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[banjoejoe4783]

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to give you the best chance for a great hatch i would recomend keeping your bators in a climate countroled room expeecialy the hovobators they recomend between 65 and 75 im not saying that you wount get some to hatch out side but with the temp change from day to night and with the flutiating humidaty and temp i would recomend moving them

just my thoughts

 

[mjgigax]

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My favorite way to cook a whole chicken is "beer butt" I make a dry rub of what ever strikes my fancy, rub on top of the skin and below the skin, use the extra skin and a few tooth picks to cover the neck hole and set the hollow butt over a can of beer and bake until done, even the breast is juicy from the steam in the hollow and the skin (Gary eats not me) is seasoned and crispy like bacon. (also works w/ diet dew as I always have some of that in the house and almost never have beer)

My DH's cousin marinates the "Beer Butt" chicken in Italian Dressing and then smokes them with Pecan wood, most delicious chicken I have ever had. Pecan is definately good for chicken.
He and DH got the chicken cooking gene from their Grandmother. Her fried chicken was better than chocolate. She used an electric skillet, plain Crisco, boneless breasts shaken in a bag of self-rising flour with a little salt and pepper. Looked so easy but I can't even come close. DH did better on his first try.

 

[jcatblum]

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I need to know how to do crock pot meatloaf please!!!!!!!!!

I will also have to look up the charboil oil-less fryer.

Got my oil-less fryer on craigslist. They are around $100, but have seen them go on sale cheaper. For the meatloaf in the crockpot I mix meatloaf (Boston Market knock off recipe is our favorite), form into loaf shape, put in crockot for 8 hours on low. Make sure you use a lean meat, I use longhorn or bufflo most times. When I am using my large crockpot I also will cube up potatoes & throw them in the bottom of the crockpot around the meatloaf. Make some green beans & then I call dinner done.

I have a copy of Fix-It and Forget-it Big cookbook-- has 1400 slow cooker recipes. I think there are 6 pages of meatloaf reciepes alone!!!! I also LOVE making lassagna in the crockpot. Only takes 4 hours on low using no-boil noodles. Not the same as a good homemade lassagna, but much faster & no one in my house complains.

Never tried the beer can chicken cooking method. But always hear rave reviews about it. Will try it one cold or rainy day when I don't want to use my oil-less cooker. Crispy skin is a must or DD thinks it is just yucky!

 

[Kassaundra]

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My favorite way to cook a whole chicken is "beer butt" I make a dry rub of what ever strikes my fancy, rub on top of the skin and below the skin, use the extra skin and a few tooth picks to cover the neck hole and set the hollow butt over a can of beer and bake until done, even the breast is juicy from the steam in the hollow and the skin (Gary eats not me) is seasoned and crispy like bacon. (also works w/ diet dew as I always have some of that in the house and almost never have beer)

My DH's cousin marinates the "Beer Butt" chicken in Italian Dressing and then smokes them with Pecan wood, most delicious chicken I have ever had. Pecan is definately good for chicken.
He and DH got the chicken cooking gene from their Grandmother. Her fried chicken was better than chocolate. She used an electric skillet, plain Crisco, boneless breasts shaken in a bag of self-rising flour with a little salt and pepper. Looked so easy but I can't even come close. DH did better on his first try.

My late mother in law was that way w/ beans, simple easy ingredients, but I have never been able to duplicate them.

 

[Kassaundra]

One garden experiment for this year has failed!!!!! The potato tires, I dug up the yukon golds b/c the potato tops turned yellow and died. In the whole tower I had one potato the size of my thumb!!!!!

 

[poultryand bees]

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bummer

do you think it was the variety of potato that was the cause of the failure or something else?

 

[Buckguy20]

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I need to know how to do crock pot meatloaf please!!!!!!!!!

I will also have to look up the charboil oil-less fryer.

Got my oil-less fryer on craigslist. They are around $100, but have seen them go on sale cheaper. For the meatloaf in the crockpot I mix meatloaf (Boston Market knock off recipe is our favorite), form into loaf shape, put in crockot for 8 hours on low. Make sure you use a lean meat, I use longhorn or bufflo most times. When I am using my large crockpot I also will cube up potatoes & throw them in the bottom of the crockpot around the meatloaf. Make some green beans & then I call dinner done.

I have a copy of Fix-It and Forget-it Big cookbook-- has 1400 slow cooker recipes. I think there are 6 pages of meatloaf reciepes alone!!!! I also LOVE making lassagna in the crockpot. Only takes 4 hours on low using no-boil noodles. Not the same as a good homemade lassagna, but much faster & no one in my house complains.

Never tried the beer can chicken cooking method. But always hear rave reviews about it. Will try it one cold or rainy day when I don't want to use my oil-less cooker. Crispy skin is a must or DD thinks it is just yucky!

I have smoked chickens with Beer and Dr. Pepper but root beer chicken turned out the best. I have a can holder that holds the beer/pop just in case the chicken wants to fall over or run away.

 

[Buckguy20]

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You're just going back to the late 19th & early 20th century western American way of cooking. My house (1910) was built sans kitchen - they cooked in a room below the carriage house/garage and the servants brought the food into the galley and butler pantry. There was a foot-actuated button in the dining room floor that rang a bell to summon the servant when the diners wanted something brought in. When I moved into the house in 1999 it still didn't have a kitchen. The oven was in the basement and the refrigerator was on the back porch. The galley just had a small sink in it.

edited to add: No one ever comes when I push the floor button.

Everything old is new again?

I would gladly do the cooking if my "servants" would come clean when I push the button!

A big amen to that. I don't mind cooking at all but I hate the cleanup too.

 

[Buckguy20]

I lost my big blue Ameraucana roo. I guess to the heat. he was dead in his pen this morning. He was alive and acting Ok when I fed and watered yeserday afternoon.
So now I have lost a hen and roo from the Ameraucanas.
I have lots of chicks though so if they make it, I'll be ok for next year.

 

[banjoejoe4783]

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sorry you lost your roo

all my pins have 75/80% shad fabric over them and it helps a lot they lay better and gain wate faster and im shure they fill alot better hope you don't losse anny more