RodeoSchro said:

Lammastide said:

You got $200,000 for three chickens!?!

Yep. Got $175,000 for a turkey. It's for charity. Some money goes to the kid that raised the animal, but most goes to fund scholarships.

Me and my committee have raised more than $20 million over the last 25 years. Our whole organization has raised more than $250 million.

It's the "Rodeo" in my ID!

http://rodeohouston.com/a...index.aspx

Here are the sales figures on my particular committee (one of them, any way. I'm on four committees):

http://rodeohouston.com/l...ultry.aspx

Beautiful, man.

No...but there's a scrap yard across the street from my office that used to be a farm, and they kept the chickens, roosters and peacocks!

We hear the rooster crowing every now and then.

paintedlady said:

Shorty said:

gee! I'm the only one? wow. yes, we have 3 chickens. almost never have to buy eggs. Nothing beats fresh eggs. We raised one pig last year to harvest also. Haven't bought pork or beef (venison in the freezer) in atleast 6 months.

That's how ya do it!

If I owned a house I would keep chickens. Who dressed the pig?

my husband (and his brother) He built himself a butcher shop, does deer all season long, pigs, even did a moose once. that was ALOT of work. he even built a little smokehouse too, so we have smoked ham, and bacon. He even makes an assortment of sausages, breakfast, spicy italian etc.

Genesia said:

Shorty said:

gee! I'm the only one? wow. yes, we have 3 chickens. almost never have to buy eggs. Nothing beats fresh eggs. We raised one pig last year to harvest also. Haven't bought pork or beef (venison in the freezer) in atleast 6 months.

You aren't kidding! I always try to buy locally produced eggs at my farmers' market. The color of the yolks is always spectacular - none of that pale yellow you see in supermarket eggs.

I made some vanilla ice cream once that was practically orange - simply because the eggs were so good.

yes, very yellow/orange yolks. and not all watery/runny like the store kind either.

we tried the "free range" biz at first but...yeah, no. No need for chicken poop all ova the lawn. they have a nice fenced in coup thingy and we occasionally let them roam around. we say "hey ladies" when we're bringing them food. Henrietta, Harriet, and Goldie Hen we had a few more but lost one or 2 to ...who knows what one night. Our chicken coup used to be a bobhouse (ice fishing house) so one chicken was named chickenbob. LOL we had 2 roosters too but them things is evil! we ate em

I grew up on a farm and my mother refused to have chickens. She hated them. They are gross. We used to get fresh eggs from a neighbor until one time my mother was baking a cake and cracked open the egg to find a partially formed chick. I think the memory of that may be why I can't eat eggs. I'm always nervous of what I'll find when I crack it open, even though I know the ones from the store are pasturized or whatever to kill the chick.

jone70 said:

I grew up on a farm and my mother refused to have chickens. She hated them. They are gross. We used to get fresh eggs from a neighbor until one time my mother was baking a cake and cracked open the egg to find a partially formed chick. I think the memory of that may be why I can't eat eggs. I'm always nervous of what I'll find when I crack it open, even though I know the ones from the store are pasturized or whatever to kill the chick.

I'm sure you're right. I was just scarred by that incident!

jone70 said:

I'm sure you're right. I was just scarred by that incident!

<--- found a partialliy formed chick in an egg before. All store bought. It is very rare but it does happen.

Even rarer, but lately when I buy the jumbo eggs almost the ENTIRE dozen had dual yolks in each egg. That freaked me out.

What's up with all the jumbo eggs and dual/twin yolks? You guys see that in the store bought eggs?

XxAxX said:

i'd love to have some chickens. running around, nice safe little henhouse for them. happy little birds on their bales of hay and fresh, yummy eggs every morning.

darling...genocide?...from you?

BlackAdder7 said:

XxAxX said:

i'd love to have some chickens. running around, nice safe little henhouse for them. happy little birds on their bales of hay and fresh, yummy eggs every morning.

darling...genocide?...from you?

XxAxX said:

BlackAdder7 said:

darling...genocide?...from you?

did I ever tell you how much I like you in the plum tank top?

^ no, but you mentioned you loved my microwave egg puffs a la velveeta

paintedlady said:

jone70 said:

I'm sure you're right. I was just scarred by that incident!

<--- found a partialliy formed chick in an egg before. All store bought. It is very rare but it does happen.

Even rarer, but lately when I buy the jumbo eggs almost the ENTIRE dozen had dual yolks in each egg. That freaked me out.

What's up with all the jumbo eggs and dual/twin yolks? You guys see that in the store bought eggs?

i read the first couple comments and was smilin cus I KNEW IT WOULDNT TAKE LONG BEFORE SOMEONE MADE FUN OF MY THREAD - IE CHOCK THE CHICKEN OR >>> HAD SOME COCK >>ETC ... lol

anyways ... i do appreciate the comments .

i did look at the link ... i am interested in getting some . Where I have my office - it is an old chicken farm ... and I could easily have them here ... NOT SURE i want to get a rooster right off the bat ... i have heard they were loud loud ... but ... will look into that more ...

thanks for the comments ... that is too cool .... i knew you orgers were freaks ...

i have one! in the freezer!

Cock rock.

SagsWay2low said:

Not since taking a 1 year vow of celibacy.

Nope. But it's 2-Piece Tuesday at Popeye's. $0.99. I got 3 of them.

XxAxX said:

eggs from an org owned chicken would be ORGanic!

Dear, put down the keyboard and step away from the puter...

BlackAdder7 said:

XxAxX said:

eggs from an org owned chicken would be ORGanic!

Dear, put down the keyboard and step away from the puter...

ORGanic i gots nothin

Shorty said:

paintedlady said:

<--- found a partialliy formed chick in an egg before. All store bought. It is very rare but it does happen.

Even rarer, but lately when I buy the jumbo eggs almost the ENTIRE dozen had dual yolks in each egg. That freaked me out.

What's up with all the jumbo eggs and dual/twin yolks? You guys see that in the store bought eggs?

that chick was steppin out at night! I haven't seen a double yolker since I was a kid and we had ducks!

"free range" awww you had duckies too!!

XxAxX said:

BlackAdder7 said:

Dear, put down the keyboard and step away from the puter...

ORGanic i gots nothin

My inlaws do, just for fresh eggs. But they also considers chickens are like any other pets. They breed dogs and I remember seeing my father in law crying when he found out that one of his german shepherds tore the wire the and killed the eldest.