Colowyo - grudgingly settling in :P

[Wifezilla]

Ahhhh! LOL

I only had 3-5 ducks at a time with a nipple waterer (rabbit type) and a small water dish for complete bill dipping

I have a quail that escaped from the pen and couldn't get back to mom. I thought it was dead when I found it. Then I felt it twitching so I held him in my cupped hands and blew hot air on him. He made a full recovery and now he is named "Zombie"

 

[colowyo0809]

Ahhhh! LOL

I only had 3-5 ducks at a time with a nipple waterer (rabbit type) and a small water dish for complete bill dipping

I have a quail that escaped from the pen and couldn't get back to mom. I thought it was dead when I found it. Then I felt it twitching so I held him in my cupped hands and blew hot air on him. He made a full recovery and now he is named "Zombie"

Well yes, if your going to go with the minimalist approach I need to find the nipple waterers that we have in the shed, and put them to use. would be a better thing than having the big waterer in there taking up so much of their space

 

[colowyo0809]

Ok people I need some answers. I tried google and gave up

SO asked me the other day if I would like it if he got us fishing poles and licensces(haha I know that's spelled wrong, I hate that word!) and I said sure, why not? I enjoy fishing on occasion. The only problem is, neither of us really know how to process them after they are caught! stupid fish. How do you descale? degut? delife? thoughts? answers?!!? best answers get a purple star (if I can find an icon for that! )

Also, is there anyone here (or at least anyone reading this journal) who raise both rabbits and chickens in a hoop house structure? I'm planning on building several hoop houses, two of pvc with sand in the bottom for less blowability and one of cattle panels. In the cattle panel one I'd like to suspend rabbit cages from the top with the chooks below. Anyone else do this, and have pictures? Thanks!

ETA: The broody is still broody, so YAY! She keeps hoarding everyone elses eggs that lay with her, so I've now marked the original nine eggs, using a pencil, with a line all the way around the eggs to make it easy at a glance to figure out what belongs and what doesn't I've tried moving her and the nest several times so she won't be bothered, but she keeps going back to where she was and refuses to sit on the eggs elsewhere stupid bird.

 

[miss_thenorth]

Kay, first, youshould put this int he hunting/fishing section, b/c there are alot fo ppl here who do not bother with journals. I usually don't, but hey, I'm here now. First, something I know about. Yes, you can rasie rabbits and chickens in the same environment aka, hoophouse. I had my bunns and chickens in together for about two years, until I got the cow, and needed the barn space. My bunn s were suspended over the chicken area, All worked good. Lots of ppl do it. Now though, I have the bunns in an outdoor dog kennel, and the chickens have their own coop.

As for fishing, usually you just swat the fish on the head with something. Often we use the knife we are going to fillet them with. If it is a big fish, you might need something heavier. We never scale our fish, we skin them and fillet them, or we just leave the skin on and cut into steaks if they are big fish like steelhead. My hubby is pro at filleting. I am not. I'm sure there are tutorials out there on how to fillet a fish. I can't help y ou much with that.

And as far as the broody goes, I tried marking myeggs with a pencil before too. Just know that the pencil markings will rub off and then you are left to a guessing game as to shich ones are the ones to be incubated and which ones were just laid. More than once, I cracked open an egg that was at one time marked. Where's that puking smilie? So, re-mark the eggs everyday or you could end up with a partly incubated, partly scrambled egg.

 

[miss_thenorth]

http://www.fishingkites.co.nz/cleaning-fish/fishindex.htm

 

[Farmfresh]

Ok .. So I have been loping heads off fish since I was about 6 years old! What do you need to know? I stick the little ones through the eyes with my knife before I start and SMACK the really big ones with a hammer!

By the way I am an old fashioned fisherman, not a bass pro. I never fillet anything. We eat around the bones here in Missouri!

I basically use a knife to cut off the head, a butter knife to rub the scales off by scraping in the wrong direction and poultry shears or scissors to cut around the anus, split the belly and remove any fins. Not too many guts inside of most fish. Just scrape them out. Then I rinse well and chill them in some salted ice water.

Time to cook and eat!

 

[justusnak]

As for the fish...it really depends on what you are catching! Catfish...we get a big board....like a 1x6 or something similar....take a large nail...and nail the fish to the board, through the head. Cut around the back of the head...grab the skin with pliers, and pull..HARD!! Thats what the board os for, you can put your foot on the board to hold it down when pulling on the skin. Once skinned...remove fins, tail, then the nailed down head. Flip it over, and slice it from the anus up to the neck area...and gut it. Then rinse...and let it set in salted water. Ohhh, I am getting a hankering for some catfish now! If they are big enough, you can fillet them....but you need a good sharp fillet knife, and it takes a bit of practice. I would rather cook em whole if they are small..and the meat comes right off the bones.
Blue gill....sunfish...crapie...we just run the knife backwards against the scales...from tail to head, and remove all the scales...cut the belly open and remove the innards, remove the tail,head, and fins....leave the skins on...and place in salted water...untill you are finished with the rest....then cook em up! Yup...I definately need to go fishin now!!

 

[Wifezilla]

My dad made scalers out of a strip of wood and some bottle caps nailed to one end. Guess who had to scale all the perch?

That is why I always encouraged him to fish for trout....NO SCALES!

 

[colowyo0809]

Kay, first, youshould put this int he hunting/fishing section, b/c there are alot fo ppl here who do not bother with journals. I usually don't, but hey, I'm here now. First, something I know about. Yes, you can rasie rabbits and chickens in the same environment aka, hoophouse. I had my bunns and chickens in together for about two years, until I got the cow, and needed the barn space. My bunn s were suspended over the chicken area, All worked good. Lots of ppl do it. Now though, I have the bunns in an outdoor dog kennel, and the chickens have their own coop.

As for fishing, usually you just swat the fish on the head with something. Often we use the knife we are going to fillet them with. If it is a big fish, you might need something heavier. We never scale our fish, we skin them and fillet them, or we just leave the skin on and cut into steaks if they are big fish like steelhead. My hubby is pro at filleting. I am not. I'm sure there are tutorials out there on how to fillet a fish. I can't help y ou much with that.

And as far as the broody goes, I tried marking myeggs with a pencil before too. Just know that the pencil markings will rub off and then you are left to a guessing game as to shich ones are the ones to be incubated and which ones were just laid. More than once, I cracked open an egg that was at one time marked. Where's that puking smilie? So, re-mark the eggs everyday or you could end up with a partly incubated, partly scrambled egg.

yes, I know I should post that in the hunting/fishing area but then I run the risk of looking like an idiot in front of even more people, whereas here I just have a small number of idiot followers

Thank you for the info, and the link. They will prove very helpful. As far as the bunns go, thank you as well I like it when I get good confirmation on an idea
yeah, I made a second mark on the eggs today, so I'll just keep refreshing one mark or the other, and call it good I already figured that they would rub off, what with the body contact and potential humidity and all

Thank you everyone for answering my fishing questions Now we just need to figure out where local to fish and get to it! Nice thing is, since I generally have Tuesdays off I should be able to hit some spots that aren't full of weekend campers

 

[miss_thenorth]

Now, there will be other noobs who don't know how to gut a fish, and they will want to search it. If the post is buried in a 3000 page journal, they're not gonna find it, whereas if its in the correct spot, they will. Just sayin'

All right, I'll stop lecturing now