Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Arielle]

I boil water in the deepfryer (since it is big enough to hold a turkey), dunk 'em, and most of the feathers fall off. Those that don't pull out easily, like wiping bubbles off when you get out of a bubble bath. Teeny new feathers can still be irritating, but *meh*

THe feathers really fall off during dunking???? Love it! Guess I need a deep fryer. I did geese a year ago, last Feb, and man, that was a chore. Pot not big enough to scald. DH borrowing a huge soup pot and gas burner. Used lots of hot water, lots, and the feathers became more and more difficult to remove. Of course the birds had been stored in a snowbank waiting it's turn. I think the cold carcass made the feathers more difficult to remove--just a guess here as I had never done this before.

 

[Arielle]

COZ--super pictures. Great job on the construction.


Finally caught up.

 

[mlm Mike]

Coz74, that's a neat little candler.

AK Michelle, real nice coop, and I'm going to have to look into the wiz bang plucker,the DW was looking at the pluckers at Meyers the other day,I'd have to do a lot of butchering for one of those to pay for itself.

 

[Spangled]

We have

days until St. Patricks' day

(more commonly known here as
the day we set chicken eggs!!).

Hmmmm. I have 1/2 a mind to set only green eggs on March 17th since it's St. Paddy's day. But only 1/2 a mind. I don't need that many green egg layers. But maybe I'll set a couple olive-green-egg layers just for the fun of it ... and in his honor and then name one "St. Paddy" ... or maybe name one after Mahonri

for putting on a good Hatch-a-long!

ChestnutRidge

comes through! Thanks! 7500+ pores in the shell of a hen's egg. Wow!

 

[Arielle]

Hmmmm. I have 1/2 a mind to set only green eggs on March 17th since it's St. Paddy's day. But only 1/2 a mind. I don't need that many green egg layers. But maybe I'll set a couple olive-green-egg layers just for the fun of it ... and in his honor and then name one "St. Paddy" ..

Great idea!!!! My EE are laying again--no lights all winter for them, it's uplifting to see the pretty blues and greens again.

 

[Razadia]

Caught up for the morning. I'm awake way too early and this morning has been terrible.

My mom walked into my room (after I had been asleep for only an hour) and told me one of our dogs was dead. Fantastic. Problem is, he was perfectly fine last night and all day yesterday. He was his normal bouncy self and nothing abnormal happened. He was fed the same thing we always feed him. No chocolate icecream was anywhere near him yesterday and even if there had been, he wouldn't have eaten it. Our other dog outside is perfectly fine. He's just upset. The cats are working overtime on trying to comfort everyone and my mom's dog is laying next to me in the chair. NOTHING was wrong with him yesterday.

I'm just so confused. He wasn't old at all. Cisco was only about 6 years old. We've had heart worm problems in the past and we know it starts showing at least a week before they die. He didn't have rabies and there were no bite marks on him where he could have gotten in a fight with anything. There was just blood, foam, and signs of him thrashing before he died. He didn't have access to poison or anything of the like. Someone had to have come in the yard, at night, to have done this. He wasn't sick.

From what I can tell he was only dead for about 2 hours before mom found him. (this was a process I did not enjoy.) I spent my morning helping my brother dig a grave for him. This morning has been horrible.

 

[Arielle]

Raz-- any reasonable clues????

 

[MrsMoonCat]

Hmmmm.  I have 1/2 a mind to set only green eggs on March 17th since it's St. Paddy's day.  But only 1/2 a mind.  I don't need that many green egg layers.  But maybe I'll set a couple olive-green-egg layers just for the fun of it ... and in his honor and then name one "St. Paddy" ... or maybe name one after Mahonri    for putting on a good Hatch-a-long!

I love the idea of naming a chick Mahonri!! Maybe we should all name one from the hatch to encourage him to continue with this effort to populate the world with poultry?

 

[mlm Mike]

Razadia, sorry about your dog.

 

[Spangled]

and this morning has been terrible.

Oh, poor Cisco. Poor you.

I'm so sorry.