How self sufficient are you ? Honestly ?

[Grumpy Old Man]

I Bought my chickens from poultry hollow hatchery here in east TN at about the 10 week old stage and it drove me nuts waiting for them to lay eggs but now we get 6-8 a day from 8 hens .We tried to stay with the larger cold hardy birds 7 - 9 pounds when mature because when they stop laying they will end up in the freezer ,once they are moved to the property this spring when the pole barn goes up most of the framing will be 2x6 from my FREE WOOD PILE !

 

[Egon]

Sometimes them old laying hens are best if just retired and kept out of the freezer!:thumbsup:

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

Sometimes them old laying hens are best if just retired and kept out of the freezer!:thumbsup:

We don't keep pets ,if it does not produce it gets mixed with produce ! Never name your food !

 

[E/S]

Never name your food !

That is a hard one to teach people.

E/S

 

[Egon]

We don't keep pets ,if it does not produce it gets mixed with produce ! Never name your food !

I wasn't referring to pets. It was food quality that was in mind.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Egon, a tough old anything softens up great if you give it a good long warm soak in a crock pot!

 

[charlz]

Our government has run quiet adds on the teli saying that people should have blah blah blah to survive up to a week, what is that all about, they seem to know something?

Because people were not as helpless and dependent as they are today. Once upon a time people raised their own food and things like electricity, running water and indoor plumbing were all luxuries. Now we are at the opposite end of the spectrum.

 

[SPYDERLK]

Because people were not as helpless and dependent as they are today. Once upon a time people raised their own food and things like electricity, running water and indoor plumbing were all luxuries. Now we are at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Population density has been mentioned.
larry

 

[pilotman]

I can last a long time in an emergency. I went down and bought a couple thousand Twinkies. :licking::licking: I am so set. Now I just have to find water to wash them down with.

Do you have any firearms? When it hits the fan I might want come and get some Twinkies LOL.

 

[smiley]

Egon, a tough old anything softens up great if you give it a good long warm soak in a crock pot!

There's tough and there's shoe leather.
In the springtime we used to buy about a dozen culled layers at the auction for about 15 -20 cents each and keep them on pasture for the summer and they'd keep 3 families in eggs until fall. The first year we did it we butchered them and they were so tough we fed them to the dogs. After that. we took them back to the auction in the fall and usually got our 15 - 20 cents back and didn't have to feed and house them through the winter.
If you're interested in raising you own chicks, get a couple Banty hens. They'll hatch a rock. We had a pair for years and they hatched out chicken, turkey, duck and pheasant eggs for us. It's a funny parade to see all those various types following Ma around at the same time.