Washingtonians

[Rainwolf]

for those of you who like to look at old books....

www.archive.org is the best!

here is a cookbook of which I have a original copy.... I love that there are no true measurements... ya really learn to cook using it

http://www.archive.org/details/whitehousecookbo1891gill

and for those that miss the old soda fountains.....
here are the recipes for the syrup! just mix with seltzer water/carbonated water
http://www.archive.org/details/saxesnewguideorh00saxerich

there are chicken breed books, building books, garden books, recipe books, etc etc etc all FREE! online

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Hi Imp....a few pages back I posted:

(something to the effect) I was concerned about the poo of my chickens. I went and did a search on chicken poo and found a web site that you had posted a link to that showed (had actual photos) of different kinds of "normal"chicken poo. I now do not have to worry. What a wonderful link. I learned so much. Thank you for posting that...I think you posted in something like 2009.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Ok... This is what I know and it may not be all correct.....

Baby chickens: Chick or peeps
young male: stag or cockerel
young female: pullet
adults = 1 year or older
female: hen
male: rooster
A capon is a castrated rooster

BUT I have seen rooster and cockerel used for any age.
and my friends who are serious breeders/show etc tend to call the young male a stag and adult male a cockerel.....
so I think there might be a lot of confusion on the male terms since they tend to be used for any male of any age....

You can castrate a rooster? WOW...never knew that.

 

[Rainwolf]

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Ok... This is what I know and it may not be all correct.....

Baby chickens: Chick or peeps
young male: stag or cockerel
young female: pullet
adults = 1 year or older
female: hen
male: rooster
A capon is a castrated rooster

BUT I have seen rooster and cockerel used for any age.
and my friends who are serious breeders/show etc tend to call the young male a stag and adult male a cockerel.....
so I think there might be a lot of confusion on the male terms since they tend to be used for any male of any age....

You can castrate a rooster? WOW...never knew that.

They tend to grow bigger faster and are not supposed to crow? dunno never had one

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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how very cool

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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You can castrate a rooster? WOW...never knew that.

They tend to grow bigger faster and are not supposed to crow? dunno never had one

I swear: I learn something new EVERY DAY...I did not know you could casterate a bird.

 

[Illia]

Just watched the last Harry Potter movie in theaters today. Never teared up so much for a movie before. . . .



Anyway, I'm quite surprised. Today it actually reached over 80 degrees.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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what are you getting rid of ?

Probably those very tempting OEGBs and Sicilian Buttercup I tried tofigure out a way of housing all week.

Yes and they are gone. In the future SPEAK UP I am really not that hard to get along with and could have held them a couple weeks!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Oh, Willard Espy: Oysterville, the Road to Grandfather's Cabin, also "Purple Cow." And George Plimpton's FIL! And that wonderful poem.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Probably those very tempting OEGBs and Sicilian Buttercup I tried tofigure out a way of housing all week.

Yes and they are gone. In the future SPEAK UP I am really not that hard to get along with and could have held them a couple weeks!!!

Oh, I would have asked, only I'm up to my eyebrows in projects I have to finish, it'd be a lot more than a couple of weeks- possibly until Thanksgiving- before I could house anything new. Especially since I've apparently got to remodel both bathrooms on no budget. Shower floor gone in one, toilet needs replaced in the other, and both of them need subfloor and possibly joists replaced. I was silent out of necessity, and hope whoever got them appreciates their luck.

(Trying hard not to grump and moan in public, sorry).