: winter laying!

I read somewhere that Light Brahma's lay most of their eggs in Winter and early Spring.

I sure hope that is true! Now, if only we can get the other 2 girls to start laying. I had a discussion with them about that this morning. I sure hope they listened!

 

[itsren]

I love your garden!

Jennifer

x2!

 

[chickenjane82]

Cheese is my weakness, too. Since learning that I'm allergic to eggs, nuts, and pork - that limits me quite a bit. To get protein, I either eat cheese, meat or beans. DH prefers that I stay away from beans, and I'm not a big meat fan, so my choices become even more limited.

Kale, quinoa, nuts, lentil all good sources of protein!

 

[RaZ]

WOW looks like I will probably be around a lot longer than a bunch of you youngin's ! Yer all eatin too healthy to outlive me. All that health food and no good survival food. You know what I mean, chips, cookies, pastry's, candy etc.

I spent a year in central Mexico and ate all kinds of stuff. A lot of it I had no idea what it might have been.

And on a little different note. Do you all know that 2 years of no pollination man kind is essentially DONE ! ! ! DEAD ! ! !

Einstein claimed 4 years. But then again, he didn't know how to use a comb.

 

[itsren]

I can't help but wonder..... IF VEGAN's eat "NO ANIMAL PRODUCTS" Where do ya draw the line. I mean think about NO ANIMAL products REALISTICALLY should also take out all fruits and veggies that require pollination. See if it weren't for the bees that pollinate then there would be NO FRUIT AND VEGGIES ! ! ! But then this is kind of like those who are against logging. I challenge them to convince me that they use NO PAPER products. And just for the record yes I believe in earth first ! We will log the other planets later !!!

And on a little different note. Do you all know that 2 years of no pollination man kind is essentially DONE ! ! ! DEAD ! ! !

Yeah, I know. My SIL once asked me not to get into ANY discussion of the sort with our niece. She's nervous she'll become a "fruitarian" - someone who will only eat what falls naturally from a plant. So, I'm holding my tongue. As it is, we are concerned about her diet and health. One would think that a vegan would be healthy, when, in fact, it is quite easy to be completely opposite. Some vegans tend to eat extremely high carb diets, and no protein. I know I can tend to get into debates - and a debate that might cause her to make yet another jump further into an unhealthy lifestyle is not something I want to do. She's way too young to be dealing with the physical challenges that she's brought on herself by her vegan lifestyle.

At first, my niece seemed to be pretty upset when we got chickens. Just the mention of the word chicken and you could see it in her face that she was visibly upset. We stayed at her place in on our way to Yellowstone and we finally got into a conversation about it. I flat out asked her what on earth would a vegan suggest we do with the eggs that a chicken lays - let them sit around and rot? Or fill up the land-fill with stench? Then, in the midst of that conversation, it became very clear that she thought there had to be a rooster before a chicken would lay an egg. The conversation turned at that point, and I think I gave her something to think about. She relaxed quite a bit about the chickens after she realized a chicken was going to lay an egg nearly every day, whether it was fertilized or not. And that egg had to go somewhere. She also realized that our little backyard flock lived in luxury, are happy and are wonderful pets to us just like her dog is to her.