Tracy wrote, "I ended up giving them to my parents, who roasted them". I "LOL". We bought two fluffy yellow chicks for our boys one Easter. We named them Joseph and Henry. As they grew older and larger; it became obvious that the chicken sexer had made a mistake. Henry was no rooster; he was a hen. Well, what could we do? Sex change operations weren't in vogue at the time; our only course was to change names. Henry became Henrietta. We gave them the run of the back yard and kept them in our shed overnight. Our neighbor kept a pig; and the pig attracted rats; and, one night, a rat bit Henrietta. After that, Joseph's attitude toward Henrietta changed completely. He kept attacking her; concentrating on her injured leg; precluding it from healing. It finally became too painful to watch and we reluctantly decided on a euthanasiastic end for Henrietta and an accelerated termination of life for Joseph. However, Betty and I didn't have the stomach for it so we gave the chickens to Betty's grandparents. After the traumatic event, Betty's grandmother told us, "Ei, sell warra dee beshta hinkel as mir in a langie tzeit gessa h'en". Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ps Oh yes, I almost forgot; Betty's grandmother said, "Oh, those were the best chickens we've eaten in a long time". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy" <better_than_good@yahoo.com> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Venison or Deer Meat/chicken > > --- Ron wrote: > >> Tracy, >> >> I have often thought that if people had to kill the chicken, scald >> and pluck the feathers and remove the entrails, not only would 'The >>Colonel' be out of business, but there's be a whole lot more >>vegetarians in the world. > **************************** > > Ron, > > How right you are!! > > My husband brought chickens home one time and said I wouldn't have to > see them. (They were out walking in the yard for about 3 days!) He was > going to take care of the whole operation. Well, I got stuck making the > hot water and carrying it to him, and had to see the poor chickens > getting ready for their "hot bath". He plucked and cleaned and we froze > the chickens but we never ate them. I ended up giving them to my > parents, who roasted them. > > I even hate to think there is a deer, squirrel, raccoon, chicken or > whatever it may be at the time, in my freezer. And I really hate to be > searching for dinner and come across one of the carcasses! > > tracy > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! > FareChase. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message