Texas

[yinepu]

I don't think you're weird...but, you are talking to someone who eats frog legs and snails and other assorted "weird" foods. I love snake, too, btw. When we kill 'em on the property, we actually skin them and cook 'em. The skins can be downright beautiful. Speaking of...I have a wolf pelt I /really/ needing to be made into something - just haven't found the right thing. The cougar pelt went to a girlfriends daughter as part of a serious winter coat for when she moved to Alaska. Back to the subject, sorry...LOL I love rat snakes, not a big fan of the rattlers that like to show up; but, for the most part we're pretty snake free. Unlike my property in Alabama - copper heads and cotton mouths abound down there. I am good with snakes, so long as they don't come in my direction. Then I turn into the biggest pansy you've ever seen - well, I get even more of a pansy when I have a spider on me...but, it WAS a black widow with a body the size of a dime - no, I'm not kidding or exaggerating. I think I had every right to become a gibbering mess when I saw her on my belly...my bare (cuz my shirt had ridden up) belly. **shudders**

The name of that property, btw, is "Possum Bottom", so I will give you three guesses for what kind of critters my mother tends to feed and watch out for, and the first two don't count. So, I totally get the whole feeding it and making its last days peaceful and content.

I hadn't considered crafters when it came to eggs. All of my eggs are tinted in some form or fashion...and, I have a step-daughter that is the craft queen. I should clean a few and send them to her as a "thinking of you" gift. She'd probably get a kick out of it.

rattlesnake is quite tastey

i wouldn't eat the rat snakes though.. i like them as pets.. the female outside was in the house at one point in time (I caught her out in the yard).. she was NOT happy being an inside girl though.. so I put her back out. I tend to catch them barehanded.. so snakes don't bother me at all

We bought a rabbit hutch a year or so ago.. had a big ol black widow under it.. I didn't see her but my husband freaked out when she was crawling over my hand.. he hates spiders anyway but they don't bother me.. even though I have been bitten by a brown recluse before. So I caught her and put her in a jar.. she went to the pet shop in Cove... I think they ended up selling her as a pet..

I collect skulls and skeletons.. and clean off the gooey bits .. lol.. so yeah.. not much bothers me.. but I am allergic to children.. those things just creep me out... always have too

for eggs...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...as-eggs-getting-my-craft-on/1390#post_8232326

and
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/21400/crafters-what-are-you-making/4190

I love the wreath on the last thread... looking forward to making that one with some blue, green and dark brown eggs

 

[showbarnmom]

We raise 4-H calves. 25 years this year of showing. I've got a couple of retire show heifers that I breed and resell their calves, or we feed those up for our own freezer.

We don't do our own processing for anything except rabbits. We don't have the equipment. But I'm not sure I've had store bought beef.....ever....no that's a lie. We like HEBs beef fajitas that's are pre marinated.
I usually will try anything once. Twice if I like it lol. But I am so a meat and potato girl. Totally shows on my hips and butt too. Lol. I can founder on alligator tail though. I'm picky about NY beef too. Very rarely do I eat it outside of my own kitchen.

 

[yinepu]

Oh wow - he's absolutely gorgeous.

He is a purebred MUTT

I've named all mine so they have immunity lol! I'm not ready to eat my own, I don't like chicken on the bone to begin with. So I named everyone lol. Bug aka dammit-foghorn, Mavis, mo, pickles, peppers, sharkie and speck.

lol

Ah, see, we eat a LOT of poultry. I make up a big bird - generally a capon or turkey - on the weekend and we eat it for sandwich meat all week long. I grew up with fresh chicken on the table and it's hard to go to store bought when you have. Kinda the same for crab and lobster (my grandfather was a fisherman in Maine - talk about fresh!). But, I've never had a problem offing one of them when necessary (old age or just their time to be on the menu) so long as I made sure they had a spectacular life. All of them get molasses milk mash during the winter and milk mash during the summer (probably getting a goat, soon, since we use so much milk). They don't tend to eat a whole lot of the food in their food bin. I am guessing they are filling up on bugs and green grass/weeds. They do love to go after the scratch I toss down in the afternoons, though - especially millet. I see a lot of people swear by BOSS; but, none of mine - not a one - wants anything to do with them.

We do too.. my father was a waterman.. crabs and oysters... so I really miss the fresh crabs!
All of my birds have 2 choices (unless they have immunity) which is to either die on their own when I'm not looking.. or eventually go to freezer camp...

 

[yinepu]

We raise 4-H calves. 25 years this year of showing. I've got a couple of retire show heifers that I breed and resell their calves, or we feed those up for our own freezer.

We don't do our own processing for anything except rabbits. We don't have the equipment. But I'm not sure I've had store bought beef.....ever....no that's a lie. We like HEBs beef fajitas that's are pre marinated.
I usually will try anything once. Twice if I like it lol. But I am so a meat and potato girl. Totally shows on my hips and butt too. Lol. I can founder on alligator tail though. I'm picky about NY beef too. Very rarely do I eat it outside of my own kitchen.

darn stray dogs took out most of our rabbits a month or so ago...

needless to say I was not a happy camper.. I just wish I could find whoever dropped them off...

 

[showbarnmom]

darn stray dogs took out most of our rabbits a month or so ago... 

needless to say I was not a happy camper.. I just wish I could find whoever dropped them off...

I hate that . Thankfully we don't have that problem as our rabbits are inside a super barn lol. They share their 100 ft long barn with my show cattle. I will be happy to sell you some if you want some replacements.

 

[chickletteSarge]

My son, a grown child, wants me to name mine Scrambled, Fried, Boiled, Deviled, Raw, OverEasy, Poached....well you get the picture.

thats all we name our chickens... lol fried is a black selink hen her roo was dumplin! lol

 

[KnobbyOaks]

thats all we name our chickens... lol fried is a black selink hen her roo was dumplin! lol

It's fun to see how many names you can come up with. Dumplin in a new one. Casserole, Noodle, Benedict, Omelet, Fricasse, Shell, Cracked, Peeled, LOL

 

[KnobbyOaks]

I buy from a bird friend of mine. He raises 4-H birds, have no clue what breed they are, and he debones them for me lol. He is very good to me. We raise beef, so eat a lot of that, and rabbit. Chicken is the one we eat the least really. Lol.

I'm considering getting a couple cows, well maybe just one cow first to see if I like it. I'm beginning to study up on them. I have the space but I need to get some fencing up first and with all the dead and/or dying trees, that could cause a problem. I was thinking of going for the Dexter breed since I need something smaller, being just me. Still studying.

 

[chickletteSarge]

It's fun to see how many names you can come up with. Dumplin in a new one. Casserole, Noodle, Benedict, Omelet, Fricasse, Shell, Cracked, Peeled, LOL

well they aint all chicken dinner names.... we have Ginger, cookie,& hershey. we had rocky(road), nugget, coco puffs, and some more that i forgot...lol
as for the snake eatin.... we have a meat mkt here that sells rattler by the # for $50!!!! thats outragous!!!! any one out there have an aboundance of them i can come and take away? lol the butcher says that its a cure for cancer! idk bout all that now but he says he has a bunch of cancer patients come in for it...

 

[KnobbyOaks]

as for the snake eatin.... we have a meat mkt here that sells rattler by the # for $50!!!! thats outragous!!!! any one out there have an aboundance of them i can come and take away? lol the butcher says that its a cure for cancer! idk bout all that now but he says he has a bunch of cancer patients come in for it...

I hope somebody's documenting that cancer cure thing.

I thought I only had copperheads but a friend of mine was leaving my house one night and ran over a rattlesnake about 100 yards up the road. Amazingly to me, but not to her, she knew how to stop on a snake and then back up over them. She stopped, got out, cut off the rattles, turned around and brought them to me. Ugh. It's what I keep the little pimiento jars for, rattles and scorpions.