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[–] MapleEngineer 1 points 11 months ago

That was a lose interpretation.

[–] MapleEngineer 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This. So many Canadians don't understand Section 6. Freedom of movement means that you can cross interprovincial boundaries freely, live anywhere you want to live in Canada, and leave and return to Canada any time. It doesn't mean you can drive without license, registration, and insurance and it doesn't mean that the government can't require you to quarantine when you return.

The Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be a required, full semester course in highschool and a passing mark of 80% should be required to graduate.

[–] MapleEngineer 16 points 11 months ago

Just to be clear, these are not Trudeau's laws. Canadian anti-hate speech laws have been on the books for decades.

[–] MapleEngineer 16 points 11 months ago

That's exactly it. It's always hate speech that those who are braying about free speech are trying to protect.

[–] MapleEngineer 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The funny thing is that Americans think that guns and hate speech make them the freest country in the world.

[–] MapleEngineer 12 points 11 months ago

Danielle Smith is working her way through those who have been charged for violating Covid restrictions.

[–] MapleEngineer 3 points 11 months ago

The National Post newsroom has the slightest hint of residual journalistic integrity. Their Opinion Pieces are straight up right wing propaganda.

[–] MapleEngineer 22 points 11 months ago

"Free speech" is a right wing dog whistle for hate speech.

[–] MapleEngineer 8 points 11 months ago

They are supposed to oppose things that aren't in the best interest of Canadians, to stop government abuse they absolutely can support things that are in the best interest of Canadians.

[–] MapleEngineer 1 points 11 months ago

What are the rules for the handgun and pipe bomb?

[–] MapleEngineer 0 points 11 months ago

Not an expert but I did a quick Google search, read the actual rules, and called out your misinformation. Stop moaning and move on.

[–] MapleEngineer 1 points 1 year ago

You think she doesn't know?

 

A comment on another post reminded me...

Eggs. I really like eggs.

This is a picture of a bowl of hard boiled quail eggs with pinch bowls of salt, pepper, and paprika. I set them out at a party. They were a big hit.

We had a breeding trio of turkeys a few years ago so we had turkey eggs. I made turkey egg salad. It was delicious.

We always have ducks and I've eaten duck egg salad as well.

I can't find the picture of the big bowl of goose egg salad. If I do I'll post it.

 

My Purolator driver likes to deliver these McMaster-Carr boxes because he gets to look at the latest changes to my machine room (and to visit the caramel fridge in my office.)

This box includes a bunch of replacement O-rings for the John Guest fittings in my RO system. If you've ever tried to buy replacement O-rings you will have been frustrated by the fact that it's very difficult to figure out what kind of O-rings they are and that they are available in very small packages for a ridiculously high price.

They are EDPM Dash 110 O-rings (McMaster-Carr catalog number 9561K41 .) $1.71 for 25 pcs.

 

These are Bronze Orlopps and Mini Whites. They are 242 days old as of today. They have lived a good life with all day access to outdoors, good, high quality, local drug-free feed, and clean water. They are friendly and very calm. I like turkeys far more than I like chickens.

These guys go to the spa next Friday, September 22.

 

We ordered broilers from a different hatchery this year. I don't think we got what we expected to get.

 

Despite what Canada's nation hating extreme right would have you believe.

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Meaties (lemmy.ca)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/4413694

These Cornish X meat birds arrived on our farm on August 3. That makes them 30 days old today. We ordered 40 and got 45 (the hatcheries always give you extra in case there are any losses during or immediately after transport.) We have lost only one so there are 44 out there now.

My wife has Chicken Day on the calendar as September 30. They will be 59 days old at that point and should average between 6 and 7 pounds dressed.

We had a confluence of events that resulted in our cancelling our original order for 60 birds with one hatchery and ordering 40 birds from another hatchery for delivery a week earlier. That means that we lost our slot at the abattoir. We normally have half of the birds done at an abattoir and do half ourselves. We can't sell the birds we do ourselves so we eat those ones. With the situation this summer we decided not to grow any birds for anyone else this fall and will do all 40 of the birds here on the farm for ourselves.

Butchering day is NOT my favorite day of the year but it is part of farming livestock and it has to be done. We're likely going to offer a workshop for anyone local who wants to learn how to process chickens on their own property.

I gave their bedding a toss this morning.

Our meaties always have access to outdoors from the time they're about 3 weeks old. They will continue to go outside right up until the day before they are processed.

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Meaties (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by MapleEngineer to c/homestead
 

These Cornish X meat birds arrived on our farm on August 3. That makes them 30 days old today. We ordered 40 and got 45 (the hatcheries always give you extra in case there are any losses during or immediately after transport.) We have lost only one so there are 44 out there now.

My wife has Chicken Day on the calendar as September 30. They will be 59 days old at that point and should average between 6 and 7 pounds dressed.

We had a confluence of events that resulted in our cancelling our original order for 60 birds with one hatchery and ordering 40 birds from another hatchery for delivery a week earlier. That means that we lost our slot at the abattoir. We normally have half of the birds done at an abattoir and do half ourselves. We can't sell the birds we do ourselves so we eat those ones. With the situation this summer we decided not to grow any birds for anyone else this fall and will do all 40 of the birds here on the farm for ourselves.

Butchering day is NOT my favorite day of the year but it is part of farming livestock and it has to be done. We're likely going to offer a workshop for anyone local who wants to learn how to process chickens on their own property.

I gave their bedding a toss this morning.

Our meaties always have access to outdoors from the time they're about 3 weeks old. They will continue to go outside right up until the day before they are processed.

 

At list a few chickens to raccoons early in the season. They were taken outside. When you improve security raccoons can get more aggressive so I beefed up the summer door on the house.

 

He was hatched on our farm and went out to a friend whose family wanted a few laying hens. They named him Chloe. When he turned out to be a cockerel he came back and we told her kids that he would live on our farm as a roster, not a meat birds. He turned into a pretty bird.

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MapleEngineer to c/backyardchickens
 

These 8 nesting boxes, in two banks of 4, are most than 10 years old. They have worked very well. We have somewhere between 40 and 50 hens in the laying flock right now.

EDIT: 45 hens and 3 roosters. I counted this morning.

 
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