They care about each other. They are clean industrious productive and are sufficient without any outside help. We could all learn from them. It never ceases to mystify me, as to why some people would spend their time and energy making hateful comments on articles about the lifestyle of those who believe differently. Really interesting! In regards to the chickens… my personal feelings always wants to let caged chickens out, just let them be.
Johns Hopkins U. Press Read it. Check Abebooks. I would like to go with her to this hutterite colony sometime this year. What a fun post! I just found this after while looking things up about Hutterites. I am LDS too! The farm my Grandma grew up on in Alberta was bought by Hutterites, who still live there. Anyway, my question: do you know if they would ever consider letting someone come stay with them for a week or so? I just think that would be really cool. You are welcome to come to stay at most colonies.
Schmiedeleut Hutterites you may find more welcoming. We have also Independent Hutterite Christian Communities which are more open to seekers. You will be expected to work. The expectations will be to out in the same level of work as any of the sisters or brethren. Some visitors are surprised by this. But the point is many times you will be welcome. Usually you are invited for a day visit, overnight or longer will need to be approved by the brethren.
What a great question. I will try to answer honestly and in ways that make sense. I assume by now you have already done some research. The short answer is: yes! Every Colony is different and has different rules. Also we are very diverse. There is no just one kind Hutterite. There is Dariusleut, Lehrerleut and Schmiedeleut.
Also there are independent Hutterite colonies. Most independent colonies come from Schmiedeleut background. Also note that Hutterites share mostly a common ethnicity. Usually contacting a colony closest to you is a good start. Arrangements for a visit can be made usually your first time for a day, unless you live very far away, then overnight is usually permitted. If the brethren deem it ok, you will be invited back for more and longer visits.
You will want to also familiarize your self with Anabaptist theology. Also, should you get to the point of joining the community by baptism, you will be expected to contribute things like an automobile, savings, checking, other funds to the community. These are things to consider seriously when deciding to join. Hutterisch is a dialect spoken in most colonies and can be very difficult to learn. Most of us speak English. We do have smart phones, computers, iPads, iPods, play instruments.
Also many of us graduated high school and have even been to college. Our education levels is more need based. I prefer the Amish way i think. Both need to move into the current times and allow women more opportunity but it is a very idealistic way of living for sure. How incredibly interesting! Such an amazing lifestyle. I am looking for something about cleaning the inside of oven windows.
How would any human being want to live in his or her poop!!!!!!!!!! You focus is on one extreme to the next. Many free range do not step back in their own feces. Many caged are not that clean. It is not like they poo pebbles. It is quite messy and many do not have conveyor belts below them. Also think of standing on wire cages that are often rusty and sharp. I have varied opinions on both sides of how chickens are kept.
I have worked farms and understand that working with a larger flock is extremely different than just a few. They actually have the potential to be so much more. Lengthy little story, but all i have shares it with liked and learned a lot from it. So try to give a read if you will-. I was given hour old chicks while on a road trip. They were miniature batans. One black rooster and two gray hens. They were kept in small boxes and upgraded aquariums and took them out to roam the house and yards often.
Never pooed inside and only one spot of their enclosers. Very clean like their ama, lol. It was exciting to experience so many of their first. They grew quickly to know a schedule of being out during the day and in at night.
They honestly preferred it that way. Especially after they learned of predators outside. I got a large cage they could run to if they felt threatened and I was not able to be in the yard with them. It had no bottom so they were still able to scratch. I would move it daily throughout the yard, square by square. I did not have to mow the yard for years that way either. I also put branches and that one so they could perch and shed their beaks. Also otherwise they prefered concrete, LOL.
Inside I could hear them wake around 6 am. Yet they remained quiet until I was able to get up. Then they wanted out. I would take the lid off their cage and they would hop out. He would go into the kitchen to eat and come back into the living room to snuggle and take a nap.
I laid paper in the kitchen but they would actually go and poo on. Later i had an orphaned Canadian goose that acted almost exactly the same. As they grow older they wanted to get outside more. Good morning ritual took them straight to the back door where they would tap for me to open it so they could go out. If I did not open it immediately the rooster who was smaller would fly up onto the curtains and start getting noisy. I figured I would let them see the bad weather for themselves.
They were stunned at first but came to like the rain. I would put the mister on for hotter days and a little baby pool they liked to splash around in. They also did like their indoor baths. Again very clean they were. Especially after taking their instinctual dust baths during the day, LOL.
They were very sociable and friendly. They got excited every time the little boy next door came out. He brought over a jar his caterpillar had lived in. I had bet him that it was a moth and he was excited to see. It was, but more interesting to watch the hens hop around watching it fly in the jar.
Seemed as if they were excited for him as well. As Joey opened the jar, it flew out and he tried to catch it. Just then our one hen Linda jumped up so high and caught it in her beak and gobbled it up. Joey was in tears and I was grossed out. At dusk they would tap on the back door and make little noises to come in. Again if there was no response quick enough Alice the rooster would fly up onto the screen so he could see in untappd louder to make.
If I was not where he could see me they would go and sit in the cage for 10 minutes and come back and try again till I would let them in. They walked right back into the back bedroom where their cage was and hopped in the three of them would cuddle in the corner and nest down for the night. Basically the same routine every morning.
No matter of the weather they would have to go out for at least a bit to decipher when they wanted to come in especially if it was too cold and then the living room became more of the hangout. We beginning to do a release out the door to further their enrichment by allowing them to fly a little bit. It was more of a flap and glide. And they could fly up briefly a few feet up to perch on smaller trees and fences.
On the first day of snow their first year they demanded to go out. So I did the release and the second Alice landed and touched the snow he freaked out and flew up onto the roof and did not move. The hens had a similar reaction on the ground until they saw Alice Up on the Roof. They got upset and then started hopping around crying to him. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Services Full metadata XML. Authors Wacholz, Tanya. Issue Date Type Presentation. Na ja! Finally, I asked a policeman ift here was a representation of a Goldenes Dachel ingendwo in die Umgebung. Er zeighte mit seinem Hand.
Ach ja, sicher. Gerade da is es! He looked at me and then began to laugh. He then explained that he understood my confusion because he had spent some time in Duesseldorf. Here a Dechel without an Umlaut is a small roof or canopy. This same confusion often comes up when I speak High German with the Hutterites.
The only other time outside of their church sermons High German is commonly used by the Hutterites is in writing personal letters back and forth to each other.
English is taught in the public school. All Hutterites have eight years of regular school instruction in English, and when they leave school at age fifteen, their English reading, writing, and speaking is on paar with their native English-speaking neighbors.
I was born in Almont,PA and grew up around Pennsylvania Dutch speaking relatives, local country stores etc. I attended the local Menonite Church, where the singing and Sermon was in German. Years later I lived in Wiesbaden, Germany, where I met my wife of 54 years.
I remained in Germany until my retirement from the German system,where I receive a small pension every month. Getting back to the point. Hutterish is almost like PD. I hope you get my point? I love he show and hope they will continue to renew for many seasons. I am very interested in Hutterisch, since I already speak, read, and write German. I am attempting to learn Hutterisch from them and hope to see some sort of book developed one day.
Vielen Dank fur diese seite. Hoffentlich kann ich Hutterisch lernen, uben, und reden. You are in the best place and near a colony that could help you the most! I believe he is working in translating the Bible from German to Hutterisch language as we speak.
I watched part of the show on television once. The bible clearly tells us Not to do these things. Ephesians … Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers…. Colossians … But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. I recently spoke with Tony Waldner from the Forest River Colony regarding the Hutterisch dialect and hope to be able to meet with him regularly as his time allows. I recently returned from my vacation in Lewistown, Montana.
I was quite fortunate to visit the King Colony Ranch, located approximately 10 miles west of Lewistown. Rita Hofer conducted my tour through the colony and answered all of my questions. She also spoke to me in both English and Hutterisch. The tour was a very special treat for me since it gave me the rare opportunity to see Hutterites from another location in the U.
S and to see their operation first hand. I learned that the members of King Colony are from the Dariusleut group of Hutterites. There are two other colonies near Lewistown in central Montana. I hope to be able to visit these other colonies in the near future and make some more new friends! His telephone number is or He publishes it in two parts. He has done a heroic effort in revising the two volumes on an approximately yearly basis.
Each time a new colony is formed, he has to recalibrate the map for that specific page and it is a major time-consuming effort. His atlas also contains the telephone number of every colony boss, the GPS coordinates and a clearly written set of instructions on how to reach the colony—right to the front door of the colony kitchen! You mentioned the name of some Dariusleut colonies in central Montana, but in order to get to King Ranch, Spring Creek, or Ayers Ranch—from any direction, you will have passed within a fifteen minute drive off the highway to get to a half dozen other colonies in the area.
I am hugely fascinated by your religioin. I would love to learn more finer details if at all possibles. I once ordered two books on the Hutterisch language From Mr. How would I contact Him to order more? Learning Hutterisch is not in written form. It is an archaic German. They came from Yugoslavia,Rumania,Hungary. I was born in Yugoslavia and to this day speak Deitsch. Die Mutter sproch soll mer nie vergesse. But I am sure that we in Germany do surely have words for them.
Maybe you could ask some german people. I think its a pitty that more and more english words are used in hutterian colonies. I just start to learn about hutterian life and I am happy to see, that the colonies still exist and keep the old faith and traditions.
Thanks, Stephanie. However, it would still be tough to go find German words for those things, especially with the English so readily available. Kannesch Du mir a Textbeischpiel zoagen, damit i sechen konn, wia eis enkre Sproch schreibts und redets?
I hon glesen, dass sie friehr vom Tirolerischen obstommt. I just met some people from a Hutterite community in Saskatchewan as part of my work as a doctor.
I new to the country from the UK and did not know they were from a Hutterite community or even what a Hutterite was before today. I was convinced they were Irish from the accent… Now I have a theory — how did original groups of Hutterites learn English when they came to North America? Could they have learned it from Irish settlers and picked up the accent this way? The reason I ask is because I have many German friends who learned English in private schools in Germany from American English teachers and they have a distinct American twang or accent.
Could it be that a similar process has occurred with the Hutterite English accent in the distant past and it has survived from one generation to the next? Hello, I would love to be able to communicate with you about the Hutterisch langague.
I am a speech pathologist in southern Alberta. Please get back to me at me emai address. Thank you kindly, Tanya. I am a Hutter. That is how I learned the dialect, somewhat, I could understand it better than I could speak it. During Schmeckfest, three of us would tell the same story in our dialect.
We did that for about seven consecutive years. Maachs Goot Bob. Thanks for stopping by, Bob and for sharing your thoughts. I have friends among the Prairie People from Freeman. I can appreciate that your performances would have been enjoyed, especially by people still speaking the dialect, which as I understand is all but lost among the Freeman Prairie People.
That is so sad. I bin in Tirol aufgwachsn. Hab einen vergleichbaren dialekt zum Hutterischen. I bin daran intressiert zu lesn wia dei Hutterischer dialekt klingt. Bsonders guat find i das du angfangn hast a Hutterisches Woerterbuch zum schreibn. Das Tiroleisch und Kaerntnerisch ist eine sehr lebendige sprach und wird vo fui leut gsprochn. Fuea de woerter die ueber d Zeit im Hutterischen vergessn wordn sind, giabts die moelichkeit diese wieder zu entdeckn im Tirolerischen und Kaerntnerischen.
Wannsd magst kann i dir helfn. Gottes segn. I found your blog by coincidence and was fascinated reading it. I grew up in the Tirol and my dialekt is similar to to the Hutterisch. I would be interested to read how your Hutterisch dialekt sounds. Tirolean and carinthian is still a very alive language and spoken by many people today. Words that have gone lost over time in the Hutterisch could be rediscovered. If you want I could help. Would you let me know what you think about it?
God bless. I know that some areas in Austria still speak a similar dialect to Hutterisch. Does your dialect have a written form? I sometimes blog about Hutterisch on my personal blog as well.
I have a book, done by one of my moms aunts I believe, somewhere packed away that is a Hutterish to English dictionary.
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