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Okay I just have to say I love this thread lol you guys are all such a hoot. I've been busy and gotten behind but I just finished catching up. Love all of the topics that have been covered. Especially the trespassing and funny chicken stories. We live on a somewhat busy road so we do get...

Lol absolutely chickens can be sweet!!!!! I love some of my chickens and they won't ever be culled unless they were suffering. These we call our lifers. While I love and care for all of our chickens to the very best of my knowledge and ability there are those that I don't for and those that I...

While we're on this subject at the agricultural department/ program in our state college does feed studies on Cornish cross. The hatch and feed them and monitor them for several weeks. Now before a friend of my DH2B and I started going there they would then kill the chicks BC they had no outlet...

Ew to the faux-food!! Yuck. And people talk about GMOs. Ick. What's the point? They could take those bajillions of dollars used to come up with that stuff and instead fund real farms that raise real animals. Instead of developing all the farms into subdivisions and warehouses and such...

Rofl funny you said that we also use tidy cats clumping and our nest boxes and several feeders themselves as well as storage are all made from the containers. :D they're really nice containers. I'd love to see pics of your nest boxes :) to see if we made them the same

Lol not with that many cats you can't Lol What kind of litter do you like?

Lol yeah but ya gotta love cats! As a crazy cat lady I'm happy to meet a crazy cat man! Lol and a fellow cat rescuer. Thank you for all you do for the homeless kitties. :) We also seem to have a sign that says stray and unwanted animals come here. Lol not so much now but before yes a lot. We...

You have 8 house cats? Awesome! We have 5 house cats. One of our house cats has a major prey drive but is terrified of the adult birds we've brought in before. The others are kind of curious but not phased much.

Yeah that poor girl. Sadly it's much more common now than you'd think even in farm country. When we butcher we didn't it right in the side yard and every part of the process is visible from the road except where we bleed then and remove the heads. We have cars that drive back and forth several...

I always loved the drumstick too but on real chicken that's had a life and moves and everything there are a lot more tendons so I completely understand where he's coming from. I still like the meat but I don't just grab a leg and chow down.

We have discovered that dark meat that some people find unappealing BC of its texture(especially when used to store bought chicken) can be helped a lot and not wasted by putting in the slow cooker with BBQ and making pulled BBQ chicken. We don't mind dark meat but with only two of us currently...

Ha! If only my girls layed that bright of a blue I'd get 10$ a dozen for my eating eggs! Lol but I wouldn't be able to eat them lol I'd probably just blow them all to keep. :) Pretty! My goodness sometimes I just have no words at all.

Fail. That is just sad. And personally I wish my lavender orps layed lavender eggs it would make knowing who layed them so much easier. If this were true though what the heck would SLW and EE eggs look like with their different patterns and colors!

Good idea! Getting rid of all of his pent up energy will do him a world of good. If you can lock your flock up safely and out of sight of him and your hard is bigger I recommend starting in there possibly trying to get him to play fetch. It give him a job and mental and physical stimulation...

Glad to hear she's in that kind of a program otherwise her odds would have not been very good. Unfortunately animals that have been taken out of shelters and then returned no matter the circumstances are usually the first ones put down so I'm glad to hear she's in that kind of a program. I think...

Okay ew ew ew on not such a huge deal but ouch! Guessing that wasn't one of his finer moments. Lol makes me think of last summer. My Mom found out that those callous removing things they use for pedicures are basically razors. Okay no problem right? So she goes out and buys a package of...

I think if they were on the other side of a fence it would be okay or if you had no other choice. I know it's gross but you also have to think that the zombies are rotting and that's why they are so easy to stab in the skull. That's my theory BC the tissues and bones have started to decompose...

It's easier when they're mean to people or the hens makes it so much easier for me emotionally. We had a SLW roo last spring like that he was headed to the freezer. Looking back I'm glad I didn't. He was huge! Like 12+ lbs and so very gentle with the pullets and hens he was perfect in that...

Sounds awesome!!! How long have you and your DH been together? I would love to see some pictures of the house! Sounds awesome!!! We still need a lot of stuff and we're still getting the hang of gardening but we love it. DH2B is a farmer. DH2B has also raised cattle although where we're at...

Okay I just have to say how much I love your guys' conversation turning to surviving a disaster and the walking dead!!! This is why this is one of my favorite threads lol. We also watch the walking dead and get behind for a year and then catch up we love that show and are something of preppers...