This should get a chuckle out of the women!

[wegotchickens]

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Grits are made from hominy. Hominy is made by taking corn and soaking it in a lye solution. This kills any little germies, changes the texture, and bleaches it white. After rinsing thoroughly, the hominy is dried and then ground to make grits. Or you can just can it and use the hominy as a side dish. Bush Brothers sells bunches of cans of hominy in Texas...

Anyway, grits taste kinda like a chunkier version of cream of wheat, but not exactly. I like mine with bacon crumbled into it instead of salt. It's definitely a southern comfort food. I've also enjoyed garlic cheese grits as a dinner side dish.

If you've ever had polenta, then you've had grits. Polenta is just a fancier more smoothly ground version (my opinion).

 

[newchickowner]

I love grits with a couple of eggs over medium (yolks a little runny) and bacon or sausage all cut up and mixed up in the grits. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

 

[McGoo]

My DH has got to watch the chooks tomorrow cause I'm off to x-c ski in VT.
He's got his orders.... I'll give them their warm cooked oats, etc. at 6:45, and when I told him he's got to give them their veggies at about 11 he just started to laugh soooo hard...

before I even finished with the instructions. I wrote them down so that he gets it straight. I'll quiz him when I get home.

Good news is DH knows I'm crazy and is aware that he comes after the dog, cat and chooks... even after the wild birds. Poor DH.

 

[wegotchickens]

They get used to all this. My DH didn't even bat an eye when I said I was using the leftover mulled cider to cook the peeps some rice for tomorrow's breakfast....

 

[Scrambled Egg]

"I've also enjoyed garlic cheese grits as a dinner side dish." I do that too wegotchickens....or rather I used to do that, before my little feathered scavengers started getting all the grits leftovers, lol!!!!

 

[paganfish]

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Pro'ly not. Although Blue Cheese MIGHT work! LOL!

 

[newchickowner]

my b/f is getting used to it too. My chickens free range so every hour or so, as I'm looking out the window at them, or I'm outside, I quickly count them. So far they're always there. (I can't help it, I guess I'm paranoid with the HUGE coyote pack nearby and seeing one in my back pasture recently in the middle of the day)

and everytime my b/f goes out for a quick smoke or whatever, when he gets in I always ask him "did you happen to count the chickens while you were out there?" at first he'd say no, and I'd go do it myself, but now he counts them too and tells me when he gets in that they're all there!!!

He loves them too, though he don't want me to know it!

 

[newchickowner]

oh, and just the other day he was telling me how he can't tell the chicks from the adults now that they are so big. We were standing on our back porch and looking at the chickens as they were scratching around our stack of firewood. The young one's were on top of the stack and surrounding stumps. I told him that you can always tell the babies cause they are the only one's that get on top of things cause the others were kept in a small coop/run where they were living and their wings were always cropped so they don't use their wings to fly at all.

Then I mentioned to him my plans of erecting a "chicken playground" for them and started to explain what I wanted, I again got the look along with rolling of the eyes and a huff!

But no fight! Yay! That means come spring it's a go!!!

(at least in my mind, he'll probably think I'll forget. Not likely!)

 

[thndrdancr]

Yesterday my sis went down to visit a friend in Kansas. She came home late that night, and brought in groceries and a couple of bags of newspapers "for the chickens".
Dear hubby helped bring everything in, and when he found out there was "nothing" for him (in the summer this friend sends all kinds of goodies from the garden, squash, okra, etc.) he kicked the bag and said "For the chickens, ALWAYS for the chickens!!!"....
It was hilarious. He is half serious, but its funny the way he does it. He is jealous of my girls.

 

[krturpie]

I guess I've grown accustomed to my dear wife's numerous various pets. We have so many, I often ask now, before our family sits down to a meal, "First, are ALL the critters fed?" It's easy to forget someone, and it just doesn't seem right to eat until those in our care are taken care of.

The chickens are amongst my favorite. They eat and drink with such unabashed enthusiasm, and that offers a generous amount of satisfaction. They seem to love every morsel we bring them. Well, except for the portion that they scratch to the four corners of the Earth. But, did you ever try to feed a two-year old? It's still obvious that they're enjoying themselves.

Only the turtles and my teenaged boys seem to enjoy their "daily bread" with such gusto (and the chinchillas really, really love raisin treats). But, everything else, slithers, stalks, creeps around, craws over, sits on, or picks and sniffs at their food... and some perhaps pounce or strike when no one is looking. I realize that they're all G-d's creatures, but the chickens are really a breath of fresh air after that.

We are choosey about what we feed them, but I've heard a few treats in this thread I'd like to try.