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Turning tomatoes into eggs. (lemmy.ca)

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My wife had to run off to the other end of the country very suddenly yesterday. She had planned to process two boxes of late season tomatoes. It fell to me to get it done. I diced them up and put them in the freezer so that she can make sauce when she gets back.

The big guy thinks that any time I'm at the butcher block in the morning I must be slicing ham. He loves ham. I told him I was working on tomatoes but he was quite persistent about making sure that I wasn't slicing ham. I even showed him a chunk of tomato and he went away but he came back 5 minutes later to see if I was still not slicing ham.

Chicken treats = happy chickens and more eggs.

The chickens love the trimmings and rejects. They were very excited when I let them out this morning and they found a bunch of tomatoes in their yard.

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[–] Slowy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah not for some feather loss, we never bothered with the jackets either really. I only mention it because we did have to euthanize a few hens due to the severity of the wounds the roosters could inflict - and those boys didn’t even have spurs! But since it’s not your roosters causing it there isn’t much concern it’s going to get to that point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Now our roosters are fully spurred. We never have mating injuries. They are pretty good to the girls but Big Guy takes a run at my wife every now and then and needs to be reminded of him place on the pecking order. One time last year I had to despur him and carry him around upside down a couple of times. That seemed to have settled him right down.

With a flock the size of ours we don't waste a lot of time with injured birds. It it's spring or summer and we have an empty pen we will isolate them and nurse them back to health. Going into winter and in the depths of winter a serious injury is a death sentence. We just don't have the resources to try to save a single bird.