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

[kwhites634]

I'm all played out. Y'all can have it.
Someone be sure to get the lights

 

[Lazy Farmer]

It seems like your hands remember how to do things that you learned when young.

When you do as such as necessary more than being a chore. Most find the buzzer on the cloths dryer annoying. I'm kind of relax at the comfort of knowing that my keep has been earned from struggle to pinch and reaping a sow than complaining about waiting in the drive thru about a cold burger..
Grandma, Great Grandma didn't have that luxury..
That's how I find peace when culling for food.
I have to remember the song about 8 bits a dollar...

 

[Lazy Farmer]

"2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits, a dollar. All for (insert school name) stand up & holler"....A stock cheer led by the cheer leaders at high school games....primarily football.

I'm all played out. Y'all can have it.
Someone be sure to get the lights

12.5 cents if I am remebering correctly. 2 bits equals a qrarter. It is an archaic expressin now.

turn down the sound... sorry..

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I was kidding about the skeeters carrying off my other 2 kids! Sorry.. I sold them to the Gypsy lady for a carton of smokes and a People Magazine..

 

[BullChick]

Some one call me??? What? Hello?

The meat will need brine. *8 months is like pulled pork angel hair..

I'm only dispatching. As much as I want to do the whole thing, I'm just not in a good place to do it. Perhaps I'll kill the first one, and the processing will just happen. It's not the plan at the moment though.
I feed 12 birds. 8 are boys. I'm not going to continue to feed a bunch of lazy roosters. The ducks are bad enough.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

What if I don't chill them right? Give them sweet talk and and a nice chilled chiante wine.

Wine and dine and divide body parts is uncool... just saying..

Whatif I don't let them rest long enough and I go to all that effort only to get shoe leather? Maybe give them a massage and run a nice warm bath for them...maybe rub their toes??? Read them a good book

Only if...

• the booze has worn you thin.
• you have razor sharp teeth and can use your sandpaper like digestive system to finish the kill, and make your colon pay the price.
• you have no t.v. & bored out of your skull.

all that effort only to get shoe leather? Make some nice shoes???

Don't use step on my Blue Suede shoes..

What if it's not a clean kill? What are you doing...throwing dirt on him?...
If it weren't a huge rooster I want to process I'd dislocate neck first then remove head... that I am confident in doing

Use the cone method.. Kinda like a straight jacket for poultry.. just breaking the neck can bruise the meat.. not everyone likes darkmeat..

What if you lived closer...then you could do my roosters...and I could do your slaughter fowl and we'd live happy ever after.

I am flattered.. really. But doing Roosters is not my cup of tea.. Thanks anyway..

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I'm only dispatching. As much as I want to do the whole thing, I'm just not in a good place to do it. Perhaps I'll kill the first one, and the processing will just happen. It's not the plan at the moment though.
I feed 12 birds. 8 are boys. I'm not going to continue to feed a bunch of lazy roosters. The ducks are bad enough.

You have 8 boys and 4 girls... they ain't lazy... You have abused women.. they see more action than the Playboy mansion.. Rescue them! You only need a roo for reproduction purposes... that's why DH is duck tapped to our dinning room furniture until further notice..

 

[Lazy Farmer]

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I try not to laugh.. We are blessed to be mechanically inclined. It's just that I sell birds for 5 bucks to go into a $1200 house. I think it could be duplicated for a fraction of the price.
There also a since of satisfaction of building your own creation. Not to mention pride.
Do you know how many birds I have to hatch/feed/raise to see $1200 bucks? We should pre fab hutches and forget this egg factory thingy I barely profit on.

I know right! Look at the price of this tiny run. I really wanted to just order something from Amazon for my ducks just to have something up fast. but hubby said hell to the no for the price and it will just fall apart in a year.

We have those "fake" ladybugs that stink and bite..Millions of them right now.. Give them 2 weeks and the below Zero temps will send them packing.

OMG I lived in a house a long time ago that was infested with those darn things this time of year! I come home one day and they were absolutely covering every inch of my bedroom ceiling! It was a nightmare! And they DO bite I don't care what anyone says! I vacuumed them up for days on end and had to sleep in the living room. It was terrible.

Try a dux first....you have extra.

Ducks are not extra. They are a bonus

I do, but Ralphie the dux is a dux before she is a Ralphie and therefore is a much-loved burd rather than a senile old dux hater.

Oh, it is.

Sounds about right except dux are not icky.


You can join the Ralphie club. I think there are three peeps so far with dux named Ralphie, me included.

you talkin to me?

 

[BullChick]

You have 8 boys and 4 girls... they ain't lazy... You have abused women.. they see more action than the Playboy mansion.. Rescue them! You only need a roo for reproduction purposes... that's why DH is duck tapped to our dinning room furniture until further notice..

Actually, the girls were fine.
Stephen was the main roo. No one was allowed to touch the girls.
One night everyone but a pair of Silver Pencil Rocks were sleeping by the ducks. Within two nights, they were in the woods.
It took a few weeks for girls to start disappearing. I was honestly surprised though. We have predators of course, but it's not common, and it was one at a time.
Anyway, zero LF hens now.
One bantam hen, one drake to three ducks. There is an extra lavender Ameraucana bantam boy, but he will be sold or brought inside before long.
I had wanted to keep one SPR rooster, but it's just no use. When/if I get more girls, I will just get another rooster then.