Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

[FarmerChick]

creepy?

lol

those Cornish do their job in life
grow fast-- feed tons of people
and yup, I've done them and I like them actually

lol


not a thing wrong with an X in my opinion
but that MIL hmmm

 

[noobiechickenlady]

With the interest generating around town for home raised chickens, I've been debating ordering some myself. They are creepy indeed!
My beek friend gave me half of one butchered at 12 weeks or so. I made soup from him (the chicken, not the beek) and when I was picking the bones out, I came across the leg bone. It was BENT! Yes, bent, right in the middle where it should be nice & straight.
Freaked me smooth out. But hey, that one half chicken just about filled a gallon ziplock. If I buy 50 from Meyer they will be only 1.09 each... Hmmmm

 

[Dace]

Bummer about the apples and the MIL. I walk a fine line with mine, she usually *means well* and let things roll off my back, but I check out when the head games start.
I decided a few years ago that when she behaved badly I would let her known in a more creative way than arguing. I just stop interacting with her.

Picture me in my kitchen working on dinner, whatever....MIL sitting at the bar counter chatting about this and that...me, the always gracious hostess asking her about things in her life and what she has been up to ....suddenly she lobs an insult bomb my way, I duck and dodge....then go right on with what I am doing but no more conversation. She will literally just sit silently, watching me until I finish up and leave the room. At which point my husband will inform her that she crossed the line. I go hang out upstairs with my kids (she doesn't do stairs) if it was really offensive, and ignore her the rest of her visit.

Anywho.....mostly she is good, in fact she is going to help me learn how to sew

And in other news.....OMG, OFG! Your peach-blackberry pie was awesome! I left out the apples, but man oh man! My peeps were impressed! My SIL was watching my toss stuff into the bowl of fruit, OFG style...sprinkle of this a splash of that and she said, "so you've made this before?"...."nope but this semi-recipe comes from a very reliable source and it is going to be great!....so what would you call a 'slow oven? 325 or 350?" she just laughed.

For lunch I am having a big ol' brandywine with goat cheese and a big fat slice of pie!

 

[lorihadams]

We're ordering 75 from Meyer's too!

I had to print up a "chicken order form" for some of the guys that work with hubby. We've sold 20 so far and we need around 30 for us for a year. I'm starting to clean out the freezer now to make room but hubby just brought home a ton of meat.....good thing I have a second freezer!!!

 

[bibliophile birds]

she always has something to say. i swear if she actually said something nice she would burst into flames.

my grandmother is kinda like that. it's getting worse as she gets older, so i'm very worried. she's the type that just really likes to complain. when we were kids she used to take us shopping (not because we asked but because she wanted to), and then she'd turn around and tell my mom that she spent so much money on us because we were begging for things. my mom (her daughter-in-law) would get so mad at us and then she'd realize it wasn't true. we finally just had to stop accepting gifts unless it was our birthdays or Christmas.

the turning point in my relationship with her was when she gave me a small loan 2 years ago. my money was tied up for a while and she said she was more than happy to help me out. i told her exactly when i could pay her back and she went on and on about how it wasn't important. she's totally loaded, so i figured she meant it.

anyway, the next 4 months were complete hell. she called me just about every other day to "remind me" that i owed her money. she complained to my parents. she went on and on and on about it. when i paid her back- on the exact day i had told her i could- she said she didn't want my money... that she was happy to help me out and she just couldn't take money from me. i seriously wanted to hit her in the head with a large object. i insisted that she take it, for my sake, and i've tried to keep my distance a bit ever since.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

yep BibBird.. same kind of thing. we dont want/do the present thing with her anymore for the same reasons.

NCL - that the creepy part of them...crazy bent bones and everything. in the link i show the dreaded green muscle disease that one had. i nearly ran from the kitchen shrieking... but like FC said -- they are a product that works. so...gulp... we are going for it. i'm reading and re-reading with FF and FD have been doing.. as well as Bee's strategies.

Lori - tell Meyer that i sent you! ha! maybe we could all get a discount! ha ha ha ha

Tanks - in my blog i have a couple pix of Runner's chicks (regular farm mutt chickens) vs the creepy meats.. wow! what a difference! in fact, we are mostly thru all the freezer meat and just this week we'll have Rooster Day for the others! is that crazy or what? we had a couple creepy meats flop over dead tho.. and i swear i wouldnt touch any of them, live or dead, without gloves. and i just had a duckling in my bra.. so you know... my ick factor is pretty high.

D - we passed "means well" a long time ago - now we are to "she doenst know what she sounds like" and keep hoping she'll find Jesus.

in the meantime.. if you can believe it.. i mostly dont say a peep. not a word. and.....

... she doenst think i'm funny. At. All.

she's totally missing out on all this entertainment. we just keep it to ourselves. so i just sit there quietly and mutter those amazing words.. you know the ones... "mas tequila, por favore"

whooot!

but so glad that you pie turned out!! i bet its fabulous and look at you all pro and all! yay you!!!!

 

[Dace]

She doesn't think you are funny? Is she human?
Wow.

Yeah we are also sitting on the border of 'doesn't know how that sounds'
I am pretty dang tolerant though.

Now mine is coming up here to spend Sundays. I think really she just likes to be involved and the more we spend time with her the better behaved she is. At this point she will be teaching me to sew on Sunday afternoons after church, which she has just decided to join ours....after a brief (not very Christian like ) I realized that it is a good thing.

The funniest thing ever is when she gets mad at ME and stops speaking to me for a few months.

That'll teach me

 

[Blackbird]

I just found this article and it reminded me of the French lady in 'France-Land';

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2010/08/24/commentary/op-eds/doc4c73e3d4a0055039646585.txt

I think those two should get together and battle each other over their crazy views. I like hunting, Clint Eastwood movies, wear paid, have no inkling of similarity to her classification of 'fake men', and I'm not even straight! Wackos I say.

I also admit I liked the Cornish X, last year we raised 25 of them, nice and meaty, yum-o! We had one that was rather small so we didn't butcher her right away and eventually put it off completely. she died of heart failure this summer (so large and yummy!) but in between she was an excellent egg layer!

'Freaked me smooth out'

 

[Farmfresh]

Go man GO! We need more plaid shirted HE men in this world.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

we still have one meat chicken from last year! poor Legs... he was one of the red broilers... we were waiting for him to flop over dead.. and wow he's on his last "legs" for sure.

if we hadnt waited so long we probably would have gotten the red broilers again - they are the freedom rangers kinda thing and take longer to grow out but are more chicken-y.

but we nillynallied so we had to resort to creepy meat... oh heavens!

and double yep. that france-land lady would love all them fakey men... until she had a jar she couldnt open or there was a mouse!

ha!

actually i had it with the non-masculine men of the west coast. if one more GROWN MAN walked into my office crying.. yes...CRYING because someone said something to him at work..i was gonna go postal. flat out nuts.

for the record - if you are a man you can cry if:

1. you are injured in a knife fight..but you'd better not be bawlin'
2. your good and faithful dog (a REAL dog not an ankle biter) dies, preferably while saving you from a rattler
3. your truck gets repo'd

other than that i dont want to see it. seriously.

one of my high tech gal friends told me that she was gonna take her big money and go back to texas and buy herself a cowboy bc she was so disgusted with the pink shirt wearin, cabriolet driving, momma's boys they have out there on the west coast. ha!

i told my brother that his boys already have dirt bikes and BB guns waiting for them. and a whole box of army guys. and no they were not going to be vegetarians here and we were gonna kill something for sure. and they could go out in the yard and hit each other with sticks all they want.

someone i know said that the less women expect from their men the worse it gets - pretty soon we'll see the gals pushing around their "men" in big strollers and handing them sippy cups of beer, for heavens sakes.

no thank you. i only want a man. a real man. solves his own problems. knows i aint his momma and i dont treat him like he's one of the kids. knows how to drive a 4x4 out of the mud and yeah - there's a gun in his truck, comes with a dog, likes meat, drinks beer, and would never let any other man but the pastor hug him.

i got me one of them. and i'm guarding him with my life. once them other gals get sick of their man-babies (wont work, cant pay his own bills, needs a hair cut, doesnt do anything but sit around so they can paint each others toe nails) they will be looking for real husbands. i'm guarding mine alright...

ha!

and yeah, D... i know.. she doenst think i'm funny AT ALL. like REALLY doenst think i'm funny! i tried to send her some of my stories but she didnt like them and told me everything that i had done wrong.

oh well. and since i dont say anything around her... she thinks i'm this little wallflower.

one time we went into a feed store and i was yukking it up with the owner and she nearly died of embarrassment. i dont think she knew that i even talked - let alone shot the sh*t with the locals! ha!

oh well - more yuks for you guys a guess.

yikes - gotta go milk