Surviving Minnesota!

[holm25]

Erli it is Nelsons that I was talking about. How did u like the outcome of your birds afterwards? I did hear a few complaints but nothing overly bad.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Erli it is Nelsons that I was talking about. How did u like the outcome of your birds afterwards? I did hear a few complaints but nothing overly bad.

They look good but I haven't cooked any up yet. What type of complaints??

 

[holm25]

It was nothing bad. A few ppl just had pin feathers here and there but thats to be expected sometimes. Store bought birds even have pin feathers sometimes!

 

[lvie]

Quote: Good to know. Thank you.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I got 6 quarts of chicken through the canner. I still have 4 to do up yet, but that will get done a bit. I had two pots of stock going too this afternoon. I had to take a break to go to the chiropractor. I don't know what the heck I did to my upper back, but I needed to go badly. This wasn't one of my favorite visits, when he fixed the spot that was hurting the most, it felt like fire shot out through my shoulder and down my arm. That is when I know that something was WAY out of place. I hate those. I really have no idea what caused that one, but I don't want it to happen again, ever!

So, with all the canning and simmering going on, the house smells SO yummy!!!

 

[lvie]

Of course it is the usual - I love days like this. A little cloudy and wet. Stopped at Ralphie's and thank you Ralphie for the egg plant and cabbage.

When I got home I caught the two ISA's (I have renamed them B_t_ _ and Bi_ _ y. I noticed that Betty Whites comb was a little dried blood and that was that. Those ISAs' are most irritationg I expected some of this because of pecking order but . . . . they are just mean. So they are by themselves in the small coop.

Now I am going to look up cabbage and egg plant just to get other ideas of how to use them.

Thanks for all the chicken processing talk. I have heard that the canned chicken is wonderful and I am sure that is how I will process older hens when they quit laying. So I say right now.

Have a wonderful evening. Hope that anitbiotic kicks in soon BC.

 

[jerryse]

I had a response all typed up this morning to a bunch of things and BYC flickered its flick and voila....no post to submit

Let me see if I can remember:

Holm Photos are gorgeous of Duluth. Those orange flowers like to grow up there in the Duluth area. When I went to UMD I had a lawn full of them. I have a few in my lawn here as well. I think they are a weed but sort of bright and pretty nonetheless.

Jerry you said you ate half the cucs. You are a thrifty person...so not sure you ate 1/2 because you liked them or because they just needed not go to waste? LOL.

Ouch ! Not bad for a sick person .

I will own up to thrifty but in this case I liked them .

 

[jerryse]

Ralphie are those green beans in the picture ? I thought the rabbits got them .

 

[I Love Layers]

So happy!! I am playing front row right side hitter on JV!!
I'm the only freshman on JV too!!

Cause I'm JV it also means that on the first day of school, Monday, I get to leave at noon to go to Center to play in a JV and V tournament

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie are those green beans in the picture ? I thought the rabbits got them .

Yes, and they did.


The only beans they did not eat were the Chinese ones that are about 3 ft long. They taste terrible and I will never plant them again. If you harvest them at less than a foot when they are about 1/8 to 3/16 ths in diameter that are not that bad. Not as good as a good pole bean though. I have 3 pole beans that have made it to the top of the fence so I might actually get a real bean. I ended up throwing half of those beans in the picture away.

I cooked them up along with the discarded Broccoli stalks and feed them to the chickens. They even left some is how bad they are. They will not touch them raw.


Rabbits season is open here. I have a special rabbit season I am thinking it will run year long. When squirrel season opens I am going to decimate them too. You cannot believe how many furry creatures I have here. They do well on my chicken feed. So many furry creatures have to be bringing the predators in too.