I am getting chickens!

ben62670

Early B. wrote: »

Ben --

I'm gonna invite myself over for Sunday dinner. I got a hankerin' for possum stew!

Ah it's a a little late in the year, and I have some food in the fridge. I have been leaving the squirrels and varmints alone. Well unless they are messing with my chickens;) This possum was pissed at me when I was getting him. Glad the rotten **** didn't get me:eek:

dorokusai

http://www.opossum.org/facts.htm

obieone

LMAO!!! What are you, part Aberigines? Nice shot man! You should go on 'Survivor'

ben62670

I have seen my buddy go up to one playing possum and kick it. It didn't do nothing. This one wasn't playing possum, and wasn't shy.

ben62670

obieone wrote: »

LMAO!!! What are you, part Aberigines? Nice shot man! You should go on 'Survivor'

Nah. Swamp Yankee from in the woods of NE Ct. I've shot a lot of fish with that spear. It holds them pretty good. This possum wasn't too big. I would have left it alone if I didn't have chickens.

Systems

You big meany,the poor little feller was probably just looking for an egg omelet.

John30_30

ben62670 wrote: »

Ah it's a a little late in the year, and I have some food in the fridge. I have been leaving the squirrels and varmints alone. Well unless they are messing with my chickens;) This possum was pissed at me when I was getting him. Glad the rotten **** didn't get me:eek:

Good thing it didn't. Their bites are nasty, and they are as nasty as they look. Big, nasty rats. I wanna see a picture of the chucker-gun you use for the spear.
I used to bow fish a few times, but that thing's cool.

inspiredsports

ben62670 wrote: »

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Well I hear the chickens squawking away out there so I get up and head out. Damn possum is messing with my chickens. The best weapon quick to grab was my fishing spear. The spear is 5 feet long with a rubber band to propel it. Well I got the SOB first shot. You can see the tips sticking out the side. I had to whack him with a hammer a couple times. The spear doesn't kill them, but it does a fine job of keeping him under control till I could whack him;)
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh83/ben62670/DSCN1400.jpg?t=1235270052

That is one of the funniest stories (and pics) I've seen in a long time. I busted my gut laughing out loud.

mrbigbluelight

dorokusai wrote: »

http://www.opossum.org/facts.htm

Dang, they have everything on their website copyrighted so it's not possible to share any of the fascinating possum facts they have there !

Ben, someday someone is going to make a movie of your exploits. It may have to be directed and produced by Rob Zombie, but ....... it's coming !

hearingimpared

They are nasty looking pains in the butt. I had a family of them living under my shed. They stink too.


BTW nice shot Tarzan.:D Are you going to eat the little bastage.

Polkersince85

He'll come back to life during the next full moon. You better make some wooden spears. Just a heads up.

george daniel

In Jan of 1972,my friend and I were out ( 2-3am) and our lights blinded an opossum for a minute,,quickly Bob popped outside my VW Bus and threw a blanket over the critter, back in the bus he comes with a very pissed off amimal,,it got loose and was tear-assing inside the bus. Heck,, we got home and got our butts outta it pretty quick. These things have teeth and claws that will put an **** whipping on you in a New York second. Well, we left all of the doors open,but we could not entice it out of the bus,,just hissed at us,and **** all inside the bus,,finally in the morning,it had left,and now I/we were faced with the task of cleaning up all of the crap.Thats about all I have to say about that . Don't eff with these things,, they are not friendly.;):rolleyes:

BaggedLancer

http://www.redneckpossum.com/PossumRecipes.htm

Stuffed Possum

Ingredients:
1 possum (whole)
1 qt. cold water
1/8 cup salt
5 beef bouillon cubes
2 bay leaves
3 celery stalks (chopped)
2 onions (sliced)
1 bag packaged stuffing

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Soak possum in cold salt water for 10 hours. Rinse meat in cold water and refrigerate 2-4 hours. Prepare stuffing according to package directions. Stuff possum cavity with prepared packaged stuffing. Close cavity tightly. Place stuffed possum in roasting pan, add water, bouillon cubes, bay leaves, celery and onion. After 2 hours turn meat. Reduce heat to 300 degrees. Cook for 1 more hour. Test roast, if not done reduce heat and cook until done.

obieone

Welcome back BL.:)

BaggedLancer

obieone wrote: »

Welcome back BL.:)

I've been around.....

george daniel

people eat those things?:eek:

BaggedLancer

george daniel wrote: »

people eat those things?:eek:

Some people eat other people.....so a possum doesn't sound too crazy....

Hobbyguy

Question is do opossums taste like chicken?

hearingimpared

I love game. I love rabbit or squirel stew. I had possum stew and it DID NOT taste like chicken. It was greeeeeeeesy and yuckie.

SKsolutions

. . .better than getting crabs

-not that I'd know

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mrbigbluelight

One little known possum fact:

"Opossums that have been housebroken and trained to use indoor toilet facilities will not use single-ply toilet paper; toilet paper must be double-ply"

ben62670

About friggen time!!!

Well that one has earned the right to live in my back yard. I am ready to start eating. They will feed me one way or another. 6 chickens is too many for the area they are running in. The vegetation can't keep up:(

ben62670

Well I now have 3 eggs, and I think they are from the same chicken??? I tagged that bird to keep an eye on her. Would a chicken lay three eggs her first time?

nadams

Chickens tend to lay 1 a day.

Curious... did you get a rooster? Most chickens won't lay well unless they have a rooster present at least for the first few layings.

Hillbilly61

I just discovered this thread!!!!!! I'm Home!!!!!! While I haven't raised chickens in years (zoning where I live doesn't allow it), I just love raising chickens!!!!!

Ben, that egg is really nicely formed for a pullet starting to lay! I've seen all kind of elongated shaped eggs layed within the first week or ten days. Sometimes the eggs don't even yokes. It's like their body chemistry needs too fine tune the process. Other times, I've seen eggs with blood spots on their surface (tough lay that stretched things out a bit too far, I guess).

I disagree with Nadams about the need to have a rooster to keep egg laying constant. Pullets will lay about an egg a day. As they really get into their prime, sometimes one will kick out two eggs a day. Once in a long while, a double yoked egg will be produced. They have a distinct look without having to crack the egg to find the double yoke. Egg laying breeds, like white leghorns, lay quite well. Dual purpose (egg and meat) breeds aren't as quite as reliable layers. Most store bought eggs come from white leghorns.

What breed do you have? What are you feeding them? You say that they are eating up all of the greenery. That is to be expected. Chickens graze quite a bit and are, to many, surprisingly non-selective eaters. They will capture & eat field mice or small snakes in a second.

If you have a rooster in the mix, he will make it a point to embarass you by scewing one of the hens at your feet when your priest or your prudish relative is visting and the two of you are admiring the chickens!

PM me.

jerryj12

Now that's funny. Don't get a rooster Ben. I don't want to see that the next time I come over. :D:D

chemical

ben62670 wrote: »

I fully expect them to get a couple, but I have made up a few alarms to thwart their efforts before. We had an excess of coons out at his pond for a couple years (mild winters). I took an onion bag with some punkinseeds I caught, and tied it to a limb. I then tied a fishing line to it then ran it into the house through an eye screw, and down to a beer can. Then I took a short piece of line, and tied it to the eye screw, and to another beer can. When the coons would come they wood grab the bag of fish which would make the beer cans clang together. I cracked the door, and popped them. Well my neighbor, and I were talking trash saying who would get more coons so it was on! He had a have-a-heart trap that he baited. Well on night I popped two. My buddy and I brought the dead coons down to his place and laid them on their backs. The male died at full attention so we put a condom on his... The female was laid next to him with a cig in her mouth. We tossed a couple beer cans around the seen for aesthetics. Well the guys name was Pat. He stuttered. We went down to his place in the morning, and knocked on his door. He opened the door, and stuttered away "y y y y ou ggg gg uys are sick", and slammed the door! Well back to the varmint alert system. I think I can rig something a little better than two beer cans, and some fishing line to alert me if there is a predator;)

BTW I don't sleep much;)

thats hilarious

ben62670

I went on VaCa recently so I just picked up 50# of hard feed(not the laying mix), but I have been substituting some ground up egg shells for the calcium. All 3 eggs were very nice, and tasted great. At first I was kinda thrown off by the dark rich color of the yolks, but after the second bite fears were relieved. I chose Barred Rocks for the bread. They are less aggressive than my second choice of RI Reds with kids, and my girls are 3 and 5. HB you can possible catch the Polk train down on the weekend of the 8th for another get together we are having. Meeting new Polkies is a great thing:)
Take care.
Ben

ben62670

Very excited. 3 more eggcelent eggs so far today. My daughter found them while hunting for worms to feed her box turtle:) Polkies are going to have some fresh eggs and pickled eggs on or about May 8th.
See ya guys soon.
Ben

nadams

if you build them laying boxes you won't have to worry about missing any, or having any broken upon delivery