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Or some genetic factor. I have O neg blood in my case. Some interesting stuff on RH neg factor blood. They still don't know how it came to be. I'd like to think I have a supper immune system lol

Traits of Rh- Negative Individuals

 

B+. Built for combat. Stitch it up doc and cauterize it.

 

We get eggs from our neighbors that have a few chickens and ducks. Them duck eggs are where it's at. We get our beef from an old high school friend of mine. Been a long long time since we bought beef at a store.

@RERM I'll leave the politics out of this bit I'll go ahead and say we don't even know a 1/4th of what they're telling us. So much disinfo all over you can hardly sift fact from fairy

 

Good stuff. We had Pekin ducks for a short time as we were toying with the idea of raising them to sell for meat. Try as we could, we couldn't seem to find a sustainable market to justify continuing to raise them though, man can they eat. Those eggs are very good, particularly if you like yolk.

Funny thing was, they always dropped their eggs very early in the AM, just before sun up. Ravens would fly over, spot 'em, and carry them eggs off. Many a morning I'd hide out there with the 12 and picked them off. After awhile though, I just gave up on it...

 

Chickens are great. I grew up on a farm in southern Ohio and we always had 50+ white rocks for eggs, fresh meat, and the best fertilizer in the world. Dad would take the eggs to work and keep the employees in fresh eggs. I would compost the large amount of chicken crap and hay from the coop and then till it into the garden The veggies would practically leap out of the ground in that garden, and the pile was always full of monster sized night crawlers for fishing.

I wish I could live that way in California. Maybe when I retire. Ironically, where I now live in Petaluma was considered the egg capital of the world for the first half of the 20th century and produced 10 million eggs a year which was a lot back then. The egg incubator was invented here which had a lot to do with it. Of course most of the ground water in the area is still polluted with nitrates from all of the chicken crap.

 

You can do it easily if you working on 1099

 

With a little help under the table I'm sure. Who said crime, 'er I mean politics, doesn't pay....

 

You're spot on. A couple of years back, I was determined to develop my own meat bird, so I crossed dark Cornish roos with white rock hens. My theory was to save the birds with the best "meat" characteristics for future breeders. We got some nice birds out of it, but I just couldn't get them to match the weight of the commercial broilers out there in the same amount of time. The meat was darker and had better flavor then the commercial broilers, but just not enough meat on them bones. So, we went back to raising the broilers. We let them go to 9 weeks, instead of the usual 8, as that one week xtra really adds weight to 'em.

For egg layers, we've found the best so far for brown eggs to be a cross between a Rhode island red roo and a Rhode island white hen. This combo produces a chick that can easily be sexed at birth, and the hens will produce very nice extra large brown eggs. Most commercial egg producers use this combo for brown eggs. For white eggs, the leghorn is queen.

California is a beautiful state, but I just could never live under communist rule. I don't know how you guys do it.

 

Honestly, now that my kids are grown, living in California has improved for us since we don't need to deal with the public schools any longer. I don't live in one of the major cities with all of the gen-X crowd, and I don't have to deal with all of their social justice warrior BS that comes with them. What I dislike the most is the high cost of everything. I can afford it, but I just don't want to afford it and would rather live someplace where the cost of living is much less. Property taxes here are actually less than most states, but the high cost of buying real estate makes up for it. I've owned my current house for 20 years and the taxes aren't much.

The weather here is perfect for me. It would be difficult to give it up.

 

I hear you, I have an uncle, 90 years young, living outside San Diego. He'd never leave either.

Public schools are pretty much bad in most places

I went a few years ago to southern Ohio, Cedarville, to pick-up a fuel tank there, nice country I thought, people were real friendly. I thought I could live there easily enough. We're too old though to start over somewhere else.