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I've been trying to formulate this question for days, Old Timers. Hope I can get this across. Since I wasn't brought up on a farm, I have no idea how much I'm supposed to handle the chickens. Up to now, I've been really hand's off. I suppose that it is important to handle chickens, and not...

My grandparents lived in mill towns like Lawrence MA. My GM is still living at 96. Her father was a steeple jack. Both parents were German Immigrants. She was one of the last of twelve and only one child died--of mastoid ear. There on a postage-stamp lot they kept chickens, the hedge was...

People don't need to be a skin eater to want to save chicken skin. On a rooster it may well be the only fat you get! You simmer the skin with the bones in a pot all day (and the feet for that matter). A sparkly golden fat rises to the surface. When you chill the stock, the...

bobby-j: when people neglect to eat the fat of the land, the angels weep. I'll send you my address. LOL

beekissed wrote: ....isn't it funny how medical advice seems to waver from fats are bad, now fats are good, salt is bad, now salt is good, etc.? It almost makes you believe in conspiracy theory, doesn't it? I feel best on square, hearty meals of meat, fat, veg, carb, salt. I also believe...

Hello everyone, THANKS so much for the thread. I'm not an Old Timer, but at this long enough to see the wisdom in the advice. After 7 years of chicken keeping in MA, last month I finally butchered my first 3 birds. It was very freeing, and I agree: wyododge wrote: 1. The only way to fully...