Definitely cheaper in the long run, and you know you’re getting clean fresh meat. I remember as a kid watching my Grandmother chopping the heads off and some of them doing the little dance. Just a part of being a kid raised around farms. Funny thing is we’re all animal lovers, but it was healthy to learn as a kid animals for meat are necessary. Of course our chickens are all layers, and by the time my wife names them there’s no hope in making them meat birds even if I wanted to.It wont' always work out this way, but one reason we got 10 birds instead of 5 was Wilco had a deal. Buy a bag of feed and get 5 birds for free
we are in a local co-op as well where we get organic chicken feed thats pretty high quality for equal to or less than store prices so I have a 50lb bag of that for my next batch but for my current 10 birds:
2 x $23 bags of feed will get them from start to finish I believe if I butcher at 7 weeks. I may need a bit more if I let them go to 8-9 weeks
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so $46 / 10 = $4.60 per bird. You can add to that water if you want, but price is negligible. There is the cost of brooder, heat lamp, feeders and waterers, but we have had all those things for many years because we've been doing chicks for so long. I think we did have to get a new bulb this year ($12.99) but thats sitting over my wife's 5 new layer chicks.
If I get more Cornish Cross chicks they're $3.19ea
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haha ours are the same way, when the girls get old and are probably not laying any more I have offered to put them on the grill and my wife always says no so we let the old layers live out their life until they die naturally then I take them to the train station. They are like pets. Every ounce of scrap food from our house and the neighbors house goes to the chickens. their poo creates fertilizer. If I make a whiskey mash of all corn, after it finishes fermenting I'll give a lot of that to the chickens (and the rest to the woods for the deer).Definitely cheaper in the long run, and you know you’re getting clean fresh meat. I remember as a kid watching my Grandmother chopping the heads off and some of them doing the little dance. Just a part of being a kid raised around farms. Funny thing is we’re all animal lovers, but it was healthy to learn as a kid animals for meat is necessary. Of course our chickens are all layers, and by the time my wife names them there’s no hope in making them meat birds even if I wanted to.
Oh yeah, there’s no doubt that fresh eggs and meat taste better. And fresh milk is better too…down here in the South the Old Timers would call fresh milk “sweet milk” because of the sweet flavor of fresh milk. Fresh butter tastes better too…. I remember watching my Grandmother churn butter by hand. Ha, I’m getting fat just thinking about those good old fresh butter biscuits, fresh eggs, bacon, and milk….just a different world.
Hope she gets to feeling better soon….great job taking care of her in her time of need….love is an action word.
but its already feeling better. Today is going to be touch and go for gym because I have a weird mid afternoon appt so when I get in I will try to make the most of what time I have today.
Yeah, those doctors don’t want to get that Norwegian blood boiling too much, or they may need a doctor themselves.Her boss has been fighting something for a couple weeks and in and out of dr for antibiotics so its starting to go around her office. She did get into the dr yesterday and they tested her for flu and covid, which she got pissed off about because she said she didn't authorize them for that, lol. She asked them what the plan was if she tested positive and what they'd rx then, they said 'nothing' which infuriated her more because she decided she was better off just staying home and slamming our home remedies since the drs didn't have a solution anyways! ha.
to be fair though they did at least give her something for her cough and she seemed much better last night, she slept through the night just fine and I'm guessing she's over the worst of it. she will be taking one more rest day (hopefully, if she can keep herself from going crazy) today.
I pulled something Sunday during my OHP so the last 2 nights finding a spot on the pillow for my stiff neck has kept me awake too
Mariners swept the 'stros. See you in Oct @gphagan1 ! Braves are looking good...
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Must be an Astro fan.
Well he is from these parts! I don't know why but baseball bores me to death. So it doesn't bother me at all.
Born and raised brother
Let me get you a trash can to beat on. Play me the drumbeat of your people
Nice Deadlifts.Warmup
Bike 10 min
Deads
10 x 135
2 x 3 x 225
1 x 275, 325, 355, 385, 405
5 x 315
BB rows
2 x 15 x 135
SS with pullups
2 x 10
Lat pulldowns
2 x 10
Notes
Went back to switch grip today to see how it felt after a few weeks of strict DOH.
Tight on time today so happy to get this much in
Lifting belt still on hole 4
we saw Chris Kattan at the Tacoma Comedy club last month!I hope she feels better already!
I also hope that your trap / neck loosens up. If not how will you ever be able to do this again?
Damn, Cal Raleigh sure did hit a lot of home runs last season. Y'all must've won the WS for sure with performance like that!
I saw the Astros play in the World Series back in 2021 versus the Braves in Houston. Was an incredible experience. Crowd was so energized. Want to say it was game 2 (maybe 3). We won the game, but ended up losing the Series that year.Hard to say, I made a couple playoff games but missed the Series....
We were actually nervous about that Series because we had went through so much to beat the Dodgers, and then we had to play the Astros, and I thought the Astros had a better team than the Dodgers that year. That had to be a cool experience for you. I’ve never got to go to a World Series game, but we did go see the Braves beat the Brewers in the playoffs that year. And the playoffs atmosphere is definitely ramped up compared to the regular season.
We were actually nervous about that Series because we had went through so much to beat the Dodgers, and then we had to play the Astros, and I thought the Astros had a better team than the Dodgers that year. That had to be a cool experience for you. I’ve never got to go to a World Series game, but we did go see the Braves beat the Brewers in the playoffs that year. And the playoffs atmosphere is definitely ramped up compared to the regular season.
Think the Astros lost 3 pitchers to the IL during the series against the Mariners lol.
Yeah injuries are a killer to a good team. That’s what has cost the Braves the last 2 years.
Yep. I hate the baseball classic too, because I’m always afraid Acuna is going to get hurt. He has one gear….all out 100%.
Got us last year too. Think we set the MLB record for most WAR on the IL that season.
Glad to hear your knee is doing better, and that you were able to do some squats, that’s great. I feel you on that scar tissue pop…. I was finally able to do more than just my rehab work on legs today. Just leg extensions and leg curls, but I had a pretty good bit of crackling going on from scar tissue myself, but it does feel good to be able to do something besides just bands.
That’s a good kind of tiredness….it’s always rewarding to get a lot accomplished around the house. Hopefully your wife will start feeling better. There’s no doubt that when you’re married you are one, and better together in a good marriage. I like the Supercomputer analogy.Saturday:
I'm wrekt. Hamstrings are in a severe state of DOMs
Honestly not even doing that much. Got up early to mow the lawn cause we are gonna turn part of it into a small bed for blue corn, pumpkins, and tobacco. Did that today, a few of those raised bed bricks from home Depot, unloaded a half yard of compost/garden soil for my wife's Dahlia bed and this new pumpkin / tobacco bed. Took care of the meat birds, worked on the truck and I'm absolutely exhausted. Hitting home Depot for a couple small irrigation parts to get zone 1 of 4 or 5 dialed in today. Gonna accomplish a lot less than I had planned but my wife has been fighting this cold/cough for about a week and a half and not having her at 100% to help around here really makes things much more difficult than I would have thought. It's funny how much married people share a brain. It's like a super computer that you don't realize runs on two servers until one of the servers goes down.
So all that said and done it's only 1:15pm and I'm already looking at the clock for the bell to ring. Home depot, Petco, then Safeway. I told her comfort food and a movie this afternoon so going to do salad and cauliflower crust pizza and crash on the couch once we get the garden irrigation done. Live to fight another day!
But holy hamstrings
Man it's so true. It's great when we are on the same page but I've really "missed" her this past week. I told her today the chaos we've created is definitely a two person job to maintain lol. It's exhausting but fulfilling.That’s a good kind of tiredness….it’s always rewarding to get a lot accomplished around the house. Hopefully your wife will start feeling better. There’s no doubt that when you’re married you are one, and better together in a good marriage. I like the Supercomputer analogy.
That looks great !
That is really coming along and is looking great man!!!
