The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

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I learned how to bone a chicken from Graham Kerr on KPBS when I was about seventeen. And a rabbit.... One of his recipes was a Rabbit stuffed with home made sausage.... where you had to grind the sausage yourself... It came out really good. XCept Mom wouldnt touch it till I cut two legs off. It looked too much like a baby.

There is also an excellent YouTube video on the subject using very little knife skills... The Chef is Jacques Pepin...

This technique can be used for all poultry.

Dad used to filet Skip Jack with a single cut down the back bone and run his fingers under the skin meat along the ribcage.... No bones. He learned that watching the deck hands do it for the fishermen on the sport fishing boat...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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Excellent... those winds tend to be cyclic so depending on leading edge or trailing edge the wind could come from any direction.... We had a few lightening strikes.... which are a danger in of itself.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

NPIP completed this morning. They're all clean.
The AI test is free too but I didn't do it because if they come back positive, they destroy the whole flock. If it shows positive for P-T antibodies, they do further tests and try to save the flock. The tester told me the P-T test will come back positive if they have antibodies for any disease, including possibly worms.
He also said that at this time, there is no plan to cut back from the 100% flock testing because Missouri has a history of Pullorum.

17 birds took about an hour and a half for everything including paperwork, blood tests, leg banding and me going in to catch them one at a time.

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that the testing came back clean, (and that it is over and done! )


Also, I am TOTALLY with you! Eat the real food, or just skip it! Most lo cal, fat free stuff have frightening ingredients.

I have one son that can't eat any gluten, and I do NOT like the "I am a food with no gluten pretending to be a gluten full item".

There are actually many foods, designed to be delicious, that have no gluten. Flourless Chocolate cake, and many Chocolate Souflee's are both good examples.

I got this pic a hour ago.
the fire is really burning with lots of evacuations .
you can really see the dark smoke billowing standing on the dam.
fire is now at 12,780 acres




another sad not on fires is keep everyone in the town of Weed ( Norcal in your thoughts )
over 150 residential structures damaged or lost with a unknown amount of commercial buildings.
That is a large percentage of that town gone. very sad

That is VERY sad! The big fire we had up here this year, the firefighters were able to keep in mostly uninhabited areas, so only one outbuilding and a few seasonal cabins (no water, no electricity) were destroyed.

 

[perchie.girl]

Helpful hint:
Trouble seeing those tomato hornworms? Get a pair of golf ball finder glasses (they've got filter lenses). It makes the white on the worm a can't-miss-it blinding white. You'll see dazzling spots on the stalk.

@ChickenCanoe
So sorry about your friend. Having dealt with a couple of friends with successful suicides, yeah, it's devasating. Hopefully things turn out for the best. I wish I had better words, but the situation's still raw.

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All those in CA, be safe. It's dry and you have no water, so RUN if you have to! Too bad you cannot pump the excess water from AZ's now and future floods over. (Of course, that would be quite a pipeline to get it up to Weed)

Oooh Mom would have loved to have had those glasses when we lived in Vegas.... Shed fill a coffee can with those worms every couple of days.... we had one fence that shaded the plants from the heat and they went wild running full length of about fifty feet.

We grab whats needed throw it in the car and go. There is NOTHING we own worth our lives. Here during the Cedar fire the emergency notifications failed.... When people finally figured out the fire was on them they had no time.... One husband and wife hung back to catch their dogs.... They were a prominant breeder and threw the dogs in their cars... She went first as a wall of fire engulfed the road.... Her husband drove through the fire melting his tires.... they made it. Others didnt from the same area.

I had a friend who bought a property that had been the beginnings of a homestead. The new barn had had structural issues and fallen over my friend didnt care she had plans on pulling it apart and rebuilding it. The same fire on the same day blew through and Everything wood was gone.... just neat little rows of nails that were in the wood... she had evacuated her animals the day before.

I cant imagine how dry it is up around Placerville.... The Snow up in those areas has been woefully light.

deb

 

[Hangtown Farms]

 

[Sylviaanne]

Dumb Bunny that I am, I'm still trying to figure out what Sylviaanne needs forgiveness for? I mean, Chickisoup just broke her freakin' ankle falling down her back steps, and she's not making noises about not forgiving her hubby for not de-icing them . . . . Just sayin'.

Did you figure it out? My chickens, I raked up the pile of straw he fell over.
LOL He's not mad about it but I'm sure I will hear about it for a loooong time to come.
We have a culvert out on either side of our driveway and I don't do a lot of driving but had to back the van out and it went right into the ditch. Neighbor brought his tractor down and got the car out but I still hear about it and it's been over a year.

 

[perchie.girl]

Oh thats ****** SCARY.... Be safe...

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

Chicken Canoe PLEASE keep us updated on your friend. I have been praying for her and for you. I know how much she means to you.

 

[tridentk9]

A close friend lives just off Mt Aukum Road in Somerset. That's really not that far as the crow flies. I'll have to check up on her tomorrow.

 

[vehve]

@Hangtown Farms Scary and beautiful at the same time. Stay safe.

CC, I hope your friend pulls through, and without any complications.

The homemade mayo things is something you should try, it's pretty different from anything else, it's not often you make emulsions at home.

And tnspurs, yay for Maddie!