"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[LemonMeringue]

We see each other daily...for a few hours lol
New text received.

"25 Chicks are ordered from Purely Poultry to arrive next Friday-Make it happen Number 1".

Bahaha least I got notice! Yay!

I'm happy for you! I hope you have good luck with them. And I hope you are able to post a picture now and then so those of us who can't raise any right now can live vicariously through your chicken nugget adventures

 

[Angelicisi]

Hahaha chicken nugget adventure it will be. We have crashed into being a micro farm. Lol
Chickens are def a gateway livestock!
Still awaiting pregnant New Zealand does to pop :/

I'll have pics at every available Op lol. I'll post a link to a thread for pics so I don't blow up this thread

I'm happy for you!  I hope you have good luck with them.  And I hope you are able to post a picture now and then so those of us who can't raise any right now can live vicariously through your chicken nugget adventures

 

[Angelicisi]

The canning posts are driving me nuts...I must start gathering supplies...have no time for learning a new project quite yet, plate is pretty darn full, but already scanning ads for what ill need. Hubby just shakes his head lol.

 

[LemonMeringue]

Hahaha chicken nugget adventure it will be. We have crashed into being a micro farm. Lol
Chickens are def a gateway livestock!
Still awaiting pregnant New Zealand does to pop

I'll have pics at every available Op lol. I'll post a link to a thread for pics so I don't blow up this thread

That's what we told our kids they could call our meat birds when we had them. We told them they weren't allowed to call them any "pet" names, lol. Only food names.

 

[Celie]

Speaking of Mason Jars. I have some antique Mason Jars that were my husbands grandmothers. She was big on canning. I feel privileged to have them. If I can ever get my husband to look the other way I would snap up a few of the blue ones for sure!!! I have decided not to can in the older jars anymore. They are just too precious and I don't want them to break in the canner......it happens now and then. Here is one with ATLAS on it that I have flour stored in.

I used to save all the glass mayonnaise and mustard jars before everything went to plastic, because they were really canning jars, just had to but the lids and rings. Before Katrina and Rita, I had hundreds, if not thousands and a WI pantry, my sister said was like a small grocery store! LOL It stayed packed and I could have lived on it for a year, before having to go shopping! I guess when you go hungry as a kid, you become a food hoarder, so your kids never have to go hungry. LOL

The blue ones with glass tops and locking snaps, were used as canisters for flower, sugar, rice in the pantry, so they would not get broken accidentally in the canner, but K * R, took almost everything from me except my kids and 2 cats, so I am grateful for that. My large, close family and siblings moved away, as most in St. Bernard did, and it became like Little Mexico! I don't know if Aunts, Uncles and Cousins are still alive! It was small town life , where everyone knew everyone, now it is like a foreign country.
HA, as soon as the civic center, where all the government offices were rewired and got phones and electric wiring in, a gang of Mexicans gutted out all the wiring , overnight to sell the copper for scrap. A few were caught, I think, but not much was done as most were illegal working for Texas construction companies and stealing everything that wasn't nailed down! People's houses were being robes as fast as they were being renovated, until most gave up and moved away. My home has over $330, 000 in damage but was still only half undamaged, but with all that was going on( they cut hoses up for the brass connectors), I would rather live in the US rather than Little Mexico. It the time it took to go 3 miles to the only store and back, about 1/2 hour, they stole the large Propane tank from our travel trailer and my clothes hanging on a makeshift clothes line, plus the close line and plywood covering the windows, smashed my 6 and 8 foot vanity mirrors and a case of assorted liquor I didn't want broken glass from, but had rusted caps. I hope they poisoned themselves on it!

Sorry about the rant, but I did love those jars, too!
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[Celie]

Hahaha chicken nugget adventure it will be. We have crashed into being a micro farm. Lol
Chickens are def a gateway livestock!
Still awaiting pregnant New Zealand does to pop

I'll have pics at every available Op lol. I'll post a link to a thread for pics so I don't blow up this thread

I actually just finished selling 27 rabbits to one customer, the largest amount in a single sale, so far!

Only 6 more pregnant, or soon to be pregnant Does and 6 mature Bucks to go and only bunnies will be left, except for 16 -11week olds that will be going to freezer camp next week. Getting down to just breeding stock, so as soon as the rabbit Pavilion is complete and cages and water lines are ir place, I will start breeding 2 does a week to fill orders that are continuing to come in.

The man who bought a trio of NZW meat rabbits said he had been looking for a while for close to breeding Does and can see these does are ready to download anytime was a real blessing and kept thanking me over and over, saying starting his breeding stock already ready to reproduce for just $70, was really cheap, but I feel it is a fair price. If I had not been so sick at process age or if I had someone to do the do, they would have never gotten to 6 months old!

Some people drove 2 1/2 hours to buy some. In 2 months, the bunnies will sell for triple what they paid and they still have their breeding stock to re-mate every 2 months. A dozen rabbits every month, with 2 does, keeps a lot of meat in your freezer, processed out @ 3 1/2 pounds each, and unless they are nursing, very easy on the feed bill. If you like rabbit meat and want good homegrown meat, you can't beat rabbits! They more than pay for their own feed and more!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

OK I have done bit the bullet. When I went home for lunch, I told Jim I wanted him to start building a hoop tractor for meat birds. He said “a what”? & I said, “I’ll email you a picture”. He’ll do it. We have the wire & a gate & hinges, all we need is the PVC pipe & I think there’s some of that next door in my Dad’s tractor shed.

Then he can start on a chicken plucker.

 

[LemonMeringue]

I used to save all the glass mayonnaise and mustard jars before everything went to plastic, because they were really canning jars, just had to but the lids and rings. Before Katrina and Rita, I had hundreds, if  not thousands and a WI pantry, my sister said was like a small grocery store! LOL It stayed packed and I could have lived on it for a year, before having to go shopping! I guess when you go hungry as a kid, you become a food hoarder, so your kids never have to go hungry.  LOL
The blue ones with glass tops and locking snaps, were used as canisters for flower, sugar, rice in the pantry, so they would not get broken accidentally in the canner, but K * R, took almost everything from me except my kids and 2 cats, so I am grateful for that. My large, close family and siblings moved away, as most in St. Bernard did, and it became like Little Mexico! I don't know if Aunts, Uncles and Cousins are still alive! It was small town life , where everyone knew everyone, now it is like a foreign country.
HA, as soon as the civic center, where all the government offices were rewired and got phones and electric wiring in, a gang of Mexicans gutted out all the wiring , overnight to sell the copper for scrap. A few were caught, I think, but not much was done as most were illegal working for Texas construction companies and stealing everything that wasn't nailed down! People's houses were being robes as fast as they were being renovated, until most gave up and moved away. My home has over $330, 000 in damage but was still only half  undamaged, but with all that was going on( they cut hoses up for the brass connectors), I would rather live in the US rather than Little Mexico. It the time it took to go 3 miles to the only store and back, about 1/2 hour, they stole the large Propane tank from our travel trailer and my clothes hanging on a makeshift clothes line, plus the close line and plywood covering the windows, smashed my 6 and 8 foot vanity mirrors and a case of assorted liquor I didn't want broken glass from, but had rusted caps. I hope they poisoned themselves on it! Sorry about the rant, but I did love those jars, too!
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That its very sad! My husband and his brother helped remodel a house in NO for a little while. (parents of his brothers friends) Until this contractor fed them a huge crock of #%*@! And they believed all the lies the contractor said about my husband......just because that wasn't his "job" at the time. He even told them that they were hanging the sheet rock the wrong direction. Charged then $30,000. And they saw a huge pile of sheet rock at the curb, so they assumed that they tore it out and replaced it........until last week that its. The husband called and apologized to my brother in law........he had someone come to do minor repair and found out that contractor had painted over my what husband had done correctly. What a rip off! My husband had been doing remodeling since he was a young teen with his Dad. I'm glad that guy called to apologize to the guy because it really had hurt their big man feelings at the time, lol.

 

[bugglesmommy]

That its very sad! My husband and his brother helped remodel a house in NO for a little while. (parents of his brothers friends) Until this contractor fed them a huge crock of #%*@! And they believed all the lies the contractor said about my husband......just because that wasn't his "job" at the time. He even told them that they were hanging the sheet rock the wrong direction. Charged then $30,000. And they saw a huge pile of sheet rock at the curb, so they assumed that they tore it out and replaced it........until last week that its. The husband called and apologized to my brother in law........he had someone come to do minor repair and found out that contractor had painted over my what husband had done correctly. What a rip off! My husband had been doing remodeling since he was a young teen with his Dad. I'm glad that guy called to apologize to the guy because it really had hurt their big man feelings at the time, lol.

Some people!!! It's great that the guy called to apologize. It can be hard to admit when you were very, very wrong.

 

[bugglesmommy]

Alright, I just purchased some more hatching eggs to ship this weekend. 6 crested cream legbar eggs and 6 blue and splash isbar eggs from Greenfire lines. Hopefully I should have a much better time with these eggs.