Martha Stewart Quotes

Attila the Hen.

I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

I grew up on a farm. The worst-looking chickens are the best layers. The ones that are the scraggliest... those are usually the ones that are really cooking.

I like collecting chickens.

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.

On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.

I just love chickens.

You don't have to live on a farm to have chickens; in some places, you just need a little bit of green space and a tidy chicken coop. To me, they're nearly ideal pets. They feed us more often than we feed them! We have 2 chickens, Goldie and Paprika, and they each produce 1 egg a day, sometimes more.

If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

If you can differentiate a dead chicken, you can differentiate anything.

I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads.

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.

I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.