BYC Café

[Mtn Margie]

Ha, funny! The Rooster Reaper! I raise my own chickens for eating and I have noticed, besides the wonderful taste and lack of nasty smell, that they have more gel to them in the broth. I am hoping that this will be good for a grannie's joints seeing as how I just came in from burning some slash piles from the summer's fire mitigation work. I think this spring will be our 6th year with meat chickens. NEVER going back to the gagging store stuff!

 

[3goodeggs]

'Gagging store stuff.'
yep.
That is how I feel about store bought eggs now.
There is really no good alternative to getting older, but I would like to be healthy as I do it.

A month and a half of being just about bed bound with lung infections has made me realize that I don't bounce back well. Granted, it was just some serious bad luck, but still...

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Quote: Oh my yes. He is!! We also get our beef clean...his sister gets them up in Ohio, and we bring them down here processed once a year.

 

[3goodeggs]

That will give my husband and myself something to digest.
(

sorry, I love puns.)


We have thought about purchasing beef from a friend- barter.
I do not think I could eat my own calf. I would have a big expensive pet.

 

[krista74]

We get lamb cheap here. My brother has a sheep station, and once a year he will slaughter a bunch of lambs for meat. We just put in our order - anything from half a lamb upwards, and it comes back to us as sausages, racks, roasts and chops. He charges us for the slaughter and processing costs, and a small fee for the meat itself. We pay about AU$100 for the whole lamb cut up. I must say the flavour is so much better compared to the lamb you get in the shops. The price is better too! We are paying AU$30 a kg for lamb in the supermarket, lol.

I think it's amazing how different home grown and store bought can be, in all things really. Example - I have been diagnosed as having an allergy to dairy. If I drink processed milk, I crap blood (sorry, I know that's crass, but it's the truth!) But the raw milk from our dairy, well, I can use that in my cooking and be just fine. Eggs are another one. I used to feel really nauseous after eating store bought eggs, but I can eat 2 a day from my girls and I'm fine. Fruit and vegetables, I presume the shops keep them in deep freeze for a century or so, because they have no taste to speak of. We all know how good home grown fruit and veg are though! I grow what I can and when that runs low hubby and I head off to the local farmer's, market and buy direct from the grower. So much better than the shops!

- Krista

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

I used to feel really nauseous after eating store bought eggs, but I can eat 2 a day from my girls and I'm fine. Fruit and vegetables, I presume the shops keep them in deep freeze for a century or so, because they have no taste to speak of. We all know how good home grown fruit and veg are though! I grow what I can and when that runs low hubby and I head off to the local farmer's, market and buy direct from the grower. So much better than the shops!

- Krista

Looks like you had the same experience as my DH with the store bought eggs. He can eat our hens eggs just fine.

 

[krista74]

Weird isn't it?

It really makes you wonder what 'they' could possibly be doing to the eggs (or to the chickens themselves for that matter) that could be affecting how we are able (or not able) to tolerate them....

- Krista

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Well, stands to reason...anything kept in a confined space....by the thousands (10,000+) will mass produce illness's. Cattle, chickens, turkeys, ........so "they" the producers...will be using antibiotics etc to try to maintain some stability. So as not to lose all of their $$ investment.
Battery hens which lay the mass produced eggs....fare no better.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Well, it is Sat. I am supposed to be sleeping in, but my Roo woke me up and I did not hear movement downstairs and so I popped out of bed and checked on my Senior HS boy, still sleeping, who was supposed to be up and getting ready to go to a track meet.

Yawn, thank you Roo, and my son thanks you!
And here I sit now drinking lovely coffee..... on a Saturday when I didn't need to wake up, as opposed to last crazy weekend.
Well, it is going to be a beautiful day!

 

[sourland]