AL - Recording baby steps: Newest Addition

[AL]

no hi-jack at all, BBuff! When you ask questions I learn
I'm curious as to why you plan to add the pullets back to the cockerals? Just an honest curious question... I have no idea about this stuff LOL


So today was the last day we had to work on teh meats - we processed all 14.
The morning started drizzly rain, cold (low 50s), and winds out of the north up to 20mph. Nice.
We set up a couple of those canopy / tents. The chopping block was at the very edge, then under the first tent we had a table with the top wrapped in foil and a big bucket of water beside it. We skinned them here.
Then there was a second tent (we ended up moving it and lowering one side to block the wind!) with the 2nd table where we parted them up. THen the carcass went back to the other table where I got out the gizzard, liver and heart.

We knocked out all 14 in just less than 6 hours - that is breaks in between each set of 3, lunch, cleaning up /tearing down our "tent city", hauling stuff to her truck, washing my bags full of meat and me taking a shower!

I ended up with (5) 1gal ziplock bags of meat:

I have had problems with my knee for several months. The last couple of days it has been getting worse and worse.... today 2-3 times I was teary eyed because of the pain. I have got to call the orthopedic doc on Monday - it is so bad last night it even woke me up hurting just from moving the weight of my fleece blanket.


I am exhausted - long day, pain pill..... y'all have a good one!

 

[BarredBuff]

I hope your knee quits bothering you! My Aunt has had four knee surgeries she had bad trouble too.

The only reason they will be integrated is because of housing. The cockerels and pullets will share housing from week 4 to week 12. Then pullets will be added to the layer flock. Does that make sense?

 

[AL]

ah yeah ok. I was just thinking that was a lot of extra effort to seperate, add them back, then move them again lol

 

[BarredBuff]

ah yeah ok. I was just thinking that was a lot of extra effort to seperate, add them back, then move them again lol

Yes it does seem to be a lot of effort..

 

[Denim Deb]

AL, I feel for you. I've had an operation on my left knee and it still hurts at times. And, I have a huge baker's cyst on the back of my right knee. Sometimes I can just barely stand on it. But, I have no time to have anything done to it.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

great work on the meats baby! but now... whatcha gonna do with all that free time?!!?

make chicken and noodles!!?!? ha!

hope that you are proud of yourself - we are all VERY proud of you!

 

[Farmfresh]

A fine harvest AL! See how much faster it went the second time.

 

[AL]

DD - I have had cortisone injections in both knees. Most recently was the left knee in May. The doc told me if it didn't help to come back in a month. It helped, so I called the day before my appointment and cancelled. The next night I stepped in a hole, fell and twisted my left knee . It has bothered me since then, but not nearly as much as it has the past week or 2.

OFG.... Thanks! Last night when I was going to bed I realized I hadn't closed up the meatie shelter.... OOPS who cares!?! Then I woke up in the night to answer nature's call and started to the window to make sure the meat lights were still on... Nope and I didn't have to go out in the cold to check on them!
My friend Kim that went in on the meat birds with me had me over for supper Friday night. She cooked with last week's bounty. She split one breast and it fed both of us! She stuffed it with 2 different kinds of cheese, a couple slices of pepperoni, and cooked it in.... BACON FAT.

FF - It was crazy how much better it went yesterday! We had it down like an assembly line. It went even faster when her son and I started to help part up the meat. I hadn't done it because I was afraid of mangling it, and I did the first one, but I caught on pretty quick.

Now I have a bag of whole oats, a bag of bird seed and some leftover rye grass seed that I am going to plant in that run for my layers.

Since some of the meats had that funky diarrhea, should I put some lime down or something in case there is something nasty contagious?


I'm gonna go take a pain pill and find an ice pack.

 

[AL]

So evidently the crime wave in our town is rolling north towards my area. There have been over 30 murders this year, and 7 of those have been in the last 40 days. 3 of the 8 women on my team at work have had breakins or attempted break-ins.

A lady at work (E) lives just about 3 miles southwest of me. When she got home from work Thursday night (3am Friday morning) and went to let her dogs out of the house, she said they were going nuts bouncing at the back door. She let them out and her boxer tore out so fast he almost knocked her backwards - then she heard what sounded like a horrible fight and her chainlink fence rattled. When E went out her front door (phone in hand calling the police) her neighbor came running out of his house in his boxers saying a guy had jumped her fence into his yard, then his fence onto the street. They discovered the police had actually already been called to her house. A lady across the street saw her come home and as E walked across the front of her house to go inside, a guy in a hoodie stood up from behind her big county garbage can and snuck around the opposite corner of the house!!


SO.... as a single female who lives alone (albeit next door to my folks) - what kind of firearms would you recommend? I was a dead-eye with a .22 rifle, but that isn't really a neighborhood friendly weapon. I am thinking some sort of long gun is best because I have weak hand strength (carpal tunnel syndrome).
Granted - I have a 110lb dog who is protective of me, no matter how friendly he may appear (I was shocked when he lunged, snarling, for the door of a hotel when someone tried to come in uninvited). I also have a 50lb dog that doesn't look like much but would rather eat your face off than let you in without our permission. But there is too much that can go wrong completely depending on my canine friends. I am also a 2nd degree Black Belt with Jujitsu training and I taught women's classes on self defense, but ideally nobody ever gets close enough to need to use that knowledge.

Any tips?

 

[BarredBuff]

My aunt has a .22 pistol its very effective.....