BYC Café

[starbuck123]

One neighbor threw out her kids things if they did not put them away. The easiest way for her to clean up was to put everything in the garbage.
I felt sorry for those kids.
...and our landfill.

Aah! That would make me consider rescuing those things! (yes, I have salvaged things from garbage of neighbors - but only clean items and I always asked first!) We had neighbors that would throw away Coach purses. Just asinine thinking, in my opinion.

Yep, like you I shop the perimeter and just naturally gravitate to things without packaging. This will further force me to pre-think about what I buy to make sure I don't bring home anything I don't have a plan to eventually get rid of. I did just email my mom and ask if she minded if we stopped by with the occasional chicken carcass!! As we can't bury or burn garbage within our city, I don't know how I'd get rid of something like that. We have a jerky neighbor and I have visions of catapaulting it into his yard so his pitbulls can tear it apart... lol. But anyway..though our trash hauling bill isn't huge..why pay for it if we don't need it? Ooh..I'm excited to make that call to cancel.

 

[3goodeggs]

We had neighbors that would throw away Coach purses.

!!!!!!!!

My husband and son see potential in every garbage day. They weld and fix things. My husband can see a use for just about everything.
That is good. But I need a certain amount of organization so they KNOW what they already have.
I do not want our place to be a surrogate landfill.

Give your chicken and turkey carcases to your chickens.
They will pick it so clean all it will be is bones. Save the bones and dispose of them at your leisure.

you could turn your bones into bone meal for your gardens.

 

[tjo804]

Bones ... My daughter works with a woman who uses bones to make jewelry.
She uses all bones deer chicken road kill what ever.

 

[scottcaddy]

Bones ... My daughter works with a woman who uses bones to make jewelry.
She uses all bones deer chicken road kill what ever.

Give your chicken and turkey carcases to your chickens.
They will pick it so clean all it will be is bones. Save the bones and dispose of them at your leisure.

So there went dear old uncle Albert.
Scott

 

[Chickenchick11]

I think ya did..not sure exactly where north you are but I bet you're getting snow now..just like us. 

Yep, we got snow. I'm on the Iron Range.

 

[starbuck123]

Give your chicken and turkey carcases to your chickens.
They will pick it so clean all it will be is bones. Save the bones and dispose of them at your leisure.

So there went dear old uncle Albert.
Scott

LOL! So the cannibal thing is no biggie? I've reading conflicting info - yes / no. Oh, I could see my dogs going nuts trying to get in the coop to get at that carcass. Actually our biggest garbage culprit is those little pieces of plastic, like chicken breasts come in. I might need to find another source instead of Costco. I hope my local co-op sells the good ones I like, singly so I can just bring in a ziploc bag and have the butcher parcel them out.

 

[scottcaddy]

Quote: To a chicken there is no such thing as a forbidden/taboo meat. Ours like it best if it is still moving but, cooked will do also!
Scott

 

[3goodeggs]

Quote: imagine dropping dead in the chicken coop.
That might be an answer to the rising costs of funeral expenses.

yes, i did just say that..

but you all thought it!

 

[starbuck123]

Yikes! Apparently when I was little and visiting my grandparents who kept chickens, my cousin thought it would be fun to lock me in the coop. Apparently he did this a few times until he got caught and got his hide tanned by my aunt. I was probably two years old and I guess it didn't scar me even though I got pecked a bunch..although when we got our coop a few months ago, the first thing I checked was the latch to make sure you can't get locked inside! We need to rig it so you can pull the latch up..once it gets warmer we'll figure something out because I don't want my body eaten by chickens! (though I take good care of myself and am probably pretty tasty!)

So I guess chickens really will eat anything...?

 

[3goodeggs]

Our golden retriever is still less than a year old, and does puppy stuff.
When my husband is sitting on the couch she will walk up to him and put her mouth softly over his fingers and just stand there with his fingers in her mouth.

He then says," If I die, those are the first things you are going to gnaw off, aren't they?"

I say, "She's just holding your hand!"
"No,' He says." She's tasting me."

yep. Life around here gets interesting.