Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

Around here mobile chicken coops are called chicken tractors.

So ..... very appropriate for TBN.

A group of FFA kids built a “Chicken Tractor”, to be envied, to compete in our AG Mechanics Show at Houston Livestock Show a couple of years ago. They got a Blue Ribbon and very good bidding at the AM Auction. Don’t remember the final bid but, it went high. I remember it as about 8’ x 24’ with a DC motor drive and rear steering. Wish I’d taken pictures. Great bunch of boys and girls that built it! I got to visit with them and I can assure you, they are the Future of our Country!

 

[Looking4new]

LFN, you eat peas for breakfast?
there's a bit of a regional difference...it sounds like you are reporting from an English pub.
And your tea time sounds like dinner to me.
Steak and potato pie sounds pretty good. Can I have mine low salt? no


One thing for sure, I am not overcooking my lima beans, assuming I can grow them.

I don't think you want to know what I think of lima beans. It isn't printable.

I will eat peas at any meal. Leftovers don't have a chance in this house with me around. Waste not, want not, is how I was brought up.

Eric Salop is in Shropshire, UK, not all that far away from Sheffield, UK. Which is where Batchelors started from. My Daughter-in-law was born and raised in Sheffield and came over here in 1994. I have never left the North American Continent.

Your dinner time sounds like the meal you eat at noon.
Breakfast in winter is somewhere between 9 and noon, depending on what we going to do that day.
Tea is somewhere between 3 and 5 P.M., then 'supper' is about 9-10 P.M. Supper is like a snack before bed. A sandwich or something. Mine tonight was leftover chicken soup and optional fries which I declined.

We do not use any salt in our cooking. You want salt? You put it on.

txdon, Does amazon.com sell food? I was just there and couldn't find any food.

BEF,
hydro 1 regularly sends out crews to other utilities in their time of need.

 

[lostcreekranch]

So can MD.

So I’ve heard.

Edit:

Maryland 3rd is WOW!



Now I’ll have to check Texas. Think there’s some weird Districts here too.

 

[Looking4new]

txdon;
a link for you. This is who I get mine from.
Batchelors Dried Bigga Marrowfat Peas - 25g - A Bit of Home (Canada)

25g is about an ounce of peas, but don't be fooled by the weight to volume. One box will make a real 'good' serving of peas for the average person that would use them as a small part of a meal along with potatoes and what have you.

 

[Looking4new]

I love Fordhooks, cook them in low sodium chicken broth, I do like mine cooked until tender, not mush though.

Note: I’m aware that even low sodium broth has a good bit of sodium. I however am hyponatremic and have to consume salt to maintain my sodium level above 135.

My bacon is sometimes salty enough for me. If no bacon then if I have fries I pound the salt to them. Kosher salt run through a pepper mill.

 

[lostcreekranch]

So I’ve heard.

Edit:

Maryland 3rd is WOW!

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Now I’ll have to check Texas. Think there’s some weird Districts here too.

Oh oh! Texas 35th is iffy.

 

[Redneck in training]

This is my first time having chickens, but she had them when she was growing up. However, here's what I've learned so far. The chicks need to stay inside until they have feathers, or basically about two-ish weeks. We'll probably keep them in until any threats of freezing nights have passed. Most breeds are a little different, but basically anywhere from four to six months before they start laying eggs. With ours, we're looking at about 18 weeks. You do not need a rooster for them to lay eggs. You only need a rooster if you want fertilized eggs to hatch more chicks. I've read where some people think eggs from "free range" chickens somehow taste better, and others who say they can't tell any difference. I'm sure the chickens probably prefer to have some space to move around once in awhile. Caring for them seems pretty straight forward, food and fresh water and regularly cleaning out the poo.

As for the "worth" of it, I suppose that's an individual assessment. There is the self-sufficient aspect that you could never buy in a store. Besides the eggs, there is always more meat available with the hens, should that be necessary. If you've raised other animals, chickens won't be a problem for you. They don't seem to require a whole lot of attention.

Free range eggs definitely look better cooked and my opinion is while they taste about the same as store eggs they are most likely healthier. So here is a story: We used to have a cottage by a lake and every once awhile we would walk to nearby village to get fresh milk (still warm from the cow) and eggs. Since the eggs were produced by chickens who run freely on the backyard of the farmhouse eating seeds, some food leftovers and bugs the yolk was almost red color. One time my wife's coworker came to visit us and my wife told her about the wonderful eggs we were buying in the village. So before she left my wife gave her some. Few days later she asked her if she liked the eggs. Her friend said: "I don't know how to tell you that but they were all bad and I had to throw them away." The store eggs had the yolk light yellow or almost white. Since her friend was used to eggs from the chicken concentration camp as opposed to the free range eggs the red color made her think there was something wrong with them.
In the place we live at predation is a problem. We have owls, hawks, bobcats, coyotes and foxes as neighbors. Friend of mine bought about a dozen of chicken. About half (those who roosted under the porch) was gone within a week. Those who learned to roost on the top of the porch lasted longer but eventually were gone too. He told me hawks are the most brazen. They would take the chicken right by you.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-03-06, 0335

22 degrees right now....high in the low 40's today.

Boy, the predictions for the snow coming in Wednesday/Thursday are all over the place. Initially, it was 5-8 inches...then 6-10...then 4-7...now it's 8 to 12. I reckon Thursday might be a "work from home" day.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, we've had quite a bit of rain last night, very fortunate that it had warmed up enough not to have come down as snow.

How is it different from split pea soup?

Difference between Round marrowfat peas and split peas

1. After cooking - Texture. Flavour is not like what you get with soup because you are tasting other food at same time.

2. Before cooking - Ballistic coefficient.
As a small kid, it was hard enough with only lung power to propel a round pea out of a short tube and get anywhere near the neighbor's cat. The cat usually laughed at me as it was, it would have had hysterics if I only had split peas for ammo.

 

[mpham]

I’m in the same boat as Roy. Enjoy today and wait for up to 12+ inches Wednesday/Thursday. Looks like no rain for me,all snow if they are correct.