The first time I heard a peacock scream I thought someone must have stepped on it.Raise your hand, if you’ve ever heard a peacock scream.
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Our duck eggs taste great but are definitely more rich than our chicken eggs. Almost like you can taste the cholesterol in those oversize yokes.
That said, they are the absolute BEST for baking. Anything using eggs taste better with duck eggs.
We have Guineas now. In the 2 years since we got them, we have had exactly 1 tick in our yard. They are superlative bug managers. The eggs are small with double thick shells in relation to chickens, but are quite tasty. Ours went full retard this spring and we went from 32 in Feb to 2 by 1 October. They just took every Darwin award over the spring and summer. I have 12 more that are nearing adulthood to augment, and am hopeful the last 2 have developed into wiser birds.
Our Geese don't lay much, but I plan on working with them, as Roman Tufted and are endangered.
In a shrewd business move, I bought 4 pure white peacock chicks. Those things have broken my heart at every turn. Down to one, and he is living with my young guineas.
That said, they are the absolute BEST for baking. Anything using eggs taste better with duck eggs.
We have Guineas now. In the 2 years since we got them, we have had exactly 1 tick in our yard. They are superlative bug managers. The eggs are small with double thick shells in relation to chickens, but are quite tasty. Ours went full retard this spring and we went from 32 in Feb to 2 by 1 October. They just took every Darwin award over the spring and summer. I have 12 more that are nearing adulthood to augment, and am hopeful the last 2 have developed into wiser birds.
Our Geese don't lay much, but I plan on working with them, as Roman Tufted and are endangered.
In a shrewd business move, I bought 4 pure white peacock chicks. Those things have broken my heart at every turn. Down to one, and he is living with my young guineas.
In the north part of our county there’s a forty acre farm that was worth $30,000 then thirty some years ago, and maybe more than a half million today.
Emus were the latest fad, and the owner of that farm tried to hire me to help them trade that farm for a breeding pair of emus and ten fertile eggs.
They said the pair was worth $20,000 and the eggs ten thousand and they were afraid land prices would crash again. Besides, they were keeping a 20 with a house on it.
I asked them who could ever afford to eat $10,000 birds and they said oh no, the birds are worth $10,000 because they lay $1,000 eggs.
I asked why the eggs were worth $1,000 and they said the eggs hatch $10,000 birds.
I said to them, this market will utterly crash. Where those emus are from they shoot them as pests. There will come a day you cannot give them away, at any price.
They said we intend to sell out while the market is good, after we’ve doubled our investment.
I refused to do the contract and deed.
Not so much because I’m honest, but because I fear going to hell and buring an eternity.
I will never knowingly do evil, or have any part of evil. There’s a chance all those old Christian preachers might be right about the unforgivable sin.
They must have found some other lawyer more reckless with his immortal soul than me, because I’d drive by the place and see two emus, and then later on a dozen, and eventually none at all.
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The county deputes and teenagers had great sport shooting wild emus for a time, but I understand people always forget, and emus are slowly becoming popular again like peacocks, as yard decorations.
Emus were the latest fad, and the owner of that farm tried to hire me to help them trade that farm for a breeding pair of emus and ten fertile eggs.
They said the pair was worth $20,000 and the eggs ten thousand and they were afraid land prices would crash again. Besides, they were keeping a 20 with a house on it.
I asked them who could ever afford to eat $10,000 birds and they said oh no, the birds are worth $10,000 because they lay $1,000 eggs.
I asked why the eggs were worth $1,000 and they said the eggs hatch $10,000 birds.
I said to them, this market will utterly crash. Where those emus are from they shoot them as pests. There will come a day you cannot give them away, at any price.
They said we intend to sell out while the market is good, after we’ve doubled our investment.
I refused to do the contract and deed.
Not so much because I’m honest, but because I fear going to hell and buring an eternity.
I will never knowingly do evil, or have any part of evil. There’s a chance all those old Christian preachers might be right about the unforgivable sin.
They must have found some other lawyer more reckless with his immortal soul than me, because I’d drive by the place and see two emus, and then later on a dozen, and eventually none at all.
Emu War | History, Summary, & Facts | Britannica
Emu War, military operation to address the issue of emus, large flightless birds, damaging large amounts of crops in Western Australia. The campaign lasted from November to December 1932. Three members of the Royal Australian Artillery were assigned to cull roughly 20,000 emus using machine guns.
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The county deputes and teenagers had great sport shooting wild emus for a time, but I understand people always forget, and emus are slowly becoming popular again like peacocks, as yard decorations.
Eggs at Walmart today $8.82 a dozen . That's about double what they were 3-4 weeks ago............
I was at a mushroom farm the other day in Burlington Wisconsin, purchasing mushrooms (Lion's Mane & Oyster) and they were selling local farm fresh eggs for $18.69 for a flat of 30 eggs (about$7.50 a dozen). I thought that was a reasonable price for farm fresh eggs.
I’ll take 3 over medium, hash browns well done, bacon, and rye toast.
When local eggs are available (when I want them) I pay $4-6/dz, although I haven’t checked since the egg brokers discovered Avian Flu profits.
What I find disturbingly unsurprising is that people are trying to make this Avian Flu crisis political. I’m not a farmer, but I live in a farming community and used to cover agricultural for the newspaper. I still subscribe to “Lancaster Farming”, and have watched this crisis evolve over the past several months, across two administrations. All I can say is that it appears that the USDA and the state ag departments have done everything right to try to contain an outbreak that was unavoidable. All artificial monocultures, like egg farms, are highly susceptible to the vagaries of nature. You just can’t put that many of the same animals together in a confined space and not have some potentially serious issues with contagions. It’s why it’s best to buy local from small farms. Or go vegan.
What I find disturbingly unsurprising is that people are trying to make this Avian Flu crisis political. I’m not a farmer, but I live in a farming community and used to cover agricultural for the newspaper. I still subscribe to “Lancaster Farming”, and have watched this crisis evolve over the past several months, across two administrations. All I can say is that it appears that the USDA and the state ag departments have done everything right to try to contain an outbreak that was unavoidable. All artificial monocultures, like egg farms, are highly susceptible to the vagaries of nature. You just can’t put that many of the same animals together in a confined space and not have some potentially serious issues with contagions. It’s why it’s best to buy local from small farms. Or go vegan.
No kidding.
When I lived in the city in the 80’s, there was no shortage of diners with $1 breakfasts. Most are gone now. Our favorite local breakfast spot out here in the country just served it’s last meal on Sunday. The bill for my wife and I was $27.
Problem with saying that chickens spread the bird flu... What about the crows, buzzards, and the other 1000 species of birds that fly all around and shit everywhere?
They've banned alot of our chicken activites in GA... But they don't even really know why they did it.
They've banned alot of our chicken activites in GA... But they don't even really know why they did it.
Not only has the price of eggs gone up, but the quality of the store bought eggs has become wildly variable. Used to be you could get some nice golden yokes if you paid more, but now there doesn’t appear to be much difference.
I should have moved somewhere I could keep chickens.
I should have moved somewhere I could keep chickens.
Doesn't that shit sound awfully familiar..
Coming home from the doctor’s office last evening my wife gasped and said look here, there’s avian flu in the St Louis Zoo!
She knows I trust her but she loves to show me.
Bird flu found in dead duck triggers multiple Saint Louis Zoo exhibit closures
Officials found a dead duck that tested positive for bird flu in a lake close to the Zoo's center.
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I said that might raise the price of eggs in Bug Tussle.
She said no, I’m serious, we have to think about protecting your girls who lay our eggs!
I said I suppose thoughts and prayers might not be sufficient?
And she said we need to buy three pullets and get them and your girls inside the addition to the garage.
I’d as soon have the dad blasted gubbermint as my chicken boss than her, but I have more job security, you know?.
The wind is blowing about a mile a minute today.
Spreading bird flu all over creation!
It’s so windy she forbade me to open the doors to their closed coop.
After 25 years she has me trained enough to know I’d better sit here and not touch that coop door outside.
Chicken ranching, has lots of rules you need to obey without question.
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$5.62 a dozen yesterday at our local Aldi's here in northern Illinois. Not bad.
When Miss Charlotte gave the egg lecture in 1971 she convinced us all that nickel eggs were cheap.
The same can be said of two bit eggs today.
