Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

OMG. This exact color changing thing happened to me! (I've always loved crawfish and now I share the heads with my chickies!! If you've had crawfish you know how big of a chunk you usually throw out...)

Are the crawfish cooked? Before you feed the heads to them?

 

[featherhead007]

I am sure bringing her in will be ok, as long as she roosts with them at night should be ok

I brought her inside, and she jumped right back down from her perch, ran to the screen door and squawked loudly. I let her out!

 

[GregnLety]

Are the crawfish cooked? Before you feed the heads to them?

The crawfish are cooked typically in a spice mix that is reddish in color. I don't mind eating crawfish but I don't crave them. Being a hillbilly I would use them for bait primarily.

 

[Ponypoor]

The crawfish are cooked typically in a spice mix that is reddish in color. I don't mind eating crawfish but I don't crave them. Being a hillbilly I would use them for bait primarily.

We have crayfish here in creeks is that the same thing? Fresh water crustaceans?

 

[GregnLety]

We have crayfish here in creeks is that the same thing? Fresh water crustaceans?

Yep same thing. Crawfish in Texas and Louisiana. Crawdads in Kentucky. And crayfish for our northern neighbors. Down here in southeast Texas and Louisiana there's crawfish farms and it's a big business. Back home we would catch them in our creek and use them for bait in the river. We set traps for minnows and caught our nightcrawlers ourselves so fishing was cheap entertainment. Beer from the bootlegger at a dollar per can was not so cheap, lol.

 

[featherhead007]

Life isn’t fair! I know now, that I’m not the head rooster around here. I could try all day to get the chooks to come to me, but they don’t. Then Jaffar just Bok Bok bok’s and all the hens come running to him. He’s such a show off, (and a quite persuasive one too I guess)

 

[featherhead007]

When my daughter was very young and starting to make full sentences with her speech, we bought a crayfish for the aquarium. My daughter wanted to name it “dinner” so, a blue crawfish had that name. “dinner” !
Crazy family tax:

 

[lightm]

I would say a barnyard mutt, she is a good laying hen she lays pretty much every day a lovely blue egg! But she does tend to go off on her own, she is an escape artist and is not bound by staying with the group.

She is also friendly and very smart. I could use 6 of her! Her hatch mates are fairly good layers also but have gone broody on me. I was not expecting them to do that!

OK, mine is a barnyard mutt too. LOL.

 

[lightm]

Are the crawfish cooked? Before you feed the heads to them?

Yes. I cook the whole thing and save the heads/claws as I eat the meat.

I also try to scissor them pretty good before feeding. Crawfish claws are pretty hard so I try to chop that up a bit.

 

[Ponypoor]

OK, mine is a barnyard mutt too. LOL.

I would say mutts are the best, I used to raise Arabian horses and the amount of inbreeding and line breeding they did was ridiculous! And they bred for these dishy faces and bulgy eyes, and tiny hooves! I see this sort of thing with chickens like those breeds bred to lay a gazIllion eggs.

I prefer the barnyard mix chickens, it’s eggciting to see what you get from the eggs if you hatch them