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My son has hit the chicken jackpot in the past week. He has inherited a group of 6 hens which just started laying hens from a neighbor lady and his order for “fancy” chickens came in the mail yesterday. He ordered this type of chicken that will lay multi colored eggs (pink, blue and green) just like Easter eggs. Right now his hens are laying about 18 eggs a day, he has regular egg customers and is not able to accept any new customers at this time!
Cameron has also started his garden this past week- he has planted ¼ acre of sweet corn. He decided to plant Silver Queen and Ambrosia varieties. He has plans to plant 1/8 acre of green beans as well as some tomatoes. He fully supports the concept of “Eat Well, Eat Local” and will try to sell his produce this summer at the local Farm Market.
Alex has been gearing up for another softball season but first is trying to getting ready to show her pigs at the Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa in early June. She has a crossbred gilt named “Miss Moneypenny” after James Bond’s secretary—you can tell we just got done watching a James Bond Marathon on T.V.
Our pig sale, “Bleedin’ Purple,” was this past weekend in Richmond, Indiana. We had a great sale, 102 head were sold including pigs from Frank Davis (of the Texas Honor Show Team), Darin Lynd of Wisconsin, and Mark Taulman of Indiana. I think we sold pigs to 6 states including Texas, New Mexico, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri.
As for me personally, I finally succumbed to the repeated, prolonged pressures of my family due to my loud snoring and had a sleep study—I flunked the sleep study after the first hour! They told me that I had “severe snoring”—my wife told me she didn’t need a doctor to tell me that I snore loud!
For those who are interested in attending a Honor Show Chow meeting and learning about how to manage your pig projects– I will be speaking a few more times this spring. Thursday evening, April 22, 2010, I will be speaking at a Show Feed Meeting for Carney Feed Mill in Owensville, Ohio. On Saturday morning, April 24, 2010, I will be in Millersburg, Ohio (Holmes County) at Moores Lawn & Garden feed store.
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