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Eggs are my compelling reason for keeping them. Fresh laid eggs are soooo superior to store-bought. Plus chickens keep bug populations at bay. Once my hens stop laying I let them enjoy a good long retirement. I have a seven year-old who hasn't laid an egg in years, but she's damn good at teaching chicks "the ropes".
I absolutely agree that fresh is best. I lived on a place for a short time where there were chickens, and loved the fresh eggs. Even better? Fresh duck eggs. Still hoping I can find some around here.
Eggs are my compelling reason for keeping them. Fresh laid eggs are soooo superior to store-bought. Plus chickens keep bug populations at bay. Once my hens stop laying I let them enjoy a good long retirement. I have a seven year-old who hasn't laid an egg in years, but she's damn good at teaching chicks "the ropes".
It's true. Fresh eggs are great. I buy mine from a neighboring farmer. I don't know what he does with the hens that stop laying eggs. I do know they have an egg laying lifecycle. The commercial operations sell them for pet food, I think.
It's true. Fresh eggs are great. I buy mine from a neighboring farmer. I don't know what he does with the hens that stop laying eggs. I do know they have an egg laying lifecycle. The commercial operations sell them for pet food, I think.
Most farmers cull their hens at 18-24 months. I can't bear to do that myself. One of my hens laid until she was almost four!
Their little personalities only become more engaging over time and with a small flock like mine, the food bill is negligible. So I have a few Golden Girls happily sitting around and cackling all day long. They do wonders on my scorpion population and that adds value.
What helps is to look at politics not as the life and death struggle that some insist it is. It's mostly show boating and posturing.
Look at it as entertainment. The current entertainer in chief in the WH provides LOTS of comic relief on a daily basis.
Wow, you posted my thoughts before I even read this thread. When politics get too depressing I re-frame my point of view. I realize that some people watch "reality shows", made up scripted things. There is no reality show as absurd as some of our politics. Bill Clinton, Forrest Gump Bush, Conservative Republicans playing footsie in public toilet stalls, and now Trumplestiltskin. You know the old cliche, you can't make this stuff up.
Besides reading, walking in nature, and gardening - I'm admitting a deep and shameful vice here - I watch episodes of "Hoarders" on youtube.
I wonder how they acquire that much stuff .. that Hoarders show..
It is good therapy for people that have too much stuff.. when I watch an episode, ( some I just can't watch) I start to look around at my files, papers and extra stuff to thin it out. Keeps me trying to get rid of stuff.
It is amazing how much junk mail I get and have to constantly throw away. I don't remember my parents having that much stuff or mail.. life was living basic in those days. No gadgets, no stuff like today.
Most farmers cull their hens at 18-24 months. I can't bear to do that myself. One of my hens laid until she was almost four!
Their little personalities only become more engaging over time and with a small flock like mine, the food bill is negligible. So I have a few Golden Girls happily sitting around and cackling all day long. They do wonders on my scorpion population and that adds value.
I couldn't either and now I don't have any. Gave them all to a friend and they are happy as hogs in a waller.
I wonder how they acquire that much stuff .. that Hoarders show..
It is good therapy for people that have too much stuff.. when I watch an episode, ( some I just can't watch) I start to look around at my files, papers and extra stuff to thin it out. Keeps me trying to get rid of stuff.
It is amazing how much junk mail I get and have to constantly throw away. I don't remember my parents having that much stuff or mail.. life was living basic in those days. No gadgets, no stuff like today.
Well, one woman stole stuff to hoard.
A lot of them dumpster dive. Where I live, all I'd need is an old pickup - free cycle and craig's list are rich sources of more stuff. Some of them spend their way into bankruptcy collecting things like purses, dolls, stuffed animals, lamps, clocks, old cars, etc.
And some of them don't really have much of a collecting habit. What they have is a never-throw-anything-away, never-pick-up-after-yourself habit. Starts with clutter and untidiness, ends with trash three feet deep on the floor.
My own reactions to the various hoarders is nearly as interesting as the hoarders themselves. I have a lot of sympathy for most of them - they are emotionally defending themselves from real trauma. Some of them are just hopeless at life, and there's not much anyone can do. And a few of them are just plain *******s. Especially the animal hoarders.
Most farmers cull their hens at 18-24 months. I can't bear to do that myself. One of my hens laid until she was almost four!
Their little personalities only become more engaging over time and with a small flock like mine, the food bill is negligible. So I have a few Golden Girls happily sitting around and cackling all day long. They do wonders on my scorpion population and that adds value.
I love my birdies. They are hugely entertaining, and feeding them gets me going in the morning.
I love my birdies. They are hugely entertaining, and feeding them gets me going in the morning.
It surprises me how many people under-estimate the intelligence of birds. I've had four pet cockatiels and each of them had a riotous personality, including one male "Cosmo" who every single night just as the family sat down to dinner would sit under his bell and wear it like a helmet while whispering to himself. It was the funniest damn thing. He looked like a little German soldier wearing a helmet and we would laugh and call him "Herr Kaiser". I swear he enjoyed entertaining us.
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