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[Rare Feathers Farm]

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This one has never attacked, but he's young yet, probably good eating age, and I'm not attached to this one like I was the Barnies! I should, some day, learn how to butcher a chicken. I guess I've turned squeemish, though I think I could handle it if it were killed and plucked.

I can't kill anything....so I had my FIL do the deed & my MIL did the gutting. They skin theirs because I guess the scalding & plucking is no fun.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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This one has never attacked, but he's young yet, probably good eating age, and I'm not attached to this one like I was the Barnies! I should, some day, learn how to butcher a chicken. I guess I've turned squeemish, though I think I could handle it if it were killed and plucked.

I have 2 camps here. If they are just a little out of line they go to boot camp first then if they fail boot camp they go to freezer camp.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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This one has never attacked, but he's young yet, probably good eating age, and I'm not attached to this one like I was the Barnies! I should, some day, learn how to butcher a chicken. I guess I've turned squeemish, though I think I could handle it if it were killed and plucked.

I have 2 camps here. If they are just a little out of line they go to boot camp first then if they fail boot camp they go to freezer camp.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I have 2 camps here. If they are just a little out of line they go to boot camp first then if they fail boot camp they go to freezer camp.

My "boot camp" is a size 7 Ariat!

 

[Ogress]

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This one has never attacked, but he's young yet, probably good eating age, and I'm not attached to this one like I was the Barnies! I should, some day, learn how to butcher a chicken. I guess I've turned squeemish, though I think I could handle it if it were killed and plucked.

I can't kill anything....so I had my FIL do the deed & my MIL did the gutting. They skin theirs because I guess the scalding & plucking is no fun.

Even better! I pull the skin off before cooking a chicken anyways. I don't like oily chicken. I prefer it dry!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Well I guess since I am dried out I better get out and pick up all the limbs I butchered off Michelle's willow and pines. I told her if I am mowing and it hits me in the face while on my rider I am cutting it. Shee made the mistake of saying "butcher it I don't care!" Do ya know the easiest way to get all the dead wood out of a willow tree?? start tirmming it just above the ground!!

 

[cheryl98117]

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My two crows are the same way and I think they may be related to yer's. Ya walk in and they are like ya just let go of a balloon and all the air is coming out.

Out of all the chicks I hatched from Chickielady, there is one out of 10, a little black Ameraucana that is completely wacko! Her name is hudini, because she can get out of ANYTHING! Speeking of that little nutcase, she got out again. Lucily she isnt hard to catch once the sun is almost set. But try to catch her before then, and she screams like your trying to kill her, and will do anything, go through anything, just to get away.

 

[cheryl98117]

Ive asked this before. But, are Cuckoo Marans able to be sexed like Barred Rocks? Dark ones are the pullets and the lighter ones are the cockerals?

 

[Ogress]

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I have some alders here you can do that with and a couple a fir trees that are interfering with my view. I'm wondering just how many I can get rid of before violating the King County land use ordinance, I may have to wait until they are taller and then limb them:

Ordinance 15053 prohibits most rural landowners in unincorporated King County from clearing more than 50% of their land. (6) Owners of large land parcels (parcels greater than five acres) are prohibited from clearing more than 35% of their land. (7) The remaining 65% of the land must remain unaltered in its natural forested or vegetative condition. These clearing restrictions became effective on January 1, 2005

Seems like overkill when I have a 10 acre greenbelt to one side, 5 acres on the other, 45 acres just below that, and the entire Seattle Watershed less than 1/4 mile up the road! In addition to that, the neighborhood CC&R's already had clearing restrictions:15' wildlife buffer around each property and 50' from any road (though the grant exceptions to that one pretty readily, though in trade you usually leave another section of the property uncleared.) We thankfully fall in the 50% clearing limit. Most of our neighbors have 5 acres or more. One neighbor bought the 45 acre tract of land so he could clear for a view around his property - it is very natural looking with a meadow now and a split rail fence. He gets lots of elk herds in his new meadow. He's a wildlife photographer, so that is what he wanted. After clearing what he wanted for the meadow he donated the remaining 45 acres for preservation.

I'm often liberal in my voting, especially when it comes to education, parks, and libraries, but this one just ticked me off! Why put the clearing restrictions only in UNINCORPERATED King County? Those making the laws should have them apply to themselves as well!

 

[Ogress]

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According to CL, Yes. I will let you know in a few weeks!