Re: OT tainted chocolate

It's the length of the day, daylight, that makes a hen lay or stop
laying eggs. When days get longer, spring, it's time to lay eggs, time
to sit on the eggs and make baby chicks, because there will be
time/warm weather to raise those baby chicks. Remember if you don't
have a rooster you won't get baby chicks or those red spots in your
eggs.

The man next door to us, when I was growing up, used to turn the
lights on in his chicken house at 5 AM and off at 7 PM starting in
September. That's what the commercial egg producers do to keep the
hens laying all year around.

Bonnie, in Middletown, VA



On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:45:07 GMT, nightmiste@xxxxxxxxx (NightMist)
wrote:

Chickens do that sometimes.
Often it is just a seasonal thing, sometimes it is nutritional.
When I was growing up we let them scratch, gave them a scoop or two
of corn, and such table scraps as were suitable. So we never had
trouble with nutritional deficiencies like those that kept them cooped
and fed just boughten feed. I always thought we had better eggs too.
Maybe the chickens weren't as fat when they had to come to dinner, but
our half dozen or so were kept for eggs. Only the ones who quit
laying for good, or were egg breakers or such, wound up pushing up
dumplings.

NightMist

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:57:48 -0500, "teleflora"
<teleflora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd kill for an egg that had some flavor. We used to get eggs from a friend
who tended poultry. Her chickens stopped laying (on strike?) and I guess
feed went through the roof, so no more eggs.

Another friend was so terrified at the possibility of bird flu that they got
rid of all their chickens, ducks and turkeys.

I think I could survive with a pig and a few chickens. That's why we have
such deep lots in our little town. In the old days everyone had a pig and
some hens in the back yard.

Cindy

"NightMist" <nightmiste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:48e2a32c.24122861@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My mama did, or tried to anyway.
We have been growing, or trying to, more of our own food at my house.
I always said that hell would freeze over before I got chickens or a
cow, especially now that the government wants to chip every darn
animal that you don't buy at petsmart or whatever the current
puppymill franchise is called. Must be the Star of the Morning is
shopping for ice skates because I am actually seriously considering
moving towards that if we find a good place when we move. I
absolutely _hate_ tending poultry. But between the abyssmal quality
of boughten food, and the way prices are going raising our own is
looking more and more attractive.
We have actually taken to making cheese because it is so much more
less expensive. I've always baked bread, but now I am back to baking
most of it.

NightMist

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:18:40 -0500, "teleflora"
<teleflora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, no, a thousand times NO! My free time is for quilting and shopping
for
more quilting stuff. My momma didn't raise no field hand.

Cindy



"Patti (formerly) in Seattle" <murphyandkaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2f142b86-08ae-4a2d-b2ee-5dce2a09af7e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I had no idea that these products were made in China! Isn't Hershey
made in Hershey, PA? Crud - I'm not much of a chocolate person, but
this news is kind of disheartening. I swear, folks are going to get so
fed up with all this stuff, that soon, we'll be back to canning our
own products, baking our own breads, cakes and cookies, and keeping
cows and chickens in the backyard for milk and eggs. Maybe not such a
bad idea!



On Sep 30, 12:13 pm, "Polly Esther" <bhmar...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh. Good grief. Our news folks are telling us this morning about
Cadbury,
Hershey, Oreos, Mars, M & Ms, and Snickers possibly being tainted by
melamine in Chinese factories. Grrr. Polly



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