Pet Peeves

[BigBlueHen53]

Chicken-Related Pet Peeve:
Broody hens who ignore your "No Hatching" rule and sneak in a nest long enough that you feel guilty tossing the developing eggs. So much for this year's "No Net Gain" plan ...

Maybe they'll all be cockerels and can go in the freezer for soup?

 

[MROO]

Maybe they'll all be cockerels and can go in the freezer for soup?

Nope - straight run sales or I'll set up the Bachelor Pad again. These are Nankin Bantams - just a couple of years off the Critically Endangered List. Even fattened up, they're too small to be worth eating - not much bigger than a Serama. Even if they weren't, I get too big a kick out of the rooster eye candy and frat-boy antics. I couldn't "off" them, even for a great bowl of soup!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Nope - straight run sales or I'll set up the Bachelor Pad again. These are Nankin Bantams - just a couple of years off the Critically Endangered List. Even fattened up, they're too small to be worth eating - not much bigger than a Serama. Even if they weren't, I get too big a kick out of the rooster eye candy and frat-boy antics. I couldn't "off" them, even for a great bowl of soup!

Understood!

 

[thecatumbrella]

These are Nankin Bantams

This is probably the third time I've misread this as "Napkin Bantam". Putting my stupidity on full display so I don't have a fourth misread.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Pics of these lovelies, please, Cat?

 

[thecatumbrella]

Pics of these lovelies, please, Cat?

Of Napkin Bantams, or @MROO's Nankin Bantams?

I did just order some Bantam EE's for the end of April... and they are probably small enough to stand on a napkin!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

The Nankins, if you please. Perched upon a napkin if it pleases you.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I've got one. The manufacturer of a certain brand of, er, bathroom tissue, is now marketing a version with lovely scalloped edges that tear cleanly, in a blue bag. We've purchased the red bag version since Noah was a pup and never had an issue with it. It always tore cleanly along straight-edge perforations. Until recently. Suddenly it seems there are NO perforations in the red-bag version and you have to rip at it like a gorilla tearing banana leaves. So of course everyone is going to want to switch to the blue bag. I just hate manipulative marketing techniques. If they think scalloped-edge perforations are superior, let them put them on all their products.