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I did some experimenting yesterday, and here were the best two recipes I came up with: Apple cranberry 1 apple, grated with skin on 1/3 c. rough chopped raw cranberries 2 tbsp. raw/brown sugar 1 lb. ground turkey 1 tsp. grated orange rind 1 tsp. thyme 1 tsp. salt Spicy pepper 1 lb. ground...

Hi folks! Tomorrow morning we are going to have many many pounds of turkey on our hands, and I am planning to turn the turkey breast into lunch meat (turkey pastrami, smoked and roasted in various seasonings) but for the dark meat I need some sausage recipes. I have a meat grinder with various...

Today, I got home, and someone had let my turkeys out of their pen. They have a very serious latch on the door that requires human thumbs to open and close. There were no scratches on the pen, although it is framed with wood. None of the wire mesh was even pushed out of shape, let alone torn...

If you have multiple toms, is it like chickens, where you might have one or two really dominant, obviously male birds, and the other males that are more submissive in the pecking order have less male features (especially comb/wattles)? If you have a very dominant hen, does she take on some...

I have my turkeys, 15 of them, in a large-ish tractor pen a la Joel Salatin, in the backyard. Every day, I move them onto fresh grass and re-fill feeders and waterers. There is greenhouse plastic over most of the pen. DH adamantly refused to have anything to do with the turkeys other than eating...

Has anyone done business with them in the past? Are they good about shipping, communicating in a timely fashion? I had an order in with Sand Hill, and was sorely disappointed--they had nothing to ship me for four different breeds, so they refunded my money, but now it's so late in the season...

I drove down to a funeral for a beloved uncle in Lancaster, PA on Friday. As I was driving through the back roads, I saw a lot of farms abandoned--farms that still had the stubble of last year's crop, now growing nothing but weeds, farmhouse door boarded over with some sort of notice pinned to...

This week, a lot of things at work went pretty well. Then I come home one night to find this: She's being a real good mom to them, too, leading them around today to show them the waterer, the food dishes, the treat dish. Two silver Phoenix chicks and two "mailman's kids"--I'm pretty sure...

This may be a stupid question. I just got a bunch of mussels from the local fishmonger--farmed in Maine, so they're real cheap. After a lovely seafood dinner, can I grind up the shells somehow and give them to the chickens? If so, how do I grind them up? Run 'em over in the truck? Put in a...

I ordered some turkey poults with my chick order this year. DH does not approve of turkeys, it turns out. I thought I could bring him around, but he is completely convinced that he will end up having to slaughter them himself (he doesn't want to, although he eats store-boughten--I can...

I know many of us have been tapping our maple trees. I've been boiling the majority of the sap out on the grill, using pieces of wood that didn't fit the wood stove. However, once it starts getting kinda tan, I bring it inside to finish in the stockpot on the kitchen range. I put on the...

A sign of the vanishing middle class, I think. Back when I was a kid, in the olden days, most people had only a couple pairs of shoes: Everyday, Formal Dress, and rain/snow boots. These shoes were intended to last quite a while, and as such, you were expected to maintain them and polish them...

That's pretty much it, really. Our house is very elderly, the plumbing was retrofitted by a brain-damaged monkey on crack, and as a result every winter the drain pipe that goes from the washing machine outflow to the septic tank freezes. Since this pipe was fitted by aforementioned monkey, it...

Today my Great Pyrenees went to get a follow-up appointment at the vet's. DH and I had a scheduling misunderstanding, and dog ended up in day care for half a day. Which is fine, we like him to be socialized with other dogs occasionally. The thing that had me sorta uneasy and considering a...

Seriously, I know it's been rough with the most recent Alberta Clipper in the Midwest and Northeast. I know Miss Prissy has been working hard keeping her waterers ice-free. But I swear to you that spring is coming, and I have photographic evidence. I just took this picture this morning. This...

Never thought I would have this problem. Just lost one of my best hens, a standard Cochin, to egg-binding. The broken eggshell punched right through her guts, and it looks like she died of internal bleeding. The apparent reason for her being egg-bound, on necropsy, is that she had wads and wads...

I forgot I was supposed to make stroganoff tonight. I put a deer roast in the oven with cider vinegar, brown sugar, bay leaves, juniper berries, 2 chopped onions. When it was mostly done, I took it out, put it on the plate, and then realized I was supposed to be making stroganoff tonight, didn't...

I'm looking for a PA Dutch ring bologna recipe that does not use liquid smoke or MSG. We have a smoker, so I can do that bit myself. Most of the recipes I'm finding online are for things to do with the ring bologna after you've bought it somewhere. I'm looking for a recipe that starts with, "get...

Thought some of you might have a good idea about this: We have a big old farmhouse, and we like to throw parties and entertain. Of course, we love having guests when we invite the guests. When we agree on a time and date. When it's only for a few days or so, and when our work schedules allow...

My Pyrenees is getting his official competition cart tomorrow, instead of dragging around the garden cart. At the end of January, he will be officially old enough to compete and get his Novice title. I just got him a really really good harness (as opposed to a cheapie nylon one) with sheepskin...