NY chicken lover!!!!

[miquwid]

HOUSEOFKNAUSS good luck with the new job!

as for cabbage mine are so so with it.

 

[AQHAchick22]

houseofknauss good luck with the job! I think it's more important to have a job you love and one that you can come home from and not worry about rather than one where you make more money...I would rather have my sanity

Also--with the cabbage mine HATE it. I left a head of cabbage hanging in their coop for a couple of days and they barely touched it.

 

[Breella]

Woke up yesterday to blood all over the feeder. After some investigation it seems that there was some squabble over food and my quarky Leghorn hen Blizzard is missing a BB size piece of the front of her comb. She had already stopped bleeding by the time I had gotten home and even had her feathers cleaned up so that I really had to look for it to see that it had been her.

Today three pieces of my outdoor overhang were ripped off by the wind. :-( I'm taking a lunch break and going to get some house chores done then I'm going to home depot to get some bolts and going to try a new way to hold them down.

 

[rancher hicks]

House - congrats on the new job. I'm sure you will do just fine.

Bree - sorry about the wind damage. I'm hearing noises out there and afraid to look. We have one of those heavy wooden glider swings blow over.

I'm too old to lift that thing by myself.

As for the Cabbage thing. Like I said the experts say lots of things. Me ?, I'm tired, I throw it out there. If they eat it fine, if not it becomes lawn compost. If they eat and die, then I guess they won't do that again.

'Course I guess all that cabbage might make the coop smell twice as bad. I can hear them now. "Hey it wasn't me, must a been you." "Move over when you let one of those things, will ya." " Good lord have mercy, who let the pigs in here?" " Help!! Somebody crack a window ! "

" psst, I blame the Silkies."

Sorry I just tell it like it is.

 

[County Boy]

I know I ask this a lot but if anybody knows somebody who may be interested in some roos let me know. I have a lot of extra boys and am going to Indiana for a hunting trip next week and would like to sell all my extras before I leave so the person who does my chickens won't have to deal with so many. Here are acouple of the boys who need to go-

 

[Tough Old Bird]

Personally thats what I have a cat for ...thats his job .

He is always bring me mouse nuggets ...tails with some butt attached , Heads only , etc ..I wont get more Gross ...He does though

This reminded me of when I was first married and my husband got up early in the morning to let the cats outside...I was still in bed and heard him yell out a VERY loud profanity downstairs from the sun porch. Seemed he had stepped on something in his bare feet and was trying to shake it off. It finally "unstuck" from his foot and went flying across the floor: a little, severed mouse head. Hubby said he could see the little buck teeth as it rolled away. We still laugh about that.

And all this talk of MICE ... I am blaming Lynzi, because for the first time in many months, I found a dead mouse in our snap trap today. Thanks a lot, Lynzi. Sheesh!

TOB

 

[Tough Old Bird]

on another note, my 3 month vacation(unemployment) is over I start a new job tomorrow only 5 miles from home.. am very nervous and hope my body is physically ready for it after being sick. but there will be no stress, no management job this time, I go in and do my job and go home and worry about nothing---- I wont know what to do with myself. (except keep clipping coupons since I took a 25% pay cut.) wooo hooo, I am excited!!!!!!!!!!!!

Houseofknauss...

good luck with the return to the work force and a new job. Within a week or so, you'll be in a good routine, I hope, and will have lost the "new" feeling and jitters!

TOB

 

[Lynzi777]

LOL TOB! I'm wondering if the one I heard yesterday was really chipmunk. I haven't heard it since. And they have holes everywhere in our front yard and in my flower bed. They've been known to get into the walls of my front porch so I'm thinking that it could have been a chipmunk on the outter wall and not a mouse on the inside wall.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Eveving all. Well we processed the six hens that were our first chickens. Did it this morning. Took 2 hours and 40 minutes from kill to canner. We just took the legs and breast meat. The barred rocks had quite a bit of fat on them and the wyandottes were meatier. We did look at the ovaies and all but one hen was definately done laying. Got one egg from thy wyandotte. The fat on them was a nice bright yellow. No tears. Dh and I were strong. I got six quart jars of meat. The seals look good. We will miss those girls but at three and a half with no eggs, it was time and the insides told us we made a good call.

My poor silkies need chicken therapy as they had a ringside seat to the processing. Poor legolas took his women and children and hid under his coop.

Thelma and louise are now in the big coop. Thelma went in by herself but I had to rescue louise tonight and put her in next to her sister. They are inseperable and I do believe one would die without the other.

Cleaned out both silkie coops today and got them ready for winter. Just have to put the plastic up on legolas coop.

My cheeps like cabbage. Of course, they like food period!

Have a good evening everyone!

 

[Cass]

Can I assume they were "unwashed" eggs?

I honestly don't remember about washing.

Here is a link to the article I read. http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/fresh-eggs.aspx#axzz2kHuYkQlr

The entire article is eye opening. (Sorry Rancher, I didn't bother to reread it to answer your question. Moving my mom these past 2 weekends....too tired to read, much less reread.)