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    Oven Canned Tomatos

    Tomatos (and mostly tomato products like salsa) are the only thing I feel comfortable doing this way, but I'm not sure if it works or is safe with anything else. I did 16 pints of salsa and tomato juice yesterday this way.
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    Oven Canned Tomatos

    My mom gave me this tip that she's been using for years, and it's been invaluable so I thought I'd share! To can tomatos, you don't need a pressure or water bath canner. Prepare tomatos, tomato sauce, salsa, or tomato juice as you normally would (with half inch head space), then just put the...
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    What's the Wildest, Weirdest thing you've eaten...?

    Possum stew, beaver jerky, head cheese (BLEACH), Limburger cheese (DOUBLE BLEACH) and freeze-dried roasted meal worms and crickets. Of all, the bugs were the tastiest, but I wouldn't want them on a daily basis. Not very attractive picking little cricket wings out of your teeth.
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    What is this? (Pic)

    I have no broody hens, so I'll have to do it myself...might get messy! Maybe I can get my husband to set it at work?
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    What is this? (Pic)

    Alien spores...I didn't consider that. We'd better hurry and eat it before 3-legged chickens take over the world.
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    What is this? (Pic)

    When I collected eggs this afternoon I found one that had a couple of patches little bitty balls which look like some kind of insect egg. However, they are hard and the same color as the egg, so could it be some kind of calcium deposit? They are not part of the shell - you can see where I...
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    Dead hen

    Thanks for the kind words all. I don't fee quite so bad, though I really hate losing one of the girls. I grew up on a farm and even though I truly understand that sometimes things just happen when you have animals, it's still tough not to waller around in guilt when it does. And on top of...
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    Dead hen

    My husband and I came home yesterday to find one of our young hens dead on the coop floor, a blood-streaked egg beside her. Her rear was bloody, but we couldn't really tell if any "innards" were out, or had been out...it just looked bloody. Was this a prolapse? I feel horrible, but I...
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    What to do with eggs

    I haven't tried it, but I hear you can freeze eggs. Break them in a bowl, scramble them up, then put into a freezer safe bowl. Thaw in the refrigerator for use. Hope that helps!
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    Red Toe Nail polish...OUCh my toes are not cherries!

    Please stop it. There are healthy male members here. Ok, to make things fair, I think I have the perfect solution - a non-member in the form of my hubby. He's red-headed and fair as the driven snow. Green? He'd look good with green, and it'd be a good experiment. With chickens and with...
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    Red Toe Nail polish...OUCh my toes are not cherries!

    I usually wear boots while doing chores, but one day coming back from the lake I went to check the chicken's water in flip-flops (I had done a rare painting of the toes the day before with red polish), and had to literally dive out of the yard! Hubby got a good laugh. But makes me think...
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    Does anyones chickens ever escape?

    Holy MOLY...now THAT is a chicken yard...
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    Does anyones chickens ever escape?

    I agree with the1much, clip the wings! Such an easy yet very effective solution. I was having daily "chicken leaks" out of our chicken yard - once they figured it out, they would constantly fly over the 5' electrified fence any time they'd see me (the food/treat provider). It was no big deal...
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    "Honking" Hen

    I think all my chickens honk, though the buff orpingtons are by far the loudest and most nasal honkers. I'm not sure what it means in "chickenspeak", but I'd sure like to know. Then again...maybe not...
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    Impatience!

    We had our first eggs for breakfast this morning, "egg-in-a-hole" style. Take a piece of bread, cut out a hole with a biscuit cutter, put it in the frying pan, crack the egg in the bread hole, and fry (toast the cut-out piece). NUMMY!!! And absolutely SUPERB with our own home-laid eggs...
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