EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BullChick]

This morning, we will discuss goose, duck

and turkey

eggs

. Who eats them?

 

[kajira]

Tough! I am out of bed. I expect you to entertain me!

haha. Did you know there's a horrible smell in my room? I finally found out that it's coming from my master closet... on my husband's side.

He promised he'd investigate it, and fix it tonight when he gets home from work.....

 

[kajira]

This morning, we will discuss goose, duck

and turkey

eggs

. Who eats them?

I don't plan on eating my turkey eggs. I plan on either putting them into the incubator, or selling them on ebay.... They go for a lot especially when you get close to the off season!

But, honestly, I love turkey meat. My husbands going to kill me, but he's going to end up butchering me a lot of turkeys. lol I like turkey meat more than chicken.

Also - he thinks it's dumb to cull and butcher bantam sized chickens.... but if they need to go why waste them? lol

I haven't figured out the best way to handle it when my chickens stop laying eggs. I don't need 500 million chickens, and if they aren't laying eggs, and aren't special pets... what else do you do with them besides eat them?

I guess I may have to learn how to butcher myself. I just don't know if I have the stomach for it. I squick out if I have to kill a bug.

Also - I have every intention of eating duck and geese eggs.

 

[BullChick]

haha. Did you know there's a horrible smell in my room? I finally found out that it's coming from my master closet... on my husband's side.

He promised he'd investigate it, and fix it tonight when he gets home from work..... 

You have mentioned that.
I was 100% against hunting when I got chickens four years ago. I am allergic to venison anyway. I had to kill a cockerel after four months. I broke its neck. I was okay. After a bit anyway. Someone else processed four more of them. The meat stayed in the freezer a long time!!
Then I got BBW. They were meat birds. I knew that they were food, and the result of not killing them would be bad. They would have health issues.
I was fine with the butchering of them, and was ready to learn.
Fast forward to a few months ago. Someone came and worked with me to get me through the whole thing. It's like changing diapers. Don't focus on the poop. Just get the job done.

 

[kajira]

You have mentioned that.
I was 100% against hunting when I got chickens four years ago. I am allergic to venison anyway. I had to kill a cockerel after four months. I broke its neck. I was okay. After a bit anyway. Someone else processed four more of them. The meat stayed in the freezer a long time!!
Then I got BBW. They were meat birds. I knew that they were food, and the result of not killing them would be bad. They would have health issues.
I was fine with the butchering of them, and was ready to learn.
Fast forward to a few months ago. Someone came and worked with me to get me through the whole thing. It's like changing diapers. Don't focus on the poop. Just get the job done.

I get horrific nightmares when I have to kill an animal. I just don't know if I have the mental ability to work through that. with my autism, it would replay, like a live video over and over in my head.
When I ran over a bunny, I had nightmares for weeks.

It's not so much the stomach for it, as the ability to let it go and get the job done with out lasting mental trauma. I can eat something I KNOW was butchered by someone else. I don't even mind when someone else kills an animal, there's just something for me, about the act of it, doing it on purpose, that my brain doesn't handle well. I'm still trying to figure out if I will be capable of doing it, with out getting nightmares.

 

[BullChick]

I really think that running over a bunny is a lot more traumatic. I know it is for me.

 

[BullChick]

I have a dog on my lap, insisting I give him attention. Having a toddler on my lap is less distracting.

 

[kajira]

I have a dog on my lap, insisting I give him attention. Having a toddler on my lap is less distracting.

haha, I'll trade you. A dog I can kick off my lap. A toddler gets offended.

 

[lovechicks1293]

Gooooood morning! Hope everyone slept well!

 

[BullChick]

haha, I'll trade you. A dog I can kick off my lap. A toddler gets offended.

A toddler I kick off my lap. The dog gets offended! LOL! I have a strange dog!