Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

What is this lint alaskan?
Made my laugh anyway...

 

[Alaskan]

It is an evil substance,

 

[hennible]

-giggles-

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Alaskan, Sorry to hear about the layoffs up there. Dear Hubby tells me it is wide spread.
I guess the Middle East Oil companies plans worked. Then they will jack up their prices and cut back their production. They have done it before.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Snow?

 

[vehve]

As a non oil producing native I do like the prices of energy though. We just got a letter from the electrical company that said that due to the low energy prices, they're refunding us 16 percent of the previous years transfer fees. That was a couple hundred euros. Sucks to work in the industry though.

Made delicious roasted cockerel legs today. We slaughtered the boy earlier in the week (7 months old), and yesterday I marinated the legs in garlic, thyme, salt, pepper, dijon mustard, white vinegar and honey. Cooked it in 225C in a lid covered cast iron pot with a quarter inch of white wine on the bottom for about two hours and enjoyed it with some delicious celery and Grana Padano cheese risotto. The breasts we ate earlier in the week, made a pasta sauce with sun dried tomatoes and cream out of those.

 

[BriardChickens]

Oh.. We are covered in lint.

It is an evil substance,

Alaskan, don't use that kind of language around here... it hurts my eyes to read it. DH isn't even allowed to say the word or suggest it's coming, such bad language..

PS: sorry to read those terrible news.

 

[BriardChickens]

Alaskan, Sorry to hear about the layoffs up there. Dear Hubby tells me it is wide spread.
I guess the Middle East Oil companies plans worked. Then they will jack up their prices and cut back their production. They have done it before.

Yeah it is.. Alberta brings a lot of workers in from out of province so it's not just the west that is affected here either.

As a non oil producing native I do like the prices of energy though. We just got a letter from the electrical company that said that due to the low energy prices, they're refunding us 16 percent of the previous years transfer fees. That was a couple hundred euros. Sucks to work in the industry though.

Made delicious roasted cockerel legs today. We slaughtered the boy earlier in the week (7 months old), and yesterday I marinated the legs in garlic, thyme, salt, pepper, dijon mustard, white vinegar and honey. Cooked it in 225C in a lid covered cast iron pot with a quarter inch of white wine on the bottom for about two hours and enjoyed it with some delicious celery and Grana Padano cheese risotto. The breasts we ate earlier in the week, made a pasta sauce with sun dried tomatoes and cream out of those.

Considering what the barrel is worth right now, gas prices should be cheaper here. I am keeping my fingers crossed to keep my job at least until middle of January.

 

[Beer can]

I am keeping my fingers crossed to keep my job at least until middle of January.

Prayers for you and everyone else facing the same.
Place I work, been here twelve yrs, one of only a couple good paying places in the area, been open for over a hundred yrs now, been owned by a mega big company for quit a few yrs now, just was merged or bought out by one of the richest men in the world's company Warren Buffet, Obama's buddy, and one of the richest families in the world, Secretary of State Kerry's wife, they already cut over 2,000 high up jobs, no biggie, told us we have to supply our own pens, and use both sides of paper to copy on. Don't know how you use both sides to print official state inspected FDA and USDA documents?
We find out next week, they didn't tell us someone just happened to see it on the internet, three NY plants, 950 jobs on the chopping block, decision to be made next week, we are one of them....Might get to feel what the other 93+million out of a job in the US are feeling..
Hoping for the best, really don't like working here anyway, but there is no jobs in the area and I'll lose good retirement.
Off to continue celebrating/drowning my sorrows with some good beer.

 

[Beer can]

Anyway on a better note back to chickens, some pics of my quicker than the giants at growing packing peanuts red sussex, only a couple of places you can get them in the US, very old breed, quick to grow and fast to lay, good meaties. I've culled most of them, very excited, almost more than I am on the white giants.

This one I was going to cull, to dark, bad pic, does have black hackle feathers, I think it is a bad decision but I've been told by breeders if there is certain traits, if good you want to keep, use them. Do I'll keep her and cull the dark feathering, she has a huge breast .