Ten Cent Chicks

[so lucky]

I was at the local farm store this morning, and saw that they have baby cockerel fryers for sale for 10 cents each! Tempting, but I don't want to mess with butchering chickens.
The largest town near me recently passed a backyard chicken ordinance. I sure hope someone doesn't buy those 10 cent chicks thinking they are going to get fresh eggs in a few months.

Also, the store has Yukon Gold seed potatoes for 49 cents a pound. I had to get some of them.

 

[ducks4you]

Aw, Man--I would have housed them in the basement and then butchered them. Great deal!!!

 

[Ridgerunner]

When my first hatch last year was pretty awful, I picked up 7 cockerels from a regional farm store to raise with the ones I hatched. I do mess with butchering chickens, just put 6 pullets from a late hatch in the freezer this past Monday. I paid a lot more than ten cents each for those cockerels.

Last year my local Mon 'n Pop garden store has Yukon Gold, Kennebec, and Pontiac Red seed potatoes at 59 cents a pound. I'll wait a couple of weeks to get some, I think it's a bit too early just yet, but it won't be long until planting time. I usually just do Kennebec and Pontiac Red but I plan to try some Yukon Gold for the first time.

 

[valley ranch]

Cockerels will never give eggs~guess that's what you meant.


I made a plucker, makes things easier, we haven't raised chickens for the table for a while now.

 

[Nyboy]

People buy them as food for reptiles like feeder goldfish. Reptiles are the fastest growing pet area right now. Make great pets for people in large cities or who travel a lot. I will stick to pets that are warm blooded

 

[so lucky]

I have never really understood the appeal of having a big snake for a pet; it's not like they love you back.
Although, if I thought I could keep a green snake happily alive, I would probably keep the next one I find. They are so timid, tiny and pretty! When I was a kid, I kept snakes for brief periods of time, but once Mom discovered I had them, it was "Get that thing out of here!" for the pet. Same thing for the lizards, frogs and turtles I dragged home.

@valley ranch, did you make your plucker out of a washing machine? I have seen those on you-tube. Pretty nifty!

 

[Nyboy]

The vet I worked for as a teenage now only hands reptiles. He is consided top in country.

 

[valley ranch]

@valley ranch, did you make your plucker out of a washing machine? I have seen those on you-tube. Pretty nifty!

No, I prepared a drum that turned, the drum has many rubber tubes sticking out of it. The chicken is dipped in hot water, then held to the spinning drum, the rubber fingers remove the feathers.

We had a poultry market at the folks ranch. We had a larger plucker there, but I got the idea for the plucker from the one we had there.