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[RaZ]

bought·en(bôt

n) Chiefly Northern U.S.
v.
A past participle of buy.

adj.
1. Commercially made; purchased, as opposed to homemade: boughten bread.
2. Artificial; false. Used of teeth.
Regional Note: American regional dialects allow freer adjectival use of certain past participles of verbs than does Standard English. Time-honored examples are boughten (chiefly Northern U.S.) and bought (chiefly Southern U.S.) to mean "purchased rather than homemade": a boughten dress, bought bread. The Northern form boughten (as in store boughten) features the participial ending -en, added to bought, the participial form, probably by analogy with more common participial adjectives such as frozen. Another development, analogous to homemade, is evident in bought-made, cited in DARE from a Texas informant

I give up.

I'm gonna go to da drive-thru for some of dem boughten donuts I seen last week when my bud and me was at a ATM machine.

 

[Juise]

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I told him to leave them in there today though, and prob tomorrow & thursday at least. Thanks for the help though, I hope they figure it out.

Our noobs took quite a bit to figure it out as well, the first couple nights I simply put them in, thinking they would get it. They didn't, so the next few nights I pushed them up the ramp. They still didn't figure things out. I stopped bothering because there is not a human entrance on their run, and I was tired of lifting it up and crawling in, and for the next handful of days I was just putting them in the coop because it was easier for me. It took them a little over a week, but they did start going in themselves after that. I would say that I do not think you need to lock them in, though it may help them learn faster, I believe they will work it out.

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Lost my little rose

I am so sorry

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We got the heifer!!!!! Will post more about it tonight, and lots of pictures.

She struck me as a Penelope

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I give up.

I'm gonna go to da drive-thru for some of dem boughten donuts I seen last week when my bud and me was at a ATM machine.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I am really torn up over this, i tried to do the usual things to help, i gave her molassas horse feed, which we give to the goats some days, ( gives chickens the runs, usually ) i took her off the nest once a day to eat and poo, gave her some muskmelon a couple days ago, and at the end i bathed her in warm water and tried to do the vasoline thing. I had also brought her home so she was warm and not stressed.

Has anyone else ever had such a thing happen? Was it her age? (She was under a year old) I have tried to find more info on broodies having this problem, but most of them got resolved on their own. I was scared to have her brood in the first place, now i am scared that i may have done something, and i don't ever want to go through this again.


I would never have let her brood if i thought she was in danger.

 

[sarah92480]

I give up.

I'm gonna go to da drive-thru for some of dem boughten donuts I seen last week when my bud and me was at a ATM machine.

I wish I could help you out fuzzbutt...but I have not as of yet experienced any of these problems (hope I never do but you never know). Im sorry for your loss, and I somehow doubt it was your fault. Try not to beat yourself up over it.

 

[taprock]

Has anyone else ever had such a thing happen? Was it her age? (She was under a year old) I have tried to find more info on broodies having this problem, but most of them got resolved on their own. I was scared to have her brood in the first place, now i am scared that i may have done something, and i don't ever want to go through this again.


I would never have let her brood if i thought she was in danger.

I'm so sorry but it is not your fault anymore than me putting chicks under a young broody and her letting them die. You can't control all the factors. You kept an eye on her and intervened when it was needed. I wish you would have had a better ending. It seems like there is a really good sticky about broodies under incubation/hatching. I'm not sure age would matter. My two were the same age - under a year still and one did good and the other not.

 

[chicken grandma]

My type-A side would just like everyone to take note that Chicken Grandma FREEZES her sauce. Both garlic and olive oil are no-nos in canning.

Carry on.

I sincerely love this forum. I only froze my sauce because I don't know how to can. Thank goodness I froze the sauce because I had no idea that canning with garlic and olive oil could be harmful to us. Whew! Thanks for the info Olive!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Is anyone else having issues with posting? I have no toolbar with fonts, colors or smilies

 

[chicken grandma]

Hey chicken grandma I have a question about that sauce making method...

When you "bake" the onion/peppers/tomatoes, how much do you use of each, and what does it yield? As in, if I wanted to make a quart jar of sauce, how many tomatoes and peppers and onions, to get the right flavor? Like 5 tomatoes to 1 pepper & onion or something? Im sure it's not precise by any means, but I'm terrible at estimating stuff like that so I wondered if you had any idea on that one. I am totally going to try this.

Hi Sarah, I usually fill two large cookie sheets with tomatoes quartered or Roma tomatoes cut in half and then add just one bell pepper and one onion on one of the cookie sheets. I sprinkle the tomatoes with garlic powder. Trouble is, that pepper cooks fast! Gotta watch it.
Onion gets dry if I don't cover it with olive oil and watch it. For that reason, I often saute the onion and pepper in a pot and then throw them in a blender.
I have my blender sitting on the counter and when the pepper is soft baked, I toss it in the blender. Let it sit there. Then the onion gets done, I toss it in the blender also. Then the smaller tomatoes look done - I taste one and if it is bursting with flavor - I put the smaller tomatoes in the blender. Then the larger tomatoes are done and I add them and some fresh basil to the blender and WHIRR....... roasted tomato sauce. I think that would make 2 quarts.
Then I serve it or freeze it.

 

[Juise]

Yes, you need the acidity to kill any bacteria. I make herbed oils, as well, and in order to keep it instead of using it all immediately, there must be no moisture whatsoever present in the herbs. I usually use up my last years herbs in this way when I start the new ones drying. To get them out of the way, and because whatever is left by then is very dry. I have heard that onions are the most dangerous thing we keep in our fridges, (after opening them, obviously,) because of their high botulism risk.

 

[Juise]

Not that that has stopped me from keeping opened onions