Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[RoyalChick]

Yes that would be good. Butter and sweetener I do not use often. It's hard to find goat butter and I limit the sweetener

I have never tried sweetening squash. Particularly if you roast it at a high enough temperature to caramelize the edges of the squash, that is plenty sweet enough.

Cooking chat tax: Bernie still regrowing her tail and losing lots of other feathers

 

[SimpleJenn]

Anybody know what these squash are and how to cook. Some I picked up yesterday from Halloween decorations. Few people around here eat winter squash.
I tried roasting some blue Hubbard looking ones last year. But without sweetener I didn't eat much. I don't fry either.

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Looks like a "lumina" pumpkin. Very tasty! I made an albino pumpkin pie using them last year for Thanksgiving dinner.
The squash next to it looks like a delicata/acorn hybrid maybe. Cooks like acorn squash. The tiny pumpkin is also edible. The hard skinned decorative gourds are not good to eat, but my chickens loved the seeds from them when I broke them up.

 

[Molpet]

You can make soup with almost all kinds of squash. I don’t recognize that one. The only white one I know is a white Acorn squash but I don’t think it is that.

I was thinking maybe the white was mash potatoes squash.

The Hubbard looking I roasted last year was ok. I ate about a half cup once. I put about the same amount in a pot of chicken veggie soup and it was ok too. I froze the rest that was cooked and ended up giving it to the chickens.
I'm going to try a variety of these smaller ones. If I don't like the poultry will.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Anybody know what these squash are and how to cook. Some I picked up yesterday from Halloween decorations. Few people around here eat winter squash.
I tried roasting some blue Hubbard looking ones last year. But without sweetener I didn't eat much. I don't fry either.

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White one is a type of pumpkin I think, and the other looks like a Carnival (acorn hybrid).

Was going to pick up pumpkins after halloween for the birds but my daughter stole my car so haven't been able to!

 

[Canadian Wind]

Strange to find so many people in this thread who like to give their chickens healthy food and discuss about what is good and what not for them. And in the meanwhile the people themselves have very unhealthy habits.

My animals eat better than me. Most of my monthly income goes to feeding them (I'm on disability benefits). What's left over feeds me so that means cheap stuff.

 

[Molpet]

My animals eat better than me. Most of my monthly income goes to feeding them (I'm on disability benefits). What's left over feeds me so that means cheap stuff.

Yes I spend as much on animal food as I do on me. Half of my retirement income goes to pay property tax and insurance.
I post on the local FB group page and some people drop off pumpkins and straw bales. But I'm only a couple miles from the subdivisions that sprout up in the farm fields.

 

[Perris]

Anybody know what these squash are and how to cook. Some I picked up yesterday from Halloween decorations. Few people around here eat winter squash.
I tried roasting some blue Hubbard looking ones last year. But without sweetener I didn't eat much. I don't fry either.

I recently discovered a recipe for a pumpkin pickle; it's really delicious - and I don't like most pumpkin recipes I've tried, inc pie. Here's the recipe if anyone wants to give it a go with whatever squash surplus they've got.

It's from Henry's Salt, sugar, smoke book. I've made it twice now, first with patti pans and then with turbans, and it worked well both times. In fact someone I gave a small jar to asked if they could buy a big jar!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready and good.

Temperature is in the 70s mostly sunny.

Have a great day!

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

Cooking chat tax: Bernie still regrowing her tail and losing lots of other feathers

Henny is much more comfortable this weekend, the feathers have emerged from the quills but she still looks 1/2 her normal size. She has taken to pecking my trousers & when we are all sitting down, my fleece. Not sure if she is checking if I’d make a good meal or grooming me. Definitely checked to see if the phone cover was edible
I was very touched that a, she sat on my arm & b, trusted me enough for a snoozelet as she normally wouldn’t do either.

Last photo a bit blurry as she’d decided to get down but does show the secondary wing feathers emerging.

 

[BDutch]

Anybody know what these squash are and how to cook. Some I picked up yesterday from Halloween decorations. Few people around here eat winter squash.
I tried roasting some blue Hubbard looking ones last year. But without sweetener I didn't eat much. I don't fry either.

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My mother used to grow decorative squash/pumpkin. All looking different, some resembled the ones on the top left. These fruits were not tasty or meant for consumption.