Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Triple Willow]

Lacy, I loved your squirming duck! 


I have tinnitus also.  When I am sick, I hear water boiling.  UGH!!!

There was a little boy in church who was acting up.  His father picked him up to take him outside to spank him.  On the way out (the preacher was preaching), the little boy yelled, 'PRAY FOR ME'.  That brought the church down!

Lisa

Good morning Lisa. Dang, have we all got this crazy tinnitus!

Now that is funny. I bet that preacher's preaching was over for the day! LOL

My aunt said that my cousin yelled, "Oh mama don't beat me!" When she was taking her out of church one morning. LOL

 

[BCMaraniac]

Good morning Lisa. Dang, have we all got this crazy tinnitus!

Now that is funny. I bet that preacher's preaching was over for the day! LOL

My aunt said that my cousin yelled, "Oh mama don't beat me!" When she was taking her out of church one morning. LOL

When I was little.....back in the Dark Ages......I would be sitting in the shopping cart(we call 'em buggies here in the boonies) at the grocery, and I would sing the TV jingles to items I saw on the shelves. Well, I was in church with my mother and oldest brother(16 years older than me), standing between them on the pew. Following a congregational hymn, during that time where everything is very quiet, I started singing, "Lets get together with a glass of........". Mom popped her hand over my mouth before I could say "Schlitz"!!! I think my mother wanted to crawl under the pew. Of course my brother thought it was hilarious! I had heard the jingle on TV.....corrupting me even then......

 

[Windy Bay Farm]

Go here and look at post 4700. Funny! hahaha
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-have-said-about-your-chickens-eggs-meat/4680

Off like a scalded hog !!

 

[BCMaraniac]

Lacy, I loved your squirming duck!

Bee, you raised boys. What was the worse they ever did?

I have tinnitus also. When I am sick, I hear water boiling. UGH!!!

There was a little boy in church who was acting up. His father picked him up to take him outside to spank him. On the way out (the preacher was preaching), the little boy yelled, 'PRAY FOR ME'. That brought the church down!

Lisa

The preacher probably said, "Out of the mouths of babes". LOL Kids are so funny.

Mine is the constant sound of crickets! I absolutely hate it!!!!

 

[Beekissed]

Bee, you raised boys. What was the worse they ever did?


Lisa

It would take up too much space to explain all the things they've done but there are two incidents that are kind of tied in my mind as the most embarrassing....one involved a time when we were living in my small home town, next to a circle of retirees. I left the two older boys cleaning out the eaves on the porch, a job that only required an 8 ft. ladder, hands and a bucket, and to watch the younger boy while I went to the store for a few minutes....you can see the store from that house. A cousin was visiting that day too and the oldest child was 14 while the youngest was 10.

When I arrived home all four of those boys were climbing all over my multilevel home, some were up on the second story portion of the roof, one was peeing off the single story extension. The explanation? "We were playing spider man." I tell you, I couldn't breathe for a moment when I drove up and saw that and a million possibilities were running through my mind such as broken necks, children's protective services and neighbor's having to take nitroglycerin tabs as they watched my brood climbing the roofs of my house like a band of monkeys. The killer, though? The one peeing off the corner of the house.....

I won't go into the truly embarrassing one that ties with that one. (shudders with a flashback)

 

[Beekissed]

Guys, I'm thinking that Toby has seen his last winter. I've been thinking about him for some time as he has lost fertility and is slowing down a good bit, but the clincher was when I used the coop for a hunting blind yesterday and saw how much food that boy was putting away!

He was the first to the feeder, pecked any hen that dared eat in his space and was the last to leave, eating like a mad chicken all the while. I had noticed that before but thought he was just particularly hungry that day or something. He didn't used to be that way...he used to stand back and let the hens seat, sorting out any pecking order issues and then he would start to eat last. He's gotten old, fat and lazy...and is consuming enough for 3 chickens.

Time to process that old beautiful rooster and maybe Fannie as well...she hasn't laid an egg since I got her back last year, though one time I thought she was laying, I think it was another bird instead. If my calculations are correct and she is from one of my original flocks, that bird is 7+ yrs old.

I'm thinking these birds are wily enough to evade preds without his warning calls, especially the Honeysuckle Gang, and I'll just use this Sweetums as a rooster for now, though I'm not a real fan of his breed and he's much too mild for the job. I'm thinking a shake up in the flock matrix is in order and I saw some positive changes with the last culling as far as roosting and eating being more calm for the younger birds, so this culling of the old tyrant may be a breath of fresh air for them all.

In any case, I'll save a bunch on feed! Going to cull Toby and Fannie tomorrow morning so their meat can make it into my canning day on Monday.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Very quickly, I will add...

When my daughter was about 5 or 6, she had spent some time watching this documentary entitled Big Al. It was about an Allosaurus skeleton and life story they put together for him.

Anyway, we were walking out of Target one afternoon and I saw she was walking like this dinosaur and holding her hands like they portrayed this dinosaur's front feet. This was bad enough but the clencher was when she roared a mating call at these people that were going into the store. I wanted to crawl under the nearest car and die!

 

[Triple Willow]

When I was little.....back in the Dark Ages......I would be sitting in the shopping cart(we call 'em buggies here in the boonies) at the grocery, and I would sing the TV jingles to items I saw on the shelves.  Well, I was in church with my mother and oldest brother(16 years older than me), standing between them on the pew.  Following a congregational hymn, during that time where everything is very quiet, I started singing, "Lets get together with a glass of........".  Mom popped her hand over my mouth before I could say "Schlitz"!!!  I think my mother wanted to crawl under the pew.  Of course my brother thought it was hilarious! I had heard the jingle on TV.....corrupting me even then......

Funny! hahahaha

...we have buggies here too. lol

 

[Triple Willow]

LOL@Lacy Blues! hehe

 

[Triple Willow]

Off like a scalded hog !!

I had to watch it 4-5 times and had to laugh out loud every time! lol