If employees start ignoring their boss’s calls, texts, and emails outside of work hours, an after-hours emergency might have to wait until the next business day, which O’Leary finds unacceptable.

Did this fucking fascist consider hiring more staff and going 24/7? How is it the problem of salaried workers that their boss is too fucking cheap to hire enough people to get the level of support that he wants?

If employees start ignoring their boss’s calls, texts, and emails outside of work hours, an after-hours emergency might have to wait until the next business day, which O’Leary finds unacceptable.

Did this fucking fascist consider hiring more staff and going 24/7? How is it the problem of salaried workers that their boss is too fucking cheap to hire enough people to get the level of support that he wants?

Yup. That’s the way I like it but it’s cool if you like it another way. I really like lots of egg in my potato salad but that’s just me.

I think it’s just the right amount.

It’s a big one from Cabelas. I’m not sure if it’s the 10-tray or the 12-tray. There are a lot of trays.

https://www.cabelas.ca/product/160162/cabelas-deluxe-10-tray-dehydrator

Check the rules where you live. Where I live it’s illegal to move any trapped animal more than 1km without a permit.

Now our roosters are fully spurred. We never have mating injuries. They are pretty good to the girls but Big Guy takes a run at my wife every now and then and needs to be reminded of him place on the pecking order. One time last year I had to despur him and carry him around upside down a couple of times. That seemed to have settled him right down.

With a flock the size of ours we don’t waste a lot of time with injured birds. It it’s spring or summer and we have an empty pen we will isolate them and nurse them back to health. Going into winter and in the depths of winter a serious injury is a death sentence. We just don’t have the resources to try to save a single bird.

The free feed. They have clean water and high quality feed at all times. None of them is suffering for food. None of the hens has breeding injuries. The roosters breed them but the hens are worse. This happens in every large laying flock I’ve ever seen on any farm including year after year on ours. These aren’t pets. They’re working bids. I’m not going to chase them around and put sweaters on them.

That’s mostly girl on girl father loss you’re seeing. The ones with the missing fathers are at the bottom of the pecking order. It happens in large working flocks. We’re running around 50 birds right now.

That’s Big Guy. He’s our number 1 rooster. We have two others but he’s number 1. My wife gives them garden waste, plant trimmings, fruit and vegetable waste, and any rice, pasta, cereal, bread, etc we have left over. Anything they can eat they get.

She makes tomato basil pasta sauce. This year she made salsa with peppers and tomatoes from the garden with lime. It’s delicious.

None taken. We have always believed that learning outside of school is at least as important as learning in school. Our kids get lots of learning opportunities that their peers don’t get by virtue of my job and the extensive travel associated with it. I’ve already my son’s teachers that he’s going to be away for a week in January or February because he’s going with me to a meeting then we’re going ocean fishing.

Our daughter missed 52 days one year and finished with straight As. One of her teachers wrote that it was obvious that she was getting learning experiences that her classmates were not. We don’t let school get in the way of our kids education.

He’s a very good student and his teachers like him. I made sure that he wasn’t missing anything important. I think it’s a good thing to get some experience with difficult jobs with your father.

Thanks. It’s the first time I’ve done concrete in about 20 years and the first time I’ve done a slab.

It’s very different the way we do it. Homestead farming that takes advantage of seasonal windows instead of heating and cooling the birds is much easier on the environment. If everyone got their chickens and even their other meats from small, local farmers who practice traditional farming methods we would ask be a lot better off

Thanks. I don’t enjoy harvesting and processing chickens but it’s a necessary part of homestead farming

Hehehe. Unfortunately, once it has been disassembled it cannot be reassembled into a chicken. My wife is very good at taking the disassembled parts and assembling them into something new and wonderful like butter chicken.

Hi.

If the bird is well scalded it is rendered naked including the stubs. If I don’t get the scalding quite right it can leave the stubs and some big fathers on the wings. Big birds often don’t turn well in the plucker and their backs tend not to be plucked very well. Most of those fathers can just be pulled out or rubbed off by hand. Even so it is a huge time saver.

I kill by beheading with a single stroke of a very sharp knife. The man who owned it local abattoir showed me how to do it years ago and I use that method to this day. I have considered adding a stunner but they are expensive and we don’t do enough birds to justify the cost.

Here’s a video.

Warning, it’s definitely NSFV (not suitable for vegans.)

Here’s a video.

Warning, it’s definitely NSFV (not suitable for vegans.)