keeping chickens
May 13th 2007 | 5:39 pm
#32
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Re: keeping chickens
We had goats, chickens and horses when I was a kid... It was my job to milk the goats before school..... as a result I can't stand the smell or taste of goats milk.... it disgusts me.... at an auction when I was living in a bedsit in Norwich I brought 140 day old chooks, took them to my parents and grandpaprents house.... they were loved and fed layers mash ..they turned out to be cockerals .... all but two of them... which is why I got them for about £2 ... they got eaten... The billy kids used to get sold to a carribean restaurant, I don't know what they did with them, but we were often guests of honour on a Saturday night
May 13th 2007 | 7:02 pm
#33
Joined: Jan 2006
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Re: keeping chickens
Absolutely! I'd read it and send it to my father, who would love your adventure. I know you aren't loving it, but it would make for really great reading.
May 13th 2007 | 7:34 pm
#34
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From: Redneck Wonderland
Re: keeping chickens
We had goats, chickens and horses when I was a kid... It was my job to milk the goats before school..... as a result I can't stand the smell or taste of goats milk.... it disgusts me.... at an auction when I was living in a bedsit in Norwich I brought 140 day old chooks, took them to my parents and grandpaprents house.... they were loved and fed layers mash ..they turned out to be cockerals .... all but two of them... which is why I got them for about £2 ... they got eaten... The billy kids used to get sold to a carribean restaurant, I don't know what they did with them, but we were often guests of honour on a Saturday night
When I named the two lambs Mint Sauce & Roast Potato one year my sister finally twigged what we kept them for and has been a veggie ever since.
