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[missydcpc]

Apple Pie Moonshine Here is a basic recipe for the legendary apple pie moonshine. It’s really easy to make, and you don’t even need moonshine (though you can’t... really call it apple pie moonshine if you don’t use moonshine.) Ingredients: 1 gallon apple cider 1 gallon apple juice 3 cups white sugar 8 cinnamon sticks 1 liter bottle of 190 proof moonshine or grain alcohol Directions 1.In a large stock pot, combine the apple cider, apple juice, sugar, and cinnamon sticks. 2.Bring it to a boil, then take it off the heat and allow it to cool. 3.Add the liter of high proof liquor. 4.Pour this into mason jars, put the lids on, and let it mellow out. You could drink it right away, but it does get better after a couple of weeks. This recipe makes about 9 quarts of apple pie moonshine. You could easily cut this recipe in half if that is too much. Warning! Apple pie moonshine will sneak up on you! This stuff is so smooth and tasty. Use with CAUTION! Chad did not.

oh yumm! Maybe THIS will be what we give as favors at the wedding! Or maybe I'll just make it and keep it to myself!

Salmon Faverolles are different. Beards, feathered legs, 5 toes. Sweet, gentle, brown eggs, gorgeous roosters. I'm hatching some every week, and am about 1/2 hour north of Harrisburg.

And hers are gorgeous....I may have to get some more...my one is sooo pretty!

Oh joy, today the girls are moving outside...now my house can go back to smelling like cigarette butts and stale beer.

LOL....I guess the "chicken poop" smell isn't really a good addition to that!

At least he has the snorkel coming out of the right end. However, I suspect a serious case of frostbite and shrinkage was in his future!

You're assuming the shrinkage part....

Y'all know once you distill, it becomes illegal. You may legally make up to 200 gallons of winner and beer per person per year. Most real moonshine is cut to 90-100 proof (45-50% alcohol). Just an FYI. If using the recipe posted, I suggest using grain alcohol. Different yeasts will ferment to as different alcohol level maximum before the yeast dies. There are a couple yeasts available that will go to 20% (40 proof). That is equivalent to many of the commercial beverages available in the local store. Yes I make wine and beer. Regularly.

So...since my sister is due any day now...and my BIL is redoing their ENTIRE house....wanna make the beer for my wedding???

Soooo... I have a chick in the Lilac bush that I have been trying to get for two hours. I am cold, and really tied of waiting for the silly thing to WANT to be caught or go inside. It can see it's coop and the big coop. They are not that far apart. She keeps coming towards me, but stops three feet away, and runs back to the bush. Any suggestions?

I let them set there till they fall asleep (8pmish) then go grab them....but then, I have little to no patience.

I'm gonna tune back into the wine. I had a friend that used Juicy Juice and made some good stuff.

We have a friend who makes awesome "jungle juice" out of the syrup in #10 cans of fruit salad and the like.

yep, its a good day....they haven't gotten the courage to venture into the coop or to be more than 6" from eachother

They look happy.

I too use fishing nets. I have picked up a few of them cheap at yard sales and keep one handy in the coop storage area at all times.

Will have to grab one.

Glad you got her in! We keep our scratch in an empty plastic container, they ALL know that shaking sound means scratch, it works really well when we are trying to get the chooks in earlier than they want to on their own. When it's a young chick, unfamiliar with the scratch routine, I ask the kids to help round it up, if the kids are unavailable, I take a pole (rake , stick, whatever) and use that to corral it, sometimes I'll take a pebble and throw it behind the chick to get it to run toward me.

Mine all know that when I go in the personnel door of the garage...chances are I'll come out with corn....so they either jump into the run (where I throw it) or run into the coop.

Brandy is distilled wine (increased alcohol content). Wine made from fruit is fruit wine. Different yeasts have different flavor profiles. Champagne yeast tends to ferment to dry while some others leave some residual sweetness. Some are better to use with fruit to maintain fruitiness, some best for certain wine styles, some for cider, some for Mead. Same holds true for beer yeasts. I normally keep for or six different basic yeasts on hand just in case something comes along. Chad, did you try the beer bottles of spiced hard cider?

Spiced hard cider??? I wanna try!

re the cast net, you have to know how to throw it otherwise it just lands in a clump, it isn't easy til you learn how, i used to throw one years ago for catching mullet in florida

Isn't it easier to catch mullets in central PA? There seem to be plenty of them around here....

I have a gorgeous, 8 month old Porcelain (upon close inspection, this bird is actually porcelain, not lav wheaten) project Ameraucana Rooster forsale if anyone needs a handsome yard EE

He will make beautiful babies! I can deliver to York Show, or he would need to be picked up here in Berk co. Let me know if any of you guys want him...

PS, I won't be able to make it down to the York show...as Hubby signed us up for something that morning in Nolde, however, if your friend wants to come up in the afternoon to look at my boys, I'm only about 1 hour north of York.

House across the road got sold the other week. I was somewhat worried what kind of neighbors I might get. Went to say hi and offer some eggs. They aren't in yet but are preparing their garden and hops bed. Also said they plan to get ducks. Hoped they're partying by the creek at all hours wouldn't bother me. I think we might just get along.

Lucky! I'm hoping if the house next door sells we get cool people....doubt it though

Cut down a tree today. Took the door off my shed. Oops. No major damage. Put door back on. Cut enough branches to get to shed. Celebrated with a few home brews. Note to self: Stay off eBay.

Yes, eBay is NOT your friend right now!

We tried to get the coop to look like our house

So will you be installing nesting boxes on the side of your house?? [

 

[SilkieSensation]

Wheeling, West Virginia? Oh, around 5 hours give or take a half hour..

Ever come this direction

I was planning on making a trip about 2 hrs or so east if enough people wanted chicks to make the trip worthwhile.

 

[LeBlackbird]

Ever come this direction

I was planning on making a trip about 2 hrs or so east if enough people wanted chicks to make the trip worthwhile.

I don't have any trips west planned anytime soon to my knowledge, except Ohio nats, but that's quite a while away. Can't hold him for that long

What breeds do you have? If I have any space at all by this summer/fall, and you're coming out this way, then we and other pa peeps can all meet as some show somewhere. Nats or Farmshow or something...

 

[SilkieSensation]

I don't have any trips west planned anytime soon to my knowledge, except Ohio nats, but that's quite a while away. Can't hold him for that long

What breeds do you have? If I have any space at all by this summer/fall, and you're coming out this way, then we and other pa peeps can all meet as some show somewhere. Nats or Farmshow or something...

For hatching eggs I have Pekin ducks, Calls, Runners, Toulouse, Scovies, EE bantams, LF Layers covered by EE roo, OEGB, Cochin mix. Chicks currently in the brooder: RIR, BR, BA, BO, EE, OE, BCM, BlueCM, Rainbow Layers, ISA Brown, Black Star, Red Star, Cream Legbar, Speckled Sussex, buff brahma bantam, LF Cochin, partridge rock, wellsumer, red broilers, black broilers, white cornish X broilers & probably a few others I have forgotten.

 

[chickencowranch]

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[annie82005]

oh yumm! Maybe THIS will be what we give as favors at the wedding! Or maybe I'll just make it and keep it to myself!
And hers are gorgeous....I may have to get some more...my one is sooo pretty!
LOL....I guess the "chicken poop" smell isn't really a good addition to that!
You're assuming the shrinkage part....
So...since my sister is due any day now...and my BIL is redoing their ENTIRE house....wanna make the beer for my wedding???
I let them set there till they fall asleep (8pmish) then go grab them....but then, I have little to no patience.
We have a friend who makes awesome "jungle juice" out of the syrup in #10 cans of fruit salad and the like.
They look happy.
Will have to grab one.
Mine all know that when I go in the personnel door of the garage...chances are I'll come out with corn....so they either jump into the run (where I throw it) or run into the coop.
Spiced hard cider??? I wanna try!
Isn't it easier to catch mullets in central PA? There seem to be plenty of them around here....
PS, I won't be able to make it down to the York show...as Hubby signed us up for something that morning in Nolde, however, if your friend wants to come up in the afternoon to look at my boys, I'm only about 1 hour north of York.
Lucky! I'm hoping if the house next door sells we get cool people....doubt it though
Yes, eBay is NOT your friend right now!
So will you be installing nesting boxes on the side of your house??

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it would be interesting. I could keep all kind of things in there!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

A black cochin can have dark legs though.

Yes, they can have dark legs, as long as they 'shade to yellow', whatever that means.

I was thinking BCMarans when I first saw this chick, probably because of the coloring in the hackle area. As Marans are not supposed to have any yellow in their feet or shanks and Cochins must have some yellow in their feet or shanks, I thought leg coloring could be another clue to the 'mystery chick's breed'.

 

[Lilbrownie]

Love fuzzy butt pics!!

enjoying the goats

Don't know which is cuter the goats or your kids!! Great pics of your family!!

 

[LeBlackbird]

For hatching eggs I have Pekin ducks, Calls, Runners, Toulouse, Scovies, EE bantams, LF Layers covered by EE roo, OEGB, Cochin mix. Chicks currently in the brooder: RIR, BR, BA, BO, EE, OE, BCM, BlueCM, Rainbow Layers, ISA Brown, Black Star, Red Star, Cream Legbar, Speckled Sussex, buff brahma bantam, LF Cochin, partridge rock, wellsumer, red broilers, black broilers, white cornish X broilers & probably a few others I have forgotten.

Blue and black copper marans pullets would be awesome for next year, and OEGB are on my wishlist what varieties do you raise?

 

[SilkieSensation]

Blue and black copper marans pullets would be awesome for next year, and OEGB are on my wishlist

what varieties do you raise?

I'll be keeping some Marans for breeding for next year, the rest are for sale. They are about 8-9 weeks old. I have a quad of OEGB. SDW roo over SDW, Ginger & Wheaten hens. I'll be putting some of their eggs in in a few days if no one claims them. The quad is actually for sale as I am looking to get out of them & have sold off most of my stock. I had about 30 of them at 1 point in time, all quads & trios of different colors. I'll only be keeping my fiance's little Brown Red roo that hatched the beginning of January. Silly man walks around with it on his shoulder like a parrot.