Kristen’s Chickens and Farming Ventures

[townchicks]

Bummer about the pour getting delayed, but cool about your first home bred egg! Very nice. Love the sunset pic. @BlueBaby, good luck on your hatch.

 

[Kris5902]

A few years back, I was looking for a lamb leg roast, but the store wasn't carrying them. I think that they must be doing the same thing that you mentioned with them. I will keep in mind that they may be labeled as lamb steak's now.

the leg steaks are what you get by cutting up the leg roast... your best bet would be a special order from a small butcher shop. You could always try Whole Foods, our full service meat counter would sometimes do them on order. With the cost of Lamb and the size of the leg roasts they cost as much or more than the average turkey, so it’s not a commonly stocked cut. Also most people have moved away from a “sunday Roast” mentality to smaller portions and faster things to cook. At least in our market.

 

[Kris5902]

So, I would like to apologize in advance for filming in portrait mode instead of landscape. It’s one of my pet peeves as a you tube viewer, but it’s going to be a while before I have more egg treats for the girls, and Auntie Marans will probably be done with her interesting molting pattern by then. I’m giving them crushed up egg shells and the “didn’t peel so well” steamed eggs mushed up with a fork. Little piggies!

These girls: Hoppy, Croppy (with the really hard molt), Mrs B (one leg band), Missy (also molting), and Zeta (two green leg bands) chase me like this any time I’m outside... I sort of snuck up on them to get this shot.

That high pitched trilling noise in the first 30 seconds, is a Nasty Big Bird (bald eagle)

Everyone’s Favorite Bad Boy:

 

[Kris5902]

Here you can see how Mr Eyebrows is a little less rooster like without his tail. Normally he would be tidbitting up a storm for the Ladies:

And @BY Bob ... this one’s for you. Not so Fluffy Butts after all! I wonder if she’s getting cold back there? Auntie Marans is molting, and apparently none of my girls read the books on how chickens are supposed to molt (because no, they don’t seem to be doing it “properly”)

 

[rjohns39]

Wonderful videos Kris

 

[Ribh]

Mr Marans & ChickieHawk are certainly handsome lads! Poor Mr Eyebrows. Hope he gets his mojo back soon. They are all lovely chookies.

 

[BlueBaby]

the leg steaks are what you get by cutting up the leg roast... your best bet would be a special order from a small butcher shop. You could always try Whole Foods, our full service meat counter would sometimes do them on order. With the cost of Lamb and the size of the leg roasts they cost as much or more than the average turkey, so it’s not a commonly stocked cut. Also most people have moved away from a “sunday Roast” mentality to smaller portions and faster things to cook. At least in our market.

It would be ok for me, because I don't mind eating left-over's.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Kris

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

My wife wanted to make my Dad a lamb leg roast and she had to order it as no one carried them here any longer.

Karns will carry Lamb at farm show time. You do have to place you order, but that's about the only time I have found it local. They support 4H and buy a lot of the kids' lamb projects.

 

[Kris5902]

We get New Zealand Lamb here commercially for the most part, which is pretty good, and Wholefoods also carries Icelandic Lamb as well. Local Is harder to come by... in the big grocery stores that is. Smaller butcher shops are more likely to carry a local product, though I don’t think there’s a lot of that in your area @BlueBaby[/
it’s mostly a climate thing ;)