Recent content by chazen328

Thanks I will check into it. The reason I ask is because I'm not sure what's wrong with our birds. :( We butchered our first batch of birds back in October and we cooked one in the rotisserie and it came out all rubbery and weird. We boiled a second bird and the breast meat was fine but the...

Any suggestions on how to easily poach a whole chicken?

QUESTION I canned my end of season green beans and when I pulled them out of the canner they had turned brown. The water is brown the bean pods are brown and the seeds are brown. What the heck happened? Can I still eat these? All of the jars sealed but I'm just not sure what went wrong.

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We are from Nebraska. There was a coop on our farm that hadn't been used for 60+ years. I thought we could get away with a new roof and electrical. Boy was I wrong! We ended up remodeling the entire thing...cost about $2k. But it is insulated. We have red heat lamps and white lights that...

Well, taking advice from this thread, yesterday we combined/divided our 2 flocks. We have 42 birds from last year and 20 new ones from this spring we needed to combine. First we had to weed out our non layers and that was an adventure. Last night we moved all non layers and roosters to the...

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They are dangerous around here too. We were told they can kill ground up to 5 years so you don't want to add the hulls to compost or put them in your garden. But on the other hand walnuts are expensive and can go for up to $10 a pound. How the heck do you can nuts?

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I know it's not canning but I'm super stoked. We found a stand of trees that are black walnut. Walnuts for free!!! Woo hoo!

13 eggs from 12 pullets and that's a first!

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