The Old Folks Home

[Wisher1000]

Mine took the boys out of town for the day and thinks I stayed home to do housework!

 

[Arielle]

I cleaned my first birds 18 months ago--very memorable. I aked the seller to kill them for me please. He took them behind the wood shed . . ..

Myfirst time cleaning was VERY memorable. Everything that could go wrong did got wrong!! WHen the boys got off the bus on that snowy Feb day, they started pulling feathers too! COmpletely unphased. But the we've been sending lambs off to market for years.

A little experience at the right time to easy them into butchering. ANd me! I hate it.

I do have the parts to make the de-feathering thing to fit on a drill though. Have all the parts right here!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I don't hate it. I consider it a part of life. But then again, I only pluck and clean knives/table/etc. We only did 4 today. BF said he thought he could only take one more, and then it of course #4 had a weird growth on its chest (which I insisted we dissect), so we were done after the 4. We're getting cleaned up now to go to the dump (irony, much?) and might process some more tomorrow but I doubt it. We've got 7 left that need to go and at least 2 ducks.

You'll have to let me know if you make the drill attachment. We didn't use ours today because the wind was making the feathers fly back into my face. Plucking by hand isn't too bad but it is much faster and cleaner with the drill attachment.

Oh and for the person hatching turkens... I forgot to mention the best part... the boys are EXCELLENT for meat (if you go that route). The naked necks make it so much easier to visualize where you have to whack (trust me this is very important) and they don't have much hair at all, and the amount of feathers is much less. They pluck very nice and clean and are a large bird.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Wow, everybody has some points, you know I've worked very closely with docs of all sorts, and in the last several years the attitude has changed dramatically. Docs want to be called by their first names! I've only ever dropped the proffesional approach with a few, for two reasons, it's respectful of anyone who gets through medical school with the noble intent to help people, and manage to stay in practice. Two, I can say doctor with so many different inflections they cannot but help catch my drift. Oh, and three - i forgot your name. sorry.
True, alot of people don't want to know particulars, I insist you teach me. (It's in the oath) but I am also reasonable, easy to get along with, and not particularly litiginous.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Funny, I always call them by "Dr Lastname" too no matter how laid back they are. One kept insisting I call him by his first name, and I couldn't. Then he started calling me "Dr Lastname" (which I cannot stand) so now he's the only doctor that's just "Peter" to me. I still have to catch myself and sometimes he's "Doctor Peter"

 

[Wisher1000]

I think Dr Peter is a great compromise, though I don't think I could say it without laughing.......
Our regional hospital ED has a Dr Pepper, no joke. There is also a Dr Lovely, Dr Paine and Dr Bobo.
OH! And we have an OB/GYN named Dr Stretch Reed! I didn't use him.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

I think they believe, if we use first names, we will think they are more personal and not take shots at them like that! Haha things change, but stay the same...Dr peter....that's Dr saltpeter to you. Haha. There have been some really great ones though, really wonderful people, that I'm happy to have known and learned from...and genuinely real. I think things changed alot once financing an education became available, and women became just as capable of a skilled profession as men. Finally.

 

[Wisher1000]

I think things changed alot once financing an education became available, and women became just as capable of __________ a skilled profession as men. Finally.

Uh, Wrangler, did you mean "obtaining" to be in the blank?

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

that sounds better! The chickens are distracting me. Since its raining, they've decided to make the poarch their new coop and look in the window at me...uh, sorry chickens, I have enough to clean up around here! Also, I guess I am late to feed them...

 

[Arielle]

Years ago my parents were big on dinner parties; we lived in a small town with small towns all around. Guests were Mr and Mrs. THen I startred working part time jobs and found Mrs C was also Dr. S --then I was completely confused which name to call her!!! Fortunately she ansered to BOTH!

In general, I'm old school, and still use Mr and Mrs. especially if the person is older than I am. Of course now that I am older with kids in school I feel VERY old to be called Mrs --------. I want to look around for my mother or my MIL!!!!

( I also answer to two names; I didn't change my name when we married but everyone assumes that I did!!)