Posts by KDbeads

Everyone who's going, enjoy it for me while I'm stuck at the store!!!  

I'm always looking for the freebies but if you need it by all means take it.  With my schedule it could be another couple months before I could do anything with it!  Yeah, the smaller girl was always really friendly, she...

Quote: Originally Posted by canesisters  I am SOOO ancious for Gilmanor to get here!!!  My new JG/Australorp girls are getting the new brooder/growout pen all broke-in - working out all the little glitches and...

Yep we finally managed to get at least one swap out this way, hopefully we can get a good turn out and do this more often cause I hate driving an hour to the nearest swap!     Particulars: Saturday, April 6th 8 am to...

Pm me, I'm in Dinwiddie county and have a couple extra giants/mutts I can spare! 

Quote: Originally Posted by vfem  So sick and tired of the failed cukes this summer (2 plantings and I got like 5 cukes from both plantings). So I stopped by the farm stand and forked over the $$$ for pickling cukes...

It's the type of pears, yours sound like kieffer pears.  Good old fashioned canning pears :)

That was our method growing up, though I don't ever remember them gutting the birds.  Only remember them taking the legs off, fleshing the breast meat and wing off and tossing the carcass into a fire.  Then again that was 25...

Quote: Originally Posted by ki4got  i 'disassemble' all my own birds...  i don't pluck though, i peel. much easier that way.   Needed that laugh.  Peel and disassemble, I think I'll use...

Quote: Originally Posted by erinszoo  My husband and I both judge at fairs so I thought I'd chime in here. Canning judging is all about appearance. We look at correct headspace in the jars, bubble formation, clean...