Subby- while I respect your love for cock, these hens in jumpers are no penguins in sweaters

Holy Hen Jumpers!

That's my new catch phrase.

These chickens are wearing sweaters.
Your argument is invalid

Slow cooked and shredded.

MMMM.. I taste yummy!

someone say mcnuggets?

/hot

How the hell do you keep them from pecking the fark out of eachother? Chickens will peck at any spot or wound or anything out of the ordinary on another bird. When one of our birds has any sort of peckable injury, we segregate her for safety reasons. I can't imagine them accepting sweaters - especially those with patterns or designs.

Why do I love this so much?
I love this so much.

I have the weirdest boner right now...

Birds are such ornery jerks, I have no idea why I felt this weird warm feeling in my chest.

Mostly in my pants, though.

Ok, someone get Mike Rowe on this!

/Thought it's still not the strangest chicken job I know of.
//Certified Chicken Blesser

Jumpers?? As God is my witness, I thought chickens could fly...

I have no idea what that headline is supposed to mean, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to click on it.

Holy crap, this is awesome!!!

Although per TFA, they have enough chicken sweaters for now.

/look up "farkers with yarn" on Ravelry!

Chickens losing their feathers is a problem? Au contraire! They have to be plucked anyway before you put them in the soup pot, and if they aren't plucked enough when you buy them, you have to burn off what's left, because the teeny feathers that are left can't be tweezed and they're all slick and stuff, and in general, eeeyeeewww.... it's just an icky job, is what it is.

If I were her, I'd be smacking a designer label on their buttlets and selling them to Whole Foods at a premium. Pre-Plucked Cluckers.

blondski: Subby- while I respect your love for cock, these hens in jumpers are no penguins in sweaters

Aw, come on! These deserve a Pullet Surprise!







/Cluckity!

htolink

Dammit! I just got another one!?!? WTH?

MSP is not gross. I would eat that whole pink snake if you fried the farker up. What's wrong with not wasting the meat that's hard to get off the bone?

It is good for crazy cat ladies to have a backup hobby. That way when the animal control folks come and confiscate their 97 cats they have something to take their mind off it.

GET IN MA BELLY!

My dad has a flock of lovebirds, and one of them plucked her poor little mate bald. He seems to be doing okay for a totally featherless little bird. I've started calling him "plucky" :D

But wait, that site says they don't need any. Make up your mind!

Chicken lovers. Old South Park reference in case you're dense.

It's like some sort of Snuggie for chickens.

octopied: My dad has a flock of lovebirds, and one of them plucked her poor little mate bald. He seems to be doing okay for a totally featherless little bird. I've started calling him "plucky" :D

You call your dad "plucky"?

You farkers are mean.

Rescuing these poor chickens and making them cute little sweaters is nothing to bawk at...

Chickens are nasty, evil, and potentially tasty creatures. Ive heard figures that they outnumber humans. it is a constant struggle to keep them from killing and eating each other. don't make them sweaters, eat them. less they rise up against us

it's up to you to do your part citizen.

meat0918: my herniated disc: [i.huffpost.com image 445x334]

someone say mcnuggets?

/hot

I think they did (new window)

LarryDan43: Slow cooked and shredded.

That's how I cooked my old hens when their egg laying days were over. At that point, it's really all you can do. That or chicken stock.

yep, I don't keep chickens myself, but I have friends that do, they are vegetarians to the point they still eat eggs, milk and cheese mind you. but they don't eat meat. once the hens are past laying, they are in the way, and considering that they raise chickens to sell the eggs at the market, they need to replenish the egg laying stock.quite a few have ended up in one of my stew pots after a $10 bill has crossed hands.

I do the wringing, the wife does cleaning and plucking, then I take back over for the butchering.

Please help us legalize Backyard Chickens at www.gafoodrights,org

Thanks!

Okay, I give up: How did the chickens lose all their feathers?

Some time back, they bred mutant chickens with no feathers due to a genetic defect, but it was a disaster: you needed more fuel to keep them warm than money saved by eliminating the plucking process.

olddinosaur: Okay, I give up: How did the chickens lose all their feathers?



Stress, poor living conditions, etc. It's normal for chickens to molt, but not to this extent.

F*ck chickens.

Choke that chicken!

Cobb County Kid: Please help us legalize Backyard Chickens at www.gafoodrights,org

Thanks!

Yard birds are legal here, with some wacky conditions: Females only, no males (this one isn't wacky. Roosters are LOUD and annoying) We can't sell the eggs for profit, only eat them or give them away. The birds themselves are pets, not food, and must not ever be eaten. They need to die of old age or be humanely euthanized by a vet. And you are strictly limited in number based on the size of your property.

What about jackets?

Take every cock and pullet, and... jacket!

libranoelrose: I just ate an omelet from the neighbors chickens, so I'm getting a kick.

They got two extra roosters by accident and are shipping them off to my GF's dad's farm.

They are literally raping the feathers off of the backs of the hens.

And you wondered why the cat was walking funny...

csb

My experience trying to rescue a chicken...

When I was a kid I raised chickens for 4-H. I was inside the house when I heard our new dog (some sort of irish wolfhound-like mutt) barking and chickens cackling and going crazy. I ran outside to find our new dog looking guilty and the mama hen running around looking for all her chicks. I knew the dog had something in his mouth. When I told him to drop it, he opened his mouth and a chick fell out. One of it's legs was broken. My mom said we needed to put it out of it's misery by chopping it's head off. I refused and said I would nurse it back to health.

The rest of that day I kept it wrapped in a small wash cloth and fed it by hand, using a dropper to give it water. That night I took it to bed with me to keep it warm.

This was the 70s. I had a waterbed. The next morning I couldn't find the chick. Finally found it. It had fallen between the waterbed mattress and the frame. Flat as a pancake and dead as a door knob.

/csb

Noticeably F.A.T.: F*ck chickens.

I know one instance where someone did just that. A 39-year-old Spaniard went up into the mountains and took a chicken for his "entertainment," and was humping away vigorously on a hillside when a 10-ton boulder dislodged from the agitation, killing them both.

Any Farkers gotta link? He would be a natural now that the Heineken guy is getting old.

The Southern Dandy: csb

My experience trying to rescue a chicken...

When I was a kid I raised chickens for 4-H. I was inside the house when I heard our new dog (some sort of irish wolfhound-like mutt) barking and chickens cackling and going crazy. I ran outside to find our new dog looking guilty and the mama hen running around looking for all her chicks. I knew the dog had something in his mouth. When I told him to drop it, he opened his mouth and a chick fell out. One of it's legs was broken. My mom said we needed to put it out of it's misery by chopping it's head off. I refused and said I would nurse it back to health.

The rest of that day I kept it wrapped in a small wash cloth and fed it by hand, using a dropper to give it water. That night I took it to bed with me to keep it warm.

This was the 70s. I had a waterbed. The next morning I couldn't find the chick. Finally found it. It had fallen between the waterbed mattress and the frame. Flat as a pancake and dead as a door knob.

/csb

would lol again!

namegoeshere: The birds themselves are pets, not food, and must not ever be eaten.


"I dunno, that bird just up and disappeared"

/sitrs pot.

Vespizzari: MSP is not gross. I would eat that whole pink snake if you fried the farker up. What's wrong with not wasting the meat that's hard to get off the bone?

They soak it in ammonia to kill the somanilla, add chicken flavoring to make it taste like chicken again, and dye it to make it white. Found this out in culinary school. I still eat em. They always remind me of Popplers from Futurama.

/eat my shiney, cruchy nom,nom,nom. The chicken does go well with the wine...