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

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> 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 >