Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

[Sassysouth]

I have moved the light closer to my chicks twice tonight and just moved it again when I saw it was going to be 50 degrees here in the morning!!! It is 59 now. We are in the 80’s during the day and then booty cold at night. Maybe it will feel like fall soon here in North Alabama. The leaves aren’t even really changing yet.
I cannot believe I am almost 42 and still live in this sweltering, humid environment. Shouldn’t my body be acclimated by now???? I just pour sweat all the time.
Anyway. Over it! Come on cool weather!

 

[black_dove2]

I swear I'm losing it!
I must have imagined seeing it.
I could have sworn I saw official member of the squatch watchers IN RED at the bottom of someone's post.
I've now read backwards to page 89 and didn't see it.
I think I need to go to bed!
Tomorrow, we need to give this gang a name. Lol.
Almost 100 pages now.
Hasn't it been fun?
Thanks @theuglychick !

Here you go

QUOTE="Smuvers Farm, post: 19068612

]I KNOW RIGHT?!?!?! Plus, it helps I have 2 boys, 8 (mine) and 11 (borrowed from the neighbors). And a 40 y/o DH who is *12*! I get daily noise, smell, sounds and sentences like *WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT!!!*, followed by peals of laughter..... I either laugh along or I'd go nuts.

Keep it up and you'll be the *strange smell* under my house...........

Member of The Squatch Watchers

 

[Anansi]

With cochins, you can make a foot bath for them with a two or three inches of water in a container big enough for them to stand in. Set them in one at a time, rinse the feet, then set them on a towel and pat the feet dry. During the warm months this will work any time of the day. During cold weather, I would recommend cleaning them in the coop with warm water before you lock them in for the night, they settle in and will keep their feet warm, just make sure they are as dry as possible.

 

[Anansi]

Look for playground sand, it has to be safe for little kids, but I'm not sure how it's cleaned and/or treated. It should not contain harmful chemicals or microorganisms and fungi. It may be worth checking out, also diatomaceous earth that you can get for livestock can be used in the coops.

 

[Anansi]

Weekend plan, Bailey's training, NASCAR, sewing, and invading my mom's house with a minimum of two kids and two dogs.

 

[Anansi]

12 yr old I don't know what with a morbid side to my sense of humor in a 48 yr old female body, vicariously living the teen years I never did through my kids and their friends. My kids agree with their friends, I'm an awesome mom. Guess I'm doing something right, and it's not just being a friend more than a parent, it's being there for them when they need me, and when they want me to. It's encouraging them to do things they enjoy, and helping them get what they need to do what they enjoy. It's understanding them and being willing to be silly or serious with them. That's where the 12 yr old comes in, the weird, silly, gross stuff.

 

[Anansi]

Already am halfway to a zoo, I call it a menagerie. 3 dogs, 1 cat, 2 hens, 2 parakeets (budgeries for those across the big blue waters), 13 rats, a Pacific Northwest tree frog, and assorted aquatics and live protein. Everyone lives inside, so it can be interesting, especially when dogs and birds all get vocal at the same time.

 

[pitbullmomma]

Saurkraut balls

• 1/2 lb spicey sausage
  
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
  
• 1 16 - ounce can sauerkraut
  
• 2 tablespoons fine dry bread crumbs
  
• 1/2 8 - ounce package cream cheese, softened
  
• 1 jalapeno finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons finely snipped fresh parsley
  
• 1 tablespoon sweet-hot mustard
  
• Dash garlic salt
  
• Dash pepper
  
• 1/3-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 2 tablespoons water
  
• 1/3-1/2 cup fine dry bread crumbs
  
• Cooking oil for deep-fat frying

directions

1. In a large skillet, cook sausage and onion until sausage is brown, breaking sausage into small pieces. Drain.
2. Drain sauerkraut, pressing out as much liquid as possible. In a large mixing bowl, combine sauerkraut, sausage mixture, the 2 tablespoons bread crumbs, the cream cheese, parsley, jalapenos, mustard, garlic salt, and pepper. Cover and chill for at least 3 hours or up to 4 hours.
3. Put flour in a shallow container. In another shallow container, beat eggs and water until combined. Put bread crumbs in a third shallow container.
4. Using about 2 tablespoons for each, shape sauerkraut mixture into balls. Roll balls in flour, then in egg mixture, then in bread crumbs. Fry a few at a time in deep, hot fat (365 degree F) for about 2 minutes or until brown. Remove from fat with a slotted spoon; drain on paper towels Makes 24 to 30 balls.

Thank you!!!! I'm so excited to make this! I'll prolly just leave out the sausage and double up on some of the other stuff, even though they have veggie sausage. This sounds delish!!! Little sour balls of heaven! (I too am a 12 year old boy in a 54 year old body. It's sad, but I amuse myself, lol)

 

[theuglychick]

Still just Mr.Squatch.

Side note: I lived in Manhappiness for a few years!

I miss it, it was a beautiful place. I loved eating at The Blue Stem Bistro, Early Edition, and Hu Hot!

I do not miss the chiggers and ticks though.

Ok I got to page 82 and couldn't read anymore! What's the update? Still just a roo?

 

[theuglychick]

What is baileys training?

Weekend plan, Bailey's training, NASCAR, sewing, and invading my mom's house with a minimum of two kids and two dogs.