The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[ki4got]

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I have an electric one someone gave me a few days ago... Cuisinart one. haven't even looked at the manual yet, but might be worth a go. not for a whole coon, or whole anything, but maybe a people-oriented meal first. LOL

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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Ohh I missed that it was cooked. Still the cleanup on the cooker would deter me from doing it. I can only picture the fur and other stuff left behind. I wonder how long it would take too for a whole intact racoon. Can't be a quick cooking job.
Thankful it is not me dealing with the coons right now. Very Very thankful.

 

[taylynnp]

I have some very wet chickens and it's going to get down to 26 degrees tonight. They free range and despite me putting their food under roof, some of them still spent a lot of time in the rain doing their normal thing. The 2 cockerels look like they took a bath. Most of then hens were a little smarter and stayed under cover.

There's no electricity in the coop and I won't run an extension cord to leave a light on for them.

I'm trying to control the impulse to bring them in one at a time to try to dry them up a little.

But wet and cold is bad bad bad so I feel like I should do something.


Where's the line of they know what's okay for them and maybe as their steward I should have kept them confined all day because they don't know better?

 

[aoxa]

Ohh I missed that it was cooked. Still the cleanup on the cooker would deter me from doing it. I can only picture the fur and other stuff left behind. I wonder how long it would take too for a whole intact racoon. Can't be a quick cooking job.
Thankful it is not me dealing with the coons right now. Very Very thankful.

I never got the part that said it was whole. I imagined it gutted and all that stuff. yuck!

 

[Leahs Mom]

I am very pro cloth diapers. I'd love to do a home birth too.

All 4 of my daughters were born at home

Bu they're so cute....

I think that raccoons are a type (picture, representative) of the DEVIL. They look so cute and cuddly. You want to pick them up and hug them and then the RIP YOUR FACE OFF.

 

[taylynnp]

All 4 of my daughters were born at home

I had a home birth here too! Simply amazing.

 

[lazy gardener]

All 4 of my daughters were born at home

I had a home birth here too! Simply amazing.

Ditto: Re: home birth, though mine was 34 years ago! Still remember it like it was yesterday.

Re: use of a pressure cooker. I once had a baby sitter who decided to make pop corn. She grabbed the first pot she came to... which happened to be my pressure cooker. After my husband took her home, I found the mess: oil stains all over my ceiling, a burn on my counter where she had set the pressure cooker after pulling it off the stove, my sink full of burnt popcorn and shrapnel (from the safety valve blowing), and the pressure cooker full of char. She wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. This was the last time she was allowed to step foot in my house! The same girl made tuna fish sandwiches for the kids, and put cabbage in them... didn't know the difference between a head of cabbage, and a head of lettuce. DUH!!!

 

[armorfirelady]

I have some very wet chickens and it's going to get down to 26 degrees tonight.  They free range and despite me putting their food under roof, some of them still spent a lot of time in the rain doing their normal thing.  The 2 cockerels look like they took a bath.  Most of then hens were a little smarter and stayed under cover.  

There's no electricity in the coop and I won't run an extension cord to leave a light on for them.  

I'm trying to control the impulse to bring them in one at a time to try to dry them up a little.  :/   But wet and cold is bad bad bad so I feel like I should do something.    


Where's the line of they know what's okay for them and maybe as their steward I should have kept them confined all day because they don't know better?  

My hens are out in thunderstorms, rain, snow,etc. I've never dried them off and never will they have heat. They will be just fine. They are meant to be outdoors and their feathers protect them. Mine have looked like drowned rats on cold days and they roost, preen and back out the next day.

The only animals I dry off are my dogs because I don't want wet footprints all over me house

 

[Leahs Mom]

 

[Leahs Mom]

The chickens have started their Christmas decorating.


They got some lights that are battery operated at Walmart (Cheaper than this link states. They're smart shoppers

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We haven't even started decorating at the house. I guess they have time on their hands. (It does get boring for them about this time of year.)

I was taking down the electronet before the next big snow tonight..supposed to be another 4-12" depending on proximity to the lake.)


(Theirs had 36 lights )