Something Is Wrong Here~ Meat Chickens~

Took this picture this morning.. these chicks are all the same age, on the same food, from the same place. 

Note the size difference? 

:$ 

We actually took the largest 50 out and have slowly caught 35 more of the bigger mediums and put them in with the large birds in a different pen on grass.. hoping that this will give the smaller birds a better chance. Which means we have 50 birds that are the size they should be.. out of 300. 

We took 35 of the mediums out which is roughly half of the mediums.. 

*Blasted hard to catch when you've been in there catching a few times*

So lets say mediums are roughly 80 birds? 

Which leaves us with 50+80=130. 

Which leaves us with  170 little birds... Little tiny birds that are weak and die easily. 

We are down to a total of 255.

We've never had birds like this before. EVER! 

The hatcheries email box is full,

 I wonder if they are getting a LOT of negative feedback this year?, 

so my message is not been able to go through..

But they will be hearing from us. SOON!! 

The Car.. Good bye Car~ Large Family Home School Thoughts.

A home schooled teenage boy who lives down the road came over last week and asked about our car out front. It's been there for several years and we were just going to get it taken away so we gave it to him. 

They had a bit of fun getting it going as one of the wheels had seized up. But they got it moving and the teenager drove it home. He said he wanted it for a project and we were quite glad to help him out! 

We knew there was a home schooled family down the road but we've not had any contact with them until that day. They also have 6 children, 3 natural and 3 adopted. I believe the boy who got the car is the oldest? or second oldest at 13. This brings the total of home schooled families, that we know, of with 6 kids up to 4 families, not including us, in our area. Though we are the only ones with six in such a short age gap. For instance one family's oldest is 16 and the youngest is 1. Where is our oldest is 8 and our youngest is 6 months. M's from church are the closest age gap as their oldest is 12 and their youngest is 3 months. :) 

Thinking of the age gap helps me understand how people with as many kids as we have still think 'wow that's a lot of kids' simply because we had ours so fast while their 6 kids are spaced out over more years.