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[Cubbyt]

Hey there Cub here in Kentucky we have had chickens for my grandson since last spring. RIR and SLW. Raise Golden Retrievers and Siberian Husky Rescue 8 dogs in all we love our grandkids and camping.

 

[sourland]

Hey, Cub, welcome to the café and to BYC.

 

[3goodeggs]

Welcome!

 

[scottcaddy]

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...?

Almost anything, ours will not eat banana peels. But as far as meat goes, any and all meat is good stuff, moving or cooked don't matter.
Scott

 

[scottcaddy]

Hi Cubbyt!

Scott

 

[3goodeggs]

Hey. terrysgirl.
I found this for us!

 

[Mtn Margie]

Hey there Cubbyt!

Sounds like you have a lot of fun mayhem over your way with all of the dogs, grandkids and chickens.

Still snowing and I am making the cookies, finally. One of my sons dropped in, complete with friends yesterday and so we had a day of chatting and sledding and hot chocolate and dinner by the fire.
Need to refill my cup to go with the cookies....

 

[Mtn Margie]

Hey. terrysgirl.
I found this for us!

Love it!

 

[starbuck123]

Hey. terrysgirl. 
I found this for us!

Haha! Well I crunched numbers and it will cost us $317 to keep service. No brainier. bye bye garbage service!

 

[krista74]

Welcome Cubbyt, pour yourself a cuppa!

I must say a huge thankyou to you all for the giggle this morning, and also the pertinent reminder to watch my step and never fall over in the coop, lest I be eaten alive by a swarm of hungry chickens. What a comforting thought

My chickens are like little dinosaurs and will swarm to just about anything - bacon pieces being the current favourite. In fact, they love ALL meat, and quite like bread too, but I don't let them have much of that. The only things they don't seem to like are hard fruits like apples.

The cost of disposing of household rubbish in Australia is included in our Council rates. We are issued with one general purpose bin (for food waste and non-recyclable rubbish) and one recycle bin which is for cans. bottles, paper etc. Some councils provide a third bin for green waste (lawn clippings, tree cuttings) but not out here to us in the bush. The general purpose bins are collected once a week only, so if you run out of space you need to pay to dump your rubbish at the council tip. The recycle bins are twice the size and are collected fortnightly. Out here, since we are rural, we can burn off a lot of garden waste if we need to.

Hubby and I buy everything in bulk, because the shops are a half hour drive away. We eat mostly perimeter foods - fruit and veg, bread, meat, and the basics such as flour, sugar, eggs etc which I turn into baked goodies. We prefer home made biscuits and cake, so cut down on packaging a lot that way. Our meat we buy in bulk from the butcher, and divvy it up into little plastic bags to freeze into individual portions, and these bags are re-used. We grow some of our own fruit and veg, and aim to do more of that going forward. And of course, we have the best eggs in Australia! (Mind you, at the moment we have no eggs, as everyone is moulting and broody - sigh....)

- Krista