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BlueEggBabe
True Blue Farmgirl
417 Posts
Susan
PA
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 Posted - May 20 2005 : 07:44:20 AM
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I have been playing with the idea of self publishing a
collection of chicken stories. Seems that often around the family dinner table talk will inevitably turn to the strange-but- true,laughable,unbelievable, and even occasional gross and gory tales of our favorite feathered gals.I evenhave great chicken stories from my childhood family flock.
If you have chickens, I KNOW you have a few!!
I have played with this idea for years and talked and shared with others who always have a good chicken story. My idea was to gather these stories and then put them altogether, add a bunch of great chicken-type embellishments and share the finished project back with the contributors....a barter of sorts.
I see this as a fun, artistic endeavor rather than a money maker.I love the idea of combining my love of journaling and chickens (and all their carrying on) along with an artistic muscle that is sorely in need of stretching....and also as a means to get moving on some unaccomplished dreams as I near my 46th birthday!
MaryJane's egg issue just blew me out of the water.........I came near to bruising my smile muscles so many times as I paged through that issue. There are so many of us chicken lovers out there!
I'd love some feedback, as well as to hear some stories.........
Send me an email, and I will add them to the file along with your contact info so that I can send you a publication update.
Thanks so much!!
Sue
"If more of us valued good food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
J.J.R.Tolkien |
Edited by - BlueEggBabe on May 20 2005 09:58:07 AM |
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Lena@HickoryGroveFarm
Farmgirl in Training
33 Posts
Marlena
Brunson
SC
USA
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Posted - Jul 26 2005 : 08:22:10 AM
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How are your stories going? I know I sent one! I am about to begin my series of "Chicken Art," which you might be interested in. It sounds like your book will be delightful. Might I suggest that you try to get it published as it is when you are done? A publisher can photograph all the embellishments, and the personal handwriting, journaling and such. I think it would be a wonderful thing to see in a bookstore, and I know many of us Farmgirls would buy it! I will.
And if you want to experiment, a book can be produced for about $35 online, hardcover, and all. See Snapfish.com, and check out the photo albums you can make. There is no reason you can't treat a scanned page as an image... There is also a company that scans scrapbook pages, but they are a bit more expensive. However, I'm sure the owner will give you discounts for bulk. Just presell your books. Anyhow....Let those creative aspirations FLY!
Lena
Budding Farm Girl and member of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Art
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mqligon
Farmgirl at Heart
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Maria
Upstate New York
USA
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Posted - Aug 04 2005 : 1:00:43 PM
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Originally posted by BlueEggBabe
I have been playing with the idea of self publishing a
collection of chicken stories. Seems that often around the family dinner table talk will inevitably turn to the strange-but- true,laughable,unbelievable, and even occasional gross and gory tales of our favorite feathered gals.I evenhave great chicken stories from my childhood family flock.
If you have chickens, I KNOW you have a few!!
I have played with this idea for years and talked and shared with others who always have a good chicken story. My idea was to gather these stories and then put them altogether, add a bunch of great chicken-type embellishments and share the finished project back with the contributors....a barter of sorts.
I see this as a fun, artistic endeavor rather than a money maker.I love the idea of combining my love of journaling and chickens (and all their carrying on) along with an artistic muscle that is sorely in need of stretching....and also as a means to get moving on some unaccomplished dreams as I near my 46th birthday!
MaryJane's egg issue just blew me out of the water.........I came near to bruising my smile muscles so many times as I paged through that issue. There are so many of us chicken lovers out there!
I'd love some feedback, as well as to hear some stories.........
Send me an email, and I will add them to the file along with your contact info so that I can send you a publication update.
Thanks so much!!
Sue
"If more of us valued good food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
J.J.R.Tolkien
Great Chicken stories  I have two chicken gals they are so funny!! Never thought I would laugh so much from two chickens. I scape and clean there pen everyday and everyday Oscar who is a hen (named by former owner) loves to ride on the snow shovel I use for cleaning, she jumps up on it flapping her wings. The other hen is Mrs. Cluck Cluck (named by former owner) she talks and talks and complains and complains all day, she is the boss lady by the way. They are both cornish hens, heavy heavy Mrs. Cluck Cluck has a bad leg they get too heavy for their legs and they end up cripple before a year old, she is doing ok just clumps clumps along and flies around the floor. We love her so she will stay with us till the end comes. But both are silly ladies and bring many a chuckle everyday.
Maria
Nature is our best resorce, let us keep her in our mind and spirit. |
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Julie R
Farmgirl in Training
18 Posts
Julie
Hyde Park
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2006 : 09:59:43 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by BlueEggBabe
I have been playing with the idea of self publishing a
collection of chicken stories. Seems that often around the family dinner table talk will inevitably turn to the strange-but- true,laughable,unbelievable, and even occasional gross and gory tales of our favorite feathered gals.I evenhave great chicken stories from my childhood family flock.
If you have chickens, I KNOW you have a few!!
I have played with this idea for years and talked and shared with others who always have a good chicken story. My idea was to gather these stories and then put them altogether, add a bunch of great chicken-type embellishments and share the finished project back with the contributors....a barter of sorts.
I see this as a fun, artistic endeavor rather than a money maker.I love the idea of combining my love of journaling and chickens (and all their carrying on) along with an artistic muscle that is sorely in need of stretching....and also as a means to get moving on some unaccomplished dreams as I near my 46th birthday!
MaryJane's egg issue just blew me out of the water.........I came near to bruising my smile muscles so many times as I paged through that issue. There are so many of us chicken lovers out there!
I'd love some feedback, as well as to hear some stories.........
Send me an email, and I will add them to the file along with your contact info so that I can send you a publication update.
Thanks so much!!
Sue
"If more of us valued good food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
J.J.R.Tolkien
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asnedecor
True Blue Farmgirl
1054 Posts
Anne
Portland
Or
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2006 : 5:18:24 PM
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When I was a kid on the farm we had chickens. After a few years, they died or were killed by some varmit, but one chicken was lucky. Her name was "Chicken" and she was a little tannish brown Banti (sp?) hen with the feathers on her little feet. She would roam our barnyard and pasture area all the time. Once when she was out in the pasture, not too far from the barn, a big hawk was overhead flying. I could see its shadow go across the pasture and so could Chicken. Well I knew what that could mean, so I started running to get my shoes on and go and protect chicken if I had to. Well by the time I got out the backdoor, she was alreay running for the barn door. I have never seen a little chicken who's legs grew times as long and run like a roadrunner. Man did she move, to say the least she made it into the barn just before the Hawk hit the ground where she was - way too close. The other thing she did was lay these cute little brown eggs. Well after being out on the open pasture and eating all those good bugs and rotten apples from our trees, her eggs began to change a bit. The shells got harder, we got double yolks, but they became elongated to the point of how did Chicken lay that egg? Pretty strange. I miss having chickens.
Anne in Portland
"Second star to the right, straight on till morning" Peter Pan
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OregonGal
True Blue Farmgirl
511 Posts
Chris
No. IL
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2006 : 9:07:07 PM
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Would a song about a rooster or chickens count? I know of two songs, one about a rooster, and one about a Dominiquer rooster and a little banty hen. Would you like some songs for your chicken book? It might make a nice little chapter.
"God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on thy heart!" |
Edited by - OregonGal on Jan 04 2006 8:16:52 PM |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2006 : 12:04:37 PM
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I have a chicken tale if your still doing this Blueeggbabe? We bought another rooster last spring at the animal swap, not that we needed one, but he was so pretty and only $2. The lady said he was raised by the Trappist Monks at Absumption Abby in a near by town. He was a tame rooster and again, so pretty with his black feathers and all. The other rooster gave him a hard time, as roosters do, but the "girls" loved him. I named him " Monk" cause he's picky ( like the tv character) where he walks, eats, etc. He loves to race to the closest beam to the door every morning when I go in to feed, to get his special share of corn, he evens jumps into my arms to beat the crowd! Monk is a neat rooster, the lady who we bought him from, got him from the monks who couldn't bear to butcher him because he was so personable, still is!
" Aspire to Inspire before you Expire"
www.herbalfarmstead.blogspot.com
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Jenn
Farmgirl at Heart
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Jennifer
Seattle
Wa
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2006 : 11:09:34 PM
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Hello there,
Keeping chickens is a lifestyle and a hobby of mine. I've been raising them in the city of Seattle since 1979. Their daily antics and dramas are so amusing!
I remember a song that I learned in kindergarten. (to be sung same as the tune called "Turkey in the Straw")
"Oh I had a little chickie and he wouldn't lay an egg,
so I poured warm water down his leg,
and the little chickie hollered
and the little chickie begged,
and the little chickie layed a hard-boiled egg"!
There's something so magic about finding a warm egg on the nest...
Jennifer Carlson
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