Fuzzy's Farm

[silver1313]

I like that piper is so much more self sufficient than so many kids her age .. my son likes to cook but canning etc is nowhere near where he is at and at 11 my daughter has no interest in learning to cook or anything ... I have decided when we finally get out property and set up house I want one of the new Ball canners so I can learn to can stuff lol never had interest when my grannny was doing it years ago but now I want to know lol I want her pickle recipe so bad ...when we were little we would still the pickles hot from the pot everytime she turned her back !!! We liked them hot or cold didnt matter . Hmm maybe I should call her .. lol she prob think i was nuts after all these years of not being interested in stuff like canning etc ... Cooking yeah but other stuff nah never was my thing. Maybe It because im getting older .

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Deep breaths. On Day 18, when you get a few minutes, take the eggs out of the turner, and add your lockdown water all at the same time. Don't worry about the time of day. It's not rocket science or cake baking so you don't have to be exact.

Remember: hens do this in as many different circumstances and environments as there are hens.

OK. breathing. I don't have a turner, i have mine in a cut out paper egg carton, and i tip the box side to side per advice given by a sucessfull LG user.......................

I am most worried about the stupid hydrogometer that i have. When i did the humidity test, it read 60% at 8 hours, so i put the thing on top of the cup and at 12 hours it said 65. Now i have been doing a dry incu, and it reads a steady 32??? so i don't know whether the test was right or the metor now.

 

[NovaAman]

Growing up with a mom (the step one) who didn't do anything, no craft skills, not hobbies, nothing... We didn't learn anything from her. And I mean nothing. My dad on the other hand, he knew how to knit. He new the ins and outs of camping in the rough. Cooking was an experiment. LOL. My birth mom, she knows canning and getting by by the seat of your pants... BUT I didn't grow up with her, so I didn't learn any of that from her. I learned the getting by part on my own. I do it now.... BUT I am learning to grow my own food and raise my own food and one day it'd be nice to be able to know how to hunt with out using my car. I can dress a deer... Again... car hunting.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

would it be too low to shoot for 50% humidity? Then if the meter was off by 10 it would actually be 60, or if it was off by 5 it would be 55; i know that it shoots up after some hatch, so i don't know about having it any higher.............?? I don't want the later ones drowning with water in their air pocket. Especially since cocoa's egg is bigger,and looked at candling like it may have been a day behind!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Oooo! i almost forgot to tell you guys that i *may* have gotten my first cookie egg! It could be a fluke, but the egg in question seemed a deeper grayer blue, vs the light greenish blue of princess............. i did see cookie showing more interest in eggs and nests, and her comb seems redder

It would be easier to tell if it wasn't fall and princess wasn't slowing down. Once these babies hatch i will be able to be out there more and actually try to catch her "in the act"

 

[NovaAman]

A friend of mine that lives up in Wyoming/Grandville told me I just had to watch an Episode of Duck Dynasty. I made her watch an episode of Here comes Honey Boo Boo... ANYWAY! I just watch the episode where the two old men go to the school for career day. Uncle Si told gruesome Nam stories, and Grandpa Phil cleaned and skinned a duck... Oh. My...... God!

I thought it was great. LOL. The guys actually have some pretty darn good family values.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

My dad was talking about Honey Boo-Boo the other day:

Dad: Ya know, at least Honey Boo-Boo's family all love eachother. Ya know, like they aren't TOTALLY disfunctional. They might think that butter and ketchup 50/50 makes spaghetti sauce, but at least they aren't crazy or anything....
Mom, Brother, Me: Yeah, you're right. They could be like your family! *rim shot*

My poor dad, his family's insane........

 

[Dwkuska]

I like that piper is so much more self sufficient than so many kids her age .. my son likes to cook but canning etc is nowhere near where he is at and at 11 my daughter has no interest in learning to cook or anything ... I have decided when we finally get out property and set up house I want one of the new Ball canners so I can learn to can stuff lol never had interest when my grannny was doing it years ago but now I want to know lol I want her pickle recipe so bad ...when we were little we would still the pickles hot from the pot everytime she turned her back !!! We liked them hot or cold didnt matter . Hmm maybe I should call her .. lol she prob think i was nuts after all these years of not being interested in stuff like canning etc ... Cooking yeah but other stuff nah never was my thing. Maybe It because im getting older .

It would seem to me that girls (30 and under) have no interest in traditional "homemaking" skills. I know lots of girls who dont have a clue how to cook anything without a microwave. It would seem there is a sort of gender reversal in society... thus why you have guys like myself in a crazy chicken lady forum lol

 

[NovaAman]

LOL, MAN! My neice is 15, she doesn't know how to cook a meal from scratch... AND NOW at her school, they do not even offer Home Ec. I took every cooking elective they had because my mom didn't teach me to cook anything other that spaghetti, goulash, chilli... OH, and of course the ulitmate staple, mac and cheese. I know how to cook so many different things now. I have a few Asian buds who have taught me simple dishes. Being married to a Mexican, his sister taught me to make beans, rices, fajitas, tortillas, flauta, enchiladas... well you get the picture. I got grounded BIG TIME in senior year... I kept skipping. Was totally bored with classes. I was in AP classes for a lot of them, and I was just not challenged. (WELL I AM CHALLENGED) I got caught because the same day I skipped, my idiot kid sister skipped to get wasted with her buds. ONLY she had been skipping all week already. SO, Dad calls the school for me, and finds out I am out too, and finds out that I am on the verge of failing senior year! I had to quit my job, lost my car and couldn't go out with friends. I had a semester of homework to catch up in most my classes, only art, PE, History were the only classes I was passing... Out of 7. LOL, SO, I ended up having an average 1.83 at graduation... Yah... Not kidding. LOL, SO, that month before the end of the school year where I was grounded, I had nothing better to do than to cook. We never had the same meal twice in that time period. I'd even send my dad to the liquor store that was next door, I know right, to get beer and wines for dishes I was making. LOL.

But yeah, more and more meals are already boxed up and ready to go. Just need to add water, milk, butter, and ocassionally the meat of choice... So very sad. No wonder they say that if WW3 or some other natural catastrophe were to hit, people would be SOL cuz they can't do anything to take care of themselves with out technology. I told my sons father that I would have them in boy scouts or some other club like that so they can learn skills. He told me they don't even camp like that anymore... Oh... Man...

 

[NovaAman]

Fuzzy... they are blue and blue splashes...
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