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[AnneInTheBurbs]

Just found this thread! Hi from bucks county

Howdy howdy! I'm in Mid Bucks County too. Nic to have you!

Anne:

Sorry to hear of your attack...for my two cents, bring her inside and get neosporine (sp) on the wounds...give her all the treats you know she likes...she should shake off the shock in a few hours....if she perks up, she probably wasn't wounded too badly and should be returned to the flock asap....if she needs more hospital time(say a week), you may need to formally re-introduce her back into the flock...feel free to pm or call me,,,.

Thanks Atake, she really seemed to perk up tonight and ate 1 1/2 scrambled eggs today after the attack. If she doesn't get infected, I hope she will be alright. The next few days will tell...

my issues for today are just so minor compared to the discussions on this thread!

not a fox attack
or convincing a DH about chickens
or so many other major issues

instead I tried to make apple chips today with my niece ----as a healthy option for lunches.................the recipe sounded so easy and yummy...........but they took a long time and then half burnt and the other half are chewy...........

didn't really turn out so good!

seems like eating the apple would have been simpler!

anyone ever baked sliced apples to make apple chips?

I have made them in the past, and although yummy, were a pain in the butt, I will see if if I can find the recipe, but the general idea is to slice the, super thin, dust them with just a teeny amount of cinnamon and sugar. Lay them not touching on parchment paper in a low oven (I think it was 225 or so). Flip them every half hour for 2-2 1/2 hours until they are crisp. Was that similar to your method?

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Lisa, here is one similar to the method I used to do.

http://www.marthastewart.com/248682/apple-chips#912104

 

[chiques chicks]

I have a question about raising chicks, The one who made  it from our last batch and the two silkies if they hatch in our current batch will be 9/10 weeks December 3rd and my current new batch of eggs will be 9 weeks about December 19th. My question is how cold would be too cold fo these chicks to stay outside in the coop? at 10 weeks could they stay outside if I provided them heat lamp when it got below freezing  and if I did gradual daily trips to get them used to it before letting them in over night? Never raised chicks in the winter. It's been 2 years since i've had nay chicks.

My two cents:
At nine and ten weeks in December, a 100 watt bulb should do for heat in a dry, draft free coop.

I have broodies hatching now and don't plan to do anything, no heat, just let them be.

Acclimate them and you should be fine.

 

[LadyBehir]

So, got an egg out of the new coop already. Well, actually, from under it. How do I tell the girls to lay in the nesting boxes? For that matter, how do I get them to go in the coop at night?

 

[chiques chicks]

So, got an egg out of the new coop already. Well, actually, from under it. How do I tell the girls to lay in the nesting boxes? For that matter, how do I get them to go in the coop at night?

I generally keep them locked in the chop for a week so they know it as home, then they go in themselves. Others physically pit them to bed every night until they learn to do it on their own.
As for nest boxes, I put golf balls in them and and they eventually figure it out.

 

[LisaYolkUm]

Howdy howdy! I'm in Mid Bucks County too. Nic to have you!
Thanks Atake, she really seemed to perk up tonight and ate 1 1/2 scrambled eggs today after the attack. If she doesn't get infected, I hope she will be alright. The next few days will tell...
I have made them in the past, and although yummy, were a pain in the butt, I will see if if I can find the recipe, but the general idea is to slice the, super thin, dust them with just a teeny amount of cinnamon and sugar. Lay them not touching on parchment paper in a low oven (I think it was 225 or so). Flip them every half hour for 2-2 1/2 hours until they are crisp. Was that similar to your method?

that is pretty much my method...............I did not have the flip them over part.................

I had 2 recipes ----one that used maple syrup, cinnamon and sugar, and one that use cinnamon sugar and nutmeg....

some of my apples were just so huge they were hard to slice in my mandolin slicer since they were wider than it.....................

maybe I will try again............just seemed like a lot of time and work for a so so result!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

So, got an egg out of the new coop already. Well, actually, from under it. How do I tell the girls to lay in the nesting boxes? For that matter, how do I get them to go in the coop at night?

I put plastic easter eggs, stuffed with rocks and glued shut (for weight) in my nest boxes. They worked like a charm for nest box training. Now I've had to remove a couple of them since my one broody kept getting confused which nest she was going in and kept trying to incubate the easter egg instead lol

 

[JadeComputerGal]

I just did 2 dehydrator fulls over the past 2 days. They're always more like apple gummies or apple leathers. Good though

I've had the same experience doing them in a dehydrator. No matter how long I dehydrated them, they had a consistency something like calamari, or maybe like a rubber glove. (Not that I've ever actually chewed on a rubber glove.) I've never tried baking them. I always buy my fruit chips now, but maybe I'll try baking some to see how they come out. I have a bunch of apples I need to use, so I guess now would be a good time.

 

[chiques chicks]

I've never tried apple chips. We always just peeled, cored, sliced and put in a write basket on top of cast iron radiator. You're when you walk by for a week or two.
Is "dutchies" call them Schnitz.
They are chewy, though. Just dehydrated apples.

 

[barbiegirl]

Out of 16 young roosters ( 6 and 5 months old) 6 of them started to crow. I think it's hysterical. Hubby doesn't find it as funny. The noises they make when they first start crowing is undescribable. One sounds like a squeezie bike horn.