Arizona Chickens

[Demosthine]

With the inspiration of MaddBaggins and a recipe I stumbled across looking for my Prickly Pear Jam recipe, I've begun a venture in to wine making. I've never had much interested in making beers, since I'm just not much of a beer drinker. But I could have a glass of wine every night and be happy. With all the health benefits, it would be great, too. They are just get so darn expensive at the stores.

So today I've started a blackberry wine going, since Prickly Pear isn't fully ripe quite yet. I do have about a quart of juice from the previous season and some early tuna this year, but I need three quarts. My wife and I think we perfected the juicing process yesterday. It worked really, really well and we got a huge amount of juice from what we did process. It sounds like an easy process with the winemaking, too. The hardest part will be waiting three to six months to bottle and then another six months for it to age properly.

So for those of you who are coming to the processing party, if anyone has empty wine bottles they're willing to part with, I could use two matching sets of about six bottles each. I need one set of clear bottles and one set of dark bottles. Blue, brown, black, it doesn't matter. Just dark. Thanks!

 

[MagicChicken]

Forty minutes ago it was sunny and 98 degrees in my yard. Ten minutes later it was pouring buckets and the temperature had dropped 20 degrees. It's the cockerels' day out. Guess where they are? You betcha, standing outside in the pouring rain, soaking wet. Silly birds.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Forty minutes ago it was sunny and 98 degrees in my yard. Ten minutes later it was pouring buckets and the temperature had dropped 20 degrees. It's the cockerels' day out. Guess where they are? You betcha, standing outside in the pouring rain, soaking wet. Silly birds.

They are enjoying getting cooled off

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I wish to publicly a sure any one coming to my home, that. I will be first thing tomorrow morning making an appointment, an emergency appointment to be checked out for worms, parasites, lice, ticks and any other Possable contamination. My Sister and Nephew are worried that I have one or more parasites. My nephew sanitizes the house and kitchen after I have been there do to there loving concern.

:/ I have chickens, chickens have deceases, parasites, bacteria, and other unclean stuff, I do not ware shoes in my house, and sometimes my girls try to get in, therefore I contract these things thru my feet. Furthermore, if you wish not to come I understand. After all, no one will come into a house that a chicken has been in........ It is just not civilized, sanitary, and a thing any normal person would allow. But if you are willing to risk your health and that of family members, knowing a head of time that I have chickens, that I actually handle, I am so looking forward to this week end.


If it will make you feel safer I will pick up cans of disinfectants, masked, and a box of latex gloves, you will have to being your own hazmat suits

 

[MaddBaggins]

One of my Buff girls has taken to roosting outside the coop at night. She gets up onto the high roost in the run, just under roof and spends her night there. She's been doing that for the last few weeks.
I've been watching all the girls, she's not an outsider or low on the pecking order. I think she just likes it better.

So, it's raining pretty hard right now. I went out to check on the girl who roosts outside. She was getting soaked. That spot is just not covered enough. I picked her up and placed her inside on the high roost with the other girl that likes that side. There was some minor complaints, but no biggy.

 

[MaddBaggins]

With the inspiration of MaddBaggins and a recipe I stumbled across looking for my Prickly Pear Jam recipe, I've begun a venture in to wine making. I've never had much interested in making beers, since I'm just not much of a beer drinker. But I could have a glass of wine every night and be happy. With all the health benefits, it would be great, too. They are just get so darn expensive at the stores.

So today I've started a blackberry wine going, since Prickly Pear isn't fully ripe quite yet. I do have about a quart of juice from the previous season and some early tuna this year, but I need three quarts. My wife and I think we perfected the juicing process yesterday. It worked really, really well and we got a huge amount of juice from what we did process. It sounds like an easy process with the winemaking, too. The hardest part will be waiting three to six months to bottle and then another six months for it to age properly.

So for those of you who are coming to the processing party, if anyone has empty wine bottles they're willing to part with, I could use two matching sets of about six bottles each. I need one set of clear bottles and one set of dark bottles. Blue, brown, black, it doesn't matter. Just dark. Thanks!

I've been saving wine bottles myself. I plan on doing a batch soon. I figured, for my first time, I would do a kit that my homebrew store sells. http://www.beer-wine-brewing.com/store/home.php?cat=272
I love some good Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon.

 

[notinoz2007]

LKD, is no shoes in the house a rule, or just something you do?

 

[Demosthine]

I wish to publicly a sure any one coming to my home, that. I will be first thing tomorrow morning making an appointment, an emergency appointment to be checked out for worms, parasites, lice, ticks and any other Possable contamination. My Sister and Nephew are worried that I have one or more parasites. My nephew sanitizes the house and kitchen after I have been there do to there loving concern.

:/ I have chickens, chickens have deceases, parasites, bacteria, and other unclean stuff, I do not ware shoes in my house, and sometimes my girls try to get in, therefore I contract these things thru my feet. Furthermore, if you wish not to come I understand. After all, no one will come into a house that a chicken has been in........ It is just not civilized, sanitary, and a thing any normal person would allow. But if you are willing to risk your health and that of family members, knowing a head of time that I have chickens, that I actually handle, I am so looking forward to this week end.


If it will make you feel safer I will pick up cans of disinfectants, masked, and a box of latex gloves, you will have to being your own hazmat suits

Umm, maybe it's just me, but that sounds like the post of a raving mad hypochondriac. Every one of those are regular problems that humans encounter, too. It is by no means a chicken thing. Dogs experience all of those, often to a far worse degree than chickens, and all the cats I've been around have been the nastiest of them all, by far!

I do sense a bit of sarcasm out of you, but your nephew and sister need a reality check, if you don't mind me saying. He is doing his family a major disservice by hypersanitizing everything. These are the types of people that will die first in the event of a real pandemic...

Now back to our regularly scheduled program...

 

[Demosthine]

I've been saving wine bottles myself. I plan on doing a batch soon. I figured, for my first time, I would do a kit that my homebrew store sells. http://www.beer-wine-brewing.com/store/home.php?cat=272
I love some good Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Holy cow, those prices! That better make at least a full case of twelve every time. And even then it's high. Estimating it out based on quantity of the items used and what I bought of the yeast, nutrient, acid blend and pectin enzyme, I'm looking at about $2 per bottle on a conservative level.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

LKD, is no shoes in the house a rule, or just something you do?

No it's not a rule. I take my shoes off in the house, I have back yard shoes I ware in the back yard, I do not ware them in the house because they are really dirty and track every thing in the house.

My sister is very clean, so is my nephew. When they were babies, they had their toys sterilized after playing.