tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071953.post110637676705057838..comments2023-04-06T05:40:23.242-06:00Comments on The Long Journey Home: Head CountingPattihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06908893849922049697noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071953.post-1107454601917425162005-02-03T12:16:00.000-06:002005-02-03T12:16:00.000-06:00Oh yeah we have a lot of surplus! Right now we are...Oh yeah we have a lot of surplus! Right now we are just giving them away. I suppose we should sell them but I don't think you could get much for them around here anyway. We did get in exchange the very best sweet potato pie I've ever eaten!<br /><br />The first eggs we got were very small compared to the ones we get now. My mother-in-law called them "pullet eggs".<br /><br />I'm going to add a link to you from my page if you don't mind.Ruralityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06616461213179182660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071953.post-1107405647864198242005-02-02T22:40:00.000-06:002005-02-02T22:40:00.000-06:00Yah, I'm glad I was spared the visual as it was my...Yah, I'm glad I was spared the visual as it was my fearless husband who found the "pancake." Blech!<br /><br />The straight run idea seemed like such a good one, but I am now understanding why people don't do it. It sure does take a lot of time (and food) to get these other guys big enough to eat. Costwise I think we'll be coming out behind having done it this way, but it has been much fun nonetheless!<br /><br />We have not tried the skinning idea, although Stephen was planning to do that for the next home-slaughtered chickens. Our last batch we killed at our friend's processing facility where they have a super-duper indstrial plucker that plucks a bunch of birds in something like 15 seconds. We'll try to have amnesia about that luxury when it comes time to pluck again here!<br /><br />As for eggs, oh boy am I longing for the day when we get our first egg. We should have something like 35 females, so we are going to have a lot of eggs once they all start laying. I am thinking of selling the surplus at the Farmer's Market. Do you find you end up with a surplus? What do you do with them?Pattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908893849922049697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071953.post-1107193985385348042005-01-31T11:53:00.000-06:002005-01-31T11:53:00.000-06:00Ewww, chicken pancake! What a mental picture I hav...Ewww, chicken pancake! What a mental picture I have now.<br /><br />Our original plan was to get straight run chickens and butcher the excess males. The coyotes beat us to them though, before we got our dog. <br /><br />Did you skin your chickens or pluck them? I'm still not sure that I'm up to the task of butchering chickens at all. Love the eggs though.Ruralityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06616461213179182660noreply@blogger.com