...wellll, evidently you never had my Mamaw's fried chicken.
Mamaw (born in 1902) was reknown for that too. Come home from church and get one ready for Sunday lunch.
That generation knew how to 'make do'.
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Anyone here raise chickens for eggs?
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...wellll, evidently you never had my Mamaw's fried chicken.
Mamaw (born in 1902) was reknown for that too. Come home from church and get one ready for Sunday lunch.
That generation knew how to 'make do'.
Near what city?
Binghamton NY, Brooklyn Pa ( where the farm was) and Old Forge PA… all gone now… all dead & buried. Only source of income is the fracking industry in PA. In some ways it’s sad because those farmers worked night and day and came away with nothing.
Try to have a small butcher & grocery business when Wegmans and Walmart moves in. Today of course people want fresh meats (Black Angus beef, lamb and chicken) specially prepared and of course my aunt and grandmother as excellent cooks preparing foods)
Thanks for the info - was just curious - Binghamton was the original home of Baptist Bible Seminary - Now Clarks Summit University
That's what we do. I raise all of our turkeys, and chickens from little day old chickens up to adults. Then we process them ourselves and package them ourselves. We do:
- Whole Turkey
- Turkey Wings
- Ground Turkey
- Turkey Breast
- Turkey Liver/Heart/necks
- Whole Chicken
- Chicken Wings
- Chicken leg quarters
- Chicken drumsticks
- Chicken thighs bone-in
- Chicken feet
- Ground Chicken
- Chicken Breast
- Chicken liver/heart/necks
- Chicken eggs
- Garden excess (potatoes, green beans, pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, etc)
Our smaller and more regional supply chain is a competitive advantage that large grocery retailers just can't compete with. Unfortunately large ag businesses and grocery stores own the lobbyist and love to try and out regulate small business. It entirely crony capitalism.
Just the county's satellite picture. It's an app we use to lookup addresses when we're toned out to a fire call to find fire exposures, risks, terrain, access, etc.
Yea, I know first hand what these politicians do to tip the scales… it wore my family out, I believe it eventually killed them. So I’m a big advocate for independent farms and supporting them. We have a family here in NJ who owns and runs a 200 acre farm that has a separate store selling produce and plants that I support. Another, the Freeborn family who were once indentured servants for the Stuyvesant & Rutherford families, also putting up a farm store. I went to school with them and they were huge FFA supporters…so I in turn support them. Nobody though is really doing much with meats & poultry. I’ve lived here, off and on for 66 years and this corner of NJ is still evolving. I think they need a good independent butcher, baker and seafood place however the community needs to support them more. I’m going over to a Neighborhood town on Wednesday to take my wife for an MRI and I want to stop into a place that makes the type of Italian food my grandmother cooked. The owners are both graduates of the Culinary School in NY so I’m excited… I’m told they prepare excellent foods.
My younger brother is a graduate… we are from the Scranton area
They didn’t lay then they went into the pot....wellll, evidently you never had my Mamaw's fried chicken.
Mamaw (born in 1902) was reknown for that too. Come home from church and get one ready for Sunday lunch.
That generation knew how to 'make do'.
Ummmmm
We'll kill the old red rooster when she comes (when she comes)
We will kill the big red rooster when she comes (when she comes)
We'll kill the big red rooster, we will kill the big red rooster
We'll kill the big red rooster when she comes (when she comes).
I raised my 25 chicks on Purina Crumble and they like it so they still get it but they also get my homemade mixtures of grains and table scraps and garden cuttings and grass. They are totally spoiled and overspent on. I'm averaging 12-16 eggs a day.
I started out giving all the extra eggs away and still do because, how can you just start charging while becoming so popular for your generosity?
I had to rid myself of an egg-eater and she was beautifully built and heavy and I sure wanted to taste a homegrown chicken but in the end I just didn't feel like I wanted to do all the work to get there, being inexperienced at butchering a chicken, and I could buy a store-bought for $5, and there was no one I could talk into to doing it for pay.
Oh yeah, I also just got a beautiful second Livestock Guardian Dog that is 3/4 Kangal and 1/4 Great Pyrenees to be buds with my lonely 3/4 Great Pyrenees and 1/4 Kangal. Great useful dogs, wish I had known about them years ago! Glad for the suggestion, @kyredneck.
I started out giving all the extra eggs away and still do because, how can you just start charging while becoming so popular for your generosity?
I had to rid myself of an egg-eater and she was beautifully built and heavy and I sure wanted to taste a homegrown chicken but in the end I just didn't feel like I wanted to do all the work to get there, being inexperienced at butchering a chicken, and I could buy a store-bought for $5, and there was no one I could talk into to doing it for pay.
Oh yeah, I also just got a beautiful second Livestock Guardian Dog that is 3/4 Kangal and 1/4 Great Pyrenees to be buds with my lonely 3/4 Great Pyrenees and 1/4 Kangal. Great useful dogs, wish I had known about them years ago! Glad for the suggestion, @kyredneck.
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We are rebuilding our coup as we speak. Dog will take care of the critters except the darn hawks but he will chase them for sure.
