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[chickisoup]

I think it says a lot about how the main thing women in television are judged by is their looks.

When has anyone ever said "that ole Walter Cronkite is not much to look at; I couldn't really say about his journalism"?

remind me not to post my pic on here!

whomever it was looking for Al Jazeera, I watch it on DirectTv but they're being sued for not paying Al Gore for the channel so maybe not for long.

I thought politics was also one of the taboos??? so I will just grab my coffee, kick back and lurk for a while. Very entertaining!!!

 

[subhanalah]

remind me not to post my pic on here! 

whomever it was looking for Al Jazeera, I watch it on DirectTv but they're being sued for not paying Al Gore for the channel so maybe not for long.

I thought politics was also one of the taboos???  so I will just grab my coffee, kick back and lurk for a while.  Very entertaining!!!

do wut now?

 

[vehve]

Perhaps we need to switch to less charged subjects then. I think our neighbors thinks we're a bit weird. One of the people who live on our street asked me earlier, if I was collecting snails for the chickens. I had to think for a moment if it was better to say yes, or to admit that I was actually hunting for worms to add to my compost pile on their parking lot.

 

[chickisoup]

Quote: Al Jazeera America bought their network from Al Gore but now he's filed suit claiming he wasn't paid in full. At least if that's what I understand I saw on yesterday's news cycle.

 

[Alaskan]

@vehve

OK... What about

18" pizza, $23 here in Homer.

And I looked, gas up in Bethel, AK is over $7 a gallon.


In Nome, AK milk is $6 a gallon, and a honeydew melon $14

 

[bamadude]

An oz of high quality medicinal herbs= $325

 

[LindaB220]

@bamadude I forgot I was supposed to share this link with you:

http://ramblingredneckmom.blogspot.fi/2011/04/how-to-process-chickens-at-home.html?m=1

It start's with the deed itself. I've been using hedge shears, which worked great the first time, breaking the neck and cutting the jugular on both sides, but the last time I used them, it only broke the neck, so I would maybe not recommend this method, unless you place the shears so that the feathers won't block the cutting edge. The scalpel is better, but requires you to find the spot to cut at pretty precisely.

The noose to hang the chicken from it's feet from is a great technique, the chicken becomes pretty disoriented upside down, and I'd say this minimizes struggling and suffering as long as you don't hang it for a prolonged time. I've liked using the trash bag to collect the blood, and to calm the chicken down.

Washing the chicken with a bit of soap works well, it lessens the stench when you scald it later. I first wet the bird a bit, then rub in some soap (I use a pine based soap) and rinse it properly, cleaning away the worst poop. Wetting the feathers prior to scalding will make the scalding work better too, as the hot water will heat the water already in the feathers.

The scalding works really well the way it's described in the link too. We've only done birds individually, so we haven't had to worry about the water cooling down when doing several birds. With one bird, I use a 8 liter (2 gallon) bucket, in which I pour about 4 liters (1 gallon) of boiling water, and then I top it up with cold water until it's 65C/150F. Then I hold the bird in it for about a minute (when I say 'I' I actually mean Karin, I've outsourced this to her), and then the bird can be plucked. We just hang the bird back in the noose we used for hanging it from during the killing (still from it's feet), and pluck the feathers into the same trash bag that we drained the bird into, as we don't want the dogs to dig up the spot where we do this.

This has to be the BEST pictorial to processing birds. Kudos for finding it.

 

[Alaskan]

An oz of high quality medicinal herbs= $325

No way dude!!

That should run you only $289!

Actually though, in Homer it is $320 an ounce to $600.

 

[Alaskan]

Do you realize that I just googled the above prices??? How can that be on the internet?

 

[vehve]

@vehve

OK... What about

18" pizza, $23 here in Homer.

And I looked, gas up in Bethel, AK is over $7 a gallon.


In Nome, AK milk is $6 a gallon, and a honeydew melon $14

A family size pepperoni pizza at Kotipizza, 18 euros. I'd say it's about 18", so that's about the same at 23.90USD.

Spanish honeydew melon, about 2-3 euros per kilo right now, that's really cheap. Watermelon is about 1.50-2.00 euros right now, a few months ago it was still over 3 euros per kilo. In our closest store, milk is about 1.45 euros per liter, but the big stores sell it for about a euro. Apples are between 2-3 euros per kilo.