I live on a farm, we have 60 hens. No shortage here.
This isn’t commenting. This is gloating.
😉
No economic problem of the last 200 years has been caused by anything other than gov’t action. Famine, starvation, recession, depression, unemployment, inflation, stagflation – take your pick.
You could look it up!
I don’t live on a farm, but had 3 hens and a surplus of eggs, till the filthy fuckin coons killed 2 of em and the rooster.
Fuckin coons – fuck up everything they touch.
No shortage here. Lady Struan has two cousins east & west of us & they’ve got about 25 hens each. So many eggs that after supplying family members they give surplus to the retirement home we’ve got relatives in. Haven’t bought eggs in donkey’s years. Turkeys? Got flocks of them on our hill. Had a young hen wandering around the range yesterday taking care of all that crawl. Even the dog had sense enough not to bother her. What I haven’t seen are any coyotes. Think the Great Lakes winter we had last year put a hurtin’ on them.
I have your coyotes here, struan. Have a protected wetland area just across the street. Can hear the babies yipping in the spring. You’d think they would have the courtesy to come over to my yard and eat the bunnies. Haven’t been able to grow a decent sized hosta in 30 years except for one that I put ugly chicken wire around it. Every single hosta I have planted has been eaten down to the nubs. When it starts to look good again – boom, gone.
I thought about putting a sign up for the coyotes to come here for a free meal now and then. They are just too stuck up.
Claudia you’re so sweet raising those hostas for your bunnies.~) We’ve got a dog that can outrun anything short of a cheetah or a Baltimore looter – we have BIG hostas. My prescription for the coyotes – a good varmint rifle & make yourself comfortable on you back porch, sun shade, glass of ice tea & patience.
Got a nice fresh egg from the coop this morning for my breakfast. My neighbor and I established an illegal coop, and share the eggs. I do most of the care and upkeep – but he built the coop and it’s super fantastic. I figure with what that had to have cost, not to mention labor – I’ve got about ten years to go before I’ve covered my half. 🙂 We have just the four hens now, but they produce nicely and we always have some to give away.
Every time the hens start the loud cackling that signals an egg has been laid, I get nervous waiting for the animal control people. Sh!t, between our two yards we have an acre, so I don’t know what the big deal is … but they are classed as FARM animals, so they are illegal.
My sister had chickens for about a decade. She also had a donkey.
Best anti-coyote there is. Always on guard and subscribes to the theory that the best coyote is a dead coyote.
Never even came close to losing a chicken.
Classify them as “Insect Pest Control Technicians.”
Their motto is “If it crawls it falls!”
I have 3 dozen in the fridge now from friends. Where’s the shortage?
We get all our eggs from some farmer named Kroger. Never see any chicken coops around there, but he’s always got plenty of eggs for us.
🙂
Yeah, my yard is like a buffet for bunnies and deer. If I could shoot them in my city limits, I’d never have to buy meat again!
i think they call them yardbirds
Claudia,
Rabbit stew is delicious. Reap the bounty nature provides.
Your sister had a Democrat in her backyard that scared away other scavengers for ten years!?
Finally! A use for them.
What the hell?
This was a reply to Claudia’s dilemma.
I too got sick of running a salad bar for the rodents and deer who think they own NE PA and learned two things.
1. The deer, and for the most part the bunnies, will not disturb the hostas that are against the house. My hostas that rim my long porch have gotten to appx 4′ across this year. So I quit planting them around the flagpole and the trees.
2. Either buy Liquid Fence or make your own. Easy. Do a search for recipes. Basically eggs, garlic, hot sauce and oil. Let container sit in hot sun for a few days until eggs rot nicely.
Price of one dozen store brand eggs at the Stop ‘n’ Shop in Yonkers has gone up 7% in the last two weeks alone. And then the Feds have the gall to tell us that prices are going up 2-3% per year.
Meanwhile, my salary has remained the same since April 2013.
I got one of those at Atwood’s for $19.95 without the scope. Great for skunks and possums, but the pump grip is a real finger pincher. lol
Never a shortage of eggs at my house. If I can’t find the good kind at Krogers, I can buy them from my rancher neighbors fresh from the chickens. My dad used to keep chickens and turkeys here, pigs and cattle too. He and my ma kept a good garden too and they elected me to take out the rabbits that were stealing their food. That’s what they make .22’s for.
A good yard dog will do the trick too.
Do they really kill or just make them mad?
I just might have to get one.
But aren’t you getting $15 an hour soon??? lol.
Aren’t you supposed to use human pee around your area to protect your crops and farm animals from coyotes and deer?
For a $15 per hour fair living wage, I’ll come over and pee all over your yard. I just need a supply of celery, iced tea and coffee. 😀
Are there chickens that only lay eggs without yolk? I only eat eggwhites. lol
I’ll have to ask my neighbor. lol. I cracked an egg last week that had two yolks in it. Gave that one to my dogs, they love eggs. 🙂
LOL! I’d pay at least twice that much just to have some iced tea with you.
Double entendre intended?
Live in Oakland?
Buy the pointed pellets. Head shots are lethal when you pump it 10 times, so sight it in and practice.
They don’t make much noise, but shoot from inside a window so nobody sees you.
Wait until after the first heavy frost.
There are youtube videos that show how to dress them out.
Thanks! I’m going to do it.
Just one question … how do you make sure the pointy part of the pellet hits the bunny?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is what happens as a direct result of forcing egg producers to expand the living area of chickens because some liberal fuckface legislator asserts that the size of the chicken cages are inhumane.
It’s the exact opposite for humans – they legislate that the size of our homes are too big, and that our neighborhoods aren’t “diverse” enough. I can just imagine how much better it will be once Obama mandates proportional regulations for affluent neighborhoods so that there’s a crack house on every street.
We live in a Marxist squatters paradise formerly known as the United States of America.
Take a HUGE whiff.
*GFY sends MJA to corner*
Actually, I passed that milestone in 1985.
Andy Boy Cuomo has been refusing to settle the contracts of the court unions since 2011. (My 2011, 2012, and 2013 raises were step increases covered by the 2007-11 contract.) Every other state union has settled and gotten decent increases (I.e., Long Island Rail Road, 17-1/2% over 6-1/2 years). Things were shaky in Albany for a while, but this year the state had a $6 billion surplus, which He-Whose-Surname-Rhymes-with-Homo spent entirely on pork. He’s completely out of excuses, yet he still refuses to play ball.
USDA.
Period.
I live on a farm, we have 60 hens. No shortage here.
This isn’t commenting. This is gloating.
😉
No economic problem of the last 200 years has been caused by anything other than gov’t action. Famine, starvation, recession, depression, unemployment, inflation, stagflation – take your pick.
You could look it up!
I don’t live on a farm, but had 3 hens and a surplus of eggs, till the filthy fuckin coons killed 2 of em and the rooster.
Fuckin coons – fuck up everything they touch.
No shortage here. Lady Struan has two cousins east & west of us & they’ve got about 25 hens each. So many eggs that after supplying family members they give surplus to the retirement home we’ve got relatives in. Haven’t bought eggs in donkey’s years. Turkeys? Got flocks of them on our hill. Had a young hen wandering around the range yesterday taking care of all that crawl. Even the dog had sense enough not to bother her. What I haven’t seen are any coyotes. Think the Great Lakes winter we had last year put a hurtin’ on them.
I have your coyotes here, struan. Have a protected wetland area just across the street. Can hear the babies yipping in the spring. You’d think they would have the courtesy to come over to my yard and eat the bunnies. Haven’t been able to grow a decent sized hosta in 30 years except for one that I put ugly chicken wire around it. Every single hosta I have planted has been eaten down to the nubs. When it starts to look good again – boom, gone.
I thought about putting a sign up for the coyotes to come here for a free meal now and then. They are just too stuck up.
Claudia you’re so sweet raising those hostas for your bunnies.~) We’ve got a dog that can outrun anything short of a cheetah or a Baltimore looter – we have BIG hostas. My prescription for the coyotes – a good varmint rifle & make yourself comfortable on you back porch, sun shade, glass of ice tea & patience.
Got a nice fresh egg from the coop this morning for my breakfast. My neighbor and I established an illegal coop, and share the eggs. I do most of the care and upkeep – but he built the coop and it’s super fantastic. I figure with what that had to have cost, not to mention labor – I’ve got about ten years to go before I’ve covered my half. 🙂 We have just the four hens now, but they produce nicely and we always have some to give away.
Every time the hens start the loud cackling that signals an egg has been laid, I get nervous waiting for the animal control people. Sh!t, between our two yards we have an acre, so I don’t know what the big deal is … but they are classed as FARM animals, so they are illegal.
My sister had chickens for about a decade. She also had a donkey.
Best anti-coyote there is. Always on guard and subscribes to the theory that the best coyote is a dead coyote.
Never even came close to losing a chicken.
Classify them as “Insect Pest Control Technicians.”
Their motto is “If it crawls it falls!”
I have 3 dozen in the fridge now from friends. Where’s the shortage?
We get all our eggs from some farmer named Kroger. Never see any chicken coops around there, but he’s always got plenty of eggs for us.
🙂
Yeah, my yard is like a buffet for bunnies and deer. If I could shoot them in my city limits, I’d never have to buy meat again!
i think they call them yardbirds
Claudia,
Rabbit stew is delicious. Reap the bounty nature provides.
http://www.crosman.com/airguns/air-rifles/pumpmaster-760x-rifle-177
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Your sister had a Democrat in her backyard that scared away other scavengers for ten years!?
Finally! A use for them.
What the hell?
This was a reply to Claudia’s dilemma.
I too got sick of running a salad bar for the rodents and deer who think they own NE PA and learned two things.
1. The deer, and for the most part the bunnies, will not disturb the hostas that are against the house. My hostas that rim my long porch have gotten to appx 4′ across this year. So I quit planting them around the flagpole and the trees.
2. Either buy Liquid Fence or make your own. Easy. Do a search for recipes. Basically eggs, garlic, hot sauce and oil. Let container sit in hot sun for a few days until eggs rot nicely.
Price of one dozen store brand eggs at the Stop ‘n’ Shop in Yonkers has gone up 7% in the last two weeks alone. And then the Feds have the gall to tell us that prices are going up 2-3% per year.
Meanwhile, my salary has remained the same since April 2013.
I got one of those at Atwood’s for $19.95 without the scope. Great for skunks and possums, but the pump grip is a real finger pincher. lol
Never a shortage of eggs at my house. If I can’t find the good kind at Krogers, I can buy them from my rancher neighbors fresh from the chickens. My dad used to keep chickens and turkeys here, pigs and cattle too. He and my ma kept a good garden too and they elected me to take out the rabbits that were stealing their food. That’s what they make .22’s for.
A good yard dog will do the trick too.
Do they really kill or just make them mad?
I just might have to get one.
But aren’t you getting $15 an hour soon??? lol.
Aren’t you supposed to use human pee around your area to protect your crops and farm animals from coyotes and deer?
For a $15 per hour fair living wage, I’ll come over and pee all over your yard. I just need a supply of celery, iced tea and coffee. 😀
Are there chickens that only lay eggs without yolk? I only eat eggwhites. lol
I’ll have to ask my neighbor. lol. I cracked an egg last week that had two yolks in it. Gave that one to my dogs, they love eggs. 🙂
LOL! I’d pay at least twice that much just to have some iced tea with you.
Double entendre intended?
Live in Oakland?
Buy the pointed pellets. Head shots are lethal when you pump it 10 times, so sight it in and practice.
They don’t make much noise, but shoot from inside a window so nobody sees you.
Wait until after the first heavy frost.
There are youtube videos that show how to dress them out.
Thanks! I’m going to do it.
Just one question … how do you make sure the pointy part of the pellet hits the bunny?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is what happens as a direct result of forcing egg producers to expand the living area of chickens because some liberal fuckface legislator asserts that the size of the chicken cages are inhumane.
It’s the exact opposite for humans – they legislate that the size of our homes are too big, and that our neighborhoods aren’t “diverse” enough. I can just imagine how much better it will be once Obama mandates proportional regulations for affluent neighborhoods so that there’s a crack house on every street.
We live in a Marxist squatters paradise formerly known as the United States of America.
Take a HUGE whiff.
*GFY sends MJA to corner*
Actually, I passed that milestone in 1985.
Andy Boy Cuomo has been refusing to settle the contracts of the court unions since 2011. (My 2011, 2012, and 2013 raises were step increases covered by the 2007-11 contract.) Every other state union has settled and gotten decent increases (I.e., Long Island Rail Road, 17-1/2% over 6-1/2 years). Things were shaky in Albany for a while, but this year the state had a $6 billion surplus, which He-Whose-Surname-Rhymes-with-Homo spent entirely on pork. He’s completely out of excuses, yet he still refuses to play ball.
Binding arbitration in 5, 4, 3, 2……