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[NickyPick]

She is a week early. We are going out of town in 3 weeks. I needed her to wait one little week. So she is sitting on golf balls for the next 5 days.

I usually get one broody a year. She is a pullet so worried if she will stick. Spring has sprung.

My white turkey hens are broody from March through August and nothing I do makes them break. I've tried giving them eggs, but they just crush them. I may try again this year. The Nursery/Infirmary coop is empty, so I think if I set them up with a really deep bedded nest, the eggs should have enough cushion with the hens on top.

 

[Matejka]

Ok I need help. My partner is asking for me to fix him syrup and cream. I have never seen or heard of it. He says he used to eat it with bread or cornbread . Any ideas or does anyone know what this is?

 

[RUNuts]

Ok I need help. My partner is asking for me to fix him syrup and cream. I have never seen or heard of it. He says he used to eat it with bread or cornbread . Any ideas or does anyone know what this is?

Where is he from?
Mom mentioned Grandma eating maple syrup, maybe cane syrup and heavy cream on a bunch of stuff and that sounds like something she would do.

they'd also mash butter and pancake syrup up and dip their biscuits in this. Cream is like butter. Of course, she'd also dip leftover biscuits in the bacon grease for lunch. When you are poor, you eat what you got.

Let me know if this helps.

 

[electrycmonk]

I actually found a polish pair in town. If I can get them to do porch pick up was considering getting them and incubating a few of their eggs until I can finally get the eggs I wanted from the local breeder. Would give me a leg up, plus I was already planning on ordering polishes anyways. So gives me a bit more variety of colors as well. You're only like an hour and a half away aren't you? Could trade some polish for some jersey in the future ?

Sadly jersey gal passed, mysteriously about 2 weeks ago. Her only egg that was broodiee by silkie momma was pushed out and froze during the storm...

 

[electrycmonk]

I actually found a polish pair in town. If I can get them to do porch pick up was considering getting them and incubating a few of their eggs until I can finally get the eggs I wanted from the local breeder. Would give me a leg up, plus I was already planning on ordering polishes anyways. So gives me a bit more variety of colors as well. You're only like an hour and a half away aren't you? Could trade some polish for some jersey in the future ?

Part 2 reply. Lubbock, is 4hrs & 45 minutes straight west of us...

 

[Matejka]

Where is he from?
Mom mentioned Grandma eating maple syrup, maybe cane syrup and heavy cream on a bunch of stuff and that sounds like something she would do.

they'd also mash butter and pancake syrup up and dip their biscuits in this. Cream is like butter. Of course, she'd also dip leftover biscuits in the bacon grease for lunch. When you are poor, you eat what you got.

Let me know if this helps.

He was born and raised about 20 miles from here. Extremely poor Slovak (czech). He was 20 before saw/used a fan.

 

[Tankueray]

He was born and raised about 20 miles from here. Extremely poor Slovak (czech). He was 20 before saw/used a fan.

I'm betting it's maple syrup and heavy cream or milk. I've seen some Palacinky(? Czech Crepes) dessert recipes that use it, and there are a lot of recipes out there that use "maple cream sauce" (warm and cold). My grandfather (True Texan) has always eaten white bread or cornbread with milk or buttermilk in a bowl like cereal (cold). My Grandma's side of the family has some Czech roots, but IDK if she made it for him first or he got it somewhere else. If syrup and heavy cream, I might try to warm it; if milk then I might go with it cold. Grandma always baked Jiffy cornbread, and I can attest that warm cornbread with milk on it is the bomb.
Men are simple, if he's saying syrup and cream, he probably means just that, don't overthink it. Mix up 1/2 cup of each and see what happens, worst case you can always add some whisky and put it in your coffee.

(I had a friend growing up named Marijke (mar-a-ka), your's is the closest I've ever seen to a name like hers. I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't her!)
Good luck!

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

While I'm troubleshooting ...functionality of their benefits.

I use pex now instead, it has greater expansion capability in cold weather, so it bursts less often.

Also, you can run a heating wire on metal pipes, connected to a battery, it is set up so that when it gets cold the wire heats the pipe just enough to stop the freeze.

These storms seem to happen every 10 yrs, I want the system to take care of itself when I get too old to do emergency fixing.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

syrup and cream

take heavy cream ( 35%) and ideally maple syrup. Put a little bit of syrup in the cream, mix gently to combine, then whip the cream up until you have what you want in texture.

If you go all the way, you get maple flavoured butter (and a little bit of water in the bottom that you toss out), less whipping you get whipped cream.

If you are putting it on bread/cornbread I would go all the way to butter stage. It is a creamery butter, and gentle in taste.

it may not be what he wants, but it should be liked just the same.

 

[Matejka]

Thank you!