The other day I wrote about how we accidentally made some new friends. Today Geo
went over to their house and picked up a rooster and a hen that they
were wanting to unload. We were happy to take it because #1 We
love free stuff and #2 We love chickens. So it was a match made
in freeloader heaven.
We named the hen, Rosie; the
rooster didn't need a name because he had already been christened
“Curly”, which is a fine name for such a proud and noble bird.
Anyhow, I think the rooster got homesick and made a run for it.
We can't find him anywhere. Maybe he'll start crowing or something in
the morning and we'll be able to send in a search and rescue
team. Poor Rosie, I think she misses her man. Anyhow, Geo
made a quaint little house for the fowl pair. I don't know how he
knows how to do all that sort of farmer-type stuff. I sure hope
we can find Curly.
We still haven't gotten our Fed Ex package of 50 chickies. I'm
starting to wonder if I got chicken scammed. No more Mail Order
Livestock for me. However, I have been contemplating Mail Order Spouses for my kids. Anybody know where I can find a good catalog?
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on March 30th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
Poor Curly
Here Curly Curly Curly Curly….Come on chicken….he might have heard that 50 chickie babies are on their way and took the high road….
Let me know how the spouses for your kids search goes….
Edited by iluvmy3chickiesandtheirdaddy2 on Mar. 30, 2006 at 3:17 PM
on March 30th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Poor Curly!
I hope he comes back. Maybe he just went exploring or maybe a hawk or fox found him. We had a problem with hawks and owls taking our chickens. Not the most pleasant thought but all too common.
on March 30th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
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Funny you should mention this. We have a rooster running around here. Do you think he could have made it all the way to LA in that short a time? 😉
I hope you find him. It would be sad to lose him the first day. 🙁
Sorry about your chicks too. I was looking forward to hearing about them.
As for the mail order bride…you have some girls, don’t you? I have some boys. I also have a mailbox. There you go. My oldest is nine and is a wannabe farmer. I joke that he’ll wannabe one up until he finds out how much work there is involved. My 4yo though is a princesses dream. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind marrying an older woman if she doesn’t mind waiting. 😉
Good luck on the chicken hunting.
on March 30th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
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I don’t think Mr Rooster is coming back. However, I hope your chicks do arrive soon. You should have lots of roosters from that mailing to replace the one you’ve lost. dfjkfafkjhsdfjkhdfjh Can’t you call to check on your package. Maybe it is lost. Poor chickies…they could be looking for you in California.
on March 30th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
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Did you check Gena’s house? She may have chicken-napped him. With Paul gone she seems to to be pretty lonely. Plus, she knows how much you love free stuff and chickens, what better way to get back at her Hobby Lobby Lamp takin’ sister……but it’s just a theory.
0:) Amber
on March 30th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
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If you’ll write the descriptions, Amy Beth can take the pictures and I’ll make the labels for mailin’– we’ll do our OWN catalog! We can pilfer the TOS subscriber files, can’t we???
Love,
Marshie
on March 30th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
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Well, I got a couple of boys the appropriate ages I think. zman is nearly 13 and eman will be 11 in 2 weeks (if you visit his blog, you’ll notice the handy dandy counter downy thingy.) The other boys are 4 and 7 and my princess is 20 months. None are currently available by mail, but at the right time I am willing to negotiate betrothal contracts. ;0)
on March 30th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
I am sure Curly will come home…
when he start missin’ his woman! LOL
We lost our rooster back at Christmas, to a red tailed hawk. (and 2 of our hens, the greedy gus.) Now we only have 4 hens.
Good luck with your chickens. 😀
Love,
Amy Beth <><
on March 30th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
Rooster boy
….did he head back to where he was last fed? We used to find our Banty roosters in the trees. I guess he was feeling a little cocky!
Maureen
on March 30th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
WHAT……
50 CHICKS??? Oh my our 25 should arrive ANY DAY….and I am nervous about that….50!!!! WOW!!! You go girl!! WOW!! I thought it was a typo on a previous entry…guess not!!
We ordered straight pullets this time, to get our feet wet, no need for any roosters right now…. sounds like they can get into a LOT of trouble!! I do hope you find yours though, afterall he is already named and everything!!
As always I enjoy reading your updates…. I still am unable to do anything with this blog, but I do update my homestead one… with our “exciting” tales.
on March 30th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
mail order chickens
I sure hope it isn’t *this* company that you ordered from, but http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/ is a good source. Their *free* catalogue alone is worth the parusing! I had NO idea there were that many different kinds of fowl!!
Hope you get your healthy chickies soon, and that curly is so curious about the ruckus that he wanders home!
on March 30th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
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He’ll probably try to head back home, but not being a dog or cat he might get eaten before he makes it. If you find him, lock him and Rosie up for a few days in whatever place you want them to roost. Otherwise they are going to run off…and get eaten.
I hope you find him, but at least you have Rosie.
Actually, it’s best to have a rooster who is raised with your hens, so if you lose him completely, you can always go get another rooster. Good roosters are priceless. Bad roosters are H-E-DOUBLE TOOTHPICKS.
on March 30th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
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We always choose old lady names for our chickens like Alice and Myrtle. We had a rooster once named High Loper. He got his tail feathers chewed off by the neighbors weiner dog. Apparently it was an inappropriate name. Why that dumb thing didn’t just fly up to a fence I don’t know.
Anyway he wound up dying. Froze his hiney when the temperature dropped below zero. Really truly.
Abiding in the Vine!
on March 31st, 2006 at 12:14 am
Wow, good luck with the chickens
You are one brave lady. We've tried chickens several times. We had a rooster too (kept us awake at all hours). They all die everytime. I wonder if they caught that bird flu… anyway, they lived up on our roof in a coop, maybe it was too cold up there. If I ever live in the States where I can have animals, I might just try it again. But the Peruvian chickens don't seem to like our accomodations!
Amy
Cajamarca, Peru
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on March 31st, 2006 at 12:20 am
I just thought of something…
Maybe he didn’t like his name. I don’t know, just ideas…
Maybe all our chickens died because we DIDN’T give them names! Maybe chickens and roosters are kind of sensitive to this sort of thing!
Amy
on March 31st, 2006 at 2:31 am
We ain't flyin' nowhere
Hey Jen,
I’m thinking those chickens saw the same government reports that I saw. I bet they’re just flat refusing to get on that plane. Did you ever hear the comedian Steven Wright’s story about the chicken that landed on his kitchen windowsill? It was wearing red high-top Converse Allstars and a T-shirt that said, “I ain’t flyin’ nowhere.” I can just see your 50 chicks thinking to themselves, “Is it really worth it just for Igarashi’s whimsical notion of being the next Old MacDonald’s wife? You know, do we really want to go out of the fire into the frying pan, or vice versa?” You see what I mean? That’s just my own suspicion.
As for the Mail Order Spouses, I think drewsfamilytx has the right idea. This may be the next TOS project: Mail Order Home Educated Spouses. I think you’re on to something….
on March 31st, 2006 at 8:44 am
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I don’t know anything about roosters, but I’m starting to be a big fan of arranged marriages. I don’t mean the really old-fashioned meet-your-new-wife kind of thing, but there’s something reassuring about the idea of “encouraging” a friendship between children of two like-minded families. I don’t know, maybe it’s just the control freak in me coming out. 🙂 Of course, I’m still counting on Jesus to return before my 9yo daughter hits full-blown puberty… 😉
on March 31st, 2006 at 8:46 am
NOT ANONYMOUS
It’s me, Maggie who hasn’t figured out this getting re-signed in thing yet but will get around to it sometime. So here’s my thoughts:
1. We have LOADS of chicken stories. If yours don’t arrive, we’ll share our stories with you. Trust me – you’ll be better off.
2. Favorite story: chickens get attacked by dogs in FRONT of Tyler who, at 12, was NOT a dog lover. He bravely tried to fend off these 2 BIG dogs but didn’t. Watched one of his pet chickens get carried off. That night he prays the chicken is safe! The NEXT morning Bob and I are out for a 6 am walk. See a scraggly, wierd, limping critter heading to our place. In the fog we cannot tell what it is until it is close but it turns out to be aforementioned chicken! I go to wake up Tyler and before I can tell him the good news he says, Mom, God told me my chicken is alive! And sure enough, she was.
3. JB taught our favorite chicken, Liza Mae, to sit on his shoulder. I found her in the house (more than once!) sitting on his lap in front of the computer. He said he was “trying to teach her to type, mom, but so far she just hunts & pecks.” That boy!
4. All for mail order brides. Have 23 year old son who is funny, kind, and pretty weird, up for sale. He has written a book – must warn prospective family to read it first before making offer. Will be out of Army end of April.
5. 18 year old spoken for (picked his own even though I had THREE SOLID offers from good families. Sheesh. The nerve.)
6. The cruise thing is easy. really. The ship takes all the reservations for you. Check this out: http://homeschooladventures.com/
Blessings,
Maggie* who is off to figure out how to update her own blog & wishes folks wouldn’t keep changing things . . . sheesh.
on March 31st, 2006 at 9:06 am
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At my college’s 20th reunion, when several of us were meeting each other’s children for the first time, the notion of “arranged marriages” came up in a semi-joking but semi-serious manner. Like DianeDay said, nothing bizarre and too old-fashioned, but just being aware that it’s getting harder and harder to find somebody that isn’t carrying serious baggage out there. I do wonder what my kids will be faced with, especially over here in England where the Christian community is so small and most teenagers seem to leave the church about the age or 14-15. I too am banking on Christ’s return before my own 9 year old daughter hits puberty. But if that doesn’t happen, Jen, you may have stumbled onto something.
on March 31st, 2006 at 9:23 am
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Are you sure your hen is not Henny Penny and she is not out slaving away in a kitchen somewhere making bread for some ungrateful animals? I hope your hen comes back soon.
Rebecca
on March 31st, 2006 at 11:15 am
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I so hope your chickens don’t turn mean like my son’s did. They got two cute chickies at Easter one year and raised them by hand. The chickens even got the whole storage shed as their home too. But one day the rooster attacked my daughter-in-law and then also my son. They can be mean. Well they ended up giving them to someone else and we haven’t heard how they fared then. Maybe that whole load of chickies has taken over your express delivery truck and is holding the people hostage. I did have chickens years ago in Callifornia and I do mean years. We enjoyed them and the eggs so much. But then the coyotes and stray loose dogs well we won’t go into that at this time. Best of luck and blessings.
on March 31st, 2006 at 12:18 pm
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Sorry to hear the rooster flew the coop. Guess he takes after his masters…
Anyway, after your comment, I edited my blog about Messenger’s of Faith a little. I didn’t think of it when I wrote it, but the fact that the foot broke off really shouldn’t dissuade someone from purchasing this product…it does not speak ill of the general quality if you understand what it means to be my son’s favorite toy. It’s like the poor Velveteen Rabbit…it speaks of love, not poor workmanship.
on March 31st, 2006 at 1:25 pm
love roosters
I’m sorry you lost your rooster. I LOVE roosters. I mean fake ones. I have lots of them in my house!!
Thanks for stopping over at my blog.
Blessings, mlpinky
on March 31st, 2006 at 7:31 pm
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I have no live chicken advice to impart. If you ever need a recipe, well, I can share one or two (that’s about the extent of my recipe repetoire).
I’m having a housework photo contest…don’t you have a new vacum and green carpet…sounds like a photo op to me!
Are things starting to bloom on the homestead? Your first Spring there must be very exciting.
on April 1st, 2006 at 10:49 am
Mail Order Spouses???
I love that idea! I like Garrisongang’s idea of Mail Order Home Educated Spouses even better!
I am a new poster to your blog. I cannot wait to read some more! I don’t know what is more enjoyable, your posts or your wonderful friends’ comments! I will be glad to be counted among them.
Anyway, we have 3 girls first! And, they are 16, 15 and 12. We are not really for the old-fashioned pre-arranged marriages, but, if you consider the alternative – well, you know what I mean!! We are hoping the girls will count on our experience and good judgment in even selecting someone to be interested in!!
They have, however, conceded the fact that you don’t have to be in love (or even really like the guy) to have a loving marriage… so, when is this catalog coming out that you and Marsha are putting together?
( : Jacque