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[blueducklings]

You could rent out the dog during plucking time.

RECipeeeee TIME:

Famous Singapore chicken.
Chicken
Take the cleaned bird and loop a string round the neck.
Dunk in water til boiling.
Take out of pot & dunk in once cold water.
Dunk chicken again in boiling water and 5 mins later, into ice water.
Keep doing this until chicken is done.
Rice
Whith the chicken stock, cook some rice, add 1 tbsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp olive oil & salt to the rice. Cooks for 20 mins.
Now for the sauce.
In a food processor, blend about 3 to 4 inches of fresh HAWAIIAN ginger. (Chinese ginger is TOXIC

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1/2 cup of soy sauce, tad bit of sugar, and 1/2 cup of chicken stock.
Put into that a table spoon of sesame oil. Add salt if you need to.
For greens, just add cucumber. I like to put it under the chicken so it catches the sauce.
Assemble:
Chop up the chicken, skin & all and top everything with your dipping sauce.

serve over "chicken" rice.
Tweek it if you have to.
With grain fed chicken, this should be yummy. White feathered chicken does not work as well for this recipeee
Done right, this recipee is probably the only thing that can bring me out of my evgetarian diet. hehe

 

[jbear]

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Larry the lounge lizard!! That is funny!

 

[jbear]

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I had my flock PIP tested last year and it did not costs me a thing. I have heard some testers will charge .50 to a $1 per bird just to cover their cost.

The Avian Health woman in charge e-mailed me back this morning, we have been talking for a month now, and said it will be about $43 for the birds I have now, and voluntary ILT testing is free...so I am going for it as soon as Stevenson is over, DH back & things calmed down here.

Is that dr Crespo? I love her.. She is very patient with all the questions I usually ask We did a backyard flock continuing ed thing which was a ton of fun -- she was one of the instructors

I think all the staff at the Avian health lab are super friendly..

 

[Breshcandra]

How does one train a dog to be around chickens. I have a boxer.

 

[SadieSue]

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every dog is an individual. breeds that are bred for high prey drive or certain tasks can be harder to work with. depends a lot on the breeding. if the bloodline has been bred to be "birdy" then the prey drive to get birds will be there. bloodlines that have been bred without regards to original purpose may have had the prey drive bred right out of them. I have a lab, bloodlines bred for look and pet appeal ... he could care less about the chickens. I have miniature pinschers, bred for type, ratters, they will kill anything that looks like prey to them. no minpins loose with chickens..ever...
regardless of breed, purebred or not, every dog is going to be an individual and will need proper training in order to be around chickens. most can be trained to leave them alone, some will leave them in your presence but kill them when you are not there, some will always want to kill them regardless of training. then there are those that do not care about the chickens at all...I like those kind lol.
The puppy did not know any better, she just needs to be shown they are part of her pack and harming them is against the rules. it can be a difficult task but its possible. Hope the Hen is ok and the puppy learns to leave them alone.

One good thing; retrievers are bred to not bite the bird, and yours didn't. No one wants to eat a bird a dog has chewed up, so they are bred to have "soft mouths".

Training is ongoing at our house. It's been helpful I think to have the kitchen chickens the past couple of weeks. My Golden Retriever and I have been working on our "Zen" exercises while standing right next to the girls cage. I hold treats and we go through different commands. Last weekend though when I had the girls in the X-Pen out on the deck to get some sun, he came up the stairs and I could hear him revving up with a kind of "Roo Row" sound. I think maybe crows or steller's jays were getting to close to the deck railings, but his fast movement scared the girls and their food dish went flying, which in turn startled him a bit and he didn't know which direction to turn. I ran out there to get him to calm down with a big "NO!" and he ran into the kitchen and did an immediate "down". I had to laugh - I think he was actually trying to protect the girls and it all went wonky within seconds. Poor guy.

 

[Chickielady]

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The Avian Health woman in charge e-mailed me back this morning, we have been talking for a month now, and said it will be about $43 for the birds I have now, and voluntary ILT testing is free...so I am going for it as soon as Stevenson is over, DH back & things calmed down here.

Is that dr Crespo? I love her.. She is very patient with all the questions I usually ask We did a backyard flock continuing ed thing which was a ton of fun -- she was one of the instructors

I think all the staff at the Avian health lab are super friendly..

No this is the one in charge of the NPIP in Olympia, but yes I do adore Dr Crespo..this woman is Julie Walker I think..very nice lady

 

[Chickielady]

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Oh that will be quite the challenge, boxers LOVE to chase things.
Bird dog do not really love to chase but more like to retrieve, and watch things.
Out of all my many many bird dogs, none had a hard mouth, none chased birds, all lived with chickens.
The boxer however never stopped chasing our chickens.

 

[Chickielady]

Bored bored bored......do not know how I will make it a nother week...times like this I miss working very much.
Those of you that work probably will never understand until you are retired or disable and have to stay home 24/7........well, glad I have some usefulness, I will go collect eggs.
Goodnight all...

 

[Chickielady]

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ooooh nice stuff here!
I just ordered the Orangeglo Water melon, excited about that!!!
Article on page 15 in Mother Earth.yummy!

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

pips&peeps :

My lab doesn't bother my birds; he is one that points too.

Never has offered to bother them, but he knows I would slap him silly....... It's all about control.

He did get a bit excited when I was raising pheasants last year. I think there is a different smell to them and they can recognize the difference between chickens and "wild game".

We did have some viszlas and one of the pups killed one of my favorite easter eggers years ago. He got chastized something fearce and never did it again. We also did not have good fencing then and it was more our fault that he could have access to the birds.

Our Yellow Lab is a sweety with the chickens, he is an English Lab and usually their retreiving drive is not as strong as the hunting type. but he has the softest mouth. When we brought him home from the breeder he came home with a beenie baby horse for comfort. He is 3 years old and still has that beenie baby.​