Dixie Chicks

[Ravynscroft]

ty dont be envious you too can have the same  none of this was here except alot of work clearing rubbish out n creating it ...(I am scattered in the wind dunno how I missed this)


I swear not sure how keep a convo sometimes I so spacey I miss half the convo lol

Ha! I can never keep up with you!

I love plants and gardens, but I tend to kill them... and with all the chooks and ducks, it takes up lots of time... hopefully we'll get everything set up better and it will get easier, but for now am hauling lots of water throughout the day, and is super hot now... :/

 

[Amberjem]

Ha! I can never keep up with you!

I love plants and gardens, but I tend to kill them... and with all the chooks and ducks, it takes up lots of time... hopefully we'll get everything set up better and it will get easier, but for now am hauling lots of water throughout the day, and is super hot now...

did you ever finish those coops you were building? thats one of my next projects.. I want to set up a automatic watering system I can hook up with from the hose.. harbor freight carries a regulator thinga ma jiggy that you attach then hook the hoses up to it to a continaer then it refills automatically the regular keeps the water pressure right so can handle being done to the container or something

 

[Ravynscroft]

@Amberjem whenever you want any of the Lav Am eggs, I will send them to you... after we all get through this AI stuff...
Then you'll get puffy cheeks and pretty eggs...

 

[Ravynscroft]

did you ever finish those coops you were building?  thats one of my next projects.. I want to set up a automatic watering system I can hook up with from the hose.. harbor freight carries a  regulator thinga ma jiggy that you attach then hook the hoses up to it to a continaer then it refills automatically the regular keeps the water pressure right so can handle being done to the container or something

I finished those, yes... still need more, but budget is tight for now... got my Lav Am's, Araucanas, Cream Legbars, Silkies, and Sulmtalers all separated now for pures...

 

[perchie.girl]

I've never had a pickled egg...think it kinda sounds gross but not big on pickling taste

If you do em yourself you can flavor them anyway you want. I am not a fan of the texture of storebought.... but I have thrown some hardboiled eggs in with pickled onions. I leave em in till the whites have absorbed some oniony vinegar...

I liked them that way. Oh and I only did chicken eggs.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

I finished those, yes... still need more, but budget is tight for now... got my Lav Am's, Araucanas, Cream Legbars, Silkies, and Sulmtalers all separated now for pures...

what about the lav orpingtons? need some pictures of the new coops


and man am I loving the extension on the coop........... and so is the girls... the one draw is I have to go in the aviary area to push the bedding of the big henhosue to the other side so I can go back around and scoop it into the wheel barrel.........I use a hoe to scrap the floor of the henhouse.......the hoe scrapes it right off the flooring



interestingly enough the egg house was turned into a bachelor coop by the new years hal cockerels...
before they hit the dinner table...by their choice...

I am hoping that duke, butler and one other cockerel will cohabit well....... the white brahma crosses are headed for freezer camp......but I might have to toss them into the tractor with the dark cornish cockerel in a week or so...been noticing couple of them starting their hormonale cockerel stages..........

 

[Amberjem]

If you do em yourself you can flavor them anyway you want. I am not a fan of the texture of storebought.... but I have thrown some hardboiled eggs in with pickled onions. I leave em in till the whites have absorbed some oniony vinegar...

I liked them that way. Oh and I only did chicken eggs.

deb


mostly I am not a huge fan of cooked yolks ... I like nice runny yolk...

poached eggs soft poached, soft boiled eggs... I dont like scrambled eggs unless they have lotsa other stuff in it taters onions ect......something bout the texture of cooked yolk ick

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: When I joined BYC, I was really shocked that my view on things changed so dramatically. I grew up anti-hunting (Bambi) and anti chop a head off anything. I thought it was cruel. Uh-huh.

Then I realized that on Long Island (before I moved) the deer were getting smaller, dying of malnutrition, eating people's bird feeders, they ate my whole front yard! Out on Shelter Island, they were allowed to use deer fencing and those grates for driveways. It was really bad. My sidewalk was covered in deer poop every night. I would peek out the window at night and be face to face with a deer. Things had gotten that way because of people who thought it was cruel to shoot deer. Lesson: not culling was killing the deer slow and painful.

Then I joined BYC and could not understand people on this forum having chickens as food. Then I learned that supermarket chicken and eggs are cruel. With raising poultry for food, I (Duh!) learned that anyone here has concern for the well being of their chickens whether pets or food. Lesson: Quality of life Until becoming dinner is important. Supermarket chickens don't have that.

This may seem really naive to some, but it's true. I'm left respecting those who raise chickens for food and have concern for their well being until then. Certainly humane.

I Never thought I could chop the head off anything. However , when one sees an animal suffering, the humane thing to do is to end it's suffering quick and painlessly. Meaning that I learned how to use an ax. I still take some of mine to the vet for euthanization. I guess it depends on what the chicken would want. They do tell me : "let me die on my own", "get me a shot that makes me sleepy", or "Get it over with now!". I now use about an ounce of vodka (for each of us), wait an hour and do the deed. It helps. Then they all get a funeral and a prayer and a few personal words. Amen.

Its funny how when you get a little perspective you trip over a Paradigm.... I recently did a little trip over my objection to veal... the industry has changed some but i still wont eat it. The whole idea of a calf being taken from its momma just so we can have milk.... Oh wait there was that shift... the Veal industry is a product of the milk industry....

Same goes for every dairy product... little uns are removed and bottle fed so the Goat, cow, Sheep can freshen their milk.

The deal with beef is the calf is taken away and put in a shed and not allowed to ever eat green food. till they become anemic. They can only survive x amount of months this way and are slaughtered at the optimum weight.

So I don't object now when others have veal. I still wont eat it.

I have never dispatched an animal for food... but I know I could with Chickens and Guinea Fowl It would be imperative that I do it right... Its not the place for being tentative... Though since I would have to do it myself I will be learning how to do it using a cone.

Once I get experience I will add in at least one or two Muscovies for my larder.

deb

 

[Ravynscroft]

what about the lav orpingtons?  need some pictures of the new coops  


and man am I loving the extension on the coop........... and so is the girls... the one draw is I have to go in the aviary area to push the bedding of the big henhosue to the other side so I can go back around and scoop it into the wheel barrel.........I use a hoe to scrap the floor of the henhouse.......the hoe scrapes it right off the flooring



interestingly enough the egg house was turned into a bachelor coop by the new years hal cockerels...
 before they hit the dinner table...by their choice...

 I am hoping that duke, butler and one other cockerel will cohabit well....... the white brahma crosses are headed for freezer camp......but I might have to toss them into the tractor with the dark cornish cockerel in a week or so...been noticing  couple of them starting their hormonale cockerel stages..........

Gotta love the cockerel hormonal stages...

Glad you are happy with your extension, hope it has made things easier for ya...

Lav Orp roo is in with his Black Australorp pullets, they just started laying itty bitty eggs, lol...

Coops all look like the first one...

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Yeah texture is a deal killer for me on some things. I say there is nothing I wont try several times just to be sure that I really dont like it.... I was that way with pickled eggs. But I do like hardboiled eggs so the texture change was in the whites with a very hard pickle.... If you like egg salad its kind of like that.

I used to hate peas when i was a kid almost as much as liver... But after I learned how to cook each for myself I love them both. Both of those for me were texture... Taste of peas was OK but I didn't like the texture... Liver eeww grainy and livery I had to cut it with a steak knife because mom cooked it so tough you could use it for shew leather. I wold cut pill sized bits and take em like pills with a swig of water.

Now I like it cooked my way... which is the right way.

back to eggs. There is another way to preserve eggs that I want to try. which is salted. I hear they have a 60 day shelf life if you can keep them cool.

The whole idea behind pickling was preserving them for the winter.

deb