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post #51 of 57
10/21/11 at 8:56pm
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Originally Posted by al6517 

Spent is correct...................... I prefer the term worthless LOL.


lau   Thats what my hubby calls my girls!!!!

mom of 8 kids,  3 dogs,  10 cats, 11 hens, 1 goose, 1 duck  and the most loving, patient hubby, who puts up with me!!

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mom of 8 kids,  3 dogs,  10 cats, 11 hens, 1 goose, 1 duck  and the most loving, patient hubby, who puts up with me!!

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post #52 of 57
10/24/11 at 4:12am

Well we have our old coop that is doing nothing at the moment.The ducks hang out underneath it.We are going to retire 4 hens next spring to the old coop.They can come out in the morning,fly into the yard and free range without care.we will lock them up in the coop at night.

The four hens are:

Jeckle - mixed cukoo miran
Noseeher - Partridge Rock
Whitie - white Leghorn
Gruesome - Bared Rock

They will be our bug eradicators,our gardeners,our mice exterminators,our dirt tillers,and self propelled lawn mowers.  big_smile

Oh the Bunyip’s very bad,And the Bunyip’s very bold,And they tell you that the Bunyip’s Now a thousand years old.
So you better come home quickly,And you better hide very soon,Or the Bunyip’s going to get you....

In the Bunyip moon
 

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Oh the Bunyip’s very bad,And the Bunyip’s very bold,And they tell you that the Bunyip’s Now a thousand years old.
So you better come home quickly,And you better hide very soon,Or the Bunyip’s going to get you....

In the Bunyip moon
 

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post #53 of 57
1/21/12 at 3:57pm
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Originally Posted by fishnet1971 View Post

She is called my pet and pampered for the rest of her life because she has lain me many an egg over 2 years to pay for her feed for the next 4 or 5!!!! big_smile

yea, ok your soup, your luck, your what ever.... my pet. I know, I am a moron. just a chicken loving hen fluffin, fluffy buttin moron who just wont give up her girls.    lovebig_smile



Me too!

 

Mom to 4 Dogs, 2 Cats,  12 Bantams, 38 Standard Chickens, 2 Maylasian Seramas,  3 Button Quail, 1 Ringneck Dove, 2 Canaries, 4 Budgies, 4 Finches, 3 Lovebirds, 1 Standard Bronze Turkey  

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Mom to 4 Dogs, 2 Cats,  12 Bantams, 38 Standard Chickens, 2 Maylasian Seramas,  3 Button Quail, 1 Ringneck Dove, 2 Canaries, 4 Budgies, 4 Finches, 3 Lovebirds, 1 Standard Bronze Turkey  

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post #54 of 57
1/22/12 at 4:35pm

Soup chicken,,,,I just had a discussion with my Aunt and she wanted to know what a soup chicken was.I also told her you won't find one anymore in the supermarket because the way commercial chickens are raised. But see me in a couple of years when we start the chicken cycle. But I must admit they do have a special  attachment when they finally start to lay. 

2- Easter Eggers,2 Barred Rock,2 Rhode Island Reds,2 Millie Fluers (bantum), 2- Copper Marans
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2- Easter Eggers,2 Barred Rock,2 Rhode Island Reds,2 Millie Fluers (bantum), 2- Copper Marans
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post #55 of 57
1/23/12 at 1:36am

apparently if you slow cook old hen meat it is more tender than just boiling it 

1 tolerant mother, 2 red sexlinks ,1 isa brown, 1 australorp, 1 light/speckled sussex,one baby minorca mix, one white mystery chick, one maybe production red chick, a confused male pekin duck and one mystery hen which is genetically predisposed to lay double yolkers

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1 tolerant mother, 2 red sexlinks ,1 isa brown, 1 australorp, 1 light/speckled sussex,one baby minorca mix, one white mystery chick, one maybe production red chick, a confused male pekin duck and one mystery hen which is genetically predisposed to lay double yolkers

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post #56 of 57
1/23/12 at 10:28am

I pressure-can my old hens. Tenderizes them nicely.

Chickens off and on for 25+ years and still learning.

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Chickens off and on for 25+ years and still learning.

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post #57 of 57
1/23/12 at 11:47am
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Me too!

 


Me Three, mine were never inteded for meat.
 

 

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