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Posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 1:47:11
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/category/rare_and_unusual_breeds.htmlWith the rare chicken assortment you get 100 for only $140! Think my neighbors would mind?
Posted by jodie on February 4, 2003, at 2:16:01
In reply to Funky, funky chickens, posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 1:47:11
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> http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/category/rare_and_unusual_breeds.html
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> With the rare chicken assortment you get 100 for only $140! Think my neighbors would mind?******************************************
I want the ornamental layer collection!!!
Did you see the meat n egg combo under special bargains? Go to day old baby chickens, you'll see the special bargains at the bottom!!!!My neighbors would love me :-)
jodie
Posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 2:28:18
In reply to Funky, funky chickens, posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 1:47:11
If you were my neighbour, I wouldn't mind! I'm going to get a couple of chickens now that we have our own place. It's still in town limits but two chickens count as pets, not livestock.
Here's the two babies I want to get (but I don't know how easy it will be to find them locally). They're Silver Laced Wyandottes & here's the chicks:
http://image.mcmurrayhatchery.com/product/500/slw_2_x.jpg
Posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 2:32:32
In reply to Re: Funky, funky chickens, posted by jodie on February 4, 2003, at 2:16:01
how bout the frying pan special? poor chickies. The ornamental layer combo would be all female, so no crowing roosters. maybe neighbors wouldn't notice. I'll bet anything chickens are quieter than dogs and cats anyway.
They ship the live chicks thru the mail. Jeez, is there nothing you can't order online? Just think of the morning after-- oops, I impulsively ordered 100 live chickens.
Posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 2:39:35
In reply to Re: Funky, funky chickens » Tabitha, posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 2:28:18
Oh, the cuteness! It's overwhelming. You must get those chickies. Plus don't they eat snails? I know ducks do.
Another idea, I'll replace the yappy dog across the street with a similarly colored chicken. Maybe the 85 yr old lady who owns the dog won't notice. No more barking! Pet chickens for everyone!
Posted by jodie on February 4, 2003, at 4:31:38
In reply to Re: Funky, funky chickens » jodie, posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 2:32:32
I know they have geese on there, what about ostriches? If so, maybe I will buy a couple of those. Can you have them in city limits? Just joking, but hey, if I lived on a farm, I would have plenty of funky chickens!!!!
Did you read the part that in the country Turkey, they call the turkey an "American Bird" and not a turkey. I thought that little bit of info was kinda cute :-)
It is sad though advertising it that way "the frying pan special" It makes me not want to eat eggs, or any part of a chicken again!!! Poor things.
When I was...oh..about 5 or 6, I was at my uncles farm, he was chopping the heads off of ducks and chickens, (not for the fun of it, for food) and they really do run around afterwards. Discusting info, didn't mean to make anyone sick. I was traumatized!!!! I truely thought about becoming a vegetarian or a vegan afterwards. I can't help it though, I love my juicy Filet Mignon...mmmmm! Think I'm going to a steakhouse for dinner.
Jodie
Posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 4:37:01
In reply to Re: Funky, funky chickens » IsoM, posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 2:39:35
oooh, scary! freaky sideshow science.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SUA09/chicken397.html
make it stop.
Posted by jodie on February 4, 2003, at 4:41:08
In reply to Re: chicken brain transplant, posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 4:37:01
creepy!!!! ooohhhh!!!!!!!
Yes, make it stop?
Posted by jodie on February 4, 2003, at 4:42:17
In reply to Re: chicken brain transplant-Tabitha, posted by jodie on February 4, 2003, at 4:41:08
ooops, didn't mean to put that question mark in there after the word "stop"
Posted by dreamerz on February 4, 2003, at 5:31:55
In reply to Re: Funky, funky chickens » Tabitha, posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 2:28:18
Hey this is scary girls...what a horror to see this cold and windy morn..I'll have daymares.
cluck cluck...NO! they're coming to peck peck peck!
Posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 11:56:29
In reply to Re: Freaky chickens !, posted by dreamerz on February 4, 2003, at 5:31:55
Have you ever heard the true story of Mike, the Headless Chicken? I thought of it after Jodie mentioned the chickens running around after their heads were chopped off. (It's actually how I describe myself when stressed & addled.)
Mike was famous during the 1940s (& no! I'm not *that* old). Read more about the poor chicken.
http://www.geocities.com/ddsquirrel/headlessrooster1.htmlI don't mind eating eggs. Chickens lay them & if not fertilised, I'm not killing potential chicks. But I could never kill one of my chickens for meat, though I admit I love the taste of chicken. Oh, what a hypocrite I am!
Posted by Dinah on February 4, 2003, at 12:03:48
In reply to really creepy - Mike, the Headless Chicken, posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 11:56:29
I saw my grandma chop off the head of a chicken (actually a pretty mean rooster) and pluck it. She made the most delicious chicken dumpling soup, but can you imagine having to chop and pluck in addition to the rest of the work?
I try to avoid eating mammals, and cows were some of my best friends as a kid. But I just love beef so I frequently fall short of my ideals.
Posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 12:44:02
In reply to Re: really creepy - Mike, the Headless Chicken » IsoM, posted by Dinah on February 4, 2003, at 12:03:48
I love chickens but have to admit that I've plucked & gutted them myself. I never killed them - I couldn't. But someone has to do the plucking & gutting.
I'm not a squeamish sort of person at all. I don't know how often my sons had to stop me at the supper table in the middle of relating a story with "Mom!! We're eating!" I'd always forget as it wouldn't occur to me that others might squirm.
Posted by Dinah on February 4, 2003, at 12:59:08
In reply to a confession... » Dinah, posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 12:44:02
Geez, I'd forgotten the gutting. I guess I missed that part. I really have a new appreciation of grandma now. They did cows too, though mercifully never in my presence. And my rabbit "ran away" and I later found out he was that lovely chicken dinner. Ah, the life of a farmer's wife. She made it all look so easy.
I've gutted fishes but nothing bigger. I mostly found it interesting, except for the catfish. The catfish seemed to have a reproachful face.
I did the requisite pig and rat in high school. My teacher wouldn't buy conscientous objecter status, though I tried. It bothered me some but not as much as I had thought, because it was hard to believe those formaldahyde filled things were ever alive.
Posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 13:24:43
In reply to Re: a confession... » IsoM, posted by Dinah on February 4, 2003, at 12:59:08
And here I get all sad over the little pickled animals. Isn't it funny how diff we can be & yet still understand each other?
When I went back to university a few years back, there was a young woman (just out of her teens) who got as enthused as me over biology. We'd look over each other's experiments & ooh & ahh.
Then when a shipment of pickled wet & preserved dry animals came in, we helped unpack the shipment. We kept going "ahh" over all the tiny bodies. The little rodents with their tiny paws hanging down, their noses pointing up & their little incisors showing were particularily pathetic.
I lost touch with her but if she went into teaching, her enthusiasm would be contagious. She would've made the greatest teacher. Still, I hope she went into research or something else.
One reason I didn't keep at it was at my older age, it would've taken far too long to get a master's or a doctorate like I'd like. And a bachelor's only qualifies one to be a glorified lab assistant - very mundane, boring stuff. Plus the trend in biology (at least in the job field) is all about genetic engineering & cloning - not something I'm entirely happy with.
So I'll do what I like best growing, cultivating, & improving methods of horticulture on my own & set up my own little career - a mix of advice, design, unusual plants for sale, teaching, & hands-on help. I hope it works.
Boy, I'm really blithering today. Can you tell the effects of the last 2 months stress is wearing off & I'm feeling good again? This is the normal Judy (not judy1) that some people think is hypomanic but isn't. ^_^
Posted by Dinah on February 4, 2003, at 13:56:49
In reply to formaldehyde animals » Dinah, posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 13:24:43
Oooh, I'm so happy about your house, Iso. I know that it's what you've wanted for a long time. And your career plans sound well thought out. It feels great when the stress is relieved, doesn't it? (I think I remember that.)
It was the texture. The animals were cute enough, but rubbery, and their insides were so antiseptic and filled with paint rather than blood. They seemed like dolls made just for that purpose. I guess I'm a tactile person sometimes, more than visual.
I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my dream job. I wanted to do medical research with gene mapping. One semester of chemistry changed my mind. Biology I loved, chemistry I hated. And you can't do one without the other. I guess it kind of slipped my naive little mind (along with the fact that chickens have guts) that animal research was probably involved in my career choice. I'd have never made it.
Ahhh, but isn't the idea of being a research scientist great? Like being a librarian. I imagine that in real life you have to deal with a whole lot of people in really annoying ways to get grants, etc. But the idea is great.
Posted by Ted on February 4, 2003, at 15:37:43
In reply to Re: formaldehyde animals » IsoM, posted by Dinah on February 4, 2003, at 13:56:49
I was never interested in the dissection part of biology class in high school, but I did it. A family friend, starting when only a young teen, would enthusiatically disseect anything. When we would go to the beach and our fathers caught fish, she would dissect the fish in the process of cleaning it. She would *really* dissect it, down to removing the corneas and lenses from the eyes, opening the stomach, etc. and she would get sea anemones, sea cucumbers, sea slugs (nudibranchs), etc. to dissect. She was careful and observant. She was fascinated by it.
Her job now? Flight attendant for a major airline.
My parents grew up on farms and they have all sorts of yucky stories to tell. My sister's husband still raises chickens, pigs, goats, and cows and makes his own cheese, yoghurt, ham, bacon, and cut meats and sausages. His is completely different (better) from commercial meat products. I have visited them when he was slaughtering "out back", which was really right in front of the front door to the house (but about 20 m away). Gross is not strong enough a word.
Oh, and related to "conscientous objector" status in high school, our teacher allowed it, but the penalty was to write a 10 page detailed report, which was *much* more painful than just doing the dissection. We only had to do a frog anyway.
Ted
Posted by Dinah on February 4, 2003, at 19:00:59
In reply to Re: formaldehyde animals, posted by Ted on February 4, 2003, at 15:37:43
But the frogs probably weren't pickled and would have been worse to dissect. My science teacher was the daughter of a research scientist, and didn't have much sympathy for animal rights activists.
Farm fresh stuff does taste better doesn't it? I can remember grandma's home churned butter (when I was really young) and her straight from the cow, cream heavy, half frozen milk too.
My dad used to complain that she overcooked the meat, but I guess when you raise it yourself you want to be careful.
Posted by dreamerz on February 4, 2003, at 20:44:54
In reply to really creepy - Mike, the Headless Chicken, posted by IsoM on February 4, 2003, at 11:56:29
On the last pic be creepy if he fed it it's own head...
yum yum tastes like......?
Posted by coral on February 4, 2003, at 21:39:05
In reply to Funky, funky chickens, posted by Tabitha on February 4, 2003, at 1:47:11
A rooster showed up in our yard one day. Yes, the neighbors DID mind when he started madly crowing every day at 5:00 a.m. Since I'm an early riser, it was fine with me. The neighbors converged on our yard, to capture the rooster. (All they needed were lighted torches to look at the mob that hunted the Frankenstein monster!) The rooster was sitting in a tree, watching with benign interest, as the people all scurried about the yard, hunting him. Next, the police showed up. Now, we have 30 adult neighbors, 50 children and 3 police officers hunting the rooster, who STILL sat in the tree, unobserved. I watched with a little bit of glee, as the people got scratched by scrambling through the thorny hedges, and got flat-out tickled when one neighbor bagged another neighbor's head with the fish net he was carrying. After they'd all left, dirty, scratched and befuddled, the rooster went to sleep. The next morning, he crowed again at 5:00 a.m. and for the next two weeks, he moved from house to house, crowing each morning. Finally, he was humanely trapped and taken to a farm. He won, hands down, in my book.
Posted by shar on February 4, 2003, at 23:22:20
In reply to Re: Funky, funky chickens, posted by coral on February 4, 2003, at 21:39:05
Posted by IsoM on February 5, 2003, at 0:44:00
In reply to Re: Funky, funky chickens, posted by coral on February 4, 2003, at 21:39:05
Posted by Tabitha on February 5, 2003, at 1:28:59
In reply to Re: Funky, funky chickens, posted by coral on February 4, 2003, at 21:39:05
chickens like to sleep in trees. begin training chickens at a young age to sleep in the chickenhut instead. each evening after dark pick up all drowsy chickens and place them in the chickenhut. before long they will return to the chickenhut at dusk on their own.
Posted by IsoM on February 5, 2003, at 13:05:07
In reply to Re: chicken tip, posted by Tabitha on February 5, 2003, at 1:28:59
I can see my neighbours now, TabbyCatGirl.
- - - - - - - - -
"Look! There's that crazy neighbour with her two chickens under each arm, tucking them into bed for the night.""Yeah, we thought she was the crazy cat lady, but I guess she's just the crazy lady."
"Have you heard her clucking in the morning, calling her chickens out too?"
- - - - - - -Wonder what the neighbours would say if I could get an elephant like I'd really like to.
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