Granny's gone and done it again

[Wishing4Wings]

a;most 2am here. Hate this time change. Guess I better go to bed. Sweet dreams all

 

[CapricornFarm]

OUr eggs are in lockdown. We took the turner out and they are just lying on their sides, is that okay? I know there's nothing we can do about it now, but should we maybe have put them, air cell up, in an egg carton? Not worried, just wondering. This is our first hatch, a learning experience; if they hatch, they hatch, and if they don't, they don't.

They can hatch either way, but i prefer to sit them in cartons so the chicks don't roll them around. I have 2 chicks hatched so far.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I really want to try chicken feet. The next chicken we butcher I am going to cook them. Has anyone here ever eaten them? They are suppose to be so good for your joints

Just be sure the feet are not full of infection! Sometimes they are sold that way.

 

[CapricornFarm]

We have so many eggs now. My husband wants more chickens! We have around 50.

Lol, i wish i coukd get hubby to enjoy chickens. He just complains about rooster crowing at night.

 

[cherrynberry]

Oh geez. Just hand wrote 8 pages of notes and I’m still not done. My hands are dying!! I’m reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in English class rn. At least it’s a GREAT book lol

 

[BigBlueHen53]

They can hatch either way, but i prefer to sit them in cartons so the chicks don't roll them around. I have 2 chicks hatched so far.

I came in this morning and found a chick! We did it!

 

[prostar]

This time change can….censored censored censored bleepity blooop bleep.

Rain’s supposed to come tonight. Calling for 1.21 inches overnight, and almost half an inch tomorrow.

Good thing we’re on high ground or else I’d be building an ark. :/ ground is still wet from previous rains. Pretty sure I lost my rosemary to root rot. (It was potted but I see standing water in the pot - so it must not have been able to drain proper which is odd.)

 

[troyer]

I really want to try chicken feet. The next chicken we butcher I am going to cook them. Has anyone here ever eaten them? They are suppose to be so good for your joints

Chicken feet are good for eating. My mother used to make them, they are best eaten fresh off the stove and cooled to eating temperature. We would peel the outer layer off, lightly salt them and eat the softened grizzle. Unless they were broiler legs there is so little actual meat on them that if you're after the meat it's not worth it.
Every year we replaced our laying hens for a new batch of layers. We used the legs for chicken based stock.
Note: We kept the leg stock separate from the rest of the body/bone stock because the leg stock was more oily. My mother had certain recipes that she liked to be more oily depending on what it was. One of those was making hominy in the oily stock, to this day I think hominy is best cooked in that oily stock. I have had hominy in various other ways since I'm married, but it just doesn't have as full of a flavor as the oily chicken leg stock gives it.

 

[h2oratt]

Just be sure the feet are not full of infection! Sometimes they are sold that way.

I think I will go to a restaurant and try them.

 

[h2oratt]

Chicken feet are good for eating. My mother used to make them, they are best eaten fresh off the stove and cooled to eating temperature. We would peel the outer layer off, lightly salt them and eat the softened grizzle. Unless they were broiler legs there is so little actual meat on them that if you're after the meat it's not worth it.
Every year we replaced our laying hens for a new batch of layers. We used the legs for chicken based stock.
Note: We kept the leg stock separate from the rest of the body/bone stock because the leg stock was more oily. My mother had certain recipes that she liked to be more oily depending on what it was. One of those was making hominy in the oily stock, to this day I think hominy is best cooked in that oily stock. I have had hominy in various other ways since I'm married, but it just doesn't have as full of a flavor as the oily chicken leg stock gives it.

Thank you, Troy