Hey hey kids.
Apparently we needed some links, and I happened to be at my laptop, so y’all are stuck with me and whatever is in my browser history.
It’s huntin’ season here in Rural NY yet the deer seem to be more populous than ever. l0b0t enjoys looking out the bay window every morning at the deer tracks in the yard and watching the birds while he sips his morning coffee. He seems to be adjusting quite well to rural life, even though he sometimes gets uppity about the lack of restaurants and how early everything closes.
Speaking of restaurants…
Things in our little cafe are interesting. Inflation is a bitch, as is the chicken virus. In the 18 months since we got the place, eggs went from 7 cents per egg to, as of last week, 44 cents per egg. In the shower the other night I had the horrifying realisation that if eggs continue on the path they’re on, a single egg will match the price of a single bagel within 6 weeks.
So to that end…we’re seriously thinking about raising some chickens this coming spring to offset our costs. The health department says we can grow our own produce and raise our own eggs. Last season hens averaged $2.99 per chick, with the black sex link chicks at $1.99 per chick.
We’ve already secured two free chicken coops (one is like a chicken mansion it’s so glorious), and we’re doubling down in research mode.
Why the hell are eggs so expensive?
How to get started raising chickens
How to raise black sex link chickens
The 7 best chicken feeds for laying hens
The Twitter files, COVID edition
100 white sage smudge sticks to banish all that negative energy from the holidays
l0b0t and I have this exact conversation once a week.
I never get asked how I look so young, because I don’t. Mrs. Animal and I have the Marriage of Dorian Gray – I’m doing all the aging for both of us.
“Marriage of Dorian Gray” lol I snorted.
Thank you, WebDom!
I don’t know what “black sex link chickens” are, but I’m afraid to have that in MY browser history. 😳
An unfortunate name, but a delightful bird. Sex link chickens are where the colour of the bird is linked to the sex of the bird. This is wildly important as sexing chickens is a huge pain in the ass. With sex link birds, you can tell exactly what sex the chick is as soon as it hatches, which is hugely valuable.
Isn’t that going to put the workers that spend all day turning chicks upside down to look at them, out of a job? This is the sort of thing that will eventually cause the luddites to rise up again. First tractors and now gender colored chickens. They’re takin our jerbz!
Not only those workers, the Egg Candlers Guild will be out of business.
Yeah, I thought we were heading into Q territory.
Really, you can wash your face with shampoo? Are we guys just being tricked into trying that?
I… guess? I wash my hair with soap. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, me too. Befuddles the Spousal Unit, but as I keep telling her “I’m at the age when it doesn’t matter how many products I use, my hair’s never gonna look ‘lustrous’ or ‘youthful.’ ”
I just don’t want it to stink.
My hair is crazy most of the time because I think it’s cold and there is no humidity in the house. I’ll get up, not bother to shower if I don’t have any meetings earlier in the day and it will be just sticking up all over, like Einstein, lol.
I just use that cheapo head and shoulders most of the time because it’s so cheap. If I want to actually look good, I use the Dr. Squatch, you know because it’s make by STEVE SMITH our fave crypto critter!
If anyone knows long, flowing, luxurious hair, it’s DR. SQUATCH; MD, PhD of rapeyology.
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Why not? Is it not a cleansing and lathering substance?
This was fun in basic to watch people who could not break the “I must have my products!” attitude when it was time to hit the showers. Get in, get out.
My wife would freak the fuck out if she saw me washing my hair in soap. OMG, totally not worth it even if I wanted to to it, which I don’t. I’ve showered with shampoo, but washing my hair with soap, just no.
But why not? I don’t know any reason why you shouldn’t to that if you want to.
People talk about washing their hair with beer. That sounds just lol to me, but I guess people do it.
Because people are paid a ton of money to market and make us think specialized products do what they say they do…
I can def tell the difference in different shampoos and conditioners. But as I get older, I am sure there will come a day when I will just not give a fuck. My dad, when his got really thin, he just started shaving his head. I think I would look weird with a shaved head, like some sort of alien.
Works for my beard (the facial hair kind, please be aware).
I got some special shampoo for my goat and beard oil. My wife says it makes it soft and then doesn’t bother her so much. I know that otherwise my beard if like fence wire.
I don’t have a goat, but I do have the fence wire problem. Maybe some beard oil would help.
thank you for the links
You know what goes good with links? Eggs.
And hashbrowns.
And bacon
Wife made bacon, gravy, and biscuits this morning. Yummy.
I get an urge for eggs a few times a week. I just fry up two on low heat in butter with just a dash of olive oil, best way to do it. Salt and pepper.
That was supposed to start a thread pun. I guess I clucked it up.
Nah, everyone else just chickened out.
Eggsactly.
So, you
[dons glasses]
laid an egg?
I guess everyone got their signals scrambled.
It was a bad comb-ever
No Bloody Mary?
What the fuck is wrong with You People?
Egg to bagel?
Egel? leggo of that idea!
(thank you webdom)
By the way, do you really think you need a Black Sex Link Coq for extra eggs?’
‘Cause I am sure someone here saw a movie on that.
Eggs really are too expensive now. I remember when we used to get them at Walmart for $1 a dozen. Now we get the cage free ones at Fresh Market and they’re like $6 for 18. Good thing it takes us like 2 weeks or more to go through 18. Prices on everything is insane right now and people must love it, I think at least 100 million will vote for Kammee or whatever hack the democrats trot out next time. I doubt they even put much effort into the choice, it doesn’t matter. Maybe it will be Fettersquatch and his lump for VP.
Yep. When I was a kid eggs were poverty food. The whole thing is insane.
Have you seen the price of chicken? It’s nuts, it’s like the prices we used to pay for steak. I’ve thought for quite a while that raising chickens is a good idea, good luck with that.
“black sex link chicks”
*reaches for OnlyFans joke, faIls*
I thought it was a Spinal Tap song.
Get 4x the amount of chickens you want for egg layers.
Look for “production chickens”
They wont start laying for a bit. Breeds have specific times.
I guess everyone forgot this video…….
(its not us, but it is what happened to us)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll187f27Pxg
Great tip. Thanks! We can’t go full on poultry farm, but even if we can offset by a dozen a day, that’d be a huge help.
And get some of that sweet AG cash that sloshes around
I would definitely like an article on that sort of free money, cause i have not seen it.
^This. I’ve looked closely into getting ag subsidies and it’s still unclear to me how anyone unconnected actually qualifies.
You play the guitar on the Empty Vee. Your money for nothing, and your chicks for free.
I learned a few weeks back that The Egg and I has a surprisingly enduring popularity in the Czech Republic.
Yesterday, a bunch of swirling motion caught my eye through the window. There were about a hundred birds in and under the two scraggly apple trees out front which actually gave forth fruit this summer. Apparently the apples had thawed enough to be eaten.
I think they were flickers; a sort of woodpecker relative.
Since we had a good stock of eggs we can wait for the market to put them on sale to replenish. While not .89/dz, 2.99/dz is way better than 7/dz
I paid six bucks for a dozen XL eggs the other day. I don’t buy many eggs (hardly ever) but I had a crave for sausage and eggy weggs. I’mm gonna go rustle up another batch in a little while.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/12/a-woman-brought-a-raccoon-to-a-bar-she-was-arrested-and-sentenced-to-probation.html
Not having that law would lead to anarchy.
They were ready to put her in jail for it. I was happily surprised when she only got probation. And they shot the poor racoon on the spot once they found it, even though it had been many weeks (a few months I think) between the time she found it and the time the fucking cops found it. The chances of it being rabid were approaching zero. The entire thing was ridiculous, enraging, and sad.
Yes.
The first rule of wildlife rehab club is that you don’t talk about wildlife rehab club.
to anarchy
Worse, trashpandamonium.
Mammary Monday will get your sex links going.
https://archive.ph/Hzixr
The rising price of eggs isn’t as much of a shock to us Canucks because we have “marketing boards” (otherwise known as “price supports”) for a lot of ag stuff, so our egg prices have always been higher than yours.
Until now. Never thought I’d see the day. Not that it’s a good argument for price supports; the deadweight loss over many decades is gonna far outstrip whatever meagre comparative “savings” we’re enjoying now…
Unless those boards have a foolproof way of fending off bird viruses, I don’t see how they even colorably help consumers.
The rising price of eggs isn’t as much of a shock to us Canucks because we have “marketing boards” (otherwise known as “price supports”) for a lot of ag stuff, so our egg prices have always been higher than yours.
I remember, even as a know-nothing college kid, being amazed by the signs in Pennsylvania for “Milk at state minimum!”.
State minimum? WTF? And then I learned of the dread kkkapitalist scourge of predatory pricing.
My neighbor has chickens, I get free fertilizer. I use it fresh, put around the fruit trees for mulch.
A few years ago a friend told me that I hadn’t changed in 30 years.
“You mean I looked this bad 30 years ago?”
I have thought about different farm animals over the years, then I remember being a kid, cleaning barns, pitching hay, milking cows. I quickly got over the idea. Milk and eggs are still cheap, compared to the alternatives.
When I was just entering high school (10th grade), my dad bought a ‘farm’ in the country so he could be done with ‘city living’. The previous owner had kept chickens, with free run of the outbuildings. He turned his stock over every year. Well, he died 3/4 of the way through the cycle, the chickens were moved out, and the outbuildings sat for like 8 months. My brother an I got to shovel a foot and a half of partially dried chicken shit out of 6 buildings. Gives a true understanding of the homonym ‘foul’. Gah.
Appropriate music.
Also apropos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3z54SZsLsA
I had my first “we are about the same age, you may be a bit older” comment from our new hire we just picked up. He is 52….I drank heavily that night.
Lol! l0b0t, chicken rancher.
I’m torn between Super Troopers or Devils Rejects as the appropriate video evidence of that statement
Set Your Chickens Free
or
Chicken Squawk
New anime – lobot chicken!
What will you provide the chickens for grit?
Homp, I think gravel still comes pretty cheap in nearly all of the country. Just sayin’
Webdom, build yourself a few chicken tractors. These are essentially hoop houses on wheels. A million times better than coops. Every few days, you can move the chicken tractors to a new spot with fresh grass and bugs for the chickens. Move em quickly enough and the ground underneath will never be destroyed but instead be freshly turned with great fertilizer. Better than the dead zones under coops that need to be regularly cleaned out.
A small chicken tractor for a half dozen or so chickens would be about the length/width of a couch. Doesn’t take up much space at all. You can scale up from that to one that will hold dozens, but you will need a tractor to move it. The little ones you can just lift and move the 10 feet by hand.
I’ll second Robodruid’s advice on getting many more than you think you’ll need and to get an egg specific breed. Don’t worry about the sex-linked trait. Leg Horns and Barred Rocks are great choices. I’m partial to Rhode Island Reds but they aren’t quite as prolific. You can buy female chicks cheaply of most any breed that’s not heritage or rare. A local Rural King or Tractor Supply should carry them, You can also order direct from a hatchery like Cackle Hatchery.
Here’s an industrial scale moving hen house setup.
https://wilcoxfarms.com/about-us/
16 years ago (12/26/06) at 18:36 Mama Tres died in Hospice care. I was privileged to be there to see her draw her last breath.
RIP Mom.
May her memory be a blessing. I will now have a nice shot of Bourbon in her honor.
I learned it here- a joy shared is doubled; a sorrow shared is halved.
Thanks to “you people” its whittled down to about 1/10 now.
Cheers!
RIP, Mama Tres
RIP, Mama Tres.
We’ll keep an eye on your boy.
RIP mama Tres
Only right wing terrorists could think of this
Power infrastructure has long been on the attack wish list of white supremacists and other right-wing extremists who seek American “destabilization,” Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, said in February.
Early this year, three men pleaded guilty in connection with a plot to disrupt the electricity grid, sow civil unrest and economic uncertainty, and ultimately trigger a race war, federal prosecutors said at the time.
There’s no indication the Washington, Oregon and Carolinas attacks shared similar motives. Sunday’s Tacoma-area attacks remained under investigation.
Maybe those right wingers have some sort of extensive government funded knowledge and training which gives them an understanding of and appreciation for “asymmetrical” tactics.
“White supremacists”? LOL I’m not seeing any difference between this and the policies of the Democratic party.
The shock troops of the DNC attack urban centers proving how bad the uh, Democratic governance of those places, uh , is. Shit – that doesn’t make any sense.
Narrator: That’s how you know the Dems are behind it.
There is no statement that the three men who pled guilty were white supremacists, either. There’s other radical ethnic groups with that goal. It’s the way to bet, but the omission is interesting.
“There is no indication” – nicely buried statement that renders the rest a baseless smear.
…but we are going to baselessly insinuate that they are so that if the ultimate reasons buck the preferred narrative, we’ll already have laid the groundwork to make our gaslighting more effective.
Dollars to donuts, the overlap between Antifa and Earth First is 100%.
Invoking the current lefty bugaboo of white supremacy is so laughable as to not pass the sniff test.
“Power infrastructure has long been on the attack wish list of white supremacists and other right-wing extremists ”
When did these types become anti-energy?
Because a nutty environmental group has never attacked infrastructure.
Head and Shoulders is for head and shoulders and everything south of that.
Also I use the trickle down theory to wash my feet.
Speaking of “trickle down” and “feet”
Urinating on your feet in the shower cures/prevents athletes foot. I’ve proved this to myself for decades and everyone that I pass along the info to tends to agree.
Two questions. Does your wife shower with you? Does your wife have athlete’s foot?
Man Scientists Confirm Washing Your Hair and Just Kinda Letting Shampoo Run Down Rest Of You ‘Good Enough’
Did everyone go to bed early tonight?