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Barnyard Buddies:  The MN chicken is all set!!  |
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cmandle
True Blue Farmgirl
846 Posts
Catherine
Minneapolis
MN
846 Posts |
 Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 8:09:59 PM
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This is SO irritating. One of my husband's co-workers received a business gift from a company who must have thought it funny to give live chickens for Christmas. There is some inside joke behind it, but I didn't want to hear all of it. The bottom line is that they are giving chickens to people who are completely unprepared to care for them. Living, breathing animals.
SIGH.
So this chicken needs a home. It came with a big cage, so it's not like it's cramped right now or anything. But it still needs to be somewhere other than an office in a big urban center.
Are there any Farmgirls close enough to the Twin Cities who can take this chicken? Email me off list if you're interested and we can work out the details. I'm willing to drive this animal to its new home provided it's not *too* far out.
Thanks!
Catherine
http://yogurtandgranola.blogspot.com |
Edited by - cmandle on Dec 24 2006 12:00:53 PM |
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katiedid
True Blue Farmgirl
601 Posts
Kate
West Jordan
Utah
USA
601 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 8:34:07 PM
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I wonder what people are thinking?!? This is a living, breathing, animal! Not a joke for someone like me!
I hope this birdie finds a good home....
Kate
my new blog http/www.theknifemakerswife.wordpress.com |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 8:42:52 PM
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That sort of thing irritates the heck out of me too!! Jeesh!! About like the idiot uncles who give kids a little bunny or chick for Easter not even considering where it will live, or how it will be treated when it is full grown in just a few months.
I hope you are able to find someone for the chicken.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
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Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 9:23:03 PM
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Catherine, We'll take it. I emailed you already saying I would talk to Rob and I just did and he said, "sure, we'll take a chicken." Send me an email and lemme know what you know about it. whatever you don't kow, well, I am the Google queen and can certainly find it out. We have got the coop and the feed and the space for it, so we will def. take it if you have not yet had a taker.
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
blogs: http://gaiarose.wordpress.com
http://frugalwitch.wordpress.com |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 9:44:16 PM
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Oh how cool to hear this happy farmgirl ending for the chicken!!! And you two will get to meet if you havn't already!! Wonderful!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
3579 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2006 : 11:01:21 PM
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YAY!!! The little chickie gets a wonderful new home. Farmgirls to the rescue!!!
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 08:17:50 AM
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Oh Tasha You are great! I'd have taken it but I can't see my husband being pleased about a 14 hour road trip to rescue a chiken! LOL!
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
www.willowtreecreek.com |
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Luzy
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Luanne
Pueblo
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 10:19:49 AM
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Way to go Tasha! You are just wonderful to take this chicken in. Let us know what you name him/her!
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May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. |
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cmandle
True Blue Farmgirl
846 Posts
Catherine
Minneapolis
MN
846 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2006 : 10:24:11 AM
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Operation Find Chicken a Home is underway! Thanks so much Tasha! We're emailing now with the unwitting recipient of the bird (Paul, the one who occupies the Hen's current cubicle home) and will arrange for a rendezvous on Sunday when Tasha comes down to the Cities with her family.
How cool is this? Tasha gets a new bird, Paul and I can feel better about this silly Christmas gift that was not well thought out in the first place (idiots!) AND I get to meet another Farmgirl!! Fun all around.
Catherine
http://yogurtandgranola.blogspot.com |
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RosieRiveter
Farmgirl in Training
45 Posts
Rosie
White Creek
NY
45 Posts |
Posted - Dec 23 2006 : 06:26:19 AM
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cmandle
True Blue Farmgirl
846 Posts
Catherine
Minneapolis
MN
846 Posts |
Posted - Dec 24 2006 : 12:02:57 PM
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Wahoo! Tasha-Rose and her family stopped by to pick up the chicken today and the chick's all set! And Tasha is SO awesome, and SO sweet and her kids are SO DARLING!!! What a treat to have met Grace and Zoe in person! (And husband Rob too, but he wasn't as cute as the little girls...) :)
We just had a short visit due to holiday parties but it was fun, fun, fun.
All's well that ends well!
Catherine
http://yogurtandgranola.blogspot.com |
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
1646 Posts |
Posted - Dec 24 2006 : 12:06:26 PM
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Oh that's so wonderful Catherine...someday I hope to meet some of you too.
Merry Christmas to the chicken! He's gone to a good home.
Di |
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
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Posted - Dec 25 2006 : 09:59:24 AM
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Catherine, it was so great to meet you!!! and your family!!!! Hedwig is here and safe and sound. We are keeping her in the house until we get some friends for her, which is on the agenda tomorrow. We know a woman not far from here who sells eggs and she is willing to sell us a couple of friends for Hedwig. She is soo beautiful and everyone who saw her t the family party last night loved her. Rob's cousin, Sarah loves that her name is Hedwig!! And they all love the whole story. She was clucked a bit today and the girls just love her.
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
blogs: http://gaiarose.wordpress.com
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Dec 26 2006 : 07:06:05 AM
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I love that you named it Hedwig!!!! We have 2 dogs named after characters in the Harry Potter Books! We have one named Hagrid and one named Lily (Harry's mom)! I'm so glad the chicken found a home.
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
www.willowtreecreek.com |
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Dec 26 2006 : 11:34:40 AM
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Tasha, you are awesome! I told my husband the other day, my favorite Jane girls were Catharine and Tasha from Minnesota! We have two feet of snow Tasha/Catharine! Yeah!!!!! jo
"friends don't let friends eat farmed salmon"
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cmandle
True Blue Farmgirl
846 Posts
Catherine
Minneapolis
MN
846 Posts |
Posted - Dec 26 2006 : 11:36:19 AM
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Oh Jo...I'm SO jealous about that snow!! Our "white Christmas" that came late last week stuck around but is a bit mushy-gushy. I'm just finishing knitting up a pair of awesome mittens for myself but am worried that I won't need them here anymore! Get me on a train to Alaska, STAT!
Catherine :)
http://yogurtandgranola.blogspot.com |
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Dec 26 2006 : 2:48:53 PM
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Mittens, did you say MITTENS, what's the best mitten recipe you've found?! jo
north to alaska..... |
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The MN chicken is all set!!
