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[Rainwolf]

I love my neighborhood too, we have a metal worker a carpenter and a few mechanics! I trade homemade jams and tomatoes from my garden for things like help to fix this or that. We also have a mushroom picker and ohh do I love this time of year! fresh chanterelle etc.. yumyum

 

[cheryl98117]

$400.00 for 13 Marans...
http://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/grd/1994008368.html
Doesn't give much info though.

 

[Chickielady]

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OH SAND!!! Thats another thing I need to pick up. Luckily Mr. Arness a local cunstruction company owner, dumps his excess sand just down the road from my place. You might have seen it when you drove out here... He dumps it on the edge of his property, just off the road for locals to pick up if needed... He's such a good old guy! He gave my sister a MAJOR discount when her old horse passed. He charged her just the gas for the tractor to come out and dig a 18' deep hole to bury Dutchess in... So instead of the normal $450.00 my sister only paid $100.00... I must remember to give him some eggs and a card when the girls start laying.

I love the REAL locals in my area. We all take care of eachother. Wether its firewood, lumber, sand, or an extra set of eyes... Its kind of uncommon now days, I wouldn't know my neighbors if I hadn't spoken to them all about the horses and chickens... lol But we are all a huge extended family, and we all watch out for eachother.

That is the way it should be, and will always be as long as we are rural...as soon as we have excess people, crime, and gangs start, don't get me started there,,,as far as I am concerned, and millions of other people, HUMANS are over breeding like rats and spoiling the entire earth,,,where they cannot feed themselves, still they breed...man, humans are what is going to ruin this earth, the soil, the water, the wildlife and all the animals.

Local people in smaill "villages" are so wonderful, though, all helping each other, buying and selling with each other, barter and trade.
Big business and mega congloms are scarey, and thousands of acres of user friendly low incomes in millions of acres of apartments paying no individual property tax but yet sucking the welfare system dry...

OK so I quit right there and get on to a happier subject...I cleaned under the bed today, a built in deal like a murphy bed, and there is boxes of stuff under there, and lots are booze boxes, and one was still taped shut

WOW I still have a case of whiskey under the bed I had NO IDEA was there !!! I even had DH buy me a bottle of R&R when Cuckooroo died, remember ?
WOW..we brought this up from Ca...$12 a bottle, half gallons

Now, we have to make another trip soon to visit DH's Mom and Dad...but this will last a long time !!!
Sorry for the rant all, it is the MEN-O-pause ya know !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Those pics are of Deb's birds...!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a flock,from eggs I got from her last spring, and my birds are starting to lay now, you have all seen Roscoe...Knowing what I know about long chickens live....

 

[Chickielady]

wow, I e-mailed her...but apparently she is moving ?
Wonder what she is doing with her blue Ameraucanas ?
I thought about buying, but how old are the hens ?
I already have a child flock from her...darn, they are awesome birds !!!
But I already have some ready to lay and ....so I guess I will shut up !!!!!!!!!!

 

[cheryl98117]

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LOL Thats ok I feel your pain! I'm set on these eggs that Illia's hatching. So I'm not tempted. lol It sucks too, cause as soon as Illia said she was setting eggs, I started finding ALL sorts of adds for chickens. lol I was even offered 3 but I have no place for them to go.

 

[Chickielady]

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we have the wierdest mushrooms out here, pearly little shrooms to big shaggy ones ???? And the only ones I know are the shaggy manes, growing in the sandy driveway like they do~~~
Other than that, Rainwolf you have to come pick shrooms.We had some a few days ago that sprouted up from under a pallet we have a rainbarrel on, so it is hardwood, and the one on top the other cluster or orange shrooms reminded me of oystre shrooms...but I have not time to check.....

 

[Chickielady]

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LOL Thats ok I feel your pain! I'm set on these eggs that Illia's hatching. So I'm not tempted. lol It sucks too, cause as soon as Illia said she was setting eggs, I started finding ALL sorts of adds for chickens. lol I was even offered 3 but I have no place for them to go.

I will have fertile BBS Marans eggs in the next couple weeks, Roscoe is on the girls for the last couple weeks !!!
From the same stock~~~~

 

[LaSombra]

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www.patriotfarmandbison.com There is also currently another one on CL. They are in the Toledo area. I plan to check them out.

Thanks for the link!

 

[Rainwolf]

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I heard the link I sent you they got divorced and do not know where the birds went !!!
Sorry !

lol no worries I'll find them someday :}

I currently have a order of Blue laced red wyndottes coming in to hatch.. I can't seem to get enough chicks to the immediate locals who just want a few hens to lay eggs. I'm gonna end up with a lot of rooster in the spring. Great for my freezer.

I figure if I corrupt the entire neighborhood with chicken owners then my one sourpuss of a neighbor will quit whining about a rooster crowing after 930am (we keep him locked in the garage until after 9:30am)

My brooder is currently holding 5 mutt chicks who look like dinosaurs! 1/2 Black Jersey Giants 1/2 Black Star. They were hatched on 18th of Sept and already weigh in at 7.4oz! These guys are gonna be big.

correction in spelling