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I think you have to use older eggs. For some reason my fresh ones do that but the ones that a week or two old do not.

I don't keep food or water in the coop. I let them out at 5:30a and lockup around 8:30p.we let ours free range most of the time. The only time we don't is when a new one starts laying then we keep them in the run till they continually lay in nesting boxes. Right now I have 8 laying and average...

How old are they?

3/6 should have been 6 since I saw all of them in the nest boxes and heard them singing. I think my dachshund and I need to have a chat about who the eggs belong to. Caught her carrying one around last week.

I did 7qt spaghetti sauce yesterday would have been 10qt but we ate some for lunch and supper. Now on to apples today.

I leave ours a little firm and green because if not they seem to turn to mush when canned

I ended up sick this weekend with a sick 1yr old so I didn't get my apples canned. Started at 6 this morning making spaghetti sauce since getting the tomatoes done was more pressing than getting the apples done.

I'd cull him. We had one that was kinda testing us. He would run right at us and chase my kids (who raised them) so we kept him locked in the run for a while. When we let him out he attacked my father in law twice while he was holding my son. My father in law kept kicking him so that he wouldn't...

They usually only sit on them if they are broody. Mine hop off the nest as soon as they lay.

Did 9 quarts of spaghetti sauce and 6qt of tomato juice today. I think Sunday I will have enough tomatoes to do more. Tomorrow we are picking our apples so we can make apple juice, applesauce, apple pie filling, and apple butter. I might dehydrate some just to see if the kiddos like them. I...

I have 16 chickens and a 50lb bag lasts about a month. But I free range them from 3-8pm 3 days a week and all day the other 4 days. Also have a compost pile in their run and throw them scraps. When they free range all day I don't give them feed. They are 15-20wks and 5 lay almost daily.

luckily my oldest likes to help prep for canning and younger 2(9 and 8) help with my youngest. I Also do a lot of late nights and early mornings. I absolutely love canning. Even though it is a ton of work its very satisfying to see all the food we have put up.

We store it in the basement. We have a big garden and help my father in law with his 2 gardens so we share with each other. My green beans flopped this year but his did great where my peas,potatoes onions and garlic did great and his didn't. We also give a lot away to friends and family. The...

So far I have done 70qt green beans,28qt dill pickles, About 100 pts of jam and jelly, 10 pts of peas (froze and dehydrated the rest), froze 20qt corn, froze 7qt zucchini 17 pts of cherry pie filling, 1 gallon apple juice and 11qt whole tomatoes(just got started on them. Still need to do...

We have dogs that kill everything that comes in our yard even cats so when we built our chicken run we made it secure. When the dogs would stare too long we would scold them. After 3 wks we turned the chickens out to free range and the dogs completely ignores them. Haven't had a problem in the...

Second pic is identical to my EE rooster

we have been using that recipe in ours for 3yrs with no problem

Do you have dogs? Mine love to eat chicken feed.

We live by hog confinements and feed lots. The smell alone is enough to make you sick. We decided that we would no longer eat meat unless we could raise it. So this year we have a steer,2 pigs we are raising to butcher and chickens. We can't wait for the pigs to get big enough since we haven't...

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