Oh my! I got some needed laughs this morning!
I grew up in Alaska, my dad hunted a lot and fished. We stored food away all summer, grew a garden, 1 for us, some for the moose that would wander into our yard to eat cabbages.
We're lucky with a 1/2 a grass fed cow in the freezer and a whole pasture raised hog otw to the processor on Thursday. I have 26 7-8 week old dp straight run chickens headed for freezer camp in a month or 2. 10 in the laying flock for eggs. 6 fancy chickens in the barn brooder box, 18 chicks expected Tuesday for my sustainable meat flock (white bresse, ayam cemani), & getting a pregnant new zealand white doe meat rabbit in 3-4 weeks. I just started to homestead in June this year and I'm much happier and we're definitely eating much better.
Some people keep telling me, oh if you become vegan you can just keep all your chickens as pets and hatch all their eggs.
Yeah... I'm NOT going to just keep multiplying my flock to have chickens to not eat eggs or meat from.
And oh, you shouldn't eat your chickens, get your meat from the grocery store! It's safer and organic, so just as good. *no it's not!*
Your chickens must be sick or something if your eggs are green and blue.
Are you really going to eat black chicken meat from your rare ayam cemani chickens? Just raise them all...
Exactly what do I need with 6 black ayam cemani roosters? Not keeping 6 roosters in my very urban homestead. People are giving me the biggest grief about me planning on eating my extra ayam cemani roosters, and that they have black skin/meat.
I only wish they were going to be big enough to make a great Halloween feast to really shock and awe people. Many of my foodie/chef friends are super excited for black meat, bresse, capons, rabbit meat, duck, quail and chicken eggs & meat.
There are way too many people disconnected to their food and think I'm insane. They're insane for not doing what I do lol.
