Minnie: A tomato for breakfast? I wonder how it will pair with dead rodent?
Minnie: This juicy stuff isn't half bad.
The tomato was too big for Minnie to run off with...
...so she was forced to share.
Clara: This is tasty. I might become a vegetarian.
Eugenia: Why didn't you tell me there was a treat?! B*tches...
Sorry. I've been catching up on old episodes of "Breaking Bad" and couldn't help myself.
I was surprised by how much the girls enjoyed the tomato,
though I couldn't help but wonder if they were looking for entrails.
My grandparents raised chickens for egg production (think small scale subsistance farming.. deep SouthEast U.S.). The chickens had a large house with a large fenced yard along with a pecan tree or two. They kept the yard picked clean, and if a bird or two escaped they would be close by the chicken house working on the weeds, grass and yes any bugs lurking about.
ReplyDeleteFrom what my grandmother taught me, they are pretty much omnivores and she did her best to discourage /or/remove the chickens that destroyed eggs --- or other chickens :<o!!
Greens, fruits,vegetables and the odd table scraps are right up their alley.
Tomatoes have a lot of water content, so the girls probably found it a refreshing change of pace or side dish to Chef Johnny's usual morning repast.
M in NC
Love it! Whenever I walk toward my chickens with a pan of leftover treats, they come running!! Garden leftovers are the best. As for Breaking Bad....totally addicted. Just got finished with all prior seasons and cannot wait for the finale season. Almost feel like Jesse is one of my kids!
ReplyDeleteMy chooks (Aussie word for chickens) love tomato too. But, yes, they like mice better and they are dab hands at catching them too. They don't wait for a Johnny to do it for them!
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with living with chickens. How domesticated are they? Can you call them to you or do they only respond to food? Do they go into their coop on their own at night or do you need to shoo them in or trick them in with food? Maybe it's only me, but I would like you to create a blog entry giving a day of your routine interacting with the chickens.
ReplyDeleteCarson, you're hilarious!
ReplyDeletei have learned so much about chickens from your posts.. daddy tried to raise chickens to EAT when i was 8 years old, every time he killed one and mother fried it, i would cry until he let me leave the table and sob that he was eating Hilda... he got rid of the chickens since for some reason i would eat stranger chickens fried....
ReplyDeleteHaha! Love Eugenia's comment :) My hubby and I have been catching up on BB also - it's so addictive! Thanks for the daily dose of awesomeness :)
ReplyDeleteI love these photos of the chickens enjoying something less chunky/crunchy than the rodent/spider fair. I think I've shared with you my fear of chicken because of a trick played on me as a child by my country cousins. As an adult I have a healthy distance love of chickens. Your sense of humor is such a fun to start the day.
ReplyDeleteMy chickens love tomatoes as well. Strawberries, not so much.
ReplyDeleteI want some chickens so bad, but I have to be content with my neighbors chickens that come calling. My neighbor told me she feeds them her table scraps all the time, and their favorite is: (drum roll), MACARONI! They also LOVE Crasins, but those are only just a special treat for them. Turn their beaks up at raisins though.
ReplyDeleteI love the second pic! And Eugenia's comment, made my day!
ReplyDeleteGreat post as usual!
ReplyDeleteBetter not let Wynonna see those chickens eating tomatoes - I've yet to meet a pig that didn't love them! :)
Where have you been all my life? These are hilarious! Looking forward to a lot more.
ReplyDeleteWhat a treat!
ReplyDeleteYummy breafast. These chickens have such a good life! do they know it?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely looking for entrails, definitely.
ReplyDelete*snort* I thought they were being quite ladylike and civilized...until that last line.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Dave. I don't know much about chickens. Yours are some of the prettiest, fluffiest ones I've seen and Eugenia breaking bad is too funny. It's nice to see them eating something without legs.
ReplyDeleteOh, goodie! A chicken update! I'd LOVE to have chickens here, but I'm prevented by a city ordinance. A young girl down in La Quinta had chickens, but the city filed a complaint against her and I fear they are now gone...sigh...
ReplyDeleteOMG! That last line is priceless. My brothers were going to become great chicken farmers one summer. We never got any eggs (at least to my recollection) and when the birds were finally killed, they were so tough even the dog wouldn't eat them. My poor grandmother plucked the bird clean and she was so upset! How could we not eat a chicken!
ReplyDeleteSo funny! Or as my son says "lmao"! :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE YOUR BLOG♥
ReplyDeleteTwo years ago my chickens discovered my garden.
ReplyDeleteAnd they helped themselves to ALL the tomatoes and ALL the melons. They were very well fed chickens that year but we got nothing!
The garden is fenced now, so they are stuck with foraging for entrails, bugs and whatever else they can get their little beaks around.
this is so darn funny! love it!!
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