Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[TexasLisa]

Spoken like a true West Virginian! Sorry...but the world is encroaching on our world here in the mountains and it's name is "city folk". They don't know the old rules of tooth and claw and they will stomp all over your rights to turn the countryside into what they want it to be, irregardless of how you feel about it. It's sad but it's happening nonetheless, as the yuppies move onto the old farms and what used to be farm kids play on their cell phones and want to live in town. We are dinosaurs soon to be extinct.

No doubt, change is coming and not for the good as far as I'm concerned. But I do think we can hold out for as long as I continue to live and after that....there's not much I can do about it.

I agree with both of you. Hellbender, I wish you luck in fighting the city. It won't be fun!

Lisa

 

[Shellz]

I agree with both of you.  Hellbender, I wish you luck in fighting the city.  It won't be fun!

Lisa

That goes ditto for me too!

 

[Beekissed]

I'm helping our neighbor from New Jersey adapt to country life and his aversion to roosters crowing by placing more roosters on my property than I had previously so that he can get used to the noise. See, it's all about bein' neighborly and helpful to turn these city folks around and help them get used to country life. I take it as a personal challenge and a duty to help them when I can.

Just bein' neighborly..... Sure wish I could teach ol' Jake to bark more so we could help him with that little problem as well.

 

[fosterson]

I'm helping our neighbor from New Jersey adapt to country life and his aversion to roosters crowing by placing more roosters on my property than I had previously so that he can get used to the noise. See, it's all about bein' neighborly and helpful to turn these city folks around and help them get used to country life. I take it as a personal challenge and a duty to help them when I can.

Just bein' neighborly..... Sure wish I could teach ol' Jake to bark more so we could help him with that little problem as well.

That IS right neighborly of you, Bee. You know what would really help get him in the mood? An old style jug band and clog dance jamboree on your lawn! And make sure you invite some relations who can't stand each other. That'll get the po-leese AND the firemen to show up aplenty to supplement your fireworks! You can serve fried chicken, have a watermelon seed spittin' contest, and a turkey-callin' competition! He'll come round to our way of thinkin sooner or later.

 

[hellbender]

Lisa and Shellz,

Thank you both. I actually think I have heard the end of it. This happened in early June and after the initial flurry of threats from both sides, it sorta' died away or at least it seems so since I haven't heard anything about it since then. They were just trying to scare me into letting them spray but that would never happen. I think they were happy not to have to face trespass and wanton destruction of property charges so it sort of vaporized.

Bee.

Sounds like you might have a little streak of mischief in you..lol

 

[Beekissed]

Too obvious. That's how men handle things...go big or go home.

Us women? It's all about the slow drip of daily annoyances that build into a crescendo of irritation.... but really cannot be called doing anything wrong. Like roosters. Or killing more deer in the deer season than they can no matter how many of their city folk buddies they import to trample the woods. It's that slow, steady salt in the wound that I like to apply that lets them know each and every day that this area is MY territory and if you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch and scratch fleas. City dogs are for holdin' down the couch and us old country dogs own the holler...and they need to be reminded of it in a thousand little ways every time they wake up in the morning.

 

[Regin]

I'm helping our neighbor from New Jersey adapt to country life and his aversion to roosters crowing by placing more roosters on my property than I had previously so that he can get used to the noise. See, it's all about bein' neighborly and helpful to turn these city folks around and help them get used to country life. I take it as a personal challenge and a duty to help them when I can.

Just bein' neighborly..... Sure wish I could teach ol' Jake to bark more so we could help him with that little problem as well.

Well those that move to the country for peace and quite tend to forget just how noisy the city life is. A rooster crow or dog bark against the silence, just seems loud. What they really need is a tractor trailer going by their window in the middle of the night.

 

[BCMaraniac]

I'm helping our neighbor from New Jersey adapt to country life and his aversion to roosters crowing by placing more roosters on my property than I had previously so that he can get used to the noise. See, it's all about bein' neighborly and helpful to turn these city folks around and help them get used to country life. I take it as a personal challenge and a duty to help them when I can.

Just bein' neighborly..... Sure wish I could teach ol' Jake to bark more so we could help him with that little problem as well.

Bee,

We got a new neighbor over the summer, just behind our barn across the creek(the center of which is the property line). They haven't said anything, but we had a total of 8 roosters at the time, not to mention the capon slips that would crow for 2-3 weeks before being processed. In addition, our 3 dogs stand watch during the night, so they bark all night to keep every living creature away. I have worried about the noise, but my husband says that all of us were here first.....lol. I hope they're used to it. We did give them a reprieve because we are down to 4 roosters now......still have all three dogs, though. I didn't realize what a service I was providing them. You have made me look at the issue from an entirely different perspective. Should I send them a bill, or should I just consider this my way of being neighborly?

 

[Beekissed]

Oh, free of charge for sure! Bein' neighborly don't cost a thing and it creates such good will that it's worthy of doing.

It's your duty to create that country ambiance that these folks move out to the country to experience. Like when the coyotes howl? I go out and tune up Jake and we all howl together just so the neighbor can get the full effect of that "wild" sound he moved out to the country to experience. All you need now is to have a big manure pile upwind of their property so they can get their money's worth on that property....

 

[TexasLisa]

My DH and I love to get up early in the morning. When we get new neighbors, we tend to start up the chainsaw, motorcycle, whatever, just to break them in. Aaaahhhhhh country life!

Lisa