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Has anyone tried this? I canned black beans using a recipe found on the web. Pressured for 70 minutes, beans were soft and could not get the bottom half out of the jar, not enough liquid. I have been canning pint jars of baked beans since 1976 and would like to have my own kidney, black...

Hi, we survived the winter with 6 buffs, about 10 months old now). We covered the top of the run and put old windows on the sides so they were able to spend lots of time outside. But in the last two weeks we have a broody hen who is insistent on sitting in one of the next boxes, of course, it's...

Help! We have 6 buff orps, 22 weeks old, first two eggs this week, one Tuesday and one Wed, nothing yet today. My hens love to be outside in their run, neighbors says the MUST not be out in temps under 40 or they will not lay, is that true? The problem I see is that with the hen door open the...

6 buff orps, 22 weeks of age, 2 next boxes, and three of them are night time roosting in them (one box is bigger than the other so two have squeezed in). Will they become territorial of the boxes and not let anyone else use them to lay? That is IF they ever start laying. Have the fake eggs...

I have 6 buffs, 16 weeks old, had the usual occasional pecking order issues but now they seem to be puffing up and pecking each other very often, one will go up to another and peck at them for no reason. They are in the outside run during daylight hours, seem to like to be out rain or shine, any...

6 buff orps, 19 days old, used paper towels as bedding for 4 days, added shavings 3 days ago, tried earlier but they went crazy with the stuff, now yellow kind of frothy poop, reminds me of foam insulation, could this been worms too? Using birch/pine shavings, I think my neighbor used the same...