Michigan

[EeyoreD]

Jurassic Chicken?

 

[fuzzybutt love]

sarah92480 Pampered Chef or Williams-Sonoma (maybe even Bed Bath & Beyond) a thing that looks like a bar of soap but it is actually stainless steel. You use it as if you are washing your hands with it to get rid of or lessen these odors:
Ooooo i want one! I like pampered chef, i'll have to look it up and see if they still carry it.

NovaAman I am not sure if I will be giving the FFH here in Holland my business anymore. I may like the variety they have, but I do not like the irresponsible people who work in there.
That's a shame. Our TSC does a decent job, and the FFH in Allendale looked decent when i went in. I think it's all who's working that day, cause on a few occasions when i stopped in at the TSC here they were looking a bit icky, but they are quick to send someone to fix it if you point it out. Found a chick being pecked to death the other day, too, and they whisked it away; so sad i wish i could've took him/her home and fixed him, but that 6 chick minimum....

Does anyone know why the minimum, anyway? Stinks, i wish time to time to add a few to my current ones, but no....

sarah92480 I just have visions of living in a cabin with no windows and living off the land lol.
Wooo! a kindred spirit. ...........'cept that's not legal anymore in MI...

 

[fuzzybutt love]

'tis true, i saw basically the same thing happen to a bin of "broiler" chickens that didn't sell well at the feed mill. Quite shocking, really, the difference between the "regular" chicks and the giant "chicks", if i remember right she said they were ready to eat in 3 months?!

 

[chicken grandma]

Selective breeding.

Is that ALL?
I have heard that some of the meat birds are prone to tumors.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

This is a brand new store here, I have stopped in a handful of times now, to see what they had, and because it is next door to another store I frequent. Unfortunately, this has been the condition of the chicks every time I have been there. Only once that we were there did even one other person come in, and all the employees were standing around chatting with each other and contemplating their navels. They have definitely lost the benefit of the doubt from me, it really looks as though they just don't give a ship. I'm sorry, but if you are going to carry a dozen brooders of chicks, you should know that you can care for them, in my opinion.

You almost made me pee my pants!!!

 

[Olive Hill]

'tis true, i saw basically the same thing happen to a bin of "broiler" chickens that didn't sell well at the feed mill. Quite shocking, really, the difference between the "regular" chicks and the giant "chicks", if i remember right she said they were ready to eat in 3 months?!

2.

Is that ALL?
I have heard that some of the meat birds are prone to tumors.

Yes, thats all.

ETA: Well, that and more efficient nutrition. But that didn't happen to the chickens, it's just allows what has happened to them to work as well as it does.

 

[Wickischickies]

This thread is the most acitve on today's list! See everyone in the morning for coffee. Good night.

 

[NovaAman]

Wow! More than WA for once? Lol.

have a great nite all. Supposed to be a freeze tonight. I have to get out my winter coat!

 

[teeville5]

I took my boys to see the chicks and the ducks. They have some 3 wk old ducks yesterday and offered me them for a dollar a peice. I almost got them. Some one did. We looked at the black sex links, and there were 5 chicks that were obviously older than the ones they were in with. They were not as active as the ones they were in with. They had no food, filthy water, in fact some of the bins had no water, and just about all the bins had no food. WELL these five chicks were being eaten. Literally eaten. Some of them had no tail feathers left, and bloody bottoms. Some were missing all the feathers from the backs, and were scabbing. I went up and asked for the manager, and told her. Told her they didn't have food and water and several of the chicks were pecked badly. She tells me all snotty like, "We feed them in the morning and clean them out at night. We are in the process of that right now." I told her, well there are chicks that are pecked bloody. I asked to buy those chicks and she said she couldn't sell them to me, but that they would take care of them. Yeah, culled and discarded. I was so angry. Beyond angry because their is no reason for this to happen in that store. The store is dead. It is not busy like TSC is. And they are just so lazy. The young man who was supposed to be cleaning and checking them, he was just strolling along at a leisurely pace. It was a load of BS.

Unfortunately, I've seen this in both FFH and TSC. Even more unfortunate was that my youngest daughter was with me both times. It made her cry to see what the other chicks were doing to one poor one almost dead one so I removed it to a adjoining tank so the poor thing could die in peace. And our tsc was trying to sell 2 week old buff orps for 99 cents a few weeks back and we both noted how every single chick in the overcrowded tank had been pecked and bloodied. It's really sad and unfortunate, but most of their employees are uneducated on proper chick care. I can't tell you how many times one of them would tell me something that I knew to be incorrect. In fact, tonight I needed a waterer base and one showed me the feeder base when I couldn't find one and said that was what I needed. I politely corrected him and left since they didn't have any.

 

[sarah92480]

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Turn the bulb on its side and slice off about the top 1/4 to 1/2", exposing the tops of all the cloves. Leave the papery outside of the bulb on.

Sounds awesome, I'm totally trying this when I cook next! So busy lately....

If we could get a celebrity like say, Tori Spelling to adopt an Uggo then the breed would become an overnight sensation and you could go down in history Mom2.

Sad but probably true!


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Ooooo i want one! I like pampered chef, i'll have to look it up and see if they still carry it.

I know bed bath and beyond does...just search "garlic" and you'll find them (i was looking earlier, lol)


Wooo! a kindred spirit. ...........'cept that's not legal anymore in MI...

Yea, I totally would do that if I could. I'd love to drop off the grid and just be self sufficient in some corner of nowhere. But alas, it's the future & the man is always watching. <sigh> I always say I was born about 150 years too late...I'd fit right in during the old west/midwest.