Ms. Ed wants to get chickens

[delilahmused]

She is black with white polka dots.  We have COLD winters here and she goes somewhere to hide.  No one has ever found out where she hides.  She isn't scared at all of cats and tolerates the dog barking at her way better than people do.  I will see if I have a better picture of her.  I always wanted some white ones.

Oh, she's a Pearl Guinea. Getting her companions would be a wonderful idea (especially from her point of view). Guineas HATE being alone. In fact, when you're training them to return to the coop, as opposed to having them roost in the trees, you let one out and keep the other ones in the fenced part of the coop. That guinea will stick to that fence like glue. Once you've done this for about a week they can pretty much be one their own. The only time they wander off is when the female lays eggs (they lay a very large clutch) but are notoriously terrible mothers...kiind of like liberals. They just kind of wander off and forget where they put them and the poor little keet will get left behind in the dewy grass and die.

Cindie

[dutch508]

We had about 60 chickens each year when I was growing up. Each Sunday afternoon my job was to clean out the chicken house. We sold eggs each week to the various nieghbors, and fryers each fall.

I was just a  kid, so I have no idea the money envolved.

[franksolich]

We had about 60 chickens each year when I was growing up. Each Sunday afternoon my job was to clean out the chicken house. We sold eggs each week to the various nieghbors, and fryers each fall.

I was just a  kid, so I have no idea the money envolved.

According to farming folklore, cleaning the chicken coop was the dirtiest possible job.

I have no idea.

You think so?

[delilahmused]

We had about 60 chickens each year when I was growing up. Each Sunday afternoon my job was to clean out the chicken house. We sold eggs each week to the various nieghbors, and fryers each fall.

I was just a  kid, so I have no idea the money envolved.

According to farming folklore, cleaning the chicken coop was the dirtiest possible job.

I have no idea.

You think so?

Well, it's the dirtiest job I do but it's not so bad. Of course my chickens run around outside all day so they're not inside pooping day and night. I use straw in the coop so I just throw it all around the trees in the orchard or where the garden is and in the spring we plow it into the soil. The coop is right across from the garden plot so it's pretty convenient. On coop cleaning days I take my shower in the afternoon rather than first thing in the morning, for obvious reasons.

Cindie

[franksolich]

I wondered, because I helped somebody clean out a chicken coop once.

Of course, it had had no chickens for a year or so.

For me, it was interesting, but as a weekly chore, I think it would be less interesting.

[asdf2231]

Maybe after he aquires his chickens he can post a picture thread of him wringing their heads off prior to plucking and gutting.

I'm sure the whole Earth types over there would be FASCINATED!

[delilahmused]

Maybe after he aquires his chickens he can post a picture thread of him wringing their heads off prior to plucking and gutting.

I'm sure the whole Earth types over there would be FASCINATED!

We just shoot ours in the head. Their heads are small enough that one shot pretty much blows their brains out.

Cindie

[BlueStateSaint]

Maybe after he aquires his chickens he can post a picture thread of him wringing their heads off prior to plucking and gutting.

I'm sure the whole Earth types over there would be FASCINATED!

We just shoot ours in the head. Their heads are small enough that one shot pretty much blows their brains out.

Cindie

I take it that one has to be at very nearly contact range, eh?

[delilahmused]

Maybe after he aquires his chickens he can post a picture thread of him wringing their heads off prior to plucking and gutting.

I'm sure the whole Earth types over there would be FASCINATED!

We just shoot ours in the head. Their heads are small enough that one shot pretty much blows their brains out.

Cindie

I take it that one has to be at very nearly contact range, eh?

Yes, we have a place away from the other chickens and if we're doing more than one we'll hang them by upside down (this is NOT cruel, in fact carrying a rooster upside down...grabbing his legs...calms him down) from a rope. If it's just one we hold it in one hand and shoot with the other. It's usually my husband...I'm too much of a bleeding heart unless the rooster has really pissed me off, or meat birds...they're so stupid and messy the closer it gets to killing time the more anxious I am to see them in the freezer.

Cindie

[Chris_]

Maybe after he aquires his chickens he can post a picture thread of him wringing their heads off prior to plucking and gutting.

I'm sure the whole Earth types over there would be FASCINATED! ;)

We just shoot ours in the head. Their heads are small enough that one shot pretty much blows their brains out.

Cindie

That sounds like a "Whose Line" bit: "things you can say about chickens but not democrats."

[delilahmused]

Maybe after he aquires his chickens he can post a picture thread of him wringing their heads off prior to plucking and gutting.

I'm sure the whole Earth types over there would be FASCINATED!

We just shoot ours in the head. Their heads are small enough that one shot pretty much blows their brains out.

Cindie

That sounds like a "Whose Line" bit: "things you can say about chickens but not democrats."

LOL, H5 for you...there's a tag line there somewhere! 

Cindie