Remember when...

[Yoseff]

How many of you have ever plucked, and processed chickens by hand? When I was a kid my grand dad used to raise 500 leghorn roosters for meat every summer. (yeah, I said leghorns) We would spend a couple weekends putting them up, depending on how many people would show up to help.

Never quite 500, but we would do 50 or so every fall, my dad, my brother, and myself.

I miss the farm.

 

[Kirkwooder]

I still raise a few birds for the freezer every year, I almost always raise a few turkeys for thanksgiving, and I keep a mixed flock of layers.

< That's actually a photo of last years layers with my breeding rooster. I lost most of them to a wryly little red fox. I have 30 white Rock chicks in the brooder right now and 2 dozen more eggs in the incubator waiting to hatch. I keep chickens because I enjoy it, and it reminds me of days long past.

 

[bleme]

Flars, your post reminds me of milking cows by hand, I don't mean hooking them up to the machine, I mean milking with the teats in your hands & a steel bucket underneath, while sitting on a stool. We only had 1 dairy cow, so it was pretty easy. I used to get up early to pour off some cream for my Cheerios.
Regards, GF.

When I was 7, I had a flock of about 30 laying hens. The city had grown up around us and every Saturday I'd sell the extra eggs out by the roadside. I had to pay for the feed but got to keep the rest.

I remember coming in bloody one day after a rooster attacked me. I can still see the look in my dad's eyes as he pulled out his pocket knife. The next night we had dumplings.

When I was in high school, we started collecting milk goats and had 6 at one point. My parents milked in the mornings and my sister and I milked at night. The sweet milk went inside for us and the foster kids. The grassy milk went in the deep freeze. When the deep freeze was full, we'd pick up a couple of day old calves.

 

[Homercidal]

If I had a small property outside of town I'd have chickens.

I have friends who live upstate who bought 13 acres this winter. The wife wants to have chickens, and I think I might try to help her build a suitable henhouse. They have foxes and coyotes and hawks in the area, so I think we'd have to keep that in mind.

Remember when you could build a shed and not need a permit?

 

[Jacob_Marley]

(oops ... double post)

 

[Jacob_Marley]

as of today at Meijer ...
Organic Chicken Breast ... $9.49 /lb
Organic Whole Chicken ... $3.99 /lb

Nevermind an organic and "free-range" chicken from a costlier store .... For a dressed 4-1/2 pound chicken you've raised (so a large 8 month chicken) ... If the breast is about 14oz, that plus the remaining pieces cut up makes that bird worth approximately: $8.30 + $14.00 or about $22 for a single chicken.

Particularly if you have some land and local ordinance does not prohibit it, for as relatively simple as chickens are to raise, not too bad a return.
Once the coop and supplies are established; to a point, each additional chicken costs less to raise.

For some reason the whole idea sounds a lot more attractive nowadays than when I was a kid and considered garden tending and chicken-raising somewhere between misery and forced child labor.

And the taste! ... like it is with free-range, grass fed beef and dairy ... a big difference.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Anybody remember this?

 

[MaxStout]

as of today at Meijer ...
Organic Chicken Breast ... $9.49 /lb
Organic Whole Chicken ... $3.99 /lb

Nevermind an organic and "free-range" chicken from a costlier store .... For a dressed 4-1/2 pound chicken you've raised (so a large 8 month chicken) ... If the breast is about 14oz, that plus the remaining pieces cut up makes that bird worth approximately: $8.30 + $14.00 or about $22 for a single chicken.

Particularly if you have some land and local ordinance does not prohibit it, for as relatively simple as chickens are to raise, not too bad a return.
Once the coop and supplies are established; to a point, each additional chicken costs less to raise.

For some reason the whole idea sounds a lot more attractive nowadays than when I was a kid and considered garden tending and chicken-raising somewhere between misery and forced child labor.

And the taste! ... like it is with free-range, grass fed beef and dairy ... a big difference.

I used to live in South Dakota years ago. I remember the Mennonites from the surrounding area would drive in town and sell whole, free-range chickens out of the backs of refrigerated trucks. We'd get a couple, take them home and roast them that night. Yum!

 

[bleme]

We raised laying hens for 30 years. When the hen stopped producing, there were always new immigrants who wanted them because they were like they ate back home (usually Mexico or Laos), but for us the chickens were just for eggs.

The rabbits and the turkeys usually made it to our table though.

 

[Hopinista]

We raised laying hens for 30 years. When the hen stopped producing, there were always new immigrants who wanted them because they were like they ate back home (usually Mexico or Laos), but for us the chickens were just for eggs.

The rabbits and the turkeys usually made it to our table though.

Where I'm from we use them for stew (think Coq au Vin)

 

[bleme]

If a rooster or a breeding rabbit got too moody, they turned into dumplings but usually our meat was butchered younger.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Here's one I haven't seen or heard in a very long time:

 

[podz]

Remember when they actually had music videos on MTV, and not all that "reality" crap they have on it now?

I remember when they first opened MTV. We watched it all weekend.

 

[podz]

Remember when Richard Nixon thought he was cute?

 

[Hopinista]

Remember when Richard Nixon thought he was cute?

No I wasn't alive

 

[unionrdr]

Yup,the Big Dick's on his way,get ready! And I still have my Headbanger's Ball MTV tee shirt!

 

[Homercidal]

Remember when Richard Nixon thought he was cute?

Wasn't that bill Clinton's slogan??


Oh, sorry, I was TOTALLY mistaken on that one...

 

[Jacob_Marley]

Here's one I haven't seen or heard in a very long time:

< The Bob Newhart Show Season Six Opening >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tpvB8B2AA

Remember the drinking game called "Bob"? You'd watch the Bob Newhart Show and every time they said "Bob" you took a drink. Less a game I suppose and more a way to watch Bob Newhart at parties. (yes, this is what passed for fun ... gawd I feel so old)

 

[JonM]

Wasn't it "Hi Bob?" Where you drink a shot any time someone says "Hi, Bob."

I imagine you'd get a little hammered if you did that every time someone said "Bob" but I'm sure some folks did that. Probably University of Wisconsin students.

 

[flars]

Wasn't it "Hi Bob?" Where you drink a shot any time someone says "Hi, Bob."

I imagine you'd get a little hammered if you did that every time someone said "Bob" but I'm sure some folks did that. Probably University of Wisconsin students.

You must have gone South to U of I.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

Wasn't it "Hi Bob?" Where you drink a shot any time someone says "Hi, Bob."

I imagine you'd get a little hammered if you did that every time someone said "Bob" but I'm sure some folks did that. Probably University of Wisconsin students.

I know we've played the version where you take a sip of your beer etc (not the whole drink) when it was "Bob" ... if you missed a "Bob" you had a "penalty chug" and had to drink the rest of your entire drink. Another version might have been "Hi Bob" ... we might have played that too ...I don't recall; I wasn't entirely lucid.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Remember the drinking game called "Bob"? You'd watch the Bob Newhart Show and every time they said "Bob" you took a drink. Less a game I suppose and more a way to watch Bob Newhart at parties. (yes, this is what passed for fun ... gawd I feel so old)

I was too young to drink (legally) back then; tho that didn't discourage me from sneaking a beer once in a while.
Regards, GF.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Anybody remember these?

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtcJ7gvJP0Q[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA6q9PdxClY[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESjMx0pQvHU[/ame]

 

[unionrdr]

I always knew Tex Avery was a closet perv. But dang, he sure drew them pin up swing shift sallies good, didn't he?!

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Yes he did; Red was always my fav, very well drawn.
I grew up watching those old toons from the 40's & 50's every day after school.
Regards, GF.

 

[unionrdr]

Me too. From the mid 50's on. different style back then. Some were more adult oriented, since they were shown between loading 2nd reel of film or next one at the theatres.

 

[Dan]

Here's one from my memory locker
My folks bought us a record player and the record "aristocrats". Somewhere in the 70s. No video , no TV. Just words which made images in your head. Imagination is a wonderful gift. You can watch the clip below. I recommend you close your eyes, listen to it and let your imagination play. Two country dogs are discussing tire chasing. Or something like that

I do like this YouTube clip though



Sent from my iPhone

 

[Dan]

Here's another. If I'm remembering correctly. Same book



Sent from my iPhone

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Ah the voices of Mr. Hainey from Green Acres & Goober from The Andy Griffith Show, I hadn't thought of either in a LONG time! The music from Aristocats reminded me of my fav:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDzlhW3XTM[/ame]

Regards, GF.

 

[podz]

Ah the voices of Mr. Hainey from Green Acres & Goober from The Andy Griffith Show, I hadn't thought of either in a LONG time! The music from Aristocats reminded me of my fav:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDzlhW3XTM

Regards, GF.

One of the best disney songs ever.

Every time I hear "I wanna be like you", I spontaneously burst out singing it over the next week. And sometimes it happens without even having heard it at all.

I have the capability to listen to entire songs purely within my head, a surprisingly vast number of them. I don't need an mp3 player ;-)