Hey all, finally getting to come see what I missed and everyone here is busy I Guess only 10 posts.......
Anyway, Just got off the phone with Adam he is in Erie PA. at the hotel already, Chuck his trainer is home with his family enjoying some needed time I'm sure, but this is alot to ask of a newbie, and his wife I tell ya. So now we are both bored and miserable alone.......Everyone says I will get used to it, and even look forward to him being gone, I can tell you all the same thing that I tell everyone else, thats about as likely to happen as it snowing in July here, we have been together 10 1/2 years, we are like 2 pea's in 1 pod, we do everything together, we think the same, look at things the same.....heck in 10 and a half years we have never even had an argument........... ever, my kids think we are weirdo's because we get along so well, and never fight, I always tell them whats to fight about we both agree how things are and how we want them......... and we work together to keep it that way. No reason to argue over anything. he is my rock and I'm his roll...............hehehehe He would laugh at that one. But its so very true. We support each other when things get crazy or go wrong, and we fix it together......
Neither one of us wanted him to have to go out over the road in the first place, we were hoping he would get a local route after school, and as soon as he can he plans to do just that, but things have not gone in our favor in a quite awhile, so we are doing what we must to get by. He really didn't want to drive truck, but it was the lesser of evils as too where to go after WalMart screwed him over after almost 10 years.........no jobs for untrained men in there 40's....... retraining would include 2 or more years of school, and just what does a family live on after unemployment runs out???????? Because you can only collect it so long.................let alone 2 years, we are sorta victims of circumstances, we really couldn't control.... he looked for work over a year, filled out more applications than I can count, and because he had no high school diploma, no one would hire him.......... so we made the decision for him to go back get his CDL and truck, only because of the circumstances we were facing, it was quicker fix to get us back on our feet. and solved the money issue......... will he always truck now probably, but hopefully after he gets some time in, it will be a local route so that he gets home at least 3 nights a week...........For now we are just gonna have to somehow manage to get by.
Anyway Cind....That would be nice. I don't want to butcher him but I want to have a break from his genes and add some new blood to my flock to keep everyone viable as long as possible. We could trade back in a year.........Graybeard is a nice rooster, he's good with his ladies, and a good protector, not a lap chicken, but you can handle him if ya must..... he is also very pretty and throws some wonderful colored babies....... I have 3 pullets from him this year each a different color, and he does carry the blue egg gene, because my SLW cross lays me a pretty mint green egg almost everyday/.....His match to my only hen this spring was his sister Fileen, and she gave me 2 beautiful males and 2 pullets, but they are like her tanish pink egg.......ask Jim how pretty those roosters were, I hated to butcher them but I can only keep so many and they were related to most of my flock by rooster at least........... so they
had to go..
Hurley what kind of chickens are those they sure are pretty............ I love the females face she is so cute with that floppy comb.....
David.......... I hate to inform you I lost one of your girls today, somehow she managed to drown herself in my stock tank............3 plus acres to roam and dig and bath in and she ends up in the tank............ not sure how it happened but I'm so upset she is gone.....been kicking myself in the arse all day for not keeping them locked up till I got home today.........So Sorry ......I knew I said I would take care of them, and I have, but I never expected this, I have never had any of mine even look at that tank like it was a perch........how she fell in is beyond me, and with 32 other chickens running around here what are the odds it would be 1 of my only 2 redstars.............
H&R I think we quit those at the age of 14, it seemed the kids really didn't want them anymore, so we just do a cake and they always want money so that is what they get...........
So anyway I beet go check them silly critters again, inc ase anyone else is thinking of bathing in a stock tank or getting into trouble...........
Later yall..............Kim
Anyway, Just got off the phone with Adam he is in Erie PA. at the hotel already, Chuck his trainer is home with his family enjoying some needed time I'm sure, but this is alot to ask of a newbie, and his wife I tell ya. So now we are both bored and miserable alone.......Everyone says I will get used to it, and even look forward to him being gone, I can tell you all the same thing that I tell everyone else, thats about as likely to happen as it snowing in July here, we have been together 10 1/2 years, we are like 2 pea's in 1 pod, we do everything together, we think the same, look at things the same.....heck in 10 and a half years we have never even had an argument........... ever, my kids think we are weirdo's because we get along so well, and never fight, I always tell them whats to fight about we both agree how things are and how we want them......... and we work together to keep it that way. No reason to argue over anything. he is my rock and I'm his roll...............hehehehe He would laugh at that one. But its so very true. We support each other when things get crazy or go wrong, and we fix it together......
Neither one of us wanted him to have to go out over the road in the first place, we were hoping he would get a local route after school, and as soon as he can he plans to do just that, but things have not gone in our favor in a quite awhile, so we are doing what we must to get by. He really didn't want to drive truck, but it was the lesser of evils as too where to go after WalMart screwed him over after almost 10 years.........no jobs for untrained men in there 40's....... retraining would include 2 or more years of school, and just what does a family live on after unemployment runs out???????? Because you can only collect it so long.................let alone 2 years, we are sorta victims of circumstances, we really couldn't control.... he looked for work over a year, filled out more applications than I can count, and because he had no high school diploma, no one would hire him.......... so we made the decision for him to go back get his CDL and truck, only because of the circumstances we were facing, it was quicker fix to get us back on our feet. and solved the money issue......... will he always truck now probably, but hopefully after he gets some time in, it will be a local route so that he gets home at least 3 nights a week...........For now we are just gonna have to somehow manage to get by.
Anyway Cind....That would be nice. I don't want to butcher him but I want to have a break from his genes and add some new blood to my flock to keep everyone viable as long as possible. We could trade back in a year.........Graybeard is a nice rooster, he's good with his ladies, and a good protector, not a lap chicken, but you can handle him if ya must..... he is also very pretty and throws some wonderful colored babies....... I have 3 pullets from him this year each a different color, and he does carry the blue egg gene, because my SLW cross lays me a pretty mint green egg almost everyday/.....His match to my only hen this spring was his sister Fileen, and she gave me 2 beautiful males and 2 pullets, but they are like her tanish pink egg.......ask Jim how pretty those roosters were, I hated to butcher them but I can only keep so many and they were related to most of my flock by rooster at least........... so they
had to go..
Hurley what kind of chickens are those they sure are pretty............ I love the females face she is so cute with that floppy comb.....
David.......... I hate to inform you I lost one of your girls today, somehow she managed to drown herself in my stock tank............3 plus acres to roam and dig and bath in and she ends up in the tank............ not sure how it happened but I'm so upset she is gone.....been kicking myself in the arse all day for not keeping them locked up till I got home today.........So Sorry ......I knew I said I would take care of them, and I have, but I never expected this, I have never had any of mine even look at that tank like it was a perch........how she fell in is beyond me, and with 32 other chickens running around here what are the odds it would be 1 of my only 2 redstars.............
H&R I think we quit those at the age of 14, it seemed the kids really didn't want them anymore, so we just do a cake and they always want money so that is what they get...........
So anyway I beet go check them silly critters again, inc ase anyone else is thinking of bathing in a stock tank or getting into trouble...........
Later yall..............Kim
neat pics. Sorry to hear about your summer losses.
)
Nice little deer. He will taste really yummy. Our freezer was completely empty of venison and how can you have stew on a cold winter evening w/o venison??? The miss was one of the grandsons. Dad spent quite a while looking but all eh could find was some white hair so maybe the kid (19 yr old) just nicked a tail or something 
. I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS 
I'll watch their winter hardiness and let you know. But they sure are pretty!
