Dixie Chicks

[ApiaryandAviary]

PIGGIES!

@ApiaryandAviary, nice Facebook page

cute piggies. Thank you. I created using my iphone but someone said the pics are blurry on a desktop. I will try harder to fix my desktop. I dont "do" computers.

 

[Beer can]

Beer, here babies tend to be put out on naps outside down to about 0F.

I saw that on a news segment yrs ago. Don't remember if it was Finland or what it was about, health segment maybe? All I remember on it was parents wheeling their babies down the street parking the baby carraiges outside of a coffee house or resturant and leaving them there while they were inside, in the winter. Guess it's a common thing to do.
Native Americans would dunk their babies in icy rivers or streams to toughen them up, they didn't cry.
Guess it's what your used to. Long streatches of subzero F here makes the 20s F feel like t-shirt weather.

AnA, oh, I thought they were slightly older SS in the banner pic. What are they then?

They do look like SS Lol, I think they might be the jubilee orps.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

AnA, oh, I thought they were slightly older SS in the banner pic. What are they then?

I have many varieties of the breed English Orpingtons, Calico Cochin Bantams, Ameraucana, & Polish, I need to get ALL 60 chickens pictures up. We are down to 60. That is better than last year when we went into winter with over 200 and I had just had total left knee replacement. This winter I get to go into a total right knee replacement BUT with only 60 chickens. I have never been heavy. I had osteoarthritis and when the junkyard dogs knocked me down from the top of the stairs my bony knees never recovered. I just have tucked and rolled said one surgeon, another said I should have kept the laundry basket infront of me. Well if I had not gone over the top of that laundry basket knees first trying to fight the fall I guess I would have been OK. Now adays, I just throw the laundry down over the balcony. That seems even smarter.

 

[Beer can]

I use the Alton Brown method for making jerky.
A box fan and air conditioner filters.
Works great and makes "real" jerky

I bet that smoker of yours would make yummy jerky. I usually just add liquid smoke. I have a dehydrator, but there is a fine line between perfect and shoe leather. I usually shut it off, let it cool down early and test, sometimes throw them in gallon ziplocks to draw the moisture out, then go a little more if necessary. I prefer the oven on 150. Parents always made it above their wood stove, that made the best.
If I make some and hide it the kids immediately know when they walk inside cause of the liquid smoke smell, and go on the hunt for it Lol!

 

[Beer can]

sorry it is blurry
I know I need to get some good photos.

Pics look fine on our laptop. Purty chickens. I'm on our old much better laptop though. Wife broke the plug into laptop side of the charger on our new one. Resurrected our old one with windows xp. Works so much better than our newer one with windows 8. When I type on BYC all the letters take, don't have to go back through and fix everything. Have a old desktop keyboard on the side beings it's missing letters B and D though, Lol.
Wife for some reason hasn't been in any hurry to get a new charger for the newer laptop, Lol.

 

[vehve]

Beer, yeah, that's common, and then people put the kids out in the yard or balcony to sleep as well. They're properly clad though.

Win 8 was a total disaster. I updated my other laptop (scored a 1300 euro one year old laptop for 70 euros from my previous employer) to win 10, and so far it's been okay. Really like that machine, the flash drive makes it boot up in 10 seconds.

AnA, a third of a flock and a functioning knee will probably make this winter a bit nicer.

 

[vehve]

Bunnies are growing fast. We only counted 6 today though, so maybe we only had 7 to begin with. No dead kits to be found anywhere.

 

[bamadude]

I bet that smoker of yours would make yummy jerky. I usually just add liquid smoke. I have a dehydrator, but there is a fine line between perfect and shoe leather. I usually shut it off, let it cool down early and test, sometimes throw them in gallon ziplocks to draw the moisture out, then go a little more if necessary. I prefer the oven on 150. Parents always made it above their wood stove, that made the best.
If I make some and hide it the kids immediately know when they walk inside cause of the liquid smoke smell, and go on the hunt for it Lol!

Heat ruins real jerky.
I would never ever ever use a dehydrator or a smoker for jerky.
Check out the Alton Brown method. I will guarantee you it is awesome

 

[perchie.girl]

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I use the oven on low which is about 150 degrees. Just promotes deyhdration.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Just a thought about the season with my favorite two types of critters