I am a broth-making fiend. I simmer the bones for a day on low. When strained out, the bones will mash with a potato masher. The hens love 'em! Think of all the minerals, calcium, and marrow they get this way. And nothing goes to waste, which always reduces one's carbon footprint.
I am certain that there is no resemblance to live chickens. My broth and chicken dinners smell very different from the girls outside! It is like cooking up the shell-less and the cracked and the poopy eggs and chopping them up for them. They don't start eating their own eggs, because they don't connect the two, they are so different.
They seem to increase their egg production in winter when I feed them these mashed bones regularly.
There is a pot of bones on the woodstove right now. It will be transferred to the electric stove, on 2, when I go to bed. I am also melting suet to make suet cakes for the wild birds. Might as well use some of that heat for as many tasks as possible! Oh, and those thick socks that never dry enough are in front of the stove, on a cute iron mitten tree. Poor hubby. Always a zillion projects to step around.....
I am certain that there is no resemblance to live chickens. My broth and chicken dinners smell very different from the girls outside! It is like cooking up the shell-less and the cracked and the poopy eggs and chopping them up for them. They don't start eating their own eggs, because they don't connect the two, they are so different.
They seem to increase their egg production in winter when I feed them these mashed bones regularly.
There is a pot of bones on the woodstove right now. It will be transferred to the electric stove, on 2, when I go to bed. I am also melting suet to make suet cakes for the wild birds. Might as well use some of that heat for as many tasks as possible! Oh, and those thick socks that never dry enough are in front of the stove, on a cute iron mitten tree. Poor hubby. Always a zillion projects to step around.....
