The magical story of how the rabbits led to the (unvaccinated) chickens 🌟

in #hive-1417537 months ago

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I wasn't going to write a post about this but a great story has grown from the appearance of rabbits in our new enclosure and i feel now as if i must tell it because this story demonstrates the importance of maintaining a balance when exchanging with someone in a non financial manner.

Firstly, here are some pics of our two new fluffy friends. Current names are Tummy & Marshmallow, though i'm not sure those are going to stick!
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They are a bit bigger than i expected but the children don't seem to mind.
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I love the way rabbits will become calm when they are in our arms.
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Helps one instantly feel the bond between animal & human.
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Last week we made this rabbit house in preparation. Luna painted one side.
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I painted the other.
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Here's the inside filled with dried grass we picked from a local field. Plus a few yummy hazelnut branches and one of Luna's toy cups attached to the side with a little water.
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It was quickly established that these two rabbits are very fast and not at all like the kittens.
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They are likely just happy to be free, having been kept in rather cramped conditions previously. As you can see here.
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So they were very hard for the children to catch while they were doing laps around their new circuit!
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They also liked hiding under the chicken house which is currently storing fresh grass for them.
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Solid teamwork is required to catch them but even then it can be tricky. Here's Esteban trying to move quickly through one of the ash tree arches we created for shade.
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The arch got the better of him and he ended up like this.
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Running past my feet the white one resembles a ball of cotton on legs.
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Luna was able to catch it finally.
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But let go too early and obviously the rabbit did not go in its home.
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After some further antics involving turning the chicken house on its side they were eventually re-captured.
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And placed directly in their box. Tummy first.
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Then Marshmallow.
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I didn't get around to attaching a door on the front yet so a triangular piece of wood has been inserted on the inside when it's time for us to go in the evenings.
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Up above them we have the children's old musical mobile which is left running, to help them get to sleep ;)
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It rained heavy all night last night so we returned in the morning to waterproof their house a bit better!
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And also create a dry eating zone for them with the cover to our sunken greenhouse.
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They should be good here.
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Was happy to see this morning that my rain catcher is already 1/5 full after just a few days. So all we need is another week of rain and we should have our 300L of 'emergency water' for the summer.
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How the rabbits led to the chickens

As a pretext to this story i should mention that we have been searching for unvaccinated chickens since finishing the enclosure and had all but given up hope knowing everyone who sells them here obeys the rules, in fear of losing their business. The children kept asking when the chickens were coming and i did not have an answer except one, "vaccinated chickens are not an option".

The rabbits are from a Catalan wine producer in our village who breeds them and eats them. With a strong mustard he says! His seven year old daughter (who i know because she goes to the same school as Esteban & Luna) was the one who ventured onto my land while i was building the enclosure and informed me that chickens cannot eat the ivy berries which feature prominently in my wall. She also mentioned that her father had a bunch of baby rabbits at the moment and i instantly felt like i should go see him, to ask if i could get two for the children.

Due to a small incident a few years ago in which he screamed at me because i was picking blackberries on his land without permission (he thought i was picking his grapes) i have always been a bit cautious of this person so was quite surprised when he agreed without hesitation and said we could take the rabbits any time we liked.

I told him i would prepare an appropriate exchange for him and he assured me this wasn't necessary, making the joke that rabbits breed like rabbits! I considered following his advice and just taking his rabbits, but this didn't feel right so i made him a loaf of bread, bought a bottle of his favourite beer and picked him an incredible salad from our garden featuring over 25 different plants and edible flowers. I also potted a young Japanese parsley for him as people around here don't seem to know this tasty colourful plant.

The day after picking up the rabbits Sabrina & i delivered our gifts and he seemed quite taken back, inviting us in for a chat. He is very a large man, not fat but strong like a farmer who appreciates home made food and was therefore very interested in my loaf of sourdough bread. As a Catalan man he doesn't imagine that an English man might also have skills in this department so i think this really helped break the ice between us. Hopefully he enjoys eating it! I suppose we will find out soon enough...

He was also quite excited about the bergamot mint & chocolate mint in our salad basket, explaining that he drinks bergamot mint tea and would like to stop buying it. No problem i told him. We will prepare some plants for him.

At this point he invited me into his kitchen to smell his smoked garlic hanging on the wall and i noticed all the fresh eggs from his chickens (around 100) just sitting there on the side. I commented on how great it must be to have such abundance and he asked if we had found our chickens yet. Feeling confident now to speak plainly with him i explained our desire to find unvaccinated chickens and how extremely difficult it has been due to laws which make it impossible for anyone to sell them legally. He laughed and told me how everyone in his family is unvaccinated. Wow! Now i really like this guy. I told him about the doctor we found who faked Esteban & Luna's vaccine certificates in order for them to attend school legally and once more he appeared to shift his perception of me. No doubt he had to go through something similar.

Then he took us to a room which i can only describe as his man cave (fridge, bar, large TV, woodwork bench, tools, electrical equipment & a dank but pleasant smell) in which there was an incubator holding 48 eggs. He said they should hatch in a week and will be ready to leave home by the beginning of June. And obviously he doesn't vaccinate them!

He invited us to stay for a glass of wine (at 12am on a Sunday) but i declined his offer explaining that today is the last day of fruit plantation before late May and there was much to be done this afternoon. Once more he looked at me with surprise, saying that he also works in sync with the moon & planets, as dictated by Steiner's biodynamic calendar. Indeed i told him. All the great people do.

On our way out he showed us a sick rhubarb, asking if we had any experience with this plant. We don't but i do happen to know that rhubarb responds really well to electroculture so it was instantly clear in what way i will exchange with him for the chickens. Two varieties of mint, a Lakovsky coil with bees wax ends and a copper antenna. And perhaps a little bag of basalt for him to dig into the soil around the plant.

So there it is, we now have four unvaccinated chickens reserved for our homestead and we can rest assured that when we start breeding them ourselves, future generations will not be tainted with pharmaceutical products which may, like the mRNA jab, make permanent changes to the DNA.

Some say these new laws around poultry vaccinations "to stop avian flu" are designed specifically to make our future generations of chickens sick, paving the way for the centralised food system which is set to replace the current one.

Am inclined to agree with this sentiment but having now bypassed the only unexpected barrier to our goal i will no longer have to consider this absurd subject and the countdown to egg abundance has begun!
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I like this story because it would have been so easy to not return with gifts after collecting the rabbits, but we took the route which felt more correct and this led us so neatly to that which we were seeking.

Simply put, even when a person expects nothing in exchange, by maintaining a balance with them we are keeping the door open for the Universe to maintain its balance with us.

Love & Light everyone 🌱

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Very cool! Who knew the guy who yelled at you would turn out to be like minded? He sounds like a good person to get to know well, as long as he does not think you are stealing his grapes…

I agree he is a good person to have as a friend. His land is amazing and it is clear he has skills i desire! His man cave is basically an outhouse he built himself and it was very impressive.

I would never steal the grapes of wine producers! Especially understanding the hard times they are going through with the changing weather. But i think he knows that now and seems to trust me.

Had some feedback on my bread and they both seem very happy!

Great story! Thanks for sharing!

Thank YOU for taking the time to leave a message :)

I hope you don't mind my asking you on this post, but do you think these are sylphs? sorry about the fuzzy phone shot.

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We have been being heavily sprayed here for three days now, and I keep thinking (hoping) I see sylphs too.

Here are how the skies looked just a bit to the east of those sylphs

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Same story here for the last few weeks. Heavy spraying most days and no big surprise, all that rain we were expecting didn't come. Though i am wondering now if the goal doesn't in fact relate to bees, which i am told by a local bee producer are no longer producing honey in this region. He thinks it is because of lack of rain but am wondering now if it doesn't relate directly to the chemtrails. Without the bees this fruit producing region effectively becomes useless and it all plays perfectly into the hands of the WEF and their goals for food production post 2030. We will have robot bees!

To answer your question those do look a lot like sylphs. Great to see :)

Feels like ours are inactive at the moment. Perhaps they took a holiday in America?

Same scenario here. We were supposed to get two days of rain this weekend, severe thunderstorms for Sunday. Preceded by three days of chemtrails, we got only one light sprinkle.

I just started seeing sylphs here. They make me so happy to see!

I think you know about my love of dandelions. My tiny back yard is covered with them, and I had more bees this year than before. This is only my third summer here though. I have many more birds, too.

Around here, beekeepers are attributing their awful lack of honey to loss of land to windmills and solar farms. No one pays any attention to the chemtrails. Except me. I point them out whenever I can. Problem is, an hour after clear blue skies are covered with a grid of chemtrails, the skies are overcast and folks don't believe me. I've started taking pictures to show them that "an hour ago, the skies looked like this."

What a wonderful post, dear @samstonehill 😍🪷🌺🌟 Full of all the things that I love best! 🤗🌞 The photos are fabulous, and your exchanges/ interrelating/ living in gift here sounds just like a typical day that I live too ❤️❤️‍🔥🌻 So glad for you all, adding to your homestead like this! All power to your rabbits and chickens in their new homes 👑

Am grateful for this group which provides the perfect place for stories like this one, which as you say, can so easily become a part of our daily lives. For me the language barrier has been the hardest part of achieving this but was quite impressed with myself managing such an extensive conversation on Sunday.

So much of this is about simply expressing our goals and our desires to those around us, without which they cannot know how to help. Important to recognise too that people really love to help, so being shy (which i have been a lot over the last 5 years) does nothing useful.

Big hugs to you Clare 🌟

YES! 🤗🌟👑

Precisely: it is a sacred gift indeed, to allow others to help - in more consumerist cultures, there is less space for this, eh... but in these beautiful smal rural towns, Natural Law is much closer to the surface 🌻

And I hear you about the language challenge! This is less of an issue now (almost 15 yrs into my Italy adventure) , but there are still times where - especially older men! - think that I'm making mistake with what I am saying - or even misinterpreting their words - when I'm perfectly lucifd and expressing succinctly, but it's an idea which is too new for them... At least your neighbour seems very open to seeing you with new eyes: that is a powerful new ally! ❤️🌞❤️‍🔥

Looking forward to hearing more dear Sam!

Simply put, even when a person expects nothing in exchange, by maintaining a balance with them we are keeping the door open for the Universe to maintain its balance with us.

Yes. Great story. I'm happy for you all. I have to find a source of these chickens, too. hm. I'll ask around.

Crazy times we live in when one has to turn to shady dealings to get their hands on a 100% natural chicken! No doubt you will find what you are looking for if you ask the people who are not selling chickens. We made the mistake of asking everyone who did! Which led us no where.

Thank you for appreciating this little story 🙏

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Don't really understand why people find you so offensive?

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