Yikes....it begins!

[calgal98]

Just bought 150 coturnix eggs on ebay! Need to begin building the coops. Yikes, what have I done!! LOL.

 

[magikchick]

You have started a new and rewarding addition. What colors did you get?

 

[calgal98]

Tibetan, coturnix and pharoah...I guess they are all considered coturnix, just different subcolors? I'm eggcited.

 

[magikchick]

Baby quail are loaded with awwww factor.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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They certainly are! That's why I just sell my extras, they are so cute as babies, how can I eat them?

 

[calgal98]

Everything is cute as babies...thats called survival!! Eating is called survival as well!! LOL. I do agree. I raise goats ostensibly for food--milk, meat. I have a hard time with the meat part of it. Hopefully the birds won't be as difficult as the rabbits, goats, etc....

 

[gabrielle1976]

I dont know if I could even eat them if I gave the live ones to somebody and it was all done somewhere else and given back to me packaged all fancy like in the stores cause I would know they were my cute fuzz butts.

 

[calgal98]

I grew up in 4-H and FFA many years ago. We raised animals for the table and it was just what was done. There really wasn't controversy over it when I was a kid so I suppose its a bit easier for me. I do believe that we are too far removed from our food production. For me its educating the generations to come about where food comes from and what it takes to produce it. My grandbabies are becoming exposed in a gentle
way as to how food comes to the table. Garden, meat...and as much as possible.

 

[bamachickens]

You know, it's funny that this came up about eating what you grow. My wife is refusing to eat any of the chickens that we grow (we are about to start thinning the flock). My 7 year old daughter seems fine with it, but she doesn't want to take part in the cleaning (she is 100% girl), but my 4 year old is all about it. Any time it is mentioned, she kinda gets excited about helping and taking part. My girls already eat the eggs weekly. We eat lots of wild game, as a matter of fact we had deer cubed steak last night, and we eat dove and duck a lot. I guess I fail to see the difference in the farm grown and the wild stuff.

 

[calgal98]

bama--it isn't that you fail to see the difference but that your wife*sees* a difference. You know you are eating what you've grown, but have been able to separate your emotions from it. So many here in California have never even seen a live chicken much less thought about processing/eating a live chicken. They don't realize the grocery chicken was also live at one time. They haven't made the mental connection of living animals as our food supply. Its so important for farming future to reconnect people with where/what the foodsource is. We face a difficult task to educate people that really don't want to be educated. They like it neat, clean and impersonal. A home flock is a very personal food source. Give her time.

My girls used to be all about cleaning fish/chickens, etcs. Now for the gkids to see the same thing. V.