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[Sally PB]

Just curious. What are y'all paying for turkeys where you live? I got a 13.5 pound bird for 98 cents a pound at Wally World yesterday. I usually buy at Hyvee but their turkeys were starting at 20$ this year.

Our local grocery chain (Meijer) had a special for their store brand. $.59/pound, for a week only. I got a nearly 14 pound for $8.21. When I got it home, I saw this on the label: Contains up to 9.5% water/sodium/ whatever else they plump it up with.

 

[Nomadicus]

We are going to our daughter's place for thanksgiving. I may go as a vegan and just tank on the cranberry sauce and dressing if she doesn't mess it up with giblets.

 

[microchick]

No Snow here! (we almost never have show!) I am waiting to see rain still. That might happen tomorrow.

I have had a cough for a week or so but it is nearly gone now.

You're in California, though, Ron, isn't it against the law for it to snow there? Didn't they have a song like that in the 70s? It never.....oh wait, that was, it never RAINS in California.

Okay, never mind.

We are going to our daughter's place for thanksgiving. I may go as a vegan and just tank on the cranberry sauce and dressing if she doesn't mess it up with giblets.

Ha! When I was a kid, I'd pick the giblet out of the gravy and leave the gravy.

Some consider turkey to be modified vegetarian fare. If it wasn't for poultry and fish I'd starve to death.

Finally reached my weight loss goal of 120 pounds. Now I'm trying to keep it between 120 and 125 over the winter. That means I lost a grand total of around 27 pounds.

Hybrids are usually made from heirlooms with those traits. That's why the companies thst sell the seeds are so careful to hide the ancestry of their seeds.

The real advantage of hybrids is "hybrid vigor," or as I have seen it called, "lack of inbreeding depression."

I.e., if plants are outcrossed instead of being self pollinated, they're stronger and healthier.

That goes for about everything along with plants. Chickens from heirloom breeds are proven to be more resistant to disease, especially Marek's disease. Breeders and geneticists strive to create specialized breeds that produce this colored egg or that colored egg because people want colorful eggs in their egg basket and breed birds for optimum egg production in two to three years and in doing so they breed the disease resistance right out of them.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Made the trip to town without incident. I even remembered to get the stuff to spray my pet roosters butt with so the hens will stop picking it and a bag of pine shavings. I did good without a list. Told the lady at checkout I needed my member # written on my forehead so I wouldn't have to remember it. She offered to write it down for me but I told her I'd just lose it.

I have a tattoo pen.

 

[CapricornFarm]

You're in California, though, Ron, isn't it against the law for it to snow there? Didn't they have a song like that in the 70s? It never.....oh wait, that was, it never RAINS in California.

Okay, never mind.

Ha! When I was a kid, I'd pick the giblet out of the gravy and leave the gravy.

Some consider turkey to be modified vegetarian fare. If it wasn't for poultry and fish I'd starve to death.

Finally reached my weight loss goal of 120 pounds. Now I'm trying to keep it between 120 and 125 over the winter. That means I lost a grand total of around 27 pounds.

That goes for about everything along with plants. Chickens from heirloom breeds are proven to be more resistant to disease, especially Marek's disease. Breeders and geneticists strive to create specialized breeds that produce this colored egg or that colored egg because people want colorful eggs in their egg basket and breed birds for optimum egg production in two to three years and in doing so they breed the disease resistance right out of them.

Congrats on the weight loss. I had lost about 20 pounds, but it is back. I blame it on feeling so miserable most of the time. However, I am determined to send it away. Already told hubby not to buy me candy for Xmas.

 

[CapricornFarm]

 

[Nomadicus]

Just passing through.

 

[Alaskan]

Lots of wind up here...

Going to be highs of 20 by Saturday.

 

[pertnear09]

Lots of wind up here...

Going to be highs of 20 by Saturday.

Sorry to hear that. We're still having good weather. A little windy on occasion but that's west Texas.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Wood stove is keeping us warm. Goes down to freezing or a bit below at night, but days have been pleasant. However, we need rain badly.