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[Chickielady]

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Thank you. It's really sad though. We got the goats because goat met is very lean and good for you. But I have fallen in love with the little La Mancha, Daisy (the tiny one with elf ears). She is doomed. Hubby is slaughtering the buck and "Daisy" on Sunday.

Sometimes I hate raising ducks and goats and chickens for food. You get so attached to them.

Anyone want to buy a sweet little goat. . . .?

Good advice: Have a breeding pair, that you can fall in love with.
And understand the off spring you will NOT fall in love with.
Your mind will be happy it was "allowed " to love these breeders.
I have no problem raising animals this way.
I know the rest (offspring) must go.
The hard part is when you have to butcher your breeders, like when you can no longer afford to feed them, or when they are no longer healthy or of breeding age.
Then the 'old friend' is a little bit harder to say good bye to.

 

[Chickielady]

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Sorry to hear about your baby that got stepped on - that happened with our last batch (she "scratched" it into a tree), but I think it's so great to let them do all the work and integrate into the flock! What kind of chicks? Icelandic by any chance?

This batch is Cuckoo Marans.
The next is Ameraucana, and then it will be hordes of Icelandics & Buckeye AND Turkeys!!!

Anyone interested in any, PM me!
You know I am nuts (Boobie Hatchery!) and will have the BIG incubator going as soon as fertility is UP.
I DO NOT intend to hatch all winter like I did last winter, dispite having a generater!
Too much worry!
Too many heat lamps!
But I guarantee ya, as soon as fertility is up, regardless of month or weather, the booby hatchery will be in full swing with at least 3 incubators going.
That is the GFQ, and the 2 GFQ hatching bators.
The big redwood "Farm Boss" (or whatever it is called) is still packed away)

 

[Chickielady]

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They're Green Tomatillos.



SadieSue - Your "blue gray" chick will turn out a beautiful Silver Duckwing in color.

So~
Green Tomatillos from mexico?
That is what I am wondering.
And they look nothing like the others I have raised.
I have also heard that the green tomatillos from Mexico drop off when they are ripe, do you know?
Does anyone know?

 

[RedRoosterFarm]

There was a place on Vickery in Tacoma summit that did it. Not sure the name though. Also a guy in Orting who does it but you need to go to farm section on CL to find him.
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[Chickielady]

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Holy Moly - that is one large egg! Could it be a double shelled one?

No, it was one big egg, and this is the pullet's second egg.
BTW~ She laid the same size egg again today!

I LOVE BUCKEYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RFF:: I think these would be fantastic 'over there'
In as much as they are an herimloom breed, very fully plumed, and pea combed.
The breed comes from Ohio, and is cold tolerant to the winters there, which are colder than here.
So they may be exactly what MiL is looking for.
They are also excellent layers, mothers, and are extremely human-friendly!
The down side is: cock birds are not tolerant of each other in most cases.

 

[RedRoosterFarm]

CONGRATS!!!
Anna
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[Chickielady]

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HI RED ROOSTER!!!!!!!!!
Long time no see!

And if anyone needs help butchering, maybe we can help?
Do you need help, to be taught, or ?
And what type & how many birds do you want to butcher?

 

[Chickielady]

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I do have to say, that does seem like a slow way to die. Sounds kind of brutal....and I dont' mind butchuring...but those cones do seem harsh. I mean what is the difference if you chop the head off and they bleed out that way? Course you want to bleed them out.

I guess for people that process a lot of birds, they can be "hands off" if they use a cone...I dunno, I still wouldn't do it that way regardless of how many I was processing...

Killing cones are great, fast kill for the birds, and blood drains into the sink.
We then scald the birds & brush them on the plucker, finsh by a few stary hairs by hand, then gut, and then they go into an icewater tub, to clean the icky off.
Then the next tub to scrub a bit more, then the last tub, where we rinse them in (now) clean water & bag them up whole.
At this point you can put the bird back on the cutting board & seperate the body as a cut up fryer...but we bag & freeze whole.
When we want a chicken, we thaw it, and cut it up as we are going to use it, or not if we ain't.

 

[Chickielady]

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Haha... That is for sure... I'm a Clatskanie native and my family and I actually own the feed store there. Usually when I help people pronounce it I usually say Cats-can-fly then for some reason they usually get it right LOL It's funny now that I live in North Dakota those people that pronounce Oregon say it ORE-E- GONE instead of Or-e-gun like us natives LOL Washington here is Worsh-ing-TON... silly people

Unfortunately, even locals say "Warsh-ing-ton". Drives me nuts. My own family does it.
I tell the to spell it for me...they then spell it out: "W-a-r-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n". My dad trys to blame his "scottish" ancestors..he read in some article about this...he is not even scottish.

They do this to drive me mad....I just know it.

Most everyone I know who says "Warshington" is an immigrant from Orrrrrrrrrrrrrregone!!

Seriously!!!!
We are Scots, and none of my family says the RRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[Chickielady]

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Unfortunately, even locals say "Warsh-ing-ton". Drives me nuts. My own family does it.
I tell the to spell it for me...they then spell it out: "W-a-r-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n". My dad trys to blame his "scottish" ancestors..he read in some article about this...he is not even scottish.

They do this to drive me mad....I just know it.

I am all for original pronunciations over colloquial ones. For instance, Pierre South Dakota is pronounced "peer" instead of the french "pee-air". In Dubois, Pennsylvania they say "do boyz" instead of the french "doo bwah".

For many parts of the USA , towns, lakes, streets and parks have Native american names that were translated into french and no one is left around who spoke the original language so we often have to infer the pronunciation.


My two pet peeves are "Warshington" and "Haaalaa peen oo"

How about sko-ko-MISH ?
And wil-a-PA? With the last syllable the biggest and with most ppl they say the word with the front syllable the biggest ??