"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[PrimroseMom1]

All you guys probably know this. I read on another thread that if you think it is actually too cold for your chickens, you can go outside and slip your fingers between the feathers and if it's warm down in there, they're fine, that it should be warm. I think he was from Maine, but if we get weather in the teens, I will probably test a couple.

 

[CackedNut]

All you guys probably know this. I read on another thread that if you think it is actually too cold for your chickens, you can go outside and slip your fingers between the feathers and if it's warm down in there, they're fine, that it should be warm. I think he was from Maine, but if we get weather in the teens, I will probably test a couple.

That's neat! I'll try that tonight. I just have to decide who my "victim" will be.

 

[MS Rooster Cogb]

My Grandmothers Pumpkin bread Recipe
3 cups sugar
31/2 cup sifted flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. nut meg
1 cup cooking oil
4 eggs beaten ( fresh eggs)
2/3 cup water
2 cups pumpkin
1/2 chopped pecans or walnuts
sift together all dry ingredients make a well add remaining ingredients
mix until smooth pour into greased & floured loaf pans
Bake at 350 for 1 hour cool wrap well & freeze so it will not crumble when sliced
I have made the recipe many times & have froze the bread for later use eating pumpkin bread in the middle of the summer.
enjoy not only eating it but the awesome smell in your home while its baking

 

[TerriLaChicks]

My Grandmothers Pumpkin bread Recipe
3 cups sugar
31/2 cup sifted flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. nut meg
1 cup cooking oil
4 eggs beaten ( fresh eggs)
2/3 cup water
2 cups pumpkin
1/2 chopped pecans or walnuts
sift together all dry ingredients make a well add remaining ingredients
mix until smooth pour into greased & floured loaf pans
Bake at 350 for 1 hour cool wrap well & freeze so it will not crumble when sliced
I have made the recipe many times & have froze the bread for later use eating pumpkin bread in the middle of the summer.
enjoy not only eating it but the awesome smell in your home while its baking

That sounds wonderful! thank you so much for posting it -- definitely saving it to try!

 

[MS Rooster Cogb]

My oldest son got married Halloween night at the reception I was asked by several of my ex- in laws if I still make pumpkin bread. I have not made it in a few year. At least since my grandfather passed away no more free pumpkins not to menschen all the other fresh veggies he grew. I would buy the small bread loaf pans the ones you use once & toss bake the bread wrap in saran wrap tie a ribbon on it & give as Christmas gifts. I will get a pumpkin & make it this year I was just reminded how much it means to me & my family

 

[Celie]

Good morning peeps. It's nippy outside. If anyone is going out this morning and you drive by a Rac Trac store, stop in and get a free cup of coffe or hot chocolate. They have been giving it out for free all week until this Saturday. I get a free cup in the morning on the way to work and after work.

Stay warm Layers and get that gumbo cooking.

Last year, on our 5 hour round trip to my brother's house the Saturday before Christmas, we stopped at a Race Track for gas and coffee and I was wondering why so many cop cars were parked there! I went in to pay for the gas and get the coffee, and saw a sign " Free coffee, Have a safe and happy holiday season"! Well, when I got our BIG coffees and went to pay for them, the clerk said "no charge" and have a Merry Christmas! I said "What, I have the large one, because we have a ways yet to go and it's cold out", The clerk repeated "no charge" again. I couldn't believe anyone gave away free coffee anymore? But they did!

 

[Celie]

My Grandmothers Pumpkin bread Recipe
3 cups sugar
31/2 cup sifted flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. nut meg
1 cup cooking oil
4 eggs beaten ( fresh eggs)
2/3 cup water
2 cups pumpkin
1/2 chopped pecans or walnuts
sift together all dry ingredients make a well add remaining ingredients
mix until smooth pour into greased & floured loaf pans
Bake at 350 for 1 hour cool wrap well & freeze so it will not crumble when sliced
I have made the recipe many times & have froze the bread for later use eating pumpkin bread in the middle of the summer.
enjoy not only eating it but the awesome smell in your home while its baking

I don't have pumpkins, this year, but lots of huge sweet tators. Will they work, like they do in pies, as a substitute?

 

[Celie]

Another glorious day spent in the chicken yard. Had on my earphones and listening to my MP3 player. So nice. I planned on finishing the shingling on the new chicken shelter but got worried whether it would hold my weight. I will do it and take the risk bec I want to finish it. Some fotos.


Where I stopped on the shingles.

Added a lattice square on the side that gets the strongest sun.


This is Lizzie my blue Amercauna.


Snow White looks like an old man that needs to clean his beard. Lol

If it was me, I would bring a couple sturdy chairs from the kitchen and put a board across the seats to use as scaffolding. That is unless you have one of those heavy duty do everything ladders that will fold into scaffolding. Too easy at our age to fall and break something! LOL

 

[PrimroseMom1]

If it was me, I would bring a couple sturdy chairs from the kitchen and put a board across the seats to use as scaffolding. That is unless you have one of those heavy duty do everything ladders that will fold into scaffolding. Too easy at our age to fall and break something! LOL

Thank you my friend. That gives me some ideas.

 

[Celie]

I too have a rather hefty feed bill, but finally have been breaking pretty even by selling rabbits and turkeys and ducks, but for the winter, unless people want to buy a lot of turkey eggs, I don't know? Since the hay, at my local feed store is so lousy and I don't trust letting the animals eat it, because I often see bundles in the open, that it may have gotten wet and will mildew, I have been leaving patches in the pastures unmowed, until it seeds and the turkeys harvest the seeds. I call them my "crop circles" every week or so, on a very dry day, I will cut it with a week whacker and gather a small trailer full, store it in the barn and feed it to the rabbits, who love it and cuts my feed bill in half for the rabbits. I have a lot of meat rabbits. Now that fall is on us, the grass isn't growing as fast. We have Bahaya (probably not spelled right) grass all over these parts and we planted Bermuda mixed in. I was wondering, where to get some good feed hay for my furry friends, when Hubby walked in today and said that the neighbor, who owns a couple acres of empty pasture next to us, said we could have all his field for hay. Now to get his dad not to bush hog it before we start harvesting it! It is Bahaya with some weeds mixed in, but the rabbits won't mind that. The stuff at the feed store is OK for the nest boxes, but I wouldn't use it for feed. Last year, when I only had a few rabbits, our friend who owns a horse stable about 10 miles away, would sell us some of his, but he has taken in more horses to stable and I have a lot more rabbits now, so I wouldn't ask. Besides, being right next to me, I can cut only 4 days worth at a time and tote it to the rabbits in my little trailer behind my golf cart! Problem solved!! LOL Now if I can only get a field of turkey feed???? LOL