Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[RoseMarie1]

I'm really glad I have the rooster pen where I have it now instead of how I had it set up before...that other pen wouldn't have been near adequate for keeping out the weather and keeping the birds dry and warm. Thinking about leaving it set up for the winter in case I come upon any more good deals on free roosters so I can keep putting that meat in the jar. Most of the deer kills we got this year went right off this land and into other freezers, so I'm either going to go out and see if I can pop one or just put more rooster in the jar. Either way, I'd like to have a bit more meat in the jar for the winter.

I don't worry too much about storm damage...it always presents a challenge and can be an adventure. I think a lot of people miss out on seeing that aspect of emergency type situations...they make life more interesting, give you a chance to see what you are made of, and give you good stories to tell. Can't beat that with a stick.

LOL you're a hoot. I bet it WOULD be interesting being without power with you guys.

You guys stay safe AND warm!

 

[Triple Willow]

Folks...I'm too tired (and stuffed with pinto beans over the last of the catheads) to respond to the questions...without a little nap :/

That does sound good ...I may have some Grands brand catheads tomorrow. LOL I could cook a pot of beans but the boyfriend does cook a mean pot of white beans. He puts cracklins and I don't know what else in them. They're good!

 

[RoseMarie1]

Hooray, Rosemarie is back! And which of those two cute gals is she?? It's about time we heard from you, you had people worried about you, you know? :)

lol no I didn't know that. I am on the right in the green. The other one is my sister. This was my nephews wedding.

 

[Beekissed]

They sure don't. I'm constantly amazed at what my mother has done in her lifetime and her a simple housewife. A person could write a book about it all. She started homesteading at the age of 42, which is just 5 yrs younger than my current age....I can't even imagine still having 4 kids(out of nine) at home, moving with them and your husband to a large acreage with nothing but a chainsaw, some hand tools and toughness and building log homes, scratching out a living, raising food and preserving enough for a large family, etc. Up until that time she and Dad had done so many other things of note, but to go back to the land at that late age and start something completely new and live hard knock without any utilities is something I don't know if I could do in my current body.

Pic of my folks standing on the floor of their first log cabin build....I was 10 when we moved back that holler and started to homestead.


This pic here will give you an idea at just how small that cabin was. Two rooms, one for sleeping and living, the other was the kitchen. Wood stove in one, wood cook stove in the other and all her canning done on that wood cook stove in the hottest part of the summer, putting up 100 qts each of every kind of veggie we grew and meat we harvested..every drop of water had to be carried from the spring and filtered to filter out the mosquito larvae(my job). This is my oldest brother and mother...these older sibs kept coming back home and cycling through as they changed jobs, got out of the military, college, went through divorce, etc. At any given time there could be 8-13 people sleeping in that one room of the cabin.



Those hands and feet of Mom's have done more than most folks ever dreamed of in their lifetime and she is still going at the age of 79, doing all her own home maintenance, property maintenance, line dancing, square dancing, gutting, skinning and processing deer, etc. I couldn't hold a candle to her if I lived to be a 100.

 

[BCMaraniac]

That does sound good ...I may have some Grands brand catheads tomorrow. LOL I could cook a pot of beans but the boyfriend does cook a mean pot of white beans. He puts cracklins and I don't know what else in them. They're good!

Every so often, I can quarts of pinto beans and mixed beans. I also can pints of red beans, black beans, navy beans, and Great Northern beans. It gives me beans to use for quick meals, soups, to make refried beans, etc. The great northern or navy beans are great to use in white chicken chili!

I do like to cook a big pot of beans from time to time. In the winter I cook them with country ham in a cast iron dutch oven on the wood stove. They are delicious.

You mentioned cracklins. My mom used to make crackling cornbread.....yum....

 

[RoseMarie1]

I can sure understand that! And God blessed us with a good leaf fall this year too...I'm STILL raking up leaves and that's unheard of as they are usually blown away by now. That rooster pen is wading around in a foot of leaves right now....but you can't smell a thing there, even with 14 birds confined and pooping up a storm.

Just glad you are doing better!

Thanx Bee......lol yeah mines run is about halfway up those stumps that are sitting in there. There is an oak tree about even with their door to the run and it has dropped some leaves. I rake em up and just shovel em right on in the door. They're having trouble finding the soil in there now. lol

I pulled a Bee this evening.

I have a black Aussie that I am having fits getting back in the pen every night. Some of the other Aussies have followed suit. So this evening I had had enough so I left the roost door open and close the back door to it so the others couldn't get in there and get back outside since I had FOUR Aussies that decided they just were not going back inside. The temps had dropped drastically and I was in shorts just about to freeze. SO I left their tails outside with the roost door open like I said. I told hubby I was going to drive the others into the roosting area and make those 4 Aussies do without supper and I bet their butts will come in the pen from now on when I call them to come inside. Anyway one of them had to lay an egg and it was dark before the huzzy got it laid. I had to turn the light on inside so she could find her way to the roost because I didn't want her camping out in the nests all night long and starting a bad habit. I collected her egg and turned the light off after she got on the roost. Anyway they didn't get any supper so hopefully this will break this little habit before it gets any worse. When it's mega cold out there or raining that's for the birds!

 

[Regin]

Good luck on getting another deer. I bet you'll get that done.

That was a good idea on the roosters. Good and cheap or even free meat is "a good thing" as Martha would say. LOL

I agree, I sure don't wish for hard times but you never know what you can actually do until you're put in that hard spot. Then you get that spark inside you and start thinking, "Okaay, now here's what I've gotta do." My mama calls it "backing your ears" (like a stubborn, peed off mule) and just doing what you have to do. I bet I've heard that expression at least a hundred times. lol I am sooo glad to have been raised by a tough woman like her.

They sure don't make them like they use to.

You don't really know WHAT you can do until you have to.

 

[Beekissed]

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Oh, no...when folks start naming actions after you, it cannot be a good thing. But...it's exactly what I would have done!

Give them exactly what they want until they see just how stupid what they want really is. Be careful what ya wish for!

 

[RoseMarie1]

They sure don't. I'm constantly amazed at what my mother has done in her lifetime and her a simple housewife. A person could write a book about it all. She started homesteading at the age of 42, which is just 5 yrs younger than my current age....I can't even imagine still having 4 kids(out of nine) at home, moving with them and your husband to a large acreage with nothing but a chainsaw, some hand tools and toughness and building log homes, scratching out a living, raising food and preserving enough for a large family, etc. Up until that time she and Dad had done so many other things of note, but to go back to the land at that late age and start something completely new and live hard knock without any utilities is something I don't know if I could do in my current body.

Pic of my folks standing on the floor of their first log cabin build....I was 10 when we moved back that holler and started to homestead.


This pic here will give you an idea at just how small that cabin was. Two rooms, one for sleeping and living, the other was the kitchen. Wood stove in one, wood cook stove in the other and all her canning done on that wood cook stove in the hottest part of the summer, putting up 100 qts each of every kind of veggie we grew and meat we harvested..every drop of water had to be carried from the spring and filtered to filter out the mosquito larvae(my job). This is my oldest brother and mother...these older sibs kept coming back home and cycling through as they changed jobs, got out of the military, college, went through divorce, etc. At any given time there could be 8-13 people sleeping in that one room of the cabin.



Those hands and feet of Mom's has done more than most folks ever dreamed of in their lifetime and she is still going at the age of 79, doing all her own home maintenance, property maintenance, line dancing, square dancing, gutting, skinning and processing deer, etc. I couldn't hold a candle to her if I lived to be a 100.

oh my goodness. That cabin length looks like the size of my living room but the living room is much wider in width and all those folks lived in it. Talk about mashed like sardines.

I bet they didn't have any trouble sleeping at night time they were so tired. Man kind 100 of EACH veggie. My hubby's Mom had 9 kids to but all of those except my hubby was had out of a wheelchair. Talk about a tough woman, she was. She was in her early 20's when she had to start using the wheel chair.
Loved your pix Bee!

 

[Triple Willow]

Every so often, I can quarts of pinto beans and mixed beans.  I also can pints of red beans, black beans, navy beans, and Great Northern beans.  It gives me beans to use for quick meals, soups, to make refried beans, etc.  The great northern or navy beans are great to use in white chicken chili!

I do like to cook a big pot of beans from time to time.  In the winter I cook them with country ham in a cast iron dutch oven on the wood stove.  They are delicious.

You mentioned cracklins.  My mom used to make crackling cornbread.....yum....

I'm hungry! LOL Somebody (I think it was ME! lol) made some cracklin cornbread a little while back. That is good stuff! That's a good idea, canning the beans. I get new ideas from you guys all the time!