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Blarneyeggs said:
Quote: Well hairy hands are better than hairy frostbitten hairy hands I think!
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fisherlady said:
I got mine from Hortsman poultry, The hens are probably all 'show quality', absolutely gorgeous lacing and such, but I don't show, I want decent eggs and good meat on the extras... I have 5 hens but no roo. Thing is that when I need hatching eggs it is often when no one has breeding pens set up because we use broodies. I didn't know you raised them also, but now that I do I will send you a PM for eggs when I get another broody (should be about end of February if Gracie keeps her normal schedule)

LMP... I don't think you are too far from me, if you want help with some processing I can help you out some, though I haven't done turkeys, so wing would be a better source there for experience. How far are you from MCC? It takes me just over an hour to get to her place.
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Thank you so very much for your offer!! Wow, you guys are just,,awesome! wow, okay..haha.I am about an Hour and a half north from MCC..haha, so, we are kinda away from everyone...I think *Missy had put us on her PA map thingy...haha told you , in the middle of no-where, but you know we do have our own hospital here..that is something!
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I have been reading a bit on that processing support group thread...............

well at this point........I can honestly say.......its not happening for me!

I will need to have someone else do the "processing" or

I will just raise pets and enjoy eggs and

have to bury my girls when its their time...........


I do like to eat chicken.......yet the process of live to table is
something I cannot stomach at this time...........

If I say bye to my pet and someone brings it to me like I would get at the grocery store
okay that I might manage..........but

I don't want any more "involvement " or "connection" to the food than that!
 
LisaYolkUm said:
I have been reading a bit on that processing support group thread...............

well at this point........I can honestly say.......its not happening for me!

I will need to have someone else do the "processing" or

I will just raise pets and enjoy eggs and

have to bury my girls when its their time...........


I do like to eat chicken.......yet the process of live to table is
something I cannot stomach at this time...........

If I say bye to my pet and someone brings it to me like I would get at the grocery store
okay that I might manage..........but

I don't want any more "involvement " or "connection" to the food than that!
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It is not for everyone, and some folks have been more comfortable taking it in small steps, and some have only been able to do it by having someone else do the processing... the right way to do it is the way it is right for you.
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LisaYolkUm said:
I have been reading a bit on that processing support group thread...............

well at this point........I can honestly say.......its not happening for me!

I will need to have someone else do the "processing" or

I will just raise pets and enjoy eggs and

have to bury my girls when its their time...........


I do like to eat chicken.......yet the process of live to table is
something I cannot stomach at this time...........

If I say bye to my pet and someone brings it to me like I would get at the grocery store
okay that I might manage..........but

I don't want any more "involvement " or "connection" to the food than that!
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Lisa:

I can empathize....I have a girl who has not laid and egg and after nursing my roo off the edge, I am not inclined to eat my pets..they are pet to me not farm critters...for other folks who do....that's ok....I can feed them and let them be..that's my chicken zen...my two cents...
 
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Hounds51 said:
I built one simular to this, except that I added a tray in reverse, making it a hood so the girls dont accidently keep knocking the nipples.
They worked great till this week! Then they froze up, even with my bucket heater running full bore.
The only problem I can see with the nipples are that they are isolated too far from the water source and thus will freeze up in extreme low temps.
But I have not have any problems with the nipples leaking.
And the wateres are real easy to make out of a 5 gal bucket. I think I made mine for about $15.00
I think I will investigate the Aquarmun heater more closely.
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Be careful with aquarium heaters. I've used them in aquariums a lot and I can imagine the chickens drinking all the water (or it developing a leak). Then the glass heater will get very hot and melt through the bucket, maybe even fall to the bedding and start a fire. Or, if the glass is partially exposed to the air and the glass is hot (while it's heating) and you dump in a bunch of cold water -- CRAAACK ! Then you have water and live electricity in your water bucket, never a good combo.

Consider a livestock tank heater instead. I little more expensive but no glass to break and probably UL tested when run dry (or at least they should). I'm all for saving money where you can, but not if it compromises safety.


Don't worry, I have been using a stock heater for my water buckets.
Thought about the Aquaram heater, and remembered how those work. No thanks
 
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stake said:
Lisa:

I can empathize....I have a girl who has not laid and egg and after nursing my roo off the edge, I am not inclined to eat my pets..they are pet to me not farm critters...for other folks who do....that's ok....I can feed them and let them be..that's my chicken zen...my two cents...
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I also am quite OK with people raising animals for meat...........after all I do eat meat and I think in my mind that healthier cared for animals would be healthier dinners too.

I just can't see myself doing the killing and prepping part.........of an animal I raised.

maybe later ------and I don't have a current need...........I just started to think about what if I have too many chickens or for a longer time........what would I do.........

The poultry industry and probably many other livestock farming practices are much much worse.

When an animal is culled or processed...........if it I done with the least pain or discomfort for the animal...........that seems good ........and if people do not seem to gain some weird entertainment from the process of killing an animal...........just that is practical..........for food on the table........

I did a unit for kiddos on Native American practices and these people thanked the various animals for offering one of their own to their people so they could survive and made sure not to waste the buffalo or whatever animal it was so that its offering was respected. They never killed more than they needed or wasted parts..........and they did not torment the buffalo or other animals as they knew they needed them in a mutual type of existence.............I am not trying to preach about this or anything.........it just seemed very win-win ..........and respectful and this comes to mind.

I think the animals that we have are very lucky to have such better living conditions..............I wish mine could free range but that is not really possible in my neighborhood and yard.........so I will just need to allow them sufficient space in their run and deliver special greens periodically.

They seem very content.........mine seem pretty upbeat and easy going...........

I should say when I watch a nature show with wild animals-----------I have always cringed and not watched the parts where a wild tiger captures its prey and eats it ------or a hawk captures a rabbit and eats it..................I fully understand the circle of life and the hawk's gotta eat...............Its just not something I like to watch.............maybe I am a bit of a wimp in this regard.........oh well......

I feel no negative emotions to fruits or veggies being eaten though...... :) this is perfectly acceptable!

okay.........just had to share this.!
 
Hi everybody!!!! I have been gone for a while. I don't know how much time has lapsed but its over 400 pages. I do not have the time to go back and read everything ;-) Hello to anybody I don't know.

Update on me, I have started to raise rabbits, Netherland Dwarfs, Blue Eyed Whites specifically. I used to raise rabbits when I was a kiddo, and did 4-H. I am still going to raise Ameraucana in Black, Blue, Splash, Wheaten, Blue Wheaten, and Splash Wheaten. I am getting a splash Marans rooster. He is going to be co roostering with my Silver Laced Wyandotte (egg flock). I will expand my bantam cochins to include black, blue, and splash maybe white too??? IDK yet. I want to contribute also breeding a breed of chicken that is considered threatened, I am going to try Blue Andalusians. I finally have a hen and a rooster. That should equal chicks. I have given up on the SLW. I tried for 4 years. I have patience, but I got tired.........................

Enough about me, how have all of you been!?!
 
LMP....there;s an active turkey thread right now, I think it is turkey talk 2014........you may want to talk to ARIELLE on there, she raises sweetgrass turkey. ...or at least she did last year about this time...
 

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