The Society of Crazy Chicken Ladies, A Guy, and a Girl - Page 314  

Quote:Originally Posted by NovaAman Its that faux suede like crap... I forget what they call it. BUT every dang lick spot, drop of wet anything shows up as a watermark so fast. You can not just wipe that spot. You have to wipe the whole cushion with a damp towel.

What I mean by limit feed if weigh out enough to feed your birds each day and feed them that "limited" amount rather than leave it out free choice and then just give them another meal of corn to keep their crops full and give them the extra energy they need to stay warm.  

I buy pork over beef because of the price. I also find that the pork sucks in the flavor so much better than the beef. The beef also, if you cook the cut wrong, it'll end up either too dry, too tough and I HATE to have screwed up meat. I never screw up the pig... but I very seldom manage to make a steak right. A roast I can do awesomely... BUT I can make pork more ways and have it come out right than I can beef... I must be a sucky cook. LOL

Different strokes for different folks I guess. Not only do I appreciate all the work Sam puts in to purchasing, preparing, smoking and packaging it up- all at his cost, but I absolutely LOVE his smoked chicken! So much so that I waited a whole year for it to come around again, and purchased some from him the next year- and then use my raffle prize to get some as well this year. 

My family all loves Sams' chicken- and talks about it afterwards. I really have a problem eating chicken now that I own them- dont even get me started on my inability to eat chicken embryos...eggs...- however, Sams' chicken is my exception.  

Smoked turkey is another delicacy- havent had that in years. But I remember it. 

We usually fill our freezer twice a year- a pig and half a beef. My brother in law raises them. Lasts us all year. Every year I end up with pork after the venison and beef is gone. I hate pork.   (only half a hypocrite, Olive. )

My husband cant smoke anything either so i can relate. In fact, I told him he has to have Sam teach him how to do it right. It is really an art to do correctly. Nope if you cant roll it, my husband aint smokin it here. No wonder you didnt like the way Sam's smelled, after being around smokin' all summer long..probably brought back bad memories for you.  

I pay $650-$700 for half a cow. Ummm, at live weight of the high end of a thousand pounds- I have no idea what half dressed weight is- but I get a TONNNNN of meat. AND the hamburger is NOTHING like what you buy at the store. Its more like the ground sirloin- very very lean.

Can I ask how you get your birds to eat corn? Mine wont touch whole corn, and they leave the cracked corn too. The squirrels eat it. 

Where are you located at? At the store we are definately seeing the price differance from the drought. Beef is darn near $1 /pound. All those poor ranchers giving up their livelyhood for my sketti!

wow you people go to bed early what time do you get up

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  I'll require photographic evidence. 

As I said, that is from a numbers standpoint only.  Nova (and most of the people on this thread) know how I feel about the quality and economic side of it so there's no sense in rehashing it. 

you are going to bed wow is it 3 am already

WOW!! All of our birds eat cracked or whole corn like it's candy! I won't serve whole corn to the call ducks or bantams but I do everyone else. In the winter we give warm corn to them an hour before sundown as a snack to keep them warm.