[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this Upper Midwest/outdoors/rural list please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.

Not much to ping lately.

I'm sure they have herbal remidies and acupuncture for chickens in Europe.

[Ken522]

Save the chickens and hens!!

[Petronski]

I’m amazed the dead hens are not useful in the dog food industry.

[Roccus]

Free landfill chickens?

[BipolarBob]

Around here they have incinerators and compost piles. I suppose a source of animal food is feasible. Seems like a waste of landfill to me.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, Man! What a bunch of bleeding heart hippies! If you can’t stand the heat...get out of the chicken coop!

All the more reason this area is ripe for the pickin’ for my free-range, organically raised eggs from cage-free, happy hens! I’m so HAPPY to make a buck off of these dopes. I can sell a 39-cent dozen of eggs for $2 and up! *SMIRK*

For further edification, I suggest the documentary: “The Natural History of the Chicken.” You can get it through your library. It’s very good.

[Alouette]

[Alouette]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[MaxMax]

What about the Whales? I hope we don't have to hear about
Chickens for the next 5 years. Oh man...

[caveat emptor]

I feed cheap factory-farmed eggs to my dog, sometimes with bacon, cheese, and sour cream as a treat. Me, I wouldn't touch them; just the smell of them boiling reeks of plucked, dead chickens that have been unrefrigerated too long. The dog, he don't mind.

[When do we get liberated?]

Makes sense, I cleanse my place before the new hen comes in too.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“spent hens”

There was a time you could buy roasting hens at the grocery. These were too old to fry so had to be baked.

City people never realize there is a down side to mass production of food. If they don’t like it, try raising your own eggs yourself. What do you do with the extra roosters? What do you do with spent hens? Now apply that to all agriculture and you Will see the problem.

[Sleeping Hampster]

Creekwood Farm eggs are great. We eat them all the time. We used to get the super jumbo eggs. Most had two yolks and some had three. They are huge, kind of like baby ostrich eggs. The owner used to say he was just a chicken farmer - only he had 750,000 chickens!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Sounds like a good spot to dump Gitmo garbage.....

[Brucifer]

“The bird was dehydrated, frightened and skinny, missing many feathers, but did not appear sick, Bearman said. She recommended good food and water, a quiet environment and some holistic care, such as acupuncture and herbal remedies.”

Where I grew up we had five working farms on Main Street, and ours was one of them. I never dreamed that I would some day read about treating a chicken with acupuncture and herbal remedies rather than salt and pepper.

I think I'm going to need a moment here....

[Lady Jag]

[Old Professer]

I may have to read this later, I just couldn’t get past this sentence without flying off into a sea of floating, broken images:

“It was a hot, windy day in May and Liz Perry remembers being eager to leave the bleak moonscape of the landfill, where debris and dump dust blew in her eyes and mouth.”

Might as well have said, “It was a dark and stormy night, the day I left...”