Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

didn't I answer that?

I stick them in a grocery bag in the fridge if it is for a couple of days, I will do multi layers of saran wrap if I will freeze them, diced up poultry goes in zip locks

Try a rinse with bleach water, I little bit of bleach in the water

those ziplock bags are mighty handy....

 

[Mahen100]

@ Exposure I'm thinking EE hunt in snow shoes!

 

[tntchix]

The SUN is shining, the SUN really is Shining. And that SUN shining makes me so happy. The cold and melting snow driping forming ice slicks however will keep me in.
I hope others are having a SUN SHINY day too.

The sun is blaring and is so dang deceiving. brrrrrr

I like the idea of these shrink bags alot.........how does everyone else prepare their freezer camp meats?

I really like this too. I gotta start processing my own food.

hmmmm with the way you have your sprouts thing set up are you able to move and gentle turn the sprouts? I found with my sprouts I needed to stir them a few times a day and a couple rinses a day has done the trick for me... also I stopped putting them in the closet where the water heater is...room with more air circulation seems to have helped also

my 2 cents...I soak, then rinse 2x a day for the first couple days, still getting a bit of mold but just on top, easy to discard. Mine arre on the dining room table in front of the big window.

Hi Amber

saw the link in your salutation and decided to check it out. Looks like lots of nice folks over here. Dixie Chicks, hmmmm, I'm northern now but my roots are southeastern Kentucky. Do I qualify????

hey there! Welcome.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

sun isnt even  anywhere close to rising yet here  and it's been showering since I woke up so I am thinking it will be a drizzly day today

in a couple of hours the sun will set. This is the first day long of sun in weeks. We have had partly cloudy or cloudy gray for soooo long. I am just happy we have had sun all day.

 

[NotAFarm]

@NotAFarm didnt you say you use tractor for meat birds? do you find they eat less feed being able to graze the grass and bugs in the tractor?

Yep, my tractor is 5 x 8 and 25 birds is a crowd by the time they are ready to go

I have raised Cornish X and Freedom Rangers for meat for the freezer and the tractor gives them access to fresh grass but it is not enough to reduce the feed consumption. Fermenting their feed will help to reduce the quantity by a bit. If you are raising dual purpose birds that are males left from your egg hatching, they will be more active but they will need plenty of feed to get them to a good size.

I have a door on the tractor and opening it and chasing them out into a fenced area forces them to be more active but the CX are not too interested in activity. I would like to have a hen raise some CX and see if they behave differently from the brooder raised ones that just want to sit by the feeder and eat. The Freedom Rangers acted more like my regular flock in that they would look for good dusting place and scratch around a bit.

 

[Beer can]

I have a vacuum sealer for anything I know is going to be in the freezer for a long time, ziplock bag everything else. A roll of vacuum bag can get ate up quick doing whole chickens, have to cut them long to get in the vacuum slot and work $$. I heard of bags for whole chickens you dunk under cold water to remove air, never saw those shrink wrap one's, looks like how they come in the store.

 

[NotAFarm]

I am still holding out hope that by April 5 most of the snow will be melted

 

[Outpost JWB]

Close up of one of the baby bunnies. They look like little rats.

I know the pic quality is not good, but here are all 7 of them. There is one that is double the size of the others. It must've taken after the daddy buck.

 

[Mahen100]

...

Close up of one of the baby bunnies. They look like little rats. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ JWB, without knowing what I was looking at, I would have guessed Char-pei pups.

 

[vehve]

Al, bleach would work, but I don't want to put chlorine into my food chain. That just seems wrong to me. I was shocked to find out that most store bought chicken is rinsed with bleach in the US.

*Edit* I know water is sometimes treated with it, and that it breaks down pretty quickly, but still, not for me.