Arizona Chickens

[City farm]

Good morning, our white leghorn dude is looking for a new address. Any takers

 

[ChicksnMore]

Peep's and quack's.

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Those NN babies are soo cute!

 

[ChicksnMore]

I don't live in Arizona, but I've wintered many years in the LTVA at Quartzsite in my RV. Bought a house in Washington so I could have chickens.

I want to make kimchi. Bought it before and liked it. Is it easy to make?

Kimchi's easy to make. You chop your cabbage and let it soak in salt water for 8-10 hours. Make sure you use salt without iodine. I usually soak it over night. The cabbage should be just slightly wilted from the soaking. Then you drain it, rinse it, chop and add your extras... I always add garlic, Korean daikon (radish), green onions, grated carrot, ginger, Korean kimchi pepper and fish sauce. Mix well, bottle and press to get the air out. Add a pickling weight or a small ziplock bag full of water, or just a piece of Saran wrap pressed down over the top...anything that holds the veggies under the liquid and keeps air away from them. Then set it on the counter with a lid placed loose over the top. I always put the jar in a shallow dish in case it bubbles over during the ferment. How long it sits depends on the temperature...but you'll know by color, smell and taste when it's done. Better to refridgerate when the ferments almost perfect but not quite done. It keeps it's best flavor longer if you stop the ferment just a little before perfect. Then pop it in the fridge and enjoy.

You can make almost any veggies into kimchi. One of my favorites is made with radish tops and bottoms. Crazy yummy.

Editing to say maybe cucumber kimchi is my favorite...too hard to choose a favorite

 

[NuggetMama]

Kimchi's easy to make. You chop your cabbage and let it soak in salt water for 8-10 hours. Make sure you use salt without iodine. I usually soak it over night. The cabbage should be just slightly wilted from the soaking. Then you drain it, rinse it, chop and add your extras... I always add garlic, Korean daikon (radish), green onions, grated carrot, ginger, Korean kimchi pepper and fish sauce. Mix well, bottle and press to get the air out. Add a pickling weight or a small ziplock bag full of water, or just a piece of Saran wrap pressed down over the top...anything that holds the veggies under the liquid and keeps air away from them. Then set it on the counter with a lid placed loose over the top. I always put the jar in a shallow dish in case it bubbles over during the ferment. How long it sits depends on the temperature...but you'll know by color, smell and taste when it's done. Better to refridgerate when the ferments almost perfect but not quite done. It keeps it's best flavor longer if you stop the ferment just a little before perfect. Then pop it in the fridge and enjoy.

You can make almost any veggies into kimchi. One of my favorites is made with radish tops and bottoms. Crazy yummy.

AHA That's why I have to come up to Tucson! I have to get Gochujang! You told me there was a great little market up there where I can get some. Welp time to set up a trip up there. I have a huge nappa cabbage I gotta start fermenting.. Before it goes bad.

 

[BlueBaby]

Those NN babies are soo cute!

Do you need some?

 

[ChicksnMore]

Do you need some?

I need more chickens like I need a hole in my head But o those little ones are tempting!

 

[BlueBaby]

I need more chickens like I need a hole in my head But o those little ones are tempting!

Well, if you need some later, let me know. I can bring Hawkeye next door again for his party with the neighbor's Naked Neck hen's. Those hen's used to be mine before I went with the Bielefelder's.

All 9 chick's hatched out yesterday. I had to leave one in the incubator over night because it wasn't ready yet to move to the brooder, but it's in there now with the other's. When I was putting it in there and dipping it's beak in the waterer, the male duckling ran up to get a taste of the ring on my finger. I have 3 duckling's, and 9 chick's in the brooder.

 

[ChicksnMore]

I just candled my Java eggs and it looks like the first two laid are infertile, but the third laid has a happy, lively little blob of baby growing! Now if I can just keep her laying. Shes more wild then my India blue peafowl. She hides her eggs by covering them with feathers and I'm betting she'll stop laying and look for a new nest every time I empty her nest. Right now she has fake eggs to keep her happy, but when she tries to brood, I'll take them away and see if she starts over in one of the other nest boxes.

 

[BlueBaby]

I just candled my Java eggs and it looks like the first two laid are infertile, but the third laid has a happy, lively little blob of baby growing! Now if I can just keep her laying. Shes more wild then my India blue peafowl. She hides her eggs by covering them with feathers and I'm betting she'll stop laying and look for a new nest every time I empty her nest. Right now she has fake eggs to keep her happy, but when she tries to brood, I'll take them away and see if she starts over in one of the other nest boxes.

Got to love those broodies, huh?

 

[BlueBaby]

Well, being it is Sunday, I mixed up some feed in some of the vitamins and electrolytes water. They love it and I feel better knowing that it helps them to deal with any heat stress. In the cooler month's I give it to them once a week just on Sundays, but in the hotter month's they get some on Sundays and on Wednesdays.