EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[ronott1]

. Oh we are going to be bad. Do we have to share?

I guess we better if we want to put our pants, and not end up in a diabetic coma.
Not diabetic yet.

I know!

I freeze the extra so it takes a bit more work to eat them....I do not know why they are gone so soon though

 

[daxigait]

I know!

I freeze the extra so it takes a bit more work to eat them....I do not know why they are gone so soon though

Wow, are you going to make yours from scratch? I just stopped as I got off work and grabbed mine. I like Duncan Hines dark chocolate fudge brownies. Only that type if I am getting one from a box. Then I get a bag of dark chocolate morsels to pour a few on top. Very very bad.
At least you have the self-control to freeze a few.

 

[ronott1]

Wow, are you going to make yours from scratch? I just stopped as I got off work and grabbed mine. I like Walmart Duncan Hines dark chocolate fudge brownies. Only that type if I am getting one from a box. Then I get a bag of dark chocolate morsels to pour a few on top. Very very bad.
At least you have the self-control to freeze a few.

I make everything from scratch. This morning I started pizza dough and will make pizza tonight.
The daughters will not let me buy pizza. Mine is too good apparently.

Sometimes I want a night off though...

 

[ronott1]

This is a very good brownie recipe:

Tom’s Brownies
pre heat oven to 350

2oz semi sweet chocolate bar 1/3 C baking cocoa
½ C plus 2tbl. Boiling water.
½ C plus 2 TBL. Vegetable oil 4 tbl melted butter
2 eggs plus 2 egg yolks 2 tsp vanilla
2 ½ C Sugar 1 ¾ C flour 1 tsp salt
6 oz chunked bitter chocolate
Shave semi‐sweet chocolate. Add cocoa powder to large bowl. Pour boiling water over cocoa and
whisk. Whisk after adding each: semi‐sweet chocolate, oil and butter, egg mixture, vanilla and sugar. Fold in flour and salt. Mix in bitter chocolate.
Pour into parchment or nonstick aluminum lined 9x13 inch pan. Bake 30 minutes until tooth pick comes out clean. Cool for an hour and then cut and serve.

 

[daxigait]

I make everything from scratch. This morning I started pizza dough and will make pizza tonight.
The daughters will not let me buy pizza. Mine is too good apparently.

Sometimes I want a night off though...

My sister makes almost everything for her and her family but from scratch too. I wish I could do more like that, but between working 60 hours a week and then having to take care of all the farm animals and barn chores it just doesn't happen that way. The best I can do is at least I can grow my own meat and I make my meals and don't do the process stuff very much. Though, I do buy chicken from the store cuz I just it's too much work.

 

[daxigait]

@hippiestink do you or anyone else know what I need to do to the beef fat trim that I just got from my cow so that I can use it for soap?

 

[daxigait]

I got the guys sorted out and the meat split and now I'm headed home to do chores. I guess I will try to catch up later if anyone is still here by the time I finish chores.

 

[Faraday40]

Oh My!!! What should have been a great day turned out terrible.

and more


We just discovered (moments after it happened) that a hawk killed DD's black silkie, Gilfie! The body was ripped apart & still warm. We're all pretty devastated. DH wasn't home yet, so I asked a neighbor to come over to help me with the burial. Out of all our chickens, why Gilfie!?!


Both kids cried a lot of course. This chicken was more like a pet dog than livestock. DD hatched & cared for this bird. It bonded to her as mama and followed DD everywhere. The chicken spent more time in the house than in the yard and was extremely fond of road trips. Gilfie went with DD to several schools, parks, special events, and was well known throughout the town. (In fact, at Easter the line to pet the famous Gilfie was longer than the Easter Bunny's line!)

I always joked about Gilfie being one of our "useless chickens" but I find myself still crying and in shock. Just an hour before she was killed, she was gently & persistently pecking on my ankle which was her way of asking to be picked up. (A bad but endearing habit of our spoiled chicken.)

RIP, sweet Gilfie.

Taken Wednesday:
(An especially sad photo because this was also the exact spot where she was killed today.)

 

[hippiestink]

@hippiestink do you or anyone else know what I need to do to the beef fat trim that I just got from my cow so that I can use it for soap?

This is for rendering bacon fat but the concept is the same regardless of what fat you're using.

https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/render-lard-home/

 

[hippiestink]

Oh My!!! What should have been a great day turned out terrible.

and more


We just discovered (moments after it happened) that a hawk killed DD's black silkie, Gilfie! The body was ripped apart & still warm. We're all pretty devastated. DH wasn't home yet, so I asked a neighbor to come over to help me with the burial. Out of all our chickens, why Gilfie!?!


Both kids cried a lot of course. This chicken was more like a pet dog than livestock. DD hatched & cared for this bird. It bonded to her as mama and followed DD everywhere. The chicken spent more time in the house than in the yard and was extremely fond of road trips. Gilfie went with DD to several schools, parks, special events, and was well known throughout the town. (In fact, at Easter the line to pet the famous Gilfie was longer than the Easter Bunny's line!)

I always joked about Gilfie being one of our "useless chickens" but I find myself still crying and in shock. Just an hour before she was killed, she was gently & persistently pecking on my ankle which was her way of asking to be picked up. (A bad but endearing habit of our spoiled chicken.)

RIP, sweet Gilfie.

Taken Wednesday:
(An especially sad photo because this was also the exact spot where she was killed today.)

That's awful! We behaved in much the same way when we lost Daisy last week. Our "useless" birds always end up being the ones we love the most.