The Old Folks Home

[Peep_Show]

I like doing the steel cut oats in apple juice with cinnamon and sometimes putting apple chunks in it, then top with milk or a dollop of cream. Like having pie for breakfast!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I like doing the steel cut oats in apple juice with cinnamon and sometimes putting apple chunks in it, then top with milk or a dollop of cream. Like having pie for breakfast!

I drink 1/2 & 1/2 in my coffee use that and cinnamon but also love raspberry preserves in them with cream
use cream for my gravies also

 

[Kusanar]

using partly dead things as decoration is beyond horrifying ! Who dreams up this stuff?

Generally the Chinese and Japanese...

Link to the live lobster sushi, not the same video with the flowers but same idea.

Link to the Live cooked fish...

 

[chickadoodles]

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Going to sound like a stupid question but other then tsc how do you find local grain stores...I googled but only end up with online delivery stuff...is that just a RI thing?

I am lucky that Poulin Feeds (now run by the 3rd generation of the family) has a location 2 towns north of me. Their products are carried at local feed stores as well.

We have had to buy eggs for the first time in about 3 years. I cooked them but I did not want to eat them sigh.

Did that 2 years ago at Christmas. Last year I had pullets (June hatch) that were laying. This year I cut off the "customers" about a month ago. I have 1 dozen eggs in the freezer. Mix each egg (individually) well, but do not beat them to add air. Pour in a silicon cupcake "wrapper" in a cupcake pan. Repeat with the next egg. When frozen, pop them out of the wrapper (the beauty of silicon!) and into a freezer bag. Now I need to freeze some yolks and whites separately. Still have 3 dozen eggs in the fridge. Getting ONE egg per day from 2 hens, don't know how long that will last. The other 10 are moulting or just generally slacking.

But I am NOT going to buy eggs at the store this year. Will have to institute a "chicks every spring" plan and hope I don't end up with dozens upon dozens of "living the good life in the old folks home" non layers in a few years. We are a "no kill" household.


I raised chicks for several years to keep us in eggs after Ron suggested it. But We have decided that when these three are gone that's it for us.
We might change our minds later who knows.
We are just going to keep the few cows, 2 dogs, and 4 rabbits.
Our next adventure is just around the corner.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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I stopped watching both videos part way in. If that were to happen to a human where someone cooked our entire body leaving our head...wouldn't we go in to shock and die from the massive onslaught to our system?

I hope that poor fish's movement is just nerves showing. Those people are laughing at the fish as it's gasping. That's abhorrent.
I don't care whether it's animal for food or whether it's the predator in our traps...have enough respect for another living creature to kill it quickly and precisely so as to cause it as little/no pain as possible.

 

[Bunnylady]

Tissue death isn't an all-or-nothing situation; which is one of the reasons that organ transplants are possible. Especially as you go lower on the evolutionary scale, the line between living and dead gets kind of blurry. Chickens notoriously flap, jump, and twitch after decapitation. You can remove the heart from a freshly killed turtle and it will still beat outside the body for quite a while. People have been bitten by the heads of turtles and snakes that have been separated from their bodies for hours. Knowing that your food is as fresh as possible is one thing, but this is taking it a bit far, IMO. Personally, I don't find such gruesome displays entertaining, and I'm not sure I want to understand the mindset that does.

 

[perchie.girl]

Tissue death isn't an all-or-nothing situation; which is one of the reasons that organ transplants are possible. Especially as you go lower on the evolutionary scale, the line between living and dead gets kind of blurry. Chickens notoriously flap, jump, and twitch after decapitation. You can remove the heart from a freshly killed turtle and it will still beat outside the body for quite a while. People have been bitten by the heads of turtles and snakes that have been separated from their bodies for hours. Knowing that your food is as fresh as possible is one thing, but this is taking it a bit far, IMO. Personally, I don't find such gruesome displays entertaining, and I'm not sure I want to understand the mindset that does.

good post.

I for one would like to move on to something else to talk about....

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have allot of chicken s**t quite allot
now I have 14 eggs one so tini it can be called robin
size

pretty sure this is my oe pullet

 

[perchie.girl]

I have allot of chicken s**t quite allot
now I have 14 eggs one so tini it can be called robin
size

pretty sure this is my oe pullet

They are soo tiny and cute... Do you think it has a yolk?

The one and only time I ever successfully incubated eggs they were Pullet eggs. Out of five Guinea Eggs I had three hatch...

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: That one is so tiny it is almost a shame to do anything with with it
but have to find out if it has a yolk