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babs
True Blue Farmgirl
226 Posts
Babette
MN
USA
226 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 03:35:37 AM
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Good grief, time is just slippin away on us all. The season turned so fast here.
I meant to introduce myself earlier and say hello, but you know how it is on a real farm.
There's always critters to feed, pens to clean, fences to mend, babies to chase, fences to mend again after somethin tears em up, the work is just never done. I feel guilty if I sit here too long, and because my business is online, I feel guilty when I can't.
Anyway... I'm Babs and together with my husband and 2 daughters we work, play, and school on a small farm in central MN. We raise ducks, chickens, pigeons, and goats. I have a fabulous Australian Shepherd puppy dog named Lilly bud. She lives to round up the goats and is always chasing off hawks that like to circle my chicken yard. I can usually grow a stores worth and then some of tomatoes but had rotten luck this year with rot. I grow lots of flowers and herbs, and I make salves, bath teas, candles and laundry soap.
My business website is at www.countryegg.com. I'm a little swamped right now with everything I'm adding and truth be told a little stressed trying to get the farm tied up before winter. It would sure be great if family and friends all got together to help each other out like they did when we were kids. Now it seems everyone is so competitive and no one really cares about anyone else. I really like the encouragement and positive support offered here. I sure wish that would carry over into RL.
Babs
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
1818 Posts
Katie
Illinois
1818 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 03:56:35 AM
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Hi Babs! Welcome aboard. What a busy gal you are! I checked out your website -- wow. Lots of eggs!! Do you sell your soaps and salves as well?
I remember family all gathering on one farm to help out with the threshing. It was fun for us kids, especially! And great tables of food for the noon dinner meal. And I'm sure lots of help for the farm family. I do wish we still had that today, as well. Hope the encouragement you get here will help on the bumpy days.
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Kelly43
True Blue Farmgirl
349 Posts
NJ
USA
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Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 04:38:04 AM
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Welcome Babs!! Your house sounds like my house minus the online business and substitute sheep for goats. I agree with everything you said. I have found that here is where I find that old feeling of belonging and help. Just knowing that these gals would come help if they could helps me get through it. Just know that you are giving your daughters that background and it will help them emensily (sp) in their lives. Glad to have you aboard, will have to check out that web site.
Kel |
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sunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
4877 Posts
Wendy
Utah
USA
4877 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 06:21:15 AM
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welcome to the group Babs.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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BlueApple
True Blue Farmgirl
430 Posts
Julia
Oregon
USA
430 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 06:51:40 AM
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Welcome, Welcome! Wow, you are busy! I loved hearing all that you do. What kind of goats do you have? I'll check out your website today!
Julia
BlueApple Farm |
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nouveau_farmchick
True Blue Farmgirl
173 Posts
Paris
Sequim
Wa
USA
173 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 07:00:36 AM
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Welcome Babs!
I know what you mean about feeling guilty, but we do need to replanish our souls once in awhile! We raise about 200 lbs. of certified organic salad greens a week, have dairy goats, Irish Dexter cows, Haflinger and Welsh ponies, geese, dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, peacocks, and three children at home. Plus all of their pets, and my husband's folks down the road that we are taking care of, as they are in their 90's.
But the busy life is wonderful, we just plan for the unexpected as it always happens on a farm.
So glad that you are taking the time to join in!
Pennie
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~Tracey~
True Blue Farmgirl
351 Posts
Tracey
TN
USA
351 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 09:01:34 AM
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Welcome Babs!!
Sounds like a great life and place you have going up there in MN!!
We have bees, bunnies and babies(5 of various ages) around here but hoping to include berries in that B group soon!!
Tracey,
mama to Callum 13, Katie 8, Wil 5.5, Benjamin almost 3 and Andrew 6 months!! |
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bybiddie
True Blue Farmgirl
267 Posts
susan
upstate
ny
USA
267 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 09:26:24 AM
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Welcome Babs! You have found a place of support, wisdom and comfort here. These farmgirls are the greatest in the world! Be sure to take the time to self-nurture...
xxx susan
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 10:16:38 AM
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I am so glad you found us Babs! YOu are going to fit right in here. Your place sounds terrific! I am sure you will love it here..these gals are terrific!
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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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 10:28:43 AM
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Welcome, Babs. I checked out your website and it looks great. The emu eggs sound very exciting! We've had little luck with the incubater, but we have a sweet little hen who loves to raise biddies for us. It sounds like you are very busy and have an interesting business.
Trina
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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Proverbs 27:23 |
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 3:00:39 PM
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Hi Babs,
Welcome. You sure do a lot! Will check out your website.
Debbie
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
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flowerchild
True Blue Farmgirl
52 Posts
Erica
Oregon
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 3:18:57 PM
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| Hi Babs- Welcome to the forum, glad to have you here! =) |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 3:29:53 PM
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Welcome farmgirl Babs- great to have you and I look forward to hearing more about your farm as winter nears.
Peace |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 4:05:28 PM
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Babs,
Welcome!! I am so glad you have joined us! It sounds like you will have so much to share! This is the greatest place ever and I hope you enjoy it even half as much as I have! I look forward to getting to know you better as I see you around.
Hugz,
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 5:32:09 PM
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glad to have you join us when you find the time gurlfren. if we could just figure out a way where we didn't have to waste time 'sleeping'!! xo, frannie
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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daffodil dreamer
True Blue Farmgirl
805 Posts
Jayne
Hamilton
Victoria
Australia
805 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 7:57:18 PM
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Welcome to the group, Babs!
Look forward to chatting round the place.
Best wishes,
Jayne |
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MamaHumbird
True Blue Farmgirl
116 Posts
Holly
Cleveland
Missouri
USA
116 Posts |
Posted - Sep 26 2006 : 8:20:33 PM
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Babs, I love your website. How interesting, all the different types of eggs. I am not sure if I understood correctly, but it looks like you look for farms to take chicks that have been hatched as school projects. That is how we got our chickens. A local woman takes all the chicks hatched in the spring from 4-H groups in the city that have nothing to do with them once they hatch. She then tries to find them homes. My kids love our girls and take good care of them. We have tried turkeys and peacocks with not much luck. Would love to try again, I am anxious to here more about your business and the right way to raise them. I am definately interested in anything that gets the ticks out of our yard!
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