Looking at the 3 dozen eggs I currently have in the fridge, I am regretting expanding my flock at this time. When they are all fully armed and operational I'll be getting 7 or 8 eggs every day.
Time to post a sign in the yard selling eggs.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 9:18 am
by GORDON
I'm not sure how the township would feel about that. I am also not sure if I want to deal with the public in a retail capacity.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 10:18 am
by TPRJones
Eggs!
Intact, 25ยข
Thrown, Free
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 2:59 pm
by GORDON
My chickens were guaranteed to be delivered to me by 3 o'clock today. Last thing on USPS tracking shows they were checked in to Cleveland yesterday afternoon. I have a feeling I am going to be delivered a box of dead chickens when they eventually get here.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:54 pm
by Malcolm
They heard you bitching about your egg excess.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:55 pm
by GORDON
My guaranteed next day delivery has been sitting in Cleveland for over 24 hours, now. Earliest possible arrival is now tomorrow morning. I don't know how long baby chicks last in the mail.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:59 pm
by GORDON
Fuck, I just figured out the chicken farm is only 90 miles away from me. I could have just gone and picked them up.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:02 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:My guaranteed next day delivery has been sitting in Cleveland for over 24 hours, now. Earliest possible arrival is now tomorrow morning. I don't know how long baby chicks last in the mail.
Did you order the Furyan hybrids?
Fuck, I just figured out the chicken farm is only 90 miles away from me. I could have just gone and picked them up.
Did that with a record once. Bastards were 15-20 minute drive but I never quite put it together.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 7:18 am
by GORDON
Post office called me this morning at 6am , they had a box with my phone number on it peeping at them.
I had to teach them how to eat this morning. I think they hatch, the people flick the remaining egg shells off their feathers, and they get stuffed in a box to subsist on the yolk remaining in their gut for a couple days.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 3:52 am
by Alhazad
GORDON wrote:Post office called me this morning at 6am , they had a box with my phone number on it peeping at them.
I had to teach them how to eat this morning. I think they hatch, the people flick the remaining egg shells off their feathers, and they get stuffed in a box to subsist on the yolk remaining in their gut for a couple days.
That would be the way to keep costs down, as long as it's safe.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 7:23 pm
by GORDON
All 6 are still functioning adequately.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 10:47 pm
by GORDON
So all is well, the chicks are two weeks old now, and they are ornery cusses. I forgot how fast they are to foul their water as soon as you put fresh stuff in, little idiots.
Anyway, I need to think of words for a sign...
See those two upright posts behind the hen house? Seems like a perfect place to mount a sign. Something like "DTManor Chicken Farm," but that's kind of dull and lame.
I thought a sign that said merely, "Guess what?" would be hilarious, since the obvious answer is "Chicken Butt," but I might get tired of looking at that joke ten times a day. Again, that's my view out the picture window.
So give me some good names for the chicken farm and maybe I'll engrave one and stain it and stuff.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 11:03 pm
by TPRJones
"GORDON's Home For Future Dinners"
"House of Peckers"
"Cock Farm"
"Nugget Storage"
"Chicks out for Harambe"
"WARNING: Naked Chicks"
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:14 am
by Malcolm
Gordon's egg-producing organs? Oops, sorry. Not specific enough. External egg-producing organs.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:40 pm
by Alhazad
TPRJones wrote:
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:30 pm
by Leisher
I laughed at "House of Peckers".
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:28 pm
by GORDON
So there's there's been this Arby's commercial all over TV and radio, talking about their meat, how they possess a lot of it, and how big and plentiful it is, and how nobody would be dumb enough to open a chicken filet place.
This commercial has been making me chuckle for about a week.
Then today I realized...
Yes.
The sign over the hen house will say "Chickentown."
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:17 pm
by GORDON
What are random foods I could add an egg to, and it wouldn't be noticeable?
I'm about to cook some hamburger helper cheesy macaroni for dinner.... can't cook a homemade 4-course EVERY night.... and I am wondering if an egg would be noticeable.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:53 pm
by Vince
I think my mom added an egg to hamburger meat for hamburger patties to help hold them together.
Re: BTW i got chickens
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 6:52 pm
by GORDON
The wife says of the cheesy mac, "this seems cheesier, did you add cheese?"
I told them I added an egg, and I expected spittakes, but they were fine.
I was thinking about adding one to burg, but that adds a step to making burgs. Typically I just grab a chunk off the pile and patty it. With an egg I'd have to mix. Exhausting.
