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Snood???

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Quote: That's very clever.
The light rail system vending machines here give change in Susan B. Anthony dollars.
A recycler gives change is=n $2 bills and Sacagaweas.
Doubt it's for the same reason but those 2 places are memorable to me for that.

That's part of my argument when people didn't agree with the auto bailout. If GM and Chrysler were forced to go into bankruptcy, it may have negated all of the salaried and hourly retirees' pensions. Some may think that would have been a good thing. What no one considered is that would have forced the majority of those retirees to live on the public dole in the form of welfare the rest of their lives. It was probably a bargain for taxpayers considering that.

I can't WAIT to do a taste test with our eggs, organic ones and just cheap-o ones!!! That will be a fun experiment. I'm going to do a blind taste test with the roommates and my BF

I will eventually do it also with the whole cooked chicken. I'm not, however, looking forward to eating my babies, but that's why I got the dual purpose breed!

I don't really notice the difference when I go from store eggs to my eggs. But WOW, going back to store eggs - UGH!!

Do not forget to bake two scratch cakes, one with store eggs and one with pullet eggs from you Pullets.

Or quiche, frittatas, whatever.

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Now and then the Mennard's stores (lumber, appliances, kitchen design) etc, has 'MADE IN AMERICA" sales and it mentions the states . Then I do shop for what things I can use and am Proud I bought American.

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There was a guy that wanted to create a big box store with all US made goods. There were a lot of products that just didn't exist.

here is my first egg



egg tomato

beautiful, I can't wait.

... Like I saw in the movie Dirt or FOOD, can't remember, a farmers comment was You'll pay $1 for a soda - that lends not nutritional value and for that same $1 you can get a nutritional meal. If the person can't get that analogy - there is no use wasting any more H2O on them. DH has actually provided naysayers a dozen for free to try....he has gotten regular customers that way. It does not always work....but it works most of the time....the proof is in the pudding they say...in this case the egg.

Can't fix stupid.
Some people have dead taste buds.

I think shrink wrap was my biggest problem, especially with the last couple. My hatch took place between three days. The first day had the largest number of chicks hatched. I know you are not to open the incubator but I had to take them out because they were not drying off even after 12 hours. What do you do in that case? I think that caused the problem with the one that pipped properly but did not make it out. In addition, I left 2 overnight and had to take them out for the same reason which I think caused damage to the chicks that hatched later. The one I think will not survive now was definitely shrink wrapped. It was in it shell half zipped for almost a 24 hours and it could not get out because it was stuck to the shell. I am going to be setting more eggs by the end of next week and want to prevent the loss that I experienced....it is way to hard to hold a baby in my hand that died. I know it is inevitable but not 3 and possibly 4. I believe my humidity may have gotten too high as well...not sure. Any advice would greatly be appreciated.

Congrats on the hatch. The last ones sometimes seem to get wrapped, perhaps from pulling others.

Uh, yup. And sometimes "for 99 cents..." Fine, eat your crappy, unhappy hen factory farmed eggs. Your loss.

That happened before I moved up into the Foothills; folks around HERE appreciate good eggs. Plus, they don't have to drive to Placerville, Folsom or Sacramento for lousy, cheap eggs. Raley's and SaveMart -in those cities - DO sell "cage free" brown eggs for more than I charge, but one of my (now) customers discovered those eggs aren't nearly as good as those produced by my flock.

I found a totally new market for eggs. I eat at a sushi smorgasbord about once a week or so. Every waitress, most of the cooks and even the owner are Chinese - not Japanese, go figure. Most are close to being right off the boat or plane. Maybe a Japanese person can't imagine the words sushi and smorgasbord being in the same sentence. Anyway, I've made friends with one of the waitresses and told her that I raise chickens. Every once in a while she'd ask about them. I explained how dark the Penedesenca eggs are. She said they had chickens in her region of China that laid eggs just as dark. I was really curious what they were. Then she went into a rant about how horrible grocery store eggs are here. I told her I'd bring her some eggs. The next time I ate there, I brought a dozen. They were in a clear carton and there were a couple normal brown ones and the rest were a really nice color. Her eyes got big and she said, "THEY SO DOK!!!". (no offense intended, since I sound worse speaking some languages).
I said, "I thought you said you had dark eggs in China".
She said, "not that dark, just normal brown".
They hate white eggs too. The next time I went, all the waitresses came up and said, collectively, they wanted 5 dozen. I can sell 5 dozen there every time I go.
I've converted to organic and I'm raising my prices to $4 but the Chinese waitresses will still get them for $3 because I know they don't make much in tips with the tightwads around here and they are so excited to get them.
The area convenience markets have a lot of middle easterners and they hate white eggs too. I sell some there occasionally. Good thing I'm down to my last white egg layer, my last Jaerhon. I have an Ameraucana that just started laying again. Wait till I bring some of those to Hokkaido.

I hate when I don't have eggs of my own. I can't eat store bought eggs. Really! Didn't eat a single egg all winter. My kids are all or almost grown and my 3 oldest daughters never want eggs from me. That's fine, I'll hatch what we don't eat. One of these days I'll have to remember to tell them that the deviled eggs they all rave about are from my birds. I figure maybe I'll let them know at a time they don't taste the same, because they're store bought!
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We had been eating our eggs for a long time and my wife makes deviled eggs pretty often, they're to die for.
We were at a graduation party for her niece. Among all the food, there were two trays of deviled eggs (not ours).
I thought, 'I love deviled eggs', so I ate one. I then thought something was wrong. I tried one more. It was like taking a drink of water. There was absolutely no flavor. How can that be?

Hey Lady!!

Nothing like free range chicken eggs!!

Egg production is picking up here, yaaahoooo-- need to pickle some eggs today.

WOw. disappointing to not get any fresh produce from all your efforts. Amazing how each peice of land can be different. Maybe this year your luck will change.

Late last fall we had to buy eggs for the first time in who knows when.
For a couple months I was getting 1 or 2 a day. They're up to about 15 or so a day now.

Excited to hear from all of you! Completely forgot I also have 3 ring neck doves that I keep with my chickens.

Welcome. In what part of the world are you located?

 

[ozexpat]

Snood???

personally, i hate it when people compare snood sizes.

There are a lot of tom turkeys out there who have been desnooded

 

[insanity]

What is a snood? It sounds like a character from a kids book.

 

[ozexpat]

What is a snood? It sounds like a character from a kids book.

its the skinn thinggy that hangs down past the beak on the turkey


Anatomical structures on the head and throat of a domestic turkey.
1. Caruncles,
2. Snood,
3. Wattle (Dewlap),
4. Major caruncle,
5. Beard

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: Geez!

The snood is the fleshy bump or projection over the beak on a turkey. Hen turkeys have just a little one; on the mature toms, it is more developed and can hang down quite a ways below the beak. The adult bird can contract or relax and lengthen his snood.

 

[Arielle]

Snood???

THe tiny finger like projection between the eyes, close to the beak. It's a turkey thing. The difference in size is subtle-- but look at a bunch and pick the smallest snood.

 

[insanity]

thanks

 

[Arielle]

Here is Celie's information and including results from her experiment. To quote:

Not to change the subject, but we are often asked, how to tell the sex of turkey poults and young adults. These are the facts I believe to be true and if anyone would care to contribute to the list, please do. If I have something wrong, please correct me, since I do not want to spread incorrect information. This seams to be the number one question asked on the turkey threads !

1. All colored feathered turkey hens will have lighter edging on the breast features and toms will have darker edging.
2. Males will weigh more than females hatched at the same time and this will become more apparent as they grow older.
3. Toms will have thicker legs than hens.
4. Both can have beards, but toms will grow longer.
5. Toms have longer thicker snoods as they reach maturity.
6. Toms Chronicles will be bigger than hens and the heads and necks will be a darker red.
7. Toms will be bald, while hens will develop a thin line of feathers up the back of their heads.
8. If you can hold the bird on your lap, laying on it's back, at any age, if it holds it's feet up close to it's back, it is probably a hen, because it is a defensive position for a tom or a rooster, too,(for that , matter) to extend one or both legs. This, I find works from day old chicks or poults, with 94 degree accuracy.
9. Both will display when young, but by the age of sexual maturity, only toms gobble.

This year I have done my own research on how to tell the sex of very young poults and chicks before they are old enough for the above! I have used a couple hundred poults to test as I hatched out Holland White, Midget White and A few Bourbon Red Poults this year, with 94% accuracy!
10. If you can hold the bird on your lap, laying on it's back, at any age, if it holds it's feet up close to it's back, it is probably a hen. If it extends it's legs or even just one leg, you probably have a tom. This, I find works with day old chicks and poults and seams to be based of their natural defensive posture of male vs female responses in these birds. I thought someone else might benefit from my findings, too, so I thought I would share.


Arielle, this is the experiment I spoke to you about last winter, before I had enough research done to support my suspicions. Hope it helps!

 

[Arielle]

DH just arrived home early from work and is taking a few days off-- shingles. Fortunately I've already had chickenpx and the kids are vaccinated. but I think I will call the pediatricians office for more in formation regarding what to expect with known exposure.

Gotta put a pot of chicken soup on!