Re: RC: Animal by-products in feed.. Whoaaa!

[Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>]

Barbara....

Hey, we do "free range" chickens, too....Bantams....them little eggs.
Have you noticed that the yolks are darker/richer than the store bought
eggs?  Love those things. We lose a lot to the Red-Tailed Hawks, but
it's worth it....they are beautiful to watch soaring over the pasture
doing their "Skeeer" thing!  Right up there with watching the bats fish
for insects at dusk.

Veggies are cheap...but somehow the sweat you generate "growin' your
own" makes the ones out of the garden better. (It must be the horse poop
<grin>) 

In my youth we killed our own hogs, "wrung chicken necks", and the milk
came from cows that we "pulled the udder on our own"! I can still taste
the whole milk with vanila flavoring and nutmeg my grandmother used to
call "milkshakes".

Ahhh..."The Goood Old Days".....memories, of course, are bigger than
life...you only remember the GOOD things...

Hmmm...However, Publix is a GREAT improvement! Y'ever been swatted in
the face with a cow tail covered in cockleburrs and cow poop? <VBG>

To keep this horse related, I use to have a pony named "Bobbi" that
would "round" up the cow in the mornings and evenings when he saw me
arrive.  Somehow he figured out he didn't get fed until "the cow came
home".

Jim and Sun of Dimanche



> "Barbara B. Peck" wrote:
> 

> 
> We raise free range chickens for their eggs (true free range birds
> really can't be
> used for meat because they're too darned muscled and tough to eat,
> even in
> a crock-pot) )
> But beleive me, theres
>  a difference in our eggs from the chicken factories eggs that pump
> out the "store" eggs.
> But I still buy store eggs in winter, when our chickens are resting.
>