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They heard you talking about them to the dh, Henicillin. Probably have a netbook stashed nearby as well and are secretly subscribed to this thread. Hence the silent treatment. Camp Crock-pot sounds good, as well as stew-away camp, freezer camp and camp grill-a-long. I subscribe to eating what annoys me...usually squirrels, deer, roosters...
Girls are molting bigtime so I am only getting 2 to 3 eggs a day. They look like poor ragamuffings, barebutts and all! I hope they finish soon cause my egg customers would like their eggs again,
So THAT'S why the HughesNet signal slows in the evening when they go to the coop - they're keeping track of me! AHA!
I had The Talk about the Birds (we've already discussed the Bees - they're coming in the spring) with DH just now. He is now firmly on board with cleaning house of annoying roosters, "since they're stressing you out so much and they're bugging the girls," and he's all for eating them since we've fed them for so long. *phew* So, it's off to Wally World tonight to get a turkey frying kit so we can heat water, and then tomorrow we plan to Do the Deed. He's a hunter, and I've done my share of dissecting various animals in my long and varied college career, so we should be good to go.
My paternal grandparents, rest their souls, had a huge flock of chickens. I can just see Gramma and Grampy saying to one another, "what's wrong with that girl? Stop dithering and just do it!"
It turns out that one of my Orps is one of the Mystery Layers - she was kind enough to lay when I was out there freshening up the coop. I can see broody tendencies in her already. She nudged it under herself and started trying to rearrange the hay in the nest box over it. Sadly for her baby-mama-wannabe impulse, I cruelly took that sucker away and stuck it in my fridge. One of the other Orps has also either started or is coming online, as she has spent half her day grumbling, checking out the boxes, and practicing the egg song (you didn't lay an egg, you feathery little liar - no egg song!).
Couple of good vids on UTube on Chicken butchering. We did 4 and it wasn't as hard as we thought. I used my canner for the hot water. If I was doing more than 4 I wuold just bring out a tea kettle of boiling water to add to the canner to heat it up. (Or I could put it on the beautiful brick outdoor fireplace ray just had to "point up" (read REBUILD) before he did anything else on the house....BUT there is no GRATE in the fireplace to hold up pots. sigh)
