My parents raised chickens and I had to gather the eggs too. I didn't like putting my hand under the hen to get the eggs. I was always afraid she would peck me. We had a mean rooster too. Mama would even have to have a stick in her hands to fight him off at times. He finally ended up in the stew pot. They would usually buy 25 chicks at a time. When they brought them home they would keep the box in the kitchen for a few days before putting them into the incubator outside the back door. At times I thought about buying a few chickens but I knew some of the problems that Mom and Dad had and I decided I didn't want to learn that much about raising chickens so I bought mine from the meat dept. Talking about the sex of a chicken, on "Dirty Jobs" one night Mike Rowe was working in a hatchery and his job was to separate the male chicks from the female chicks. They showed him what to look for to tell the sex. I never knew that before. That was interesting. Emma ----- Original Message ----- From: Smoochie Newton<mailto:smoochieangelpie@gmail.com> To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com<mailto:southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:05 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chickens... what i wouldn't give for a homegrown egg!! I never liked gathering eggs at gramma's.... she had a mean old rooster and some of those hens just didn't want their eggs gathered! Good luck with the chicks, M.C..... paulette in sw fla usa I can still feel the chikkie poo squishin' between my toes..... On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Mary R Mungo <MRMungo@comporium.net<mailto:MRMungo@comporium.net>> wrote: > Hey y'all, > Did I tell you that I got 3 little baby chickens last week? Well I did and > I'm gonna start, when they get old enough, gathering my own eggs. They are > the cutest little things! When I got them they were just a little ball of > fuzz... and now, a week later, they have feathers that reach almost to > their > tails and they even have tail feathers now. They're Rhode Island Reds and > I > hope they're all females!!! I remember, when I was a child, pretty close > to > a hunnert years ago, we raised chickens and I would love to run out and get > the egg before it even got cold... sometimes they would still be soft. I > live out in the country and have only one close neighbor... and he's my > brother, bless his heart... he's all stooped over with osteoperosis (sp?). > He's getting ready to turn 77 and I'll soon be 75. Wow! I can't believe > it... seems like only yesterday we were little tykes sneaking off with some > potatoes that we dug and a bucket and going to the branch way back in the > woods and building a fire and boiling those taters... and boy were they > good, even if we did forget to bring any salt!!! We thought we were > something... it's a wonder we didn't set the place on fire! Man, I'm wound > up tonight... Take care all... > MaryClyde >

Yeah, I've read stuff about telling the sex but I think instead of scaring them to death messing around "down there" I'll just wait for them to get a little older and see what they turn out to be. If they're roosters, I'll just give them to my grandson who's raising some game chickens... or maybe I'll keep them and use them for an alarm clock and maybe they'll wake me up before 9 am... lol MaryClyde ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peace Roses" <Roses4831@msn.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chickens... > My parents raised chickens and I had to gather the eggs too. I didn't > like putting my hand under the hen to get the eggs. I was always afraid > she would peck me. We had a mean rooster too. Mama would even have to > have a stick in her hands to fight him off at times. He finally ended up > in the stew pot. > They would usually buy 25 chicks at a time. When they brought them home > they would keep the box in the kitchen for a few days before putting them > into the incubator outside the back door. At times I thought about buying > a few chickens but I knew some of the problems that Mom and Dad had and I > decided I didn't want to learn that much about raising chickens so I > bought mine from the meat dept. > Talking about the sex of a chicken, on "Dirty Jobs" one night Mike Rowe > was working in a hatchery and his job was to separate the male chicks from > the female chicks. They showed him what to look for to tell the sex. I > never knew that before. That was interesting. > Emma > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Smoochie Newton<mailto:smoochieangelpie@gmail.com> > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com<mailto:southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:05 PM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chickens... > > > what i wouldn't give for a homegrown egg!! I never liked gathering eggs > at > gramma's.... she had a mean old rooster and some of those hens just > didn't > want their eggs gathered! Good luck with the chicks, M.C..... > > paulette in sw fla usa > I can still feel the chikkie poo squishin' between my toes..... > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Mary R Mungo > <MRMungo@comporium.net<mailto:MRMungo@comporium.net>> > wrote: > > > Hey y'all, > > Did I tell you that I got 3 little baby chickens last week? Well I did > and > > I'm gonna start, when they get old enough, gathering my own eggs. They > are > > the cutest little things! When I got them they were just a little ball > of > > fuzz... and now, a week later, they have feathers that reach almost to > > their > > tails and they even have tail feathers now. They're Rhode Island Reds > and > > I > > hope they're all females!!! I remember, when I was a child, pretty > close > > to > > a hunnert years ago, we raised chickens and I would love to run out and > get > > the egg before it even got cold... sometimes they would still be soft. > I > > live out in the country and have only one close neighbor... and he's my > > brother, bless his heart... he's all stooped over with osteoperosis > (sp?). > > He's getting ready to turn 77 and I'll soon be 75. Wow! I can't > believe > > it... seems like only yesterday we were little tykes sneaking off with > some > > potatoes that we dug and a bucket and going to the branch way back in > the > > woods and building a fire and boiling those taters... and boy were they > > good, even if we did forget to bring any salt!!! We thought we were > > something... it's a wonder we didn't set the place on fire! Man, I'm > wound > > up tonight... Take care all... > > MaryClyde > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 080531-1, 05/31/2008 > Tested on: 6/25/2008 11:19:46 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > >