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[chickisoup]

Did you calibrate her?

 

[perchie.girl]

HDC = Hot dog Calibration

Oh wait.... was that another list....? I am sooo confused

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Did you calibrate her?

Seems we have a broody in our midst here too now -- noticed last night when I went out to gather eggs that one of the Welsummers was on the nest - didn't think *too* much about it at the time, figured she might just be a late layer for the day -- this evening DS went out to do chores with me and he went into the coop before I did and started gathering eggs when I heard his friendly, "Hello chicken" be met with that t-rex shriek and knew -- asked, "Is it a Welly?" - yep, same bird still on the nest and doing her very best to convince us she is a ferocious monster. No fertile eggs and no need for chicks right now - just debating whether to go ahead and try to break her now or wait until I get back from a trip I'm getting ready to leave on, want to leave chicken chores as simple as possible for DH/DS so figure she's easiest to care for on the nest vs. in the broody breaker.

 

[chickadoodles]

I may just giver her another week and then take the eggs and put her back in the flock.

 

[Latestarter]

For Al & Diva, just a heads up that I bought not one, but two containers of iced cream this evening... cookies and cream for my eating pleasure (topped with Hershey's syrup) and vanilla bean for making milk shakes (OK, and eating too). I figured I deserved it after working 6 hours on yard work. Have another 6+ to do tomorrow.

 

[Peep_Show]

 

[Alaskan]

Yeppers.


Latestarter, Glad you have a couple of buckets of happiness to dig into!

 

[drumstick diva]

Latestarter I am SO proud of you

 

[Alaskan]

Well, last hatch of the year is hatching.

I have shipped eggs, from a most drool worthy breeder, bantam white leghorns, standard sized dark brown rose comb, and standard sized rose comb whites.

I also tossed in my standard Black Ameraucanas and bantam Wheaten Ameraucanas.


So.... Last night one of the bantam Ams popped out. Mine are cute little buggers. They hatch white with sometimes a little dark spot on their heads.

No other pipps or anything. Silly eggs.


So glad though, that this is my last hatch....it is my last hatch, it is my last hatch, it is my last hatch..... Except I have a friend that wants a set of chicks.

 

[bruceha2000]

Just learned something about nitrites and nitrates, I'd like to avoid them, but I make my own smoked meats, corned venison roasts and venison pastrami, hotdogs, bologna, venison cured hard sausages...etc... just not the same without the pink cure.

"When it comes to food, vegetables are the primary source of nitrites. On average, about 93% of nitrites we get from food come from vegetables. It may shock you to learn that one serving of arugula, two servings of butter lettuce, and four servings of celery or beets all have more nitrite than 467 hot dogs. And your own saliva has more nitrites than all of them! So before you eliminate cured meats from your diet, you might want to address your celery intake. And try not to swallow so frequently." http://chriskresser.com/the-nitrate-and-nitrite-myth-another-reason-not-to-fear-bacon/
I guess nitrite free hotdogs contain celery juice, guess they ain't nitrite free are they? ...

That is a curious thing. Nitrates in cured meats give me migraines. I don't even know why they feel the need to add them since I can buy uncured sausage and bacon and it looks no different than the cured stuff. I wonder if the nitrites and nitrates they use to cure meats are somehow different than the naturally occurring in things like celery.

MSG is the same, instant migraine of I eat stuff with MSG added to it but since it is a naturally occurring "substance" it doesn't even have to be listed in the ingredients.

Beer Can, you are right about celery. There were a couple places advertising nitrite/nitrate free cured hams, and bacon, but they used dried ground celery, and salt. The celery contains high amounts of nitrite, so the nitrite/nitrate free advertising, while legal, is very misleading, and totally bogus.

I have seen numerous nitrite/nitrate free things listing "except that which is naturally in celery".

Alaskan, let spouse know that moving is not such a bad thing. I swear I have moved more since getting out of the military than when I was in. In the past 25 years (wow that makes me sad to see how long I have been living kind of a gypsy life) I have lived in Arizona twice (once for ten years the second time for about five years), Florida for three years, Utah for six years and now we are preparing to go to MD/PA. It is a pain but you get to see all kinds of different places.

And you don't have nearly as much stored cr@p if you keep moving. I swore my "next" move would be to 6' under so I wouldn't have to deal with all the stored cr@p and piles and piles of cr@p on every horizontal surface. I failed in that and now I have a bunch of cr@p to deal with that isn't mine and those who should be deciding what can be tossed (being unused for at least 10 years) aren't willing to even look at it. So all those piles will be in boxes until the next move. Hopefully THAT one will be 6' under because I don't want to ever look at that stuff again.

Move often and live light!

I went out to check on my Buckeye hen to see if any of her 4 eggs had hatched. Nope! She is not even on them. Two are in front of her breast and two behind her, her body is not touching them only her feathers. What would y'all do with this hen that keeps going broody and does not know what to do? I'm at my wits end with her and this hatching business!

Gorilla tape.