California - Northern

[Hangtown Farms]

New recipe I tried and my kids love it (so do the grown ups). I want to try it next with some of my fresh chicken that I pressure cook first. I bet it is wonderful with shredded chicken! I'll let you know next week maybe. I am processing a few chickens this week. I bought a 23 quart pressure cooker and I am excited to have a nice large pot for those big gigantic BCM roos - for both their hot water bath and their cook in the pressure cooker part of it. I should be able to fit 2 chickens in at once time. Score!


Preheat oven to 350

1 lb ground beef or turkey
1/2 medium onion, chopped (optional. dried minced is ok too)
1/2 bell pepper, diced (optional)
garlic (fresh or granulated) to taste
1/2 cup favorite salsa
1 can favorite refried beans (or homemade)
2 cups jack cheese or pepper jack if you like spicy
burrito sized flour tortillas

toppings:
shredded lettuce
sour cream
salsa
green onion

Directions:

Brown beef with onion, garlic and pepper. Cook until veggies are soft. Add salsa and simmer uncovered until most liquid is absorbed. Set aside.

Warm together refried beans and cheese. Set aside.

To assemble:

Tortilla - fill with bean cheese mix, then sprinkle beef or turkey mix. Roll up tightly. Place seamside down on a greased baking pan. (I use the 9x13 Pyrex ones) I can get at least 8 if I am easy with the filling.

Bake for about 30 minutes until hot but do not let the flour tortillas get very brown.

Serve with toppings.

Huge hit with my kids and didn't take me long to prep. You could health it up by using wheat tortillas but it will change the flavor profile. I am sure you can use other meats though- like cooked shredded chicken.

ugh now I am hungry

 

[ronott1]

New recipe I tried and my kids love it (so do the grown ups). I want to try it next with some of my fresh chicken that I pressure cook first. I bet it is wonderful with shredded chicken! I'll let you know next week maybe. I am processing a few chickens this week. I bought a 23 quart pressure cooker and I am excited to have a nice large pot for those big gigantic BCM roos - for both their hot water bath and their cook in the pressure cooker part of it. I should be able to fit 2 chickens in at once time. Score!


Preheat oven to 350

1 lb ground beef or turkey
1/2 medium onion, chopped (optional. dried minced is ok too)
1/2 bell pepper, diced (optional)
garlic (fresh or granulated) to taste
1/2 cup favorite salsa
1 can favorite refried beans (or homemade)
2 cups jack cheese or pepper jack if you like spicy
burrito sized flour tortillas

toppings:
shredded lettuce
sour cream
salsa
green onion

Directions:

Brown beef with onion, garlic and pepper. Cook until veggies are soft. Add salsa and simmer uncovered until most liquid is absorbed. Set aside.

Warm together refried beans and cheese. Set aside.

To assemble:

Tortilla - fill with bean cheese mix, then sprinkle beef or turkey mix. Roll up tightly. Place seamside down on a greased baking pan. (I use the 9x13 Pyrex ones) I can get at least 8 if I am easy with the filling.

Bake for about 30 minutes until hot but do not let the flour tortillas get very brown.

Serve with toppings.

Huge hit with my kids and didn't take me long to prep. You could health it up by using wheat tortillas but it will change the flavor profile. I am sure you can use other meats though- like cooked shredded chicken.

Thank you for the recipe!

Ron

 

[Papa Brooder]

Jeff, sorry about the attack! We lost 3 EE chicks and one of my favorite old ladies so we've been trapping raccoons....I think we're up to 5 or 6. Almost every night we put the trap out we get one. Twice we've had the food gone and trap triggered but no raccoon. I think this one's really big and the trap can't close! I'd hate to meet up with this one.

Deb, congrats on the blue egg! Can't wait to see the color!

Well, I finally got the blue Marans out into the grow out pen and I think they're pretty happy! I'm going to leave them in there for about a week before I let them out to meet the rest of the chickens. They can see each other, so that should give them time to acclimate.

I'm glad you got two pullets and a cockerel. I have 4 blue coppers in my grow out pen... 3 cockerels and 1 pullet. :-(

 

[ronott1]

So the UC Davis necropsy on my 6 week old Marans:
"10-16-12. This juvenile chicken was emaciated. There was a terminal bacterial septicemia. We isolated E. coli from the tissues but there was not much reaction indicating the inflammation was very acute. The source may have been the gizzard in which there was inflammation and bacteria. This would not have caused the emaciation, however. It may be helpful to check into the feed situation to see if these chicks are able to get full access to the feed and know where it is. I don 't see any other reason for the emaciated state of the chicken such as chronic infection. If any more chickens die, it may be helpful to submit another. This chicken may not have been representative of the flock."

The chick had 100% access to food and all the other chicks grew and have continued to grow and eat an appropriate amount of starter feed. I think it sounds like the chick tried to fight of the black mold and ecoli it was exposed to prior to coming to me and it lost ground. The other chicks that died both lost size right before dying, exactly like this one.

Unless someone reads something I missed in here saying this was a contagious thing then they're getting moved into the grow out pen tomorrow, get use to my flock and I'll mark this up as not so fun, bumpy start to my desire to have a dark egg layer.

I did get recommendations with my Golden Comet that died of Marecks Cancer. It was pretty gloom and doom stuff about all of them are going to get it and that all future chicks would need to be vaccinated...Completely ignoring that all places have Marecks and that getting them vaccinated is a race to see which take first.

Still very valuable.

The first one last year was more clinical, so I think it depends on the person doing the Necropsy.

Cheers!

 

[zooweemama]

...crickets...

How are you all?

 

[ronott1]

...crickets...

How are you all?

I am fine.

Thanks for posting. I thought I killed the thread....

Crickets are supposed to help fertility for chickens(along with other bugs and greens...)

 

[debs_flock]

...crickets...

How are you all?

Funny you should say that, I just unpacked 2,000 crickets into my holding bins for my cricket eating frogs.

For fun, I took about a dozen of the larger ones and walked out to the chickens. I threw a few in the first few runs. I always call it cricket rodeo. The girls go crazy chasing them around and playing keep away from each other when they catch one. The boys stand back to supervise and watch with amusement.

And I'm fine, the birds are happy and the frogs will be very happy, hope all is well with you also.

Deb

 

[Happy Chooks]

Only thing worse than crickets are mealworms.

Guess I'm not suited for raising frogs.

 

[MonsterClucker]

Hey guys!
Sorry if I'VE been a little antisocial. Just been busy working on building breeding pens and stuff. Trying to get everything ready for all of these birds I'm getting.
This morning I got 17 Euskal Oiloa Chicks from James Meeks at Skyline Poultry. Along with those he sent 6 Hinkjc line of Lavender Orps just to play with!
Not sure if I'm going to breed with the lavenders. I might just sell them as grow outs later on.

I also won another auction!!! A breeding pair of Palamino brahmas created by Dan Powell!!

Got 3 pens almost done so far, just have to back to Lowe's this weekend to buy more wood to finish the other 3. Maybe 4.


Oh and I have to figure out an automatic watering solution out here pretty quick. In December I'm going to see my Grandmother in Ohio for 2 weeks. My brother is staying here to take care of the Ranch. So I have to everything easy for him or I might lose some stuff lol.


What's been going on in everyone else's chicken world?

 

[Miss Molly]

Oh my, did we ever have wind last night! It woke me up several times and ripped the tarp off that I was using for shade.

Jeffers has a sale on Generic Ivermectin. It is 250mil. The last bottle I bought was 50ml for about $30.00. This is 250ml for $41.95 and 500ml for $62.95.

http://www.jefferspet.com/product.asp?pn=0040566

Awesome! Thanks Ron!