Buttermilk

[joebryant]

Okay, I did it.
Went to the store and bought a gallon of milk and a container of Dannon Plain Natural Yogurt.
Poured the milk into a large pan. Put it on the electric stove burner and heated it to 170 degrees.
Removed the milk from the stove, put it the sink in ice water and cooled it to 115 degrees.
Added one cup of yogurt to the milk.
Poured the milk/yogurt mix into two half-gallon wide-mouth containers.
Put in the oven set at 110 degrees at 3:30 P.M. for twelve hours or more.
Will check at midnight to see how it's going; might leave it in all night.
ETA Sure hope this works because that was really simple and easy.
ETA #2 Anne's oven can be set for drying fruits/vegetables and have the blower going. The yogurt is in with the red-hot chili peppers that she is drying now with a blower going at 110 degrees. I removed the lids from the jars of yogurt.
For dehydrating she can set it between 100-200 degrees.
Most home ovens cannot be set below 170 degrees, so don't try this unless your oven light will will raise your turned off oven temperature to at least 100 degrees. GoChick's oven light - with no blower heats her oven to 110 degrees.
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It's almost 7 P.M., and I just now tested it. It's almost finished after just 3 1/2 hours. I'm still going to leave it in until 12 P.M. though.

 

[True Grit]

Glad to hear it. Mine did not turn out but I have great hopes for the next batch. I know my oven did not get to 100 degrees. Thanks GoChick and JDB.

 

[joebryant]

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Woke up and removed the yogurt at 3:45 A.M. and put it in the refrigerator. Tastes great!
This is the way that I will do it from now on.
When Anne finishes drying her peppers, I'm going to turn on just the light, leave it on for an hour, and find out what temperature the over will get. Hopefully, just the light will get it up to 100-110 degrees.

 

[joebryant]

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Woke up and removed the yogurt at 3:45 A.M. and put it in the refrigerator. Tastes great!
This is the way that I will do it from now on.
When Anne finishes drying her peppers, I'm going to turn on just the light, leave it on for an hour, and find out what temperature the over will get. Hopefully, just the light will get it up to 100-110 degrees.

I just now checked the temperature of Anne's oven with just the light on. The oven will not go over 84 degrees, i.e., I could not have made yogurt in it using just the light. I would have had to use the small cooler method described in post #4 above.

 

[joebryant]

Just now divided up a quart of yogurt into four small bowls. Mixed the yogurt with an apple cut into small cubes and bird seed.
The chickens are wolfing it all down as fast as they can... loving it.

 

[sunflowerenvy]

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i though you were making it for humans not for your babies

boy can i come with u and your wife ; your wife is lucky to have u

 

[joebryant]

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i though you were making it for humans not for your babies

boy can i come with u and your wife ; your wife is lucky to have u

I agree 100%, and I keep telling her that, but she won't listen.

 

[True Grit]

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Woke up and removed the yogurt at 3:45 A.M. and put it in the refrigerator. Tastes great!
This is the way that I will do it from now on.
When Anne finishes drying her peppers, I'm going to turn on just the light, leave it on for an hour, and find out what temperature the over will get. Hopefully, just the light will get it up to 100-110 degrees.

I just now checked the temperature of Anne's oven with just the light on. The oven will not go over 84 degrees, i.e., I could not have made yogurt in it using just the light. I would have had to use the small cooler method described in post #4 above.

Darn I'm sure mine won't either. With the candle I put in there it felt pretty warm but didnt' get over 90. I wonder if I set up a heat lamp over a plastic crate and kept it at 110 that would work. I may try it if I get time this weekend.

 

[LittleBits]

I know this post is 3 years old already, but for the past 4-5 days, I've been giving my chickens buttermilk (from the store) and since it's almost $3/gallon, it will get kind of expensive if I keep on... wondered if you could give them too much, so...

that's what I was originally looking for...

Can you give them too much buttermilk?

I mix in about 1-2 cups with their crumbles and I've never seen them eat so fast - usually do this in the morning, where they haven't had access to their food overnight - summertime...food is outside under a shelter...just got our chickens in April...come winter, I'll have their food and water in the coop, but the coop right now is pretty small.

Anyways, THANK YOU all for the buttermilk and yogurt recipes. I'll be trying these and making my own (for them, not me!!) We got them as adults and they all seemed to be a little skinny to me - I can feel their keel bone - I guess that's the bone down their front side? I saw somewhere else on here that it should not be sticking out, you should not be able to feel it easily.
So I'm trying to fatten them up so they will be healthier and make better EGGS!!

Any advice about this or suggestions would be MOST welcome! Thanks, BYC! (Again...)