"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[bugglesmommy]

I feel bad for the people looking into chicken keeping to reduce the cost of store bought eggs and ask how much it is going to cost to start. It took a long time to break even and I swear that my first egg cost about $500. There is nothing like baking with an egg that you literally had to wait for a hen to finally drop though.

Absolutely! But I like to bake mine at about 99.5 for 2 weeks.

 

[Ron Skekel]

I take pics of everything and friends send me memes most are waaaay to naughty for here lol

Thats the ones worth seeing.

 

[Ron Skekel]

I feel bad for the people looking into chicken keeping to reduce the cost of store bought eggs and ask how much it is going to cost to start. It took a long time to break even and I swear that my first egg cost about $500. There is nothing like baking with an egg that you literally had to wait for a hen to finally drop though.

Exactly! I just laugh when my friends want free eggs because they think their free. I tell them go find out the price of organic chicken feed. Then for to their healh food store and find out how much organic free range eggs are. I looked them up to 6.00 a doz. Pam

 

[Jipus5]

Sorry about that, Linda! I do apologize.  
As you know, since I was sick, when a few litters were due to be processed, they became older than I process for fryers, so I raised them to 6-7 months old and sold them as breeding stock, ready to mate. I wish I could have found a deal like that when I first started. I posted an ad on Grieg's list and they went fast. Most of the does were already pregnant! My customers called back and were excited about how big the litters were and how good the does were mothering the bunnies.
Well, this one couple, from Slidell, her name is Britney, but I don't remember his, called after having the rabbits for close to a month that they weren't having babies. I told them to bring the rabbit does to me and I would mate them with my 2 proven bucks, maybe the buck, I sold them was a late bloomer and I would give them a young 8 week old doe for their trouble. Well they bring back all 3 rabbits and insist I replace them, because they built this huge barn and was counting in them to start producing sooner for the project they were into. I took the rabbits back and even had to give them one of my original does to do so.
When the man would not go into the rabbit barn, just waited for me to bring out the rabbits. This seemed strange to me but I didn't really didn't think much about it at the time.
Well, the rabbits they brought back were really acting strange and aggressive towards me! Linda, you know I have no aggressive rabbits and handle them all and can even take the bunnies from beneath them while they are in the nests! Both does had a litter within a couple of week, but did not pull any fur and killed the babies as soon as they were born. This really upset me. One rabbit was eating her young! I was so upset!  Well a few days after that, Britney called to say they wanted another exchange, because one of the rabbits were acting hostile and the does would not mate with  the buck. This was really weird, because one of the does was my breeding stock and 15 months old, had several litters and the buck had already impregnated 2 other does, so he was proven!
After a short discussion with George, on the phone, I had him ask if anyone near them had a pet snake, that could have come near the rabbits, maybe they smelled the snake on him or something? This B$#%^*, told George he had a huge barn where he was raising and selling large snakes, that's why he needed lots of bunnies! I was so upset at this that I prayed that God would intervene and how sorry I was to have not asked enough questions before selling them to these people. I was modified.
Yes, these are meat rabbits and we eat, whatever aren't sold by 12 weeks old. They are calmly held and it takes one bullet to into the head for instant death, so they do not suffer. Snake breeders put live rabbits into the tank for the snake to hunt and after the bunny is scared almost to death, trying to escape, the snake coils around the rabbit crushing it and then swallows it! I still feel so guilty to have an animal treated like this! I treat our animals with compassion and they live a good life, until they are processed and killed very humanly, as quickly as possible. I do not kill any animal by hitting them in the head, and am not trying to judge anyone that does, but I could never hit any domestic animal!
Well, that's not all! As we were dressing Sunday morning to spend a day at my daughters for our yearly, Christmas dinner, with just my daughters and their families, the phone rings and wants a FREE rabbit. As soon as hubby hangs up the phone rings again. We were running late and already had our coats on, so I told him to just let the answer machine take a message. Someone posted an ad on Grieg's list that we have over 40 rabbits we were giving away free, first one here gets them so hurry before they are all gone! Call when you arrive at the gate! They put our complete address, directions to get here, from the interstate exit and out phone number! We arrived home to find our answer machine full, over 50 calls and the phone ringing all night and all day today. People were driving over 50 miles to get their free rabbits and calling from the driveway, at 4am. The ad said that as long as the ad was posted, we still had rabbits, so Hurry before they were all gone and when they were gone, the ad would be removed!
Since I never posted the ad, I could not remove it!  It is now 5:15 am and I can't sleep, I am so upset. What if this SOB releases pythons on the property to kill all my free ranging birds? Yes, we do have rattle snakes in the woods, but the king snakes keep them under control. My neighbor has a small child that plays in their yard and also a miniature weenie dog!
Hubby went to the local police chief and told them about the snakes and they said they would pass often and be on the look-out, but without any evidence, what could they do? Finally around 4pm, I finally got someone to answer my email at craigslist and they said they would look into it, but it was up to my local police to take action! I was told by a friend that if I flagged the ad as being SPAM, it would be pulled and it was, but I don't think craigslist will give us the ip address or any information as to who posted the ad! 

 

[Jipus5]

Ah, yup! Here we go: 

I wonder if that jerk has a permit?

Lots will sell for boots etc just before they reach permit required length. No offense, but the 2 foot black snake I saw n the yard not long ago.... Well it had a disagreement with my pistol... But the permit says 12 FOOT!!! That's just nuts. PERMITS FOR 3 feet I say!!!!!!

 

[Jipus5]

Wh

Ready for this? Put your drinks down...

What happens when a city living Yankee moves down South to the country! LOL

 

[Ron Skekel]

Lots will sell for boots etc just before they reach permit required length. No offense, but the 2 foot black snake I saw n the yard not long ago.... Well it had a disagreement with my pistol... But the permit says 12 FOOT!!! That's just nuts. PERMITS FOR 3 feet I say!!!!!!

I'm with you on that one!!!!

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

Crawfish. I"m hungry now.

What I really want is some type of spicy stew with meat, onions, celery, mushrooms all over rice.  My father makes it every Christmas Eve.  It's nice and spicy!  It's official name:  wild boar hog stew.  Except this year, might make it with a deer roast I have.   Thanks Julie...now I'm HUNGRY!!!!
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2X, I might have to take a little drive from here to there........ It has been 28 years sense I have had good food like that.... I can not eat spicy, but I can take in the aroma and remember. (I do cheat a little and mild spicy... And pay later). Enjoy, you are very lucky and blessed.

 

[MS Rooster Cogb]

Santa came early to my little farm! My farrier gave me this sweet lil girl "Rosie" she has to grow in to her job of keeping praetors of the farm. She is so tame she follows me around the yard she around 5 months old

 

[CackedNut]

This is why we don't "shelf an elf" lol

OMGoodness!!!!!