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

[Suzi18]

I boiled a small hen I butchered this past weekend because I'm now cooking food for one of my dogs with medical issues. After stripping the meat off the carcass, I returned the bones to the pot to continue making bone broth.

Meal 1: Sauted red onions and Toscano kale mixed with scrambled fresh eggs, topped with a little freshly grated Romano cheese and diced grape tomatoes.

Next, baked Paleo orange-cranberry-chocolate chip muffins. REALLY good!

Then...fresh veggie and fruit juice. I make a blender-full of it every day and feed the pulp to the chickens. Our mornings start out with a juice + raw egg smoothie. (I've lost 13 lbs since Oct. 2nd!)

Then...time to cook up the rest of the ingredients for the dog food.

And finally....a dinner of burst tomatoes and roasted garlic over zoodles for dinner, and then I'll finally strain out all of the ingredients for the broth.

This is a normal Wednesday for me. It would be a lot less work if I didn't have to wash so many dishes in between.

Sounds wonderful.....but what are zoodles?

 

[CSAchook]

Hi everyone Just finished catching up
You all have been busy! Congrats on new birds, a new cat, great meals, and a fun Halloween

 

[Smuvers Farm]

 

[Sassysouth]

Hardware cloth at Amazon. The price has gone up since last year. I do the 4ft width and NOBODY sells 4 ft, only 2 and 3 ft.

 

[rjohns39]

Nah, we're only 4 minutes away on these abandoned little backroads. And we only have a couple of beers. It's a beautiful thing, I love my Wednesday happy hour! Breaks up the week.

Closest bar to me is like 50 miles away. ARG

I know what is happening by what rjohns likes!

You're funny

 

[Smuvers Farm]

Hardware cloth at Amazon. The price has gone up since last year. I do the 4ft width and NOBODY sells 4 ft, only 2 and 3 ft.

I was curious... cause I KNOW we had to have bought close to $400 worth of hardware cloth just for our 20x20 run.... yeesh!

 

[Sassysouth]

Such a great story. Thanks for sharing.

Parront, we had a cockatiel for years. The cage door was never kept closed. I built it a play pen, so it would poop either in the cage, or on the bottom of the playpen. Twinkle (turned out to be a he) could hear my X's truck when it pulled onto our street, and would start chirping. From the time my X walked in the door, that bird would perch on his shoulder, rub his head on him, and just carry on. Later on, he would settle down, but remain on X's shoulder until bedtime. At bedtime, he would fly into his cage, and I would cover it.

One early night, X went to get a snack from the fridge. When he opened the fridge door, and bent down, Twinkle flew down on the floor behind him, waiting so he could fly back up on X's shoulder. Well, X got his snack, and stepped back from the fridge to close the door, and Twinkle didn't get out of his way fast enough. He stepped on Twinkle's tail feathers. Twinkle squawked, and ran, but his tail feathers were in a pile on the floor.

When X sat down in his chair, Twinkle flew up on his shoulder, and began assessing the damage. Suddenly, he discovered he had lost his tail feathers. He began screeching at my X, and shaking his bare butt at him. It was so comical. Twinkle carried on like that for 30 mins. After that, every evening when Twinkle would get on X's shoulder, he screeched at him while shaking his bare butt at him, for a couple minutes. Twinkle did that until his tail feathers grew back in. X never stepped again, without looking first.

 

[rjohns39]

I was curious... cause I KNOW we had to have bought close to $400 worth of hardware cloth just for our 20x20 run.... yeesh!

I price and buy mine locally. It's crazy, but you can find a huge difference just by driving a few miles.

 

[Sassysouth]

Sounds wonderful.....but what are zoodles?

I do zucchini noodles with a spiralizer.

 

[Sassysouth]

I was curious... cause I KNOW we had to have bought close to $400 worth of hardware cloth just for our 20x20 run.... yeesh!

I think I may go get something cheaper to do this floor run with, like maybe 1”x2”. It will be buried a few inches and I don’t want to use 20 of the 50ft I ordered for that.