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[lynn1961]

Love the post about what your grandma would think about a $ 27.00 chicken, my grandma would be the same, i remeber all the chickens she used to have and the 2 great big gardens we used to help her weed in the summer time, hated it then, love it now.

 

[what did I do]

My grandparents all had chickens but we never had any farm fresh eggs. Only once did I have a fresh butchered chicken and it was so tough you couldn't eat it. What I remember most about the people who butchered the chicken for us is that the chickens lived better than they did. The chickens had big nice commercial barn. The people had cracks between the floor boards of their house that you could see the ground under the house through.

I'm sure my mil is rolling over in her grave over our chickens. I'm sure she is looking at us as we use all her chicken stuff in a way she never would. I'm surprised we haven't had an earthquake from all her rolling around in her grave. She died in the fall and we got chickens in the spring.

I'm sure she would have dropped dead at the thought of selling eggs and butcher chickens for the price we get for them. One of my neighbors still gets 1$ a dz for her eggs $27 for a chicken lol that would be just too much for her.

 

[lynn1961]

As a kid, my sister, myself and our neighbor lady butchered a banty rooster, he was an old banty rooster. She tried cooking him, boiled him, tried baking he sure was tough and stringy, she ended up putting BBQ sauce on him, we ended up eating the BBQ sauce and bread, my mom asked me if I remembered that when we were cooking the meaties last week, yep, do remember after 40 years, worst shicken I ever had was that old banty rooster !

 

[what did I do]

 

[Oregon Blues]

[[[[[........Who ever thought I would live long enough to know that people pay $27 for one chicken at a farmer's market???

My grandma would be laughing for days over that one...and would promptly go out and count just how much money was walking around her yard.......]]]]]]]]

Your grandma was probably paying the equivalent of $27 for a chicken.

I did inflation adjustment for the price of a dozen eggs in the 1940's and they were selling for the equivalent of $12 in today's money.

I can remember buying scrawny chickens on sale for 97 cents apiece, but I was also buying gasoline for 25 cents a gallon and chuck steak was 19 cents a pound and watermelons were 2 cents a pound. The chickens were not the fat breasted chickens that we get in the market today, and they weighed about 1 1'/2 pounds each. They were scrawny little things. The nicer, plumper chickens were never on sale for that cheap. Even the nice plump chickens were nothing like the full breasted Cornish Cross with all the white meat.

Also, your granny wasn't paying $17 for a bag of chicken food.

 

[Beekissed]

My granny wasn't paying anyone for chicken...she raised her own and she raised her own feed, which was just field corn. She would tell us girls to go out and feed the chickens for her which consisted of taking a four or five large cobs from a barrel and shelling the corn right there on the ground. She kept a free ranging flock of laying~and eating~hens/roos all the time I was growing up. When company would arrive, she would go out and get a bird or two, hang them on the clothesline and cut their throats and proceed to butcher them out. We didn't let the meat "rest" or any such nonsense and it was the best chicken I can remember eating.

No...granny wasn't paying anyone for chicken back then, as I don't now either. If I can't raise it, I don't buy it.

 

[erinchelsea]

Granny wasn't paying $8000 for an acre of farm ground back then, either!

 

[Beekissed]

Nope.

 

[bruceh]

another good thread. well congrats on the wedding. my hats off to you all for raising and eating your own food. i just an old city boy turned country, i love the life. i wish i had done it earlier in my life. i planted my garden this year a great big one. i am in the process of raising a bunch of meaties. i am also raising about 12 egg layers. i am up at 7-8 am give the chickens their water ( yes bee with acv ) and open the pen door . at 8-8:30 in the evening i come back to give the birds evening dinner and close the pen up.. today an old time farmer came by to see my flock. i was so proud when he said "them birds look great" how you doing it. this is my first time doing chickens. i can't wait to eat them. i have to pay a guy to come teach me how to process. the processor here wants 5.00 a bird. no way will i ever pay that.

 

[Beekissed]

on the ACV! That's a high complement when you are asked for methods by an old farmer....kudos to you! I wish I lived closer, Bruce, you wouldn't have to pay a dime as I'd come over and help you process. I don't blame you...I'd never pay anyone to process my birds either. Too easy to do it myself than to pay someone. $5 is a pretty steep price for processing.