Quail_Antwerp: Words from the Barnyard...

[Farmfresh]

I remember the little gas station and store in my dad's little (read tiny) hometown.

There was a potbelly stove in the winter. In summer an ice cream freezer, a Coke cooler and a very obese but wonderful lady behind the counter who hand sliced bologna (way too thick) from a long roll and cheese to match, to make matchless Poor Boy sandwiches! They sold gas and groceries, but the locals all hung around drinking pop or coffee, playing checkers or cards and visiting. What an asset to the community.

 

[BeccaOH]

So, how is that little roo chick doing? My geese are fun!

I'm really liking the idea of your store more and more. Love the coffee and snack counter idea. I'd work some Saturdays for you.

I need to rework my pallet tractor idea. I'm just designing as I go and have worked myself in to a corner. I should have had a plan. I'll get it right and get you some instructions prepared.

 

[Tallman]

Reading about this store business is fun and exciting. It would be fantastic!

Quail, when you fly into Eastern Kansas to tour some of your Kansas stores, I hope to be able to meet you.

I can see it now: Quail & DH Feeds, LLC.

Anybody else have a name that they think ought to be used?

 

[freemotion]

Do NOT let dh ever touch a sack of feed! Be sure to hire some young, strong backs...... That is the massage therapist in me coming out. I cringe at the thought of your hubby destroying his back again.

But I also imagine a large bulletin board with "brags" on it, pictures of people's coops and animals and fences that they completed with items from your store!

 

[gettinaclue]

I like the old hometown approach for the name...

Quail's Feed and Supply

 

[Cybercat]

DH said he'd like to run a place where the local farmers can bring their own feed and have it ground up. This other feedstore doesn't offer that service.

If you DO decide to go for it, I would like to suggest a coffee counter, where the guys can hang out for a while and talk farming...just a table or two, or bar stools, etc...guys need their own place and I think you could draw some regular customers...

Leanne

I was just going to add that my dad had his own feed mill and store 45ish years ago, with the snack bar and ice cream...and a soda fountain. I loved going in there and buying a candy bar out of the old vending machines- the kind where you can see the mechanism working as you sort out which thing you wanted to buy. You could pick up Hog rings and bands for poultry and neutering equipment in the same display cases---while you were shooting the s#$t and having a snack as your feed was being mixed.

Dad also had Coca-Cola advertising signs all over the walls and other items too...he came from a long line of blacksmiths, so many old tools were displayed. When Dad closed the mill, the antique dealers came from all over to slobber over the goodies.

I even remember that he had a couple of gas pumps too- remember the old kind that had glass domes on top...sigh.....


YIKES! I'm sorry Quail- I kind of hijacked your thread. I just think there is a need for these community type places, as we all move through a society that is becoming more impersonal and distant with every generation...

(Oh, better add some penny candy for the kids that come in with their dads....hehehe...)

I bet we could keep the ideas rolling for you for some time to come!

Leanne

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Wow, ya'll are giving out some great ideas and encouragement!

Becca, that'd be great if you came down and helped on Saturdays! What will I pay you? In chicken feed???

Tallman, I'm cracking up: Quail & DH Feeds, LLC

That's hilarious, but figured I'd just go with our initials for a feeds company: E & A Feeds & More

No worries, Free, my hubs won't be lifting feed! I've a teenage brother I can make do that, though!

Mom came and sat with the kiddos this morning so DH and I could go to physical therapy. O! M! G! did that pt feel good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The therapist comes in and says, "Ok, Aly, are you ready for the next part?" and I replied, "Just 15 more minutes..." oh she cracked up! They put these little probe like things on the backs of our necks and shoulder blades and it tingled off and on for 15 minutes with heated pads on top....It was great!! then we had 8 minutes of some kind of ultrasound therapy on our necks...that was ok...but I liked the heat therapy better!!

We have 9 more sessions of pt and next one is Monday.

We also took the rental van back today. On the way home, DH was pulled over today for speeding!! He wasn't speeding either! I was with him and I think the cop had it in his head to pull us over because he had his lights on before we even passed him!

He got a warning, and we argued with the cop because he couldn't/wouldn't show us that DH was going 62 on his radar (he was doing 55) and in Ohio, it's mandatory they show us on the radar what they clock you at if you ask them to. We asked, no we demanded! He ignored us.

I told the officer I said, Look, I did 55 all the way to turn the rental in and he was behind me and the rental was a 2008 and I know it was right and he told me his odometer was at 55 the whole time. He couldn't look me in the eye as I was telling him that either. That is one of my biggest pet peeves....LOOK AT ME when I am talking to you!!!! Not at the ground, not at the truck, AT ME!!

So we get home and told mom about it, had a good laugh about it, and then mom asked to take her 4 pullets home that she had in with my McMurray order. She had ordered two Dominiques and two Delewares.

So I was telling mom I thought my free chick was an extra Salmon Faverolle, but that I wasn't sure because there was another chick in there that I thought was a Black Australorp, but I noticed a small white patch on the head like her Doms. So we get to looking, and the feathering on the wings coming in was slightly different. So we started comparing this chick with my Cuckoo Maran Pullet I have from Meyers...and they look almost identical! We think my free chick just might be a Cuckoo Maran! and on top of that, a Cuckoo Maran Pullet!!!!!!

So my mom's birthday is in May, and I'm thinking, if I am right and it turns out to be a Cuckoo Maran chick, I'll give her to my mom for her birthday, because my mom has been wanting Marans for a long time. And I do already have Elizabeth and Monroe, and the little pullet from Meyers growing up.


I'm editing, because I thought maybe this was too much personal information....so I'll sum it up by saying as long as StepDad continues to do what he's doing, Mom's going to build up her flock before they move.



We all know I'm such a HUGE enabler!!! Mom picked up her 4 chicks today, is taking a black male rabbit that was given to me, and in two weeks, she's getting ducklings. OH, and I provided her with 5 turkey poults!

 

[keljonma]

We're praying, QA .....

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

We're praying, QA .....

Thank you. We are, too.

 

[lorihadams]

Okay, I think you need to seek professional help as you are truly ADDICTED!!!! I can see it now: Quail's Farm & Feed....432 species of fowl for you to enjoy! Free Chicken with Every Purchase!!!