The changing face of PP

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Originally Posted by roseberry

"chicken farmer"............such a slanderous label.:cool:

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I don't raise no fat yeller chickens......honest they are white and fat.

Bon its an inside joke from another thread. :) the slanderous part
Bo knows chicken......regards.

I thought it was "chicken rancher". I bet it stinks when you brand them.

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Originally Posted by Marvin S

Growing up organic we would buy 100 white leghorn chicks - unsexed (don't even know if they did that in those days). We would get about 50 pullets & 50 roosters - Eating pan fried spring frier was really neat, my grandma could cook them! In the fall we would take the remainder, usually about 30 - hook them to the clothes line & whack off their heads. When they were bled, into the hot scalding water they went & off came the feathers (one job I got out of as I my hands were too tender to handle the hot feathers), clean, cutup & into the quart jars - close to 60. There is nothing like the gelatin from canned chicken cold :cool:. The old hens went to chicken & dumplings.

As I got older used to do the same with pheasants that we spotlited & knocked in the head in the stubble fields - a true delicacy :).

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Processing is still very similar to how you did it in your youth. Well on a much bigger scale.

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Originally Posted by M&K's Retrievers

I thought it was "chicken rancher". I bet it stinks when you brand them.

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It stinks period.

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Originally Posted by duk4me

Processing is still very similar to how you did it in your youth. Well on a much bigger scale.

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How far does your clothesline stretch?

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Originally Posted by blind ambition

How far does your clothesline stretch?

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It would shock you to see it. Of course it isn't my clothesline they just put my pets on it.

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Originally Posted by duk4me

It stinks period.

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We farmed before the days of farming the government - rotational crops rather than SBeans & corn. Though 1/2 went to corn. After harvest the field that was going to get the chicken manure got disced, usually a corn field cut for silage, & the chicken barn got cleaned. Oats was the preferred crop & in those days you could see where the chicken manure had gone by yield. Fortunately we were fairly modern with a slide under the roosts to allow the manure to come forward & hinged roosts to clear the way, but it was still hand scooping. I used to hate that job as you felt like there were little critters crawling all over you after the barn cleaning. We then sprayed & were ready for the next years load :). It was hot stuff, more so than the other manures produced.

Eggs & cream made sure a lot of farmers were able to afford something.

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Originally Posted by Marvin S

We farmed before the days of farming the government - rotational crops rather than SBeans & corn. Though 1/2 went to corn. After harvest the field that was going to get the chicken manure got disced, usually a corn field cut for silage, & the chicken barn got cleaned. Oats was the preferred crop & in those days you could see where the chicken manure had gone by yield. Fortunately we were fairly modern with a slide under the roosts to allow the manure to come forward & hinged roosts to clear the way, but it was still hand scooping. I used to hate that job as you felt like there were little critters crawling all over you after the barn cleaning. We then sprayed & were ready for the next years load :). It was hot stuff, more so than the other manures produced.


Eggs & cream made sure a lot of farmers were able to afford something.

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How far a thead may slide to GDG is well evidenced. Thank you, boys.... I am entertained. The vision of Marvin scooping chicken manure will stay...in fact it will be hard to ignore. Do I need to insert a smiley here??? JD

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Originally Posted by JDogger

The vision of Marvin scooping chicken manure will stay...

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JD, it's honest productive labor, maybe a little too close to the real world for some folks, I have the feeling you might be in that group. I never felt I was above that level of work. It also builds a confidence in one's ability to deal with any situation.

I could tell you about a lot of situations our animal friends place us in - they don't know any better. Imagine what it was like pulling a calf in those days or being face first in the pig manure as one of those little darlings decided the best way of escape was at ankle level :).

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Originally Posted by Marvin S

JD, it's honest productive labor, maybe a little too close to the real world for some folks, I have the feeling you might be in that group. I never felt I was above that level of work. It also builds a confidence in one's ability to deal with any situation.

I could tell you about a lot of situations our animal friends place us in - they don't know any better. Imagine what it was like pulling a calf in those days or being face first in the pig manure as one of those little darlings decided the best way of escape was at ankle level :).

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Marvin, I find your condescending tone offensive. NM is both an agricultural state and one that practices animal husbandry on a broad level. I have bred and raised chickens and a variety of game birds, to include mallards, pheasants, chukar and quail, not to mention pigeons. I have assisted calving and branding many times. I'll concede the pig poop to you however since you seem to revel rolling in it. :cool: