Although to add on we only need 2 max more at the moment. Going for five family but don't have enough hens for more than that. And I'll add on that we are trying for cold hardy, so mixes with big combs are out. Roo will have a good few years, then go humanely for meat. He will father babies and enjoy his flock and enrichment. No aggressive roos, please, we have 3 very good boys right now and while they will be separated I don't want to breed aggression into the flock.

Edit to add: hi mom.

If you have a contract with a plow company, it is not unreasonable to be upset that they go away on vacation right before a major storm, without warning and without setting up alternates. Same goes for any other contract you would have.

And again, you can have medical issues, problems with health as a senior, things happen. Should I let my 90 year old neighbor suffer and possibly die just because they knew what living here would entail? They are natives. Lived here 3 generations. Or is that not enough for you?

Again, even natives can get sick or injured, and they get old. I'm glad your 75 year old neighbor is lucky enough to be healthy enough to do it, but not everyone ages as well. Bitch about leaf peepers driving like shit, bitch about tourists peeing in electrical closets because they don't like that there's no bathroom but an outhouse, but don't complain when someone is upset because their plow guy ditched them right before a major once in a few decades storm when they have an infant.

You are right, natives would never get injured, older than 75, or sick. No one should ever get help when having trouble. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps. It'd just being called a heart attack storm for no reason.

Its hard for some people. My dad is recovering from a hernia, my mom is in physical therapy because her knees aren't working correctly and she's like a few months out from possible knee replacement, and my fiance has bad asthma. That leaves our 200 ft, very steep, driveway to me, recovering from covid, with nerve damage in both shoulders.

We have a contract, and he's awesome and a neighbor. If he just decided right before a big storm to leave with no warning, I'd be just as pissed. Not everyone can do that kind of physical labor, nevermind doing it safely. They use tractors to plow our driveway, we got 4 ft of snow this storm.

-5 and feels like -26 with windchill here in Wardsboro. My chickens enjoyed their hot mash and scrambled eggs earlier.

Lots of off leash dogs around here. We have a lot of neighbors with chickens, and we have chickens. Our three dogs are either behind a tall fence or leashed and harnessed. Between the bears and other predators, and the neighborhood full of chickens, I can't understand why you would let your pup off leash. Not to mention being on a dirt road that is made primarily of ice at the moment, I'm always afraid of hitting one coming around a corner. I love dogs, I work with dogs, my dog is my life and I love my parents dogs dearly, but I'm not blind to the fact that they don't belong wild and off leash on a twisty road. Safety first, theirs, our chickens, and the safety of others.

No they don't. Most doctors in mass don't take mass health, and waiting lists for grief therapy are over 2 years long. Just moved up from mass, and was on masshealth. It was a nightmare.