God Morning arfie. I actually like your feathered updates. Partly because a niece has also started her own poultry palace. She shares the love with fresh eggs every now and then. A new coup of throw away pallet board is tempting, but I am not so sure my dog would not go straight to dinner on that.

Not everyone will agree on everything, so doing what is best for you is good. Hobbies and skills are as different as everyone here. I enjoy the shares and vicariously get to feed the chics.

My support dog is a confirmed biscuit eater. She loves to eat the eggs she finds outside the nesting boxes. I have way more eggs than I can eat, so a biscuit eater is not the tragedy it was in the Depression Era. The various folks I give them to are over-supplied, as well.

But. . .

Guarding the flock comes quite natural to her. Don't mess with her feather babies. Even sharing the eggs is quite allot to ask of her.

I can hardly eat commercial eggs any more. They taste funny. Haven't bothered to analyze why.

Birds are cool.

BTW, I'm out of eggs, could you send a dozen over?

Geez! She not only wants free eggs, she wants free delivery, too. (wink, wink)

They'll be here when you swing by. Youngest son just took enough to share with the in-laws and I still have more than I can use before tomorrow's produce. Don't forget to bring an egg carton. The birds don't seem to lay many of those.

LOL, ARfie, puh-leeze, my BIL has taken up backyard farming. His beehive is nailed to a garage roof and his chickens regularly don't lay eggs b/c he keeps forgetting that hens require a rooster for certain things, such as *increasing the brood*. *facepalm* So ... ramble away. Anything beats my BIL wondering why no eggs incubate when there's no rooster in the hen house.

Lol. I didn't think there was any restriction about posting topics as long as you indicate that it is OT and contains fowl language I think it is ok for you to post about the birds. More so since you find it therapeutic.

I've explained to more than one person that boy "cows" don't make milk, that boy and girl "cows" can have horns, and that the girl has to be all grown up and introduced to a boy before she'll start making milk...

Somehow when parents tell their kids about the birds and bees, they seem to forget about the livestock...

These days it is easier to find kids who can hack the DOD mainframe than kids who know that all natural food doesn't grow in wrappers.

There are quite a few members of DS who are offended by poultry for quite a variety of reasons. Only one of them has spoken up so far. I cannot speak the depth to which it pains me to cause pain to members of my support network. Even one hurt heart is too many for this crusty old warhorse. I've seen and caused enough hurt already.

We can't please everyone all of the time.

BTW, is anyoen else at all amused that my BIL with his Duke Uni degree can't figure out that unfertilized eggs won't hatch?!

I don't mind reading about poultry but would prefer not to read about butchery in a PTSD support group.

Ever try to explain that clones (twins) have been around forever and aren't the same person?

I think chickens are pretty cool... I would like to have some barnyard animals.... Especially a mini goat

I'd enjoy spreading grain for them to eat... Do they come up to you Arf in a friendly way?... I like birds to

I feed the birds and the squirrels here and they know me now... Multitudes..ha

i think being a vegetarian its very hard to hear about a mammal being made into food, even maybe for non-veggers who are triggered by any type of bloodshed feeling its a violent act.

My dad became a vegetarian watching one of the video's, never touched it again and he was a huge carnivore. My aunt and uncle were even angus cattle farmers. Maybe a trigger warning? Vegetarian TW? if its going to be about the processing. just an idea, someone might come up with something better.

Ya Patti, a lot of people don't realize that eggs are not anything but eggs unless they are fertilized, just like ours. We women carry eggs but they are nothing but eggs until fertilized.

Also on the cows, heifers do need to be impregnated to create milk. its one of the problems i have eating dairy because they have to fool the cow they are still in weaning phase. at the same time, you stop milking a cow it can get very sick and develop mastitis, so its kind of a win/lose situation. i learned about the heifers able to have horns because of the polling (genetics) from my aunt. it is informative information. So much kids can be learning!

I eat eggs and dairy, try to keep it as organic and cage free as possible. i have never had a farm fresh egg. I heard they are yummy but i also wonder if they would be more gamey tasting.


Suncloud, i have a little environment around me of squirrels, birds and even a pair of geese. love it too!

sorry, i went a little off topic myself

Yes, Leo, it is *funny* that so many educated people don't know that eggs need to be fertilized in order to hatch. Your BIL is far from the only one. It is an epidemic. I am still looking for the all-natural-pill farm. Pill orchard? Pill ranch?

Youngest son and I speculate that the all natural pills come from introducing German tables (masculine) to Spanish tables (feminine). Organic tablets would be the natural result.