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Originally Posted by Olive Hill 
Well, if you ever want to learn, let me know.  I can throughout the growing season beginning with jams when the berries start ripening and heading right into the winter with sauces, condiments, meats, etc.  :) 

I'd like to learn how to make jellies and jams.

I never knew you could can meat until I read about canned rabbit (on this thread if I remember correctly). I'd like to learn how to do that too.

 Does the chickenstock pavillion have a kitchen?

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Originally Posted by RaZ 

Canning isn't that difficult, just start with something easy like tomatoes or green beans. I've canned with both pressure cookers and simple boiling. For lunch I had a jar of green beans that I canned with a garlic clove. The date on the lid was 2010. So if it kills me, I'll post tomorrow and let you know. 

I read a magazine article that claimed that most summer food poisoning came from the onions going bad and not the mayonaise. I can't vouch for the validity of the article but I'll keep open onions until they get soft and mushy. But then again, I eat raw hamburger. 

First highlighted sentence = hilarious!

2nd highlighted sentence = GROSS.
 

OMG I want to join this canning and preserving class! LOL where do I sign up?

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Originally Posted by chicken grandma 

 Does the chickenstock pavillion have a kitchen?

No, but my house does.  :) 

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Originally Posted by Olive Hill 

 

No, but my house does.  :) 

How big is your kitchen?

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Originally Posted by chicken grandma 

Oh how sad!  I lost two hens after they were broody.  I wonder if the sitting that they do weakens them and allows other problems to emerge?

Fuzzy it is a natural thing for a hen to go broody and sit so all I can think of was that they must have had some weakness.  I lost one to an egg laid the wrong direction after she was weak from being broody and I lost one to the respiratory infection.  What do you think Rose died from?  

Again, not your fault but still VERY VERY sad!   

She got constipated. :(  I misread the symptoms, which was very little eating, diarrhea, not walking well, mouth gaping sometimes.  I thought at first that she had resperitory problems from getting wet and chilled, and then when i examined her the first time after seeing the liquid white urates i didn't find the lump. It wasn't until she was pretty far along that i found the lump, and i massaged it and tried the vasoline, but it gave her too much pain and didn't help.

So i held her a lot and gave her a bath so she was clean, she kept trying to clean herself but she was too weak. She wouldn't eat, but she would nibble at bread pieces, and she seemed to perk up a little, so i had high hopes that she would pass it. Sadly, she was not able. I also brought her to the others yesterday, when i did my cleaning, and put her on the perch with them for a bit. I also brought her body for the others to see today, before i buried her. My roo and my lap hen (round girl) understood. They were her closest friends, and i wanted them to understand that she wasn't coming back. This was when she laid her first egg.

Making jam is easy, it's just simmering sugar and fruit together and putting it in a super clean boiled hot jar.

It's getting fruit in the wonky MI weather we've had the last couple years that's hard!

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Originally Posted by chicken grandma 

How big is your kitchen?

 

How many people are you planning on bringing?  

Have I gotten myself into more than I imagined?  

No, seriously though, my kitchen is big enough to accommodate a small group.  It's 15x15-ish, 15x20 during the canning season when I put up the temporary table by the back door to extend my space.  It isn't fancy, but it's functional and there's enough room for a few adults.