Wow, Sorry I absolutely got lost here. The last post I made was around the time we adopted our beautiful daughter and being a new mom and all that entails I completely forgot that I had started blogging. I owe everyone who was following and apology. I really am sorry that I got so wrapped up and blanked but honestly, can anyone really blame me? At the time our daughter was born I had just turned 42. I'm 45 now with a very active 3 yr old who is the absolute joy of our lives. We're still no closer to the homestead that I have spent so many years dreaming about and honestly, I'm ashamed to admit I haven't even planted a garden since Gabriella was born. I do however plan on starting one this next spring. Where we live currently had some drainage issues that had to be fixed so gardening this season has a no go. It's all fixed now, The whole yard flooded every time it rained. It frustrated me but our daughter thought we were making her yard into a huge swimming pool for her. Which honestly is cute and funny. Since everything is fixed now and we no longer have to swim to the hen house I'm enjoying our place here even more.
At the beginning of spring my cousin brought me 11 hens who had been "retired" from a local hen house. Nice way of saying they thought these ladies were to old to lay enough for the industrial hen house they were kept in. It took several days for them to come out of the hen house without me having to coax them out. Now, they run to me when I come outside. I whistle for them when it's time to feed them and they {although I really, really wish they wouldn't} have taken to laying eggs in my wicker chair on the front porch. Nasty, I know. Can't use those chairs to relax anymore. It seemed funny at first and I got a baby gate to keep then from being able to get onto the porch in the hopes that I could save my chairs. NOPE. No such luck. They get on no matter what I've tried. I've finally just given up and let them have those two chairs and I'll stand. As hilarious as this sounds or gross, depending on what mood i'm in I am grateful that they lay so many eggs. Although, I can't use that much. I'm getting between 16 to 21 eggs a day and sometimes one or two more than that. We don't eat that many, these girls have never been allowed to sit and hatch, so I have wound up giving away sooo many eggs that I don't have enough people to take them. That's the good thing I guess about having hen house hen's. I grew up with chickens. I've honestly never seen hen's who wouldn't sit on their nests. I didn't think that was possible. It's not like those girls just don't have other hen's or roosters around to show then because they do. They just won't nest. I'm really stumped and have just given up on that and I have decided that I'll just use an incubator to hatch them off when I get ready to next spring. No big deal I guess. Hopefully by then they will have realized their nature is to sit on a nest and make life easier but guess we'll have to wait and see won't we.
I hope that everyone who does read this has a great day and I'll be posting on a more regular bases from now on. As long as I can remember to save before Gabby gets close. Yeah, this is my 3rd time writing this out. She's 3. I'm tired and sleepy and honestly I should save more often than I do when writing. Lesson learned.
Good night folks,
Jen
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