Funny / Satire

[Smilingreen]

Man, I would have paid to go to that party. Question is: Where did the Zamboni materialize from or did some hockey players steal it from the ice rink and drive it to the party?

 

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Been there, done that (part of my early white privilege)...

 

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[rolibr24]

Been there, done that (part of my early white privilege)...

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I grew up doing that. My kids now do that on our small farm.

I’m not bellow doing that to this day either.
One thing growing up on a farm and still working on a very large farm has taught me is to never look down on any type of job. They are all important. If there is a shit job, I’m not below getting my hands and boots dirty.

This country would be a better place if every kid’s first job was to work on a farm.

The demise of this country started when the family farms started to disappear. And that’s why me and my wife are starting a small sheep, cattle and hog farm. My kids are going to have work to do when they get home from school.

 

[sebastiantombs]

I did some time on the end of an idiot stick clearing manure out of a chicken coop that held 5,000 chickens. This was before the "neat" days like today when they're in mesh floor cages with a conveyor or sluice to clean up after them. Then there was cow pie clean-up in the pasture and horse manure in the barn along with pig manure in the stys. Not fun by any stretch, but it does put your life into perspective pretty quickly. It also shows you just what it takes to put that food on the table.

 

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[rolibr24]

I did some time on the end of an idiot stick clearing manure out of a chicken coop that held 5,000 chickens. This was before the "neat" days like today when they're in mesh floor cages with a conveyor or sluice to clean up after them. Then there was cow pie clean-up in the pasture and horse manure in the barn along with pig manure in the stys. Not fun by any stretch, but it does put your life into perspective pretty quickly. It also shows you just what it takes to put that food on the table.

You are dating yourself now. I’m maintenance at a poultry farm. 1.2 million birds. 100,000 birds is the size of a normal barn today. 20 years ago these would easy be 180,000. That 5000 bird barn 30 years ago if still housing birds for today’s standards would now only be able to house 1500-2000

 

[sebastiantombs]

Try 60 years ago.

 

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[rolibr24]

I did some time on the end of an idiot stick clearing manure out of a chicken coop that held 5,000 chickens. This was before the "neat" days like today when they're in mesh floor cages with a conveyor or sluice to clean up after them. Then there was cow pie clean-up in the pasture and horse manure in the barn along with pig manure in the stys. Not fun by any stretch, but it does put your life into perspective pretty quickly. It also shows you just what it takes to put that food on the table.

Michigan voters decided that all birds need to be cage free by 2025. We’ve been actively taking barns down and hauling them to the landfill to build cage free. (These are 10-15 year old massive 600’ barns that still have at least 20 years of life left.

We market a bunch of our eggs to the east coast. Massachusetts voters decided Jan 1 of this year that all eggs sold there had to be cage free.... As of January 1, for some reason everyone there is shocked and pissed because their eggs jumped in price..... Well yea dumb ass’s, y’all voted for that......

Just to put into perspective on the cost of cage free eggs. A 180,000 bird conventional barn costs 3 mil to build. A barn that same size (physical size) will only house 100,000 birds, but it costs just shy of 5 mil.

 

[sebastiantombs]

Yeah, they are just like the folks in California that complain about the cost of gas and electricity. They voted the idiots in to make the prices go up in the first place.

The thing that bugs me about eggs today is what is called "Jumbo" or "Extra Large" would have been a medium, at best, when I was sorting/candling eggs.

 

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