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    peeling eggs

    I can peel my eggs straight out of the hen house with this................... Bring water to a boil with a pinch of salt in it. Gently with a spoon, lower the eggs into the boiling water. Let the water come back to a rolling boil and boil eggs for 14 minutes. Run under cold water until you can...
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    Cooking Grease

    Depending how far you want to go with creativity................ you can clarify the grease and make soap, candles, etc.
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    I have a canning question

    I agree with Ridgerunner. Go to any store that sells canning supplies and get the "Ball Blue Book of Canning". If you can't find it in that book, it has no business in a jar.
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    Boiled eggs don't peel easy

    Last night, I took some brown eggs right out from under my Rhode Island Reds and Black Sex Links into the house and tried putting them in boiling water with a little salt for 14 minutes.............. 5 out of 6 eggs pealed just like the stale eggs at the grocery store. Incredible.
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    canning/pickeling help please

    Couple of suggestions.................... 1. Bake the jars and get them really hot before you put the food items in. 2. Go to any ranch and home store that sells canning supplies and get the "Ball Blue Book of Canning".......... It is the canning bible.
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    Easter Egg Chicken Beak Turning Black

    For years and years, I have raised White Leghorn, Black Sex Link and Rhode Island Reds. 2 months ago, I got some "Easter Egg" chicks. They are all beautiful with puffy little faces. One specifically is absolutely beautiful, she has black and white coloring and looks so much like an Eagle it is...
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    Feeding dead yellow jackets to chickens?

    The water traps work well. We just make our own traps. Take a plastic pop bottle. Cut off the top where the cone is. Put a piece of apple in the bottle. Place the cone inverted in the bottle. Tape the cone into place. Place the bottle nearby to a hornet, wasp, or yellowjacket nest and let...
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    Frog legs with wild rice and apple sauce

    When all the kids are at our place, we will occasionally fee the chickens some left over noodles one at a time............ chicken football we call it. Complete with fumbles, tackles and touchdowns.
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    apple pressings?

    We are in full production of cider pressing this time of year. We give our chickens a scoop of pomace every other day or so. We run our chickens in the orchard so we don't put the pomace in the feeder.......rather just throw it on the ground, they scratch at it at their leisure. The rest goes in...
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    The Price of Chicken Feed

    I get my layer pellets, cracked corn and triple cleaned wheat for our whole wheat flour from a local elevator. I welded for years professionally, so, when the elevator needs something welded I take care of it. In return, I never run out of food. This economy is a tragedy, but, it has brought...
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    Who uses Nutrena Nature wise Layer feed?

    I used the Nutrena for years and loved it. I recently switched to WSI (a division of Simplot) out here in Idaho. I mix two 50 pounders of laying pellets and 1 50 pounder of cracked corn in a galvanized trash can. It's moisture and rodent proof. We can't keep up with all the eggs.
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    apple pomace

    We run our chickens in our orchard. They keep the bugs down, they take care of worms for us, and they naturally fertilize for us. This time of year we are in full cider production, when we are not canning the garden produce. Our chickens come running when they see us come out with a bowl of...
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    Oyster shell

    I have been raising laying hens for years, I have never, ever, bought oyster shell. We save the egg shells, let them dry out in the chicken bucket, grind them up and put them in the chicken feeder. Free. The only caution I would give is make sure the shells are ground up very good so they don't...
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