Pike, Is That You?

Somebody from Montana came to visit the site

and it wasn't that brat, Hannah.

In my heart is was Pike from the movie "Big Eden",

clicking on the chicken recipe of the day button.

.

.

The movie "Big Eden" was filmed at the Glacier National Park in Montana. It is one of my all time favorite movies and my mother loves it as well. She has probably watched it over a hundred times, and that is not an exaggeration.

.

.

For more information on Montana,

click map.

.

We still need visitors from Idaho and Wyoming

to complete our tour of the states.

Tracking visitors from around the country is more fun

than collecting those damn state quarters.

.

Truth In Advertising

.

Sometimes The Captions Write Themselves.
.

click button

.

Chicken Facts of the Day

.

.
The meat of the chicken, also called "chicken," is a type of poultry meat. Because of its relatively low cost, chicken is one of the most used meats in the world. Nearly all parts of the bird can be used for food, and the meat can be cooked in many different ways. Popular chicken dishes include fried chicken, chicken soup, Buffalo wings, tandoori chicken, butter chicken and chicken rice. Chicken is also a staple of fast food restaurants. Commercially produced chicken usually has a fairly neutral flavor and texture, and is used as a reference point for describing other foods; many are said to "taste like chicken" if they are indistinctive.

.

Most commercially produced chicken eggs intended for human consumption are unfertilized, since the laying hens are kept without roosters. Fertile eggs can be purchased and eaten as well, with little nutritional difference. Fertile eggs will not contain a developed embryo, as refrigeration prohibits cellular growth for an extended amount of time.
Chicken eggs are widely used in many types of dishes, both sweet and savory. Eggs can be pickled, hard-boiled, soft-boiled, scrambled, fried and refrigerated. They can also be eaten raw, though this is not recommended for people who may be especially susceptible to salmonella, such as the elderly, the infirm, or pregnant women. In addition, the protein in raw eggs is only 51% bio-available, whereas that of a cooked egg is nearer 91% bio-available, meaning the protein of cooked eggs is nearly twice as absorbable as the protein from raw eggs. As an ingredient, egg yolks are an important emulsifier in the kitchen, and the proteins in eggs white makes all kinds of foams and aerated dishes possible.
.

.

Cock-A-Doodle-Do

.

t-shirts available at: www.t-shirthumor.com/

.

click button

.

Chicken Facts Of The Day

.

.

Roosters can usually be differentiated from hens by their striking plumage, marked by long flowing tails and shiny, pointed feathers on their necks and backs (the hackles and saddle)—these are often colored differently from the hackles and saddles of females.

.
However, in some breeds, such as the Sebright, the cock has only slightly pointed neck feathers, the same colour as the hen's. The identification must be made by looking at the comb, or eventually from the development of spurs on the male's legs (in a few breeds and in certain hybrids the male and female chicks may be differentiated by colour). Adult chickens have a fleshy crest on their heads called a comb or cockscomb, and hanging flaps of skin either side under their beaks called wattles. These organs help to cool the bird by redirecting blood flow to the skin. Both the adult male and female have wattles and combs, but in most breeds these are more prominent in males.

.

info from: www.wikipedia.org

,

.

Who Lives In A Pineapple Under The Sea?

.

My sister, Chickiepoo entertaining her grandkids.

Sorry, we missed your Labor Day Picnic.

I hope it wasn't a bust.

.

Words Of Wisdom

.

Don't forget

that some things

count more

than other things.

.

~ William Saroyan

.

An Eye For An Eye

My All Time Favorite Far Side Cartoon.

.

.

click button

.

Chicken Facts Of The Day

.

.

Chickens are omnivores. In the wild, they often scratch at the soil to search for seeds, insects and even larger animals such as lizards or young mice.

.
Chickens in nature may live for five to eleven years depending on the breed. In commercial intensive farming, a meat Chicken generally lives only six weeks before slaughter. A free range or organic meat chicken will usually be slaughtered at about 14 weeks. Hens of special laying breeds may produce as many as 300 eggs a year. After 12 months, the hen's egg-laying ability starts to decline, and commercial laying hens are then slaughtered and used in baby foods, pet foods, pies and other processed foods. The world's oldest chicken, according to the Guiness Book of World Records, died of heart failure when she was 16 years.

.

info from: www.wikipedia.com

.

.
I hope you are enjoying "Chicken Week."

"I would love to here some feedback in the comment box", he begs.

.

Which Came First?

The age old question is answered.

.

.

click button

.

Chicken Facts of the Day.

.

.

.

In the U.S.A., Canada and Australia, adult male chickens are known as roosters; in the UK they are known as cocks. Males under a year old are cockerels. Castrated roosters are called capons (though both surgical and chemical castration are now illegal in some parts of the world). Females over a year old are known as hens, and younger females are pullets. In Australia and New Zealand (also sometimes in Britain), there is a useful generic term chook (rhymes with "book") to describe all ages and both genders. Babies are called chicks, and the meat is called chicken.

.
"Chicken" was originally the word only for chicks, and the species as a whole was then called domestic fowl, or just fowl. This use of "chicken" survives in the phrase "Hen and Chickens," sometimes used as a UK pub or theatre name, and to name groups of one large and many small rocks or islands in the sea ( for example the "Hen and Chicken Islands."

.

info from: http://www.wikipedia.com/.
.

.

Chicken Week Begins

Chicken Lifecycle

.

.

Click Button

.

Chicken Facts of the Day

.

Red Junglefowl

.
The chicken (Gallus gallus, sometimes G. gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl likely descended from the wild Indian and southeast Asian Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) and the related Grey Junglefowl (G. sonneratii). Traditionally it has been widely accepted that the chicken was descended solely from the former, as hybrids of both wild types tended toward sterility; but recent genetic work has revealed that the genotype for yellow skin present in the domestic fowl is not present in what is otherwise its closest kin, the Red Junglefowl. It is deemed most likely, then, that the yellow skin trait in domestic birds originated in the Grey Junglefowl.

.

The chicken is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals. With a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, with both their meat and their eggs consumed.

.

Info from http://www.wikipedia.com/

.