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morninggloria
11/17/09

In reply to Bird By Bird
As someone who grew up raising chickens, I hope that she has an abnormally large back yard so that her chicken hutch can be a good distance from her house. Chicken shit is entirely in its own category of stink. Also, the notion of roosters crowing in the morning? False. They crow at all times. #urbanfarms
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KLondike5
11/17/09

@morninggloria: Naw, chickens - being mostly grain and bug eaters - aren't that bad. Spend some time near a pig sty or a dog kennel and chicken shit smells like perfume from France.

The teeny feathers that make the air seem thick and the sheer volume of guano chickens can put out is impressive, though. In a bad way.

And true that about roosters crowing about nothing in particular all the damn time. #urbanfarms
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morninggloria
11/17/09

@KLondike5: Maybe it's something in my body's chemistry that just cannot stand the smell of chicken shit. It makes me wretch.

We also had sheep, rabbits, dogs, and cats, and we'd milk my grandparents' cows every night, and my cousins who lived in Iowa had pigs, and none of their shit made me want to vomit quite as much as chicken poo did. #urbanfarms
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KLondike5
11/17/09

@morninggloria: I think you're on to something. You reminded me that I once had a conversation with a big bunch of people who were all former Midwestern farm kids and the subject of animal poo came up. There were a couple of people who insisted that chicken poop was the most vile and the rest of us were all "what? that stuff?"

Maybe it's like how cilantro tastes fine to some people and to others it's like leafy green poison. #urbanfarms
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squeakel
11/17/09

@morninggloria:

You don't need a rooster unless you want fertile eggs, though. #urbanfarms
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morninggloria
11/17/09

@squeakel: If you are raising the chickens for meat, you may want some roosters around. They're bigger and butchering a rooster doesn't eliminate a potential egg source. #urbanfarms
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KLondike5
11/17/09

@morninggloria: Yep. My family did that. We got chicks in the spring, slaughtered the roosters when they reached the 'poussin' age, ate those, then had eggs all summer. Then, because we didn't keep chickens over the winter, we slaughtered the hens in the autumn.

Maybe you can buy a box of chicks that are all females, but I bet they aren't easy to find. #urbanfarms
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morninggloria
11/17/09

@KLondike5: I can't believe that I'm talking about chicken poop and butcherin' today. I did not anticipate this conversation. #urbanfarms
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KLondike5
11/17/09

@morninggloria: I know! I'm sitting here in a suit, surrounded by financial analysis stuff, thinking about going to the feed store and getting a box of peepers. It's cognitive dissonance like whoa. #urbanfarms
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morninggloria
11/17/09

@KLondike5: I am also wearing Business Clothes and I just got done going over a concentrated stock report! Wheeee! #urbanfarms
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labeled
08/28/09

In reply to On The Fence
Trust me when I say, y'all don't know debt like farm debt. It is absurd, and amazing that anyone can ever manage to stay afloat.
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sassyredhead
08/28/09

In reply to On The Fence
I know more about cattle farming than I ever thought I needed to know due to The Pioneer Woman. I love that site. They also just went through all the rounding up and shipping off to sell.
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greengrey
08/28/09

@sassyredhead: That site is THE BEST.
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Crazie Janie
08/28/09

@sassyredhead: Not to snark, because I also love PW, but she and her husband and his family are actually really wealthy, and own one of the largest ranching operations in the country. They sell their cattle every year as part of their operation. The family in the above picture are selling what may actually be dairy cows in order to pay off debt.
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sassyredhead
08/28/09

@Crazie Janie: I was just saying that I know more about it from her site. And yeah, I can tell from the pictures they they are not hurting financially.
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