NY chicken lover!!!!

[ChickPrincess]

Today I'm going to make the pound cake.
How do you think a reduction would turn out using cranberry juice instead of lemon?

I made it the other day. The cake itself was delicious, however, the lemon syrup was much too overpowering for us. Dh requested cinnamon syrup next time.
My cake also needed an extra 20 or 30 minutes bake time. I did an extra 30, but probably 20 would've been perfect.

Wonderful fertility. Happy boys at your house, I see.

My birds are eating the half of the grass that isn't dead. But it will be when they get done with it. What a muddy mess it's gonna be down by the coop, come spring, and the grass doesn't recover from all their winter pecking and plucking.

Wonderful fertility here, too! I have 34 girls laying and 2 roos. EVERY egg I have cracked open has been a bullseye. Busy boys, busy boys.

 

[Glasshen]

To save work I moved Fawn, the red sex link that I had caught enjoying egg for breakfast a while ago in the garage with Reveille who waits for his forever home in Skaneateles. She has been laying eggs in there and not eating them. But I found a half eaten egg in a nest box in the coop while Fawn was in solitary. My new premis is that sometimes eggs break, and then are eaten, but Fawn is not proven to be the worst/only offender...

When Rev leaves she can go back to the coop.

Some of the eggs I bring in have tiny hairline cracks. Perhaps I should get more and thicker carpet for the nest boxes.

Oh, I did make The Pound Cake. It is definitely a keeper. I was happy to share it with many people, and until it was gone it called my name several times a day, for just a sliver. Cake portions are very similar to chicken math, it could a sub section. I am grateful for that recipe.

 

[horsekeeper]

The Angel Food Cake I made last weekend was the best ever. Pretty easy, too. The recipe is from Cooks.com if anyone wants to try it. Here is the link: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,236,159176-232200,00.html
The best thing was the egg whites are by measure so you can use up a bunch of odd sized eggs. Yummy to just eat a slice plain, but remarkable with strawberries and whipped cream. Haven't tried the chocolate sauce yet, but bet it will be pretty good.

Couldn't find a pasta maker locally, so I guess I will have to order one online. Assembly lined a dozen egg mcmuffins last night and popped them in the freezer. The neighbors (grandsons) really like them. The microwave egg cookers make it so easy. Good for a quick fuel up when things get too busy to cook.

 

[Tough Old Bird]

Aria--I dont give the whole carcass to my silkies as they could never eat it all. I only have 4 in each breeding pen. However, you have a large flock of them so they might. Its my terrorists and divas (rir and hens) that can demolish a carcass in less than 5 minutes. Not sure how long it would take them to demolish a body!

Jeepers, sounds like a school of pirahnas!

 

[vmdanielsen]

Today I'm going to make the pound cake.
How do you think a reduction would turn out using cranberry juice instead of lemon?

With some chopped walnuts and cranberries in it!! Wonderful. If you put a little orange zest with the cran juice during reduction.....exceptional!!let us know how it turns out!!!!

 

[rancher hicks]

"Chicken math terms" ... oh, pray tell.

EDIT: Just starting reading the explanation from Cass and my head is spinning! Hoooo boy!!!

I do get the Biblical quote. Never considered a Brabanter 'til I saw Marquisella's endearing photograph. Then just had to have one or two!

Honestly and all kidding aside, I can definitely see how chickens can quickly become an addiction of sorts!

TOB

I like the Brabanters too. See the thing is chickens are small and they lay eggs. Feed is cheaper than cat or dog food. Dogs and cats eat and poop, eat and poop. Not to mention cats need litter and you have to get closer to their poop to clean the box than you do to chicken poop.

Cat and dog poop can't go in the garden but to the landfill or whatever.

lets put these three side by side.

Chickens Dog/cat
Poop for garden Poop for nothing
Feed cheaper Feed more expensive
eggs to eat Nothing to eat
affection Cats? whatever attitiude/Dog feed me
easier to clean Cats hold your nose/Dog OMG! what did you eat?
Chickens eat anything Cats, maybe,maybe not/ Dogs eat other dogs poop,cat poop yuk!

So chickens you get affection and eggs to share Cat's and Dogs maybe affection no eggs to share with family and friends.
Plus vegetables from the garden.

I'll take chickens

 

[rancher hicks]

Ohh...I like that... a locked box for the Ammo. MUCH easier to find a shelf to keep it on and less expensive to obtain. I never thought of that. Get a fireproof one and you might save the lives of firefighters if you ever have a house fire, to boot. (Sincerely, I only thought of locking up the gun, silly me) Get a command brand hook and hang the key inside a kitchen cabinet so you always know where it is.

With only adults in this house we are not afraid of hurting ourselves. We keep the ammo separate and the gun unloaded in the very unlikely event someone breaks into our house,so we have not just given them the ability to kill us with a loaded gun right by the back door. (Seemed like a logical thing to do) We do have shotgun shells on the window sill. Shotgun is upstairs under bed. 22 is by door and ammo is ..hehe, I'm not telling you. But it is separate from the gun by a couple of rooms; rooms we would have to run through to get to the gun if we heard lots of noise down by the coop.

A child would have a terribly hard time hurting anyone with a long gun. Most accidental shootings by children involve a handgun, which they are strong enough to hold up and have large enough fingers to pull the trigger.(But not until they are going on 7 or so...older if it is a girl) If you think a child can bring a long gun up, hold it up and pull the trigger, try it yourself. It's not as easy as they make it seem on TV. And the kick from a long gun will probably cause the bullet to go way off target....I know I can't shoot the shotgun we have in the house with any accuaracy at all, just not strong enough to hold it down when it fires. (and I hate the bruise on my sholder. I stick to the BB gun and 22)

For those of you who are thinking "On Doomsday Preppers they showed a 7 or 9 or 11 year old shooting a long gun". Yes, yes they did, however if you listened carefully the father said that he got his boys "their own gun", meaning that it is a smaller version of Dad's gun, sized so a younger child can shoot it accurately. (I saw some at Dick's. They are cute, but shoot the same ammo, so just as deadly as Daddy's gun...so not so cute when you consider that fact)

Guns scare me. Doomsday preppers scare me.

I saw one show where the guy had a shelter for him and his family but it was far away. I watched as he drove behind a snow plow to get to it and I thought. "If there disaster there won't be a snow plow" and "what happens if you can't get to your shelter?"
Now I know the science stuff and if there is an earthquake, fire or landslide your not going to get there. If there are bombs they could cause all of those. Even squirrels don't store all their nuts in one place.

 

[rancher hicks]

So should I count my chicks you give me before I take them home ? LOL

Now I have to tell you all this one.

I sold a woman some chicks 7 but I missed one and she got 6. $1 ea. So I happen to be in TSC and she was there and instead of just telling me or she could have called after she got home she got mad. She says out loud as she's passing me. "OH AND THERE WERE ONLY 6 CHICKS IN THAT BOX!"

She took off so fast I had no chance to apologize, give her back her dollar or tell her to come and get another chick.

So I got and e mail recently in response to a hatching eggs for sale I posted to CL and I think it was her because she never replied to my response.

Yes I am venting, but folks if you have a problem, with someone you need to tell them so they can repent/make amends or explain. In this case we all know chicks go crazy when you put them in a box. I just made an honest mistake.

 

[Cass]

Now I have to tell you all this one.

I sold a woman some chicks 7 but I missed one and she got 6. $1 ea. So I happen to be in TSC and she was there and instead of just telling me or she could have called after she got home she got mad. She says out loud as she's passing me. "OH AND THERE WERE ONLY 6 CHICKS IN THAT BOX!"

She took off so fast I had no chance to apologize, give her back her dollar or tell her to come and get another chick.

So I got and e mail recently in response to a hatching eggs for sale I posted to CL and I think it was her because she never replied to my response.

Yes I am venting, but folks if you have a problem, with someone you need to tell them so they can repent/make amends or explain. In this case we all know chicks go crazy when you put them in a box. I just made an honest mistake.

Yup, mistakes happen. My mistake? Not checking the box to see how many were in there, cuz I was really really surprised when I got home. LOL

 

[rancher hicks]

Yup, mistakes happen. My mistake? Not checking the box to see how many were in there, cuz I was really really surprised when I got home. LOL

Well yours was a happy mistake. Not one I'd care to have happen to often. Oh I did have a woman pay me $20 to much once. I mailed it back to her and she was glad I'm sure. I know I would be if it were me.

Even the dollar has not left my mind, but I don't know where she lives. I guess I was just hoping someone knows her. I think her name is Jackie.

On another note that Pound cake is really good. I'll be printing it out and giving it to egg customers. That it uses 5-10 eggs can't hurt either.

I have a RIR hen that is broody and I'm afraid a LO that might be too. I'll soon be over run with chicks. I wish they were chocolate covered marshmallow chicks.

An update on the Hawk. I was told it might be a Coopers that is migrating. I saw it again today on the way to church chasing a crow.

The two Perrigrine falcons on the State building here in Syracuse have not produced any eggs in the last few years. I suggested that they might be upset over something and was told there was construction going on right near their nesting site.

Take care and have a good night. DW made sauce with meatballs and pasta for dinner.

Rancher