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[FlyRobinFly]

Quote: It is very reassuring to look at the insides of a chicken you raised and see how healthy it is. And I also like knowing that they were dispatched humanely and had a good life before that.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

It irritates me to no end when I see droves of people lined up at the food bank ( I have donated to the Food Bank for decades) and yet Not one of them will go out in their LARGE yards and plant a garden !!!!!!!!!!! I think we are one of 3 gardens within a 5 mile radius.
It is sad that so many people rely on someone else to feed them !!!!!!!!!!!!

And food seeds can be purchased with food stamps...so their really is little excuse to not grow a garden.

I think a lot of them may have no clue how to go about doing it, or aren't aware they can buy seeds with food stamps, or rely on packaged foodstuffs. I bet you would be doing a huge service if you offered to hold a workshop through the food bank, and showed these folks how to convert their yards into food producing space. It's probably never occurred to them, because they don't think about growing or raising their own.

 

[LittleSticks]

Momma Blue Copper Marans has hatched her eggs...out of 5, 4 hatched, 1 was no good.
She is doing great with her babies.
They hatched Saturday and are outside right now...enjoying the sun.

Want, want, want!

CL, since you saved my life aren't we related or something like that?

(She told me not to train my Sweat Meat squash up the walls and ceilings of my greenhouse. If I hadn't been killed by a huge squash falling directly on my head I'm sure the vines and fruits would have pulled the entire greenhouse down on top of me. DH would have searched for days. . . )

 

[LittleSticks]

I'm glad I read this twice (I read too fast sometimes) - I thought you said your HUSBAND died and you ignored it as long as you could . . . . . . .!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

For the curious, here is a side by side comparison of two cleaned chickens: one is a four plus month old cockerel from a laying breed, the other an eight week old Cornish cross meat bird. Justbugged raised the meatie and I raised the roo under similar conditions, but you can see the difference in the amount of meat versus the length of time (and amount of feed!) it took to get them to this size.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

And now for some cute pictures of four week old Silkies. I'm not going to post all eleven chicks here, but here are some of them.


One of the BBS babies.

Here is one of the two buffs that I got.

And last but not least, the porcelain that will be going to live with SadieSue.

 

[itsren]

I killed a snake for practice. I wax my own eyebrows, I can do anything!

I've drowned rats before. Occasionally we catch them on glue traps that we set in our compost bin.

The first one I caught and had to drown, I called hubby at work and asked him what to do with it. He said to drop it into a bucket. So I did. Then I started crying and said "It's blowing bubbles and it's looking at me with big eyes!" He told me "Well, don't look at it then!" LOL!

 

[LittleSticks]

Want, want, want!

CL, since you saved my life aren't we related or something like that?

(She told me not to train my Sweat Meat squash up the walls and ceilings of my greenhouse. If I hadn't been killed by a huge squash falling directly on my head I'm sure the vines and fruits would have pulled the entire greenhouse down on top of me. DH would have searched for days. . . )

Oh man! That should read SWEET MEAT squash. The heat is getting to me (gasp)!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Oh man! That should read SWEET MEAT squash. The heat is getting to me (gasp)!

I'm not sure a "sweat meat" squash would smell or taste so good!

 

[KMHunter]

And now for some cute pictures of four week old Silkies. I'm not going to post all eleven chicks here, but here are some of them.


One of the BBS babies.

Here is one of the two buffs that I got.

And last but not least, the porcelain that will be going to live with SadieSue.

Soooo cute! Love the pics!