Absolutely, Aleta. I think because it has broken down due to age, it is more apt to tear when it is boiled, peeled, and then cut to make deviled eggs. I am also inclined to think that the eggs from the grocery are more fragile to begin with because of the diet of the hens.....but I have no proof of that....
Will do...it's all very makeshift, using whatever I already have on hand. I like this one better than the last one as it gives way more shelter from the elements and cannot be trampled into mud by all the walking. This area is under the porch roof of our log outbuilding, where there is thick, black plastic down on the ground beneath a foot thick layer of leaves and some cedar shavings beneath the leaves. It has some trellis around it on two sides, forming a three sided shelter against the wall of the building. I placed some items outside the trellis to block the wind and it does this very well. It's very protected there from wind, rain or snow.
A hundred times better than where these poor guys were living....there simply aren't any words to describe where they were kept and only pictures would suffice. It was a sadness to see it, though the folks were very nice and doing the best they could to provide for their family and all the animals, they just didn't seem to know what chickens need. One pen of 6 roosters were in with about 12 other LF birds in a rabbit hutch that was about 3x3x5. The poop was so thick in that pen and the birds so piled in that they were standing on mounds of poop and could barely move about. The other "coop" was small and filled with office furniture and an upholstered settee and other odds and ends of junk, deep chicken poop all over it all, no ventilation except the crack around the door.
I ran out of the pyrethrin using it on the last bunch, so broke down and bought some permethrin from Lowe's..they didn't have any pyrethrin. It's the synthetic version of pyrethrin and not so safe to use but I was desperate and figure the effects of it may be out of the birds in a couple of weeks.
I don't know how one could work it up under all their feathers doing it in a trash bag, though I sure would like to find a way to do it that would be thorough but still wouldn't involve me looking like a baker afterwards. It doesn't really matter about me eating the birds with residue of permethrin in the meat now because I breathed in, absorbed and swallowed about half a bag my own self.I wanted to make sure every crevice of these birds were covered as they were just the worst case of lice and mites I'd ever seen...way worse then mine when they came back from the bad place and way worse than the last batch of roosters. I felt so sorry for these birds when I saw that! Made my butt itch just looking at it!
Needless to say, several hands full of dust was worked up and into the feathers and all over the bodies of each bird until it looked like a frosted chicken. Can't stand those bugs.
What a great score that would be! Pre-raked leaves! Can't ever get enough, IMO, as they compost so quickly that they are up and gone before you know it.
It's pretty hard to hold on to a chicken and dust them, let alone put them in a bag, hold onto them and THEN dust them. I'd need a few more hands!It's sort of like bathing a new baby and getting everything clean without letting it sink into the bathwater.
As it is, I used a towel as my extra hands for the dosing, oiling down the feet and clipping the wing.
What will they be doing with their feet and wings as I hold the neck? Beatin' the tar out of that bag, is what!Wouldn't be nothing but ribbons of bag after the first chicken got done tearing through it. Can't tie the legs because the one place you really need to work that powder is up that abdomen and at the base of the legs, around the vent, etc. Need to move the legs apart at one point to get it in there really good.
I wish I could shake and bake 'em, for sure! Sure would be easier.
I think that chicken had had a good dose of valium
