North Carolina

[HenThymes]

Not a canner. Pressure cookers run from 2 quart to about 2 gallons. Here is a 4 quart on Amazon. They cook fast and can tenderize the toughest meat. The one Mom uses most often is an old 4 quart from the 70s. I think it was Granny's, but it still works perfectly. I like to here the zzt, zzt, zzt of a pressure cooker going on the stove. The only thing you have to be careful of is not to open it till it has cooled and the pressure is gone.

Matt

Going to look for one of those! Something else to save up $ for.

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Not a canner. Pressure cookers run from 2 quart to about 2 gallons. Here is a 4 quart on Amazon. They cook fast and can tenderize the toughest meat. The one Mom uses most often is an old 4 quart from the 70s. I think it was Granny's, but it still works perfectly. I like to here the zzt, zzt, zzt of a pressure cooker going on the stove. The only thing you have to be careful of is not to open it till it has cooled and the pressure is gone.

Matt

Thank you!! Now I know what I can use my brand new pressure cooker for!! LOL. I have had this thing for about 2 years now and haven't even done anything with it aside from use it to boil water (to learn to pluck a chicken) and brined my turkey in it this year (since the stinker was SO big!!). Not sure how I would cook a hen though, as this one is HUGE (my 24lb turkey fit completely in it save the tail sticking out...and that was with it filled with brine). LOL guess I shouldn't complain though, DH bought it for me as an anniversary present so I could learn to can veggies once our garden gets going...little did he know that I prefer frozen veggies to canned...still, it WILL be used and he will be happy!! Many many thanks!!

I am very happy to say that the rain has passed over us and we are for the most part drying out!! I wish I could say the same about the yard, but alas it is just a big mud pit or soppy grass pit!! I was hoping to do some gardening while the little one napped, but ended up just sitting down with my feet up, hoping my back takes a break from hurting. All of a sudden I am getting pains and I am HOPING it's braxton hicks or just the sciatica (??) nerve feeling the pressure. Nothing indicative of what you might think, just a steady throbbing. Looks like my day is pretty much on the outs!! BOO. Hope everyone else has a great afternoon!! Enjoy the weekend!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I posted this to the sick poultry forum but thought I would run by all my friends here on the NC thread and get opinions.

I am very worried about a sick hen I have and also I am very worried about my flock now that she is sick.

A little history:

She, one of my standard brahma hens, went broody about 5 weeks ago. Her first clutched failed and she was sitting on her second clutch when she got sick. I went out to the coop to feed and water yesterday when I noticed she was off her eggs and was on the ground in the corner... very weird behavior as she would normally be on her nest or running to me to get food.

So I went up to her and picked her straight up, more weird behavior as she would normally run away from me picking her up. I noticed her nose was dirty and crusty and her nostrils were clogged. After holding her a little longer we noticed she was weezing.. then she she sneezed.. then she coughed... and then we really noticed her weezing was pretty bad. We were seriously worried at this point and took her straight into the house and put her into a large box with food in water by herself. We hopped into the car and drove to TSC and got some tylan 50 and went home and administered .5 CC of it in the skin on the back of her neck and then put her up for bed.

This morning she is still weezing but it is starting to sound like it is breaking up a bit and she seems a bit more active and her nostrils were not clogged. Things looking up a bit. I will give her some more tylan 50 tonight and also tomorrow night.

Is she infected and is my entire flock infected with something? I am freaking out a little bit because I don't want to cull my whole flock but I also dont want to breed sick chickens or sell sick chickens and my goal is to eventually sell.. obviously not while I have a sick chicken.. but eventually but would my chickens be carriers of some kind of disease and put other peoples flocks at risk? What do I do?

Please help need advice. Sorry if it sounds like I am panicking a little bit.. just worried and someone said the only way to be sure would be to cull all birds and clean coop and have no birds for 6 months. My chickens are my hobby and I would hate to do that but I need the truth.. do I need to do this?

Thanks!

Michael I am sorry to hear about your Brahma hen being sick i know you were so excited about those chicks, I agree with HT don't
jump to coclusions. Continue to treat her and watch the rest closely. She probably is run down from sitting so get some Poultry Nutri Drench and start putting that in her water along with the rest of the flock, and the Oxine is another good thing to have on hand you can actually mist your birds with it. Let us know how it is going..

 

[gavinandallison]

All Clear?? For what??

Because some of my birds were too young to test, I called the tester and he came out.... Did 100% NPIP on all my stock that are old enough, which only leaves the chicks indoors that are too young...

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Good Morning.............

1st little Buff Laced Brahma is out. Few more pips. Going to be a long day staring into the incubator. Don't know why I am so excited about these chicks...I just am. !

Another rain day predicted. Yee Eeeee.. as long as it does not rain tomorrow for the swap.... I haven"t even checked to make sure it is on.

I was having another day of reality slap and still need to cut back on birds. I will have some hens available just need to figure out who and what. I will post here first.............


Enjoy !



p.s. Sorry Mary about your Emu egg. Guess we weren't meant to be Emu farmers. Hmmmmm now THAT would keep the chicken thieves out of your yard.

STOP POSTING GOATS PICTURES........... I am caving in here !

They are so so cute !

Beth...where did you get the buff laced brahmas? I am DYING to get some!!!

 

[BHep]

Beth...where did you get the buff laced brahmas? I am DYING to get some!!!

I won them on auction from Anna @ red rooster farm... She says they are Dan Powell lines.
7 are out and the last 2 are pipped. 9/12 Excellent for shipped eggs.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Quote:

Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that if there's gonna be someone who gets caught and hammered for something everyone else does, it's going to be me.

That is why I want everything in writing, and why I will go with the website rather than the phone coversation. And why I looked so deep into this. I've been slammed too many times for doing what everyone else does with no problems.

 

[michaelinnc84]

Thanks HT and MissLydia for the encouragement. Makes me breath and big ole breath of relief.

 

[wildriverswolf90]

I got a 3 YOLK EGG today!
The egg on the right is a large egg.

 

[ramirezframing]

NH thanks for the information on the golden lakenvelders. You do know that looking at hatcheries can land you with more cuties lol