k3n

I rarely eat chicken or pork in restaurants now because it doesn't taste of anything, compared to ours. And last summer, I was a while without chickens and had to buy eggs, I said to DH - there's something wrong with these eggs, the yolks are all pale! MY scrambled egg is bright yellow!

K x

MollieSue

Those chicks are so cute!!!!! :D If I lived in the country, I'd have a couple just to watch them walking around!

I'm one of those who has to have her meat plastic wrapped from the store, but I admire and am envious sometimes of those who can do their own. My DDIL grew up helping her father with their cows, and now her and my son have their freezer full of steaks, etc! They tease me all the time about my being unable to eat it. lol!!!
:-)

k3n

It's lovely when the hen takes them outside for the first time - she usually keeps them in the henhouse for the first couple of days. I'll try and get more pics of their first trip into the big wide world! We get a lot of buzzards here and if the hen spots one, she clucks like crazy and the chicks rush underneath her - we've never lost a chick yet - touch wood! BTW she does the same if a plane goes over, guess she thinks it's a big hawk! :lol:

K x

sewjoyce

What cuties -- But did I tell you I just LOVE fried chicken?? :roll:

k3n

LOL Joyce - wait about four months then come on over! The kids wanted to name them and I said 'that's fine but we'll be eating them', 'oh, no point then' they said!

K x

Bevanger

awwwwww how cute. sorry kiddo. i'd rather buy my chicken at safeway. i'd never make a good farmer. they'd all land up being pets :roll:

gaigai

QUELLE HORREUR!!!!!! NE MANGEZ PAS CES POUSSINS PRECIEUSE!!!!

I am such a city girl. I love meat, but only because I can make myself believe that God grows it on styrofoam wrapped in cellophane. I don't think I could kill and eat a critter if I were starving to death!

Ninnie

:lol: :lol: :lol: sure glad our ancestors didn't feel like this, we would all be dead!It is hard unless you grow up with doing it.

Ninnie

sewjoyce

Years ago we used to raise rabbits for meat. I could handle everything but the actual butchering. Hubby would do all that and then bring them inside and I wouldn't know who was who. I could then do my part. And they fried up just fine :roll: :roll:

I was also raised around and on farms. Imagine my horror though when, after moving to the "city" and I was a TEENAGER, my mom bought a bunch of chickens. She calmly tied them upside down to the clothesline and cut their heads off. I then had to take the things off and dunk them in hot water to defeather....thought I was just going to die from mortification when all the neighborhood kids lined up along the fence to watch.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

gaigai

My DS & BIL have a ranch in west texas with all kinds of critters: deer, javalina, moufflon, doves, turkeys, etc. Probably 90% of the meat they eat is from there. My beloved niece got in trouble in kindergarden when the teacher asked all the kids to say what their favorite food was, and Kelly very calmly answered "Bambi". Evidently it took quite a while to calm the other kids down!!!

I boycotted Thanksgiving at my mother's house for years because she served "Thumper". I told her it looked like cat on the platter!