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post #11 of 35
7/13/11 at 5:07am
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Oh, I'm sure the wife will eat it. I had to boil my hands in white vinegar after having touched it though...

2 years ago, a flat-lander, in FL, hiding in the house due to 8 months of heat and humidity every year. Now, living in the Smoky Mountains, gardening, keeping chickens, and loving life. You CAN teach an old dog new tricks. I used to list here the breeds of chickens I owned. There is not enough room to do that anymore. I have lots of chickens....

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2 years ago, a flat-lander, in FL, hiding in the house due to 8 months of heat and humidity every year. Now, living in the Smoky Mountains, gardening, keeping chickens, and loving life. You CAN teach an old dog new tricks. I used to list here the breeds of chickens I owned. There is not enough room to do that anymore. I have lots of chickens....

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post #12 of 35
7/13/11 at 5:13am

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Just wait until you turn one of your perfectly clean, fluffy hens over and get a look at her vent, then take a closer look and there are hundreds of tiny blood sucking aliens running around. I felt like I had things crawling on me for days after, as a matter of fact, just writing this is making me itch. Chicken keeping is not for the faint hearted. I've gotten a bit 'grittier' as the years have gone by, but it's a work in progress, and I still gag every now and then.

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post #13 of 35
7/13/11 at 5:18am
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Originally Posted by willkatdawson 

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Just wait until you turn one of your perfectly clean, fluffy hens over and get a look at her vent, then take a closer look and there are hundreds of tiny blood sucking aliens running around.


I think I just threw up a little bit sickbyc

2 years ago, a flat-lander, in FL, hiding in the house due to 8 months of heat and humidity every year. Now, living in the Smoky Mountains, gardening, keeping chickens, and loving life. You CAN teach an old dog new tricks. I used to list here the breeds of chickens I owned. There is not enough room to do that anymore. I have lots of chickens....

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2 years ago, a flat-lander, in FL, hiding in the house due to 8 months of heat and humidity every year. Now, living in the Smoky Mountains, gardening, keeping chickens, and loving life. You CAN teach an old dog new tricks. I used to list here the breeds of chickens I owned. There is not enough room to do that anymore. I have lots of chickens....

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post #14 of 35
7/13/11 at 5:27am

Let me tell you i can be a bit OCD - but there are things you have to accept when raising chickens - perhaps next time forego the vinegar and dip your hands in hot bleach - that will surely cure all! LOL tongue

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post #15 of 35
7/13/11 at 6:00am

Hehehe funny how all the reality of keeping animals is so gone by the time food gets to the grocery store and consumers. Not so squeaky clean when ya take out the middle man gig

Don't over-think your chickens, you'll create a problem that wasn't even there in the first place...

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Don't over-think your chickens, you'll create a problem that wasn't even there in the first place...

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post #16 of 35
7/13/11 at 6:07am
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Originally Posted by Jeffross1968 

But this is hideous! First of all, an OCD backyard chicken flock owner is in for some real horrors. I get this. But most of what I do can be done with tools...some kind of barrier between gross hideous things, and my clean, clean, baby smooth skin! But this...oh, lord no, this....when I reached into the laying box and went for this monstrosity, I felt like letting out a guttural scream like those found only in old 50's horror movies! Oh, please...what is this scuzz! Please, tell me it's not some kind of alien infection meant to cover me in it's evil and take over the planet as the deformed chicken farmer from hell!!!!

Ok, so it's not that bad. But hey, what is this stuff? If I had to describe it, it's kind of like the egg scuzz that gathers at the top of egg drop soup when you get it home from the chinese take out...that eggy, gross, scuzzy top stuff that you eat only because it tastes SOOOO good....

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j439/Jeffross1968/Chickens/102_4994.jpg


By the way, it was only on the top of the egg as it was sitting in the box, so I'm guessing it came out at the end? Ugh....


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Enjoyed it very much. Family did not as I laughed out loud and they were sleeping.

Looks like a bit of scrambled egg to me... that's all I can think of.
Oh, and NEVER touch me again!

Well, my bf & I drove 1 1/2 hrs on July 4th (YAY! Road Trip!) to get fertilized  Marans eggs for my virgin Silkie that went broody as soon as she booted her clutch of adopted store-bought chicks. Bought a dozen (3 bucks, thanks Linda!!!) and put 8 under Silkie.

I told bf the remaining 4 are for us for breakfast. He said "oh, you can have them". Huh? Finally he admitted that not only did the chocolate color gross him out but the 'thought' that they'd been fertilized was over the top gross. I explained briefly that many, many store-bought eggs are fertilized but dropped the subject and ate them puppies by myself.

Gross is in the eye of the beholder.

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post #17 of 35
7/13/11 at 6:10am
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Originally Posted by Inkheart 

Let me tell you i can be a bit OCD - but there are things you have to accept when raising chickens - perhaps next time forego the vinegar and dip your hands in hot bleach - that will surely cure all! LOL tongue


Do you know what CDO is.....it's like OCD but all the letters are in the correct order!!!  Hot boiling bleach is in order!  lau

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post #18 of 35
7/13/11 at 6:26am

Ooooohhhh.....you would not last sixty seconds here! I make my own ground tripe (stomach) for my dogs.  Talk about gross! And I have been known to pick up dog poop with my BARE hands! LOL.
Sorry, couldnt resist...big_smile

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post #19 of 35
7/13/11 at 7:27am

haha I open my egg hatch and saw a RIR sitting on a Leghorn egg and my Leghorn on a RIR egg-and they were in the same box! LOL my chickens are odd lau  when i went to get the eggs the RIR pecked me she was like go away smack

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post #20 of 35
7/13/11 at 7:31am
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Originally Posted by sourland 

Jeffross, you are easily grossed out!  Could she have found the lubricant tube??? hide


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