Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

Not here.

I love this post with the over enthused frog in the profile pic.

We are yipping about this beautiful fall weather now. LOL. Did it ever rain yesterday. I hope it is indicative of a long fall with leaves staying on for weeks! I have put in my request to Mom Nature. Time for her to put up.

I need a great fall because basically I have had no August. It is gone gone gone. Where did it go?! Boy oh boy.

So Sentry looks like a pin cushion all around his neck. Poor boy has lost his cape feathers. He'll be purty in a few weeks. His primary wing feathers will coming in also. The tail is in tact at the moment. I always feel for these birds during this time. I need to pick up more tuna fish cans. Or send a boy out fishing maybe. The girls seem to be in good repair so far. Patsy looks less skinny and more fluffy.

I am loving the new pullets. They are such characters in their first year. bumping chests and waiting in the wings to join the big girl club with their first eggs. IDK when these new exotics of mine will lay. They were April 30th chicks so will have to dig and research them a bit. Probably before too long I would say. Excited for Dark Brown eggs. We shall see...we shall see.

Cindy the saddles are looking good. Do you have more than one rooster or just a young boy? Freya the BR lost some head feathers this summer but other than that we're just molting I guess.

Got sunflower seeds for treats. BOSS protein for fall for the birdies.

 

[CindyinSD]

I moved them all (all my big girls) back to the hen house because they were losing too many neck feathers and I gave them Jack, who has hurt his leg and needed a safe place to recover. He’s a nice boy for them.

I also moved Rufio in with the turkey gobblers because he’s too rough—always ending up with a beak full of neck feathers from a pullet or hen who ends up giving him the slip anyway. He’s a cutie but I have better boys for my girls. He and Jack are posturing (occasionally) through the fence. They’re funny to watch.

I found two green eggs in the tractor nests and pulled two pullets with bright red combs, one this morning and one just now. After I moved the first one in with the big girls I found a tiny green egg in a nesting box in the henhouse. They’re pale gray-green, but hey, ya can’t have everything. I’m just excited that my new pullets are starting to lay.

 

[CindyinSD]

Cindy the saddles are looking good. Do you have more than one rooster or just a young boy? Freya the BR lost some head feathers this summer but other than that we're just molting I guess.

Got sunflower seeds for treats. BOSS protein for fall for the birdies.

These are my very first roosters. ( well, not counting Roger, who was a shockingly horrible cockbird from my pre-teen years) Jack and Ruffio are some I hatched in my first incubator trial—mixed barnyard eggs from e-bay. There was a third from that batch who has an Easter-egger look. I named him Sir Puff. Then there’s Lord Ravencross the Black copper Marans and Allen o’Dale the Partridge Cochin and Little John the Buckeye whom I’ve only recently noticed was a boy. I bought those three on purpose. There are around 35 females.

So yeah, definitely too many hopeful beaus. I haven’t noticed any serious infractions from the other boys yet, but since I already have too many, poor randy Ruffio is probably en route to the stew pot once he puts on a little more muscle. Him and at least a couple others.

 

[holm25]

https://www.dl-online.com/sports/ou...nds-giant-puffball-mushrooms-in-Detroit-Lakes

 

[Molpet]

https://www.dl-online.com/sports/ou...nds-giant-puffball-mushrooms-in-Detroit-Lakes

 

[Cebarmlds]

Morning Peeples, tomato sauce is on the stove it'll take most of the day to simmer down. Last year I told myself I was going to buy another large stainless steel pot. I didn't

 

[jerryse]

Morning Peeples, tomato sauce is on the stove it'll take most of the day to simmer down. Last year I told myself I was going to buy another large stainless steel pot. I didn't

I condense tomato sauce by straining juice through a cider press bag . Just the bag in a sieve over a pot . You can make paste this way also . For sauce strain about half of the juice and add the paste back to the remaining juice . I plan to make paste on my next batch . So much less cooking .

 

[Cebarmlds]

I condense tomato sauce by straining juice through a cider press bag . Just the bag in a sieve over a pot . You can make paste this way also . For sauce strain about half of the juice and add the paste back to the remaining juice . I plan to make paste on my next batch . So much less cooking .

I squeezed the maters to get rid of some juice and most of the seeds then blended them. Most of the tomatoes are roma types.

 

[jerryse]

I squeezed the maters to get rid of some juice and most of the seeds then blended them. Most of the tomatoes are roma types.

I use the blender a lot also . Foley food mill is great to remove seeds and peels from blended tomatoes . Really simple tool and easy to clean .

 

[duluthralphie]

I use a “juicer” . It chews up the seeds and skins and spits it out a different orifice than the juice.

I run the “waste” through the juicer twice. I get a little juice the second time, but it finely grinds the seeds and skin into a heavy paste.

I then add a little juice back into the waste and can a paste that we use.

No waste canning.