Good Morning - 2023

[WLLady]

heard a very quick 3 shots just off the next property from me this morning....thinking there was disappointment on the other end of the gun LOL.
Seeing birds every day in my field. don't have a tag. won't get one either for this spring, the thought of recoil...well. i have a loose screw in my hardware in my back, and i'm not so sure that recoil would be very good for that, and my surgeon is a very definite "NO!", so i'll wait until fall when i'm out bowhunting deer and try then. My tom keeps trying to call the neighbours (they're hunting) in LOL.

[ross]

Retired happening, trying to call in & kill the Wylie turkey Meat is secondary . Memories & stories to tell .

[lolotsung]

So I was about to buy a small container of honey and it's $10.99!? Then the thought occurred to me that my brother has honey bees and at that price its worth waiting to get his honey. Also we have too many eggs so I'm going to do a trade. I know the honey bees have been on a decline for many years but has something happened recently?

[lolotsung]

Too busy at work. Do we have too much work or are we having problems getting people to work in the "Age of Distraction?"

[ross]

No kidding Ross, and I agree OC.

I'd love to go out turkey hunting but in all honesty, I'd rather put the money for the tag into actual turkeys, hatching eggs or poults. Times are tough, can't swing it just for a chance and I can go for a walk through my bush anytime I want to get out into the outdoors.

More for me lol
Way it goes.

[WLLady]

So there's a lot of "bad" imported honey hitting the market here. dirt cheap, and full of glucose/fructose syrup! From overseas. sigh. And the hive losses from last winter (winter 2021) means the 2022 honey which is now on the shelf is expensive-supply is down and with fuel costs sky high, labour costs, transportation, replacing lost hives....this year the survival of the hives has been much better, so hopefully the prices won't go up again, but with import honey coming in who knows what will happen. Looks like major losses on imported bees from some places, nucs and stuff dead on arrival...sigh.

We sell 1kg for 15$ at farmgate but if were selling through a store that would get marked up to likely around 30$. We don't have a lot of honey to sell though, and mostly give honey away as gifts. And, keeping last year's honey from crystallizing (the general public doesn't get that unpasteurized honey actually granulates over time naturally) so the general public doesn't freak out is almost impossible for someone like us....i'm not going to spend the time and money to reliquify naturally granulated honey just because jane smith thinks granulated honey is "bad". LOL. I think i'm getting old and cranky...hm.

good luck ross! Hope you see/hear and get! Deep fried wild turkey....mmmmmm best ever!

[Killerbunny]

And that inported honey which is "washed" through other countries esp. Thailand is also full of antibiotics.

[Happy]

Along this same theme of natural Honey being "bad" because it doesn't look as expected...I am now flat out refusing to sell or give away eggs to anyone other than family. My health-freak brother eats more of my chicken's eggs than my husband and I do. I had been selling eggs and managing to cover feed costs. Then hubby's boss said he cracked an egg open with "a baby" in it and he and his children may never eat eggs again.
It was a meat spot.
I explained that but he seems to think that he knows more than I do. Even though they tease me about being such a chicken geek all the time. So that's it. I see a lot of egg salad in my future.

[Killerbunny]

I hear you totally on the eggs. Once a coworker complained that her eggs were peewee size not supermarket sized. STopped that nonsense.

[Ontario Chick]

Along this same theme of natural Honey being "bad" because it doesn't look as expected...I am now flat out refusing to sell or give away eggs to anyone other than family. My health-freak brother eats more of my chicken's eggs than my husband and I do. I had been selling eggs and managing to cover feed costs. Then hubby's boss said he cracked an egg open with "a baby" in it and he and his children may never eat eggs again.
It was a meat spot.
I explained that but he seems to think that he knows more than I do. Even though they tease me about being such a chicken geek all the time. So that's it. I see a lot of egg salad in my future.

I feel badly for the kids.
Just because parent is a moron, children shouldn't be marked for life.'
Perhaps a small printout of chick development inside the egg, sent with hubby, for bases children, a teachable moment ?
I am sure even morons don't want their children traumatized ? although what do I know ?