WOOT!! I moved here from NW Ohio just over 3 years ago!! Nice to meet someone from "my neck of the woods" (sort of...LOL)My husband is an avid hunter, and we eat everything he kills. I can't say we've ventured into opossum or porcupine, but we've got most everything else in our freezer now - if not now, we have had it. This is why I would like to {eventually} be in a place where we can have meat birds - then you know where your meat is coming from. We RARELY eat beef, and when we do it comes from our family farm in Ohio. Chicken is the only meat we buy at the store. We're originally from Ohio, and now NC -- we eat what we kill
Hehe...funny frog leg story: my grandmother was cooking frog legs and instead of telling us what they were, she said they were mini chicken legs. All through supper, my grandfather kept asking us how the frog tasted and my grandmother would kick him from under the table. LOL...at that time, we were "city kids" - living on base after base and had rarely stepped foot in what could be called a country setting. I always giggle at that memory...as well as my sister's face, when she found out the truth!!I used to go frog gigging with my dad when I was little.....and watch the frog legs jump around the pan when my momma fried them up...
tasted almost like chicken.... dark meat.
CONGRATULATIONS!!Good Morning, Happy Chicken People!
Beth! Up before the chickens today, I see! I laid in bed a while listening to the button quail calling. I ended up with two pair, and both hens are laying now.
Breakfast, anyone?
I know you were doing a lot of research looking for soy-free feed. If you're feeding grains only as a supplement, what is their main feed now? Did you find a good source for soy-free feed? I've considered separating a portion of my flock and doing soy-free to be able to sell to people with allergies, but haven't looked into the feed much. I figured I'd wait for you! And of course, any good feed is able to be supplemented by free-ranging. I'm surprised you replace the free-ranging with grains in the winter though, because without soy the protein content needs a boost. I was thinking about getting back into raising mealworms again for that group...if I ended up going that way. Might be more trouble than it's currently worth to me.We have our first "regular" egg customer too!!A guy my hubby works with just found out he's allergic to soy and has been looking for soy-free pastured eggs (we do feed grain, but only as a supplement...and in winter when no grass/bugs are to be had) and is asking for 1/2 dozen eggs every week!!
The harder part for me is remembering where I hid them!Good morning folks
it's hard to believe that tomorrow is the first day of June
.........5 months of the year have passed by already....
this means I need to get busy on stockpiling Christmas gifts
so I won't have to rush so much later
the hardest part is coming up with ideas for each person
........and not giving it to them right away
hope your Friday is a good one
I saw those birds up close and in person last week at the zoo! Very cool!!
