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[chickadoodles]

Scg sounds like a fun trip.

 

[chickadoodles]

They may like it as an upside down cake. I have a recipe called quick change cake that I use for upside down cake:

Quick Change Cake

2 ½ cups flour
1 ½ cups sugar
3 tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp salt
2 eggs
2 cups heavy cream or canned milk
2 tsp vanilla

Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl Add wet ingredients and mix for two minutes. Bake at 350 for about 25 minute until toothpick comes out clean following the different “changes” below.

Upside down cake

Melt ½-cup butter or margarine in a 9x13 pan. Mix in 1C. Packed brown sugar. Place fruit-canned peaches, pears or pineapple- over butter sugar mixture. Pour cake batter over top. You can substitute 1 ½ Cups of fruit juice (form can) for cream in the recipe.

Sour Cream Cake

Use Sour cream for Heavy cream and use 1 tsp of baking soda instead of baking powder.

Creamy Strawberry Cake

2 pck vanilla pudding
1 ½ C milk
2 pt. fresh strawberries

Make pudding with 3 ½ cups milk. Berries and pudding go into the center of the cake after it is poured into the 9x13 cake pan

Sounds like some great cakes! Thanks for sharing.

 

[chickadoodles]

Sure has been warm enough to!
I'll be heading to Speculator, Indian Lake area middle of October for beer camp, we stay in a cabin on Lewey Lake, no tents for us Lol!

Sure has been warm enough to!
I'll be heading to Speculator, Indian Lake area middle of October for beer camp, we stay in a cabin on Lewey Lake, no tents for us Lol!

Sounds like my kind of camping! Cabin or RV.

 

[The Meadow]

Hi all. I am a retired late middle ager who has just discovered the fun of chickens. I was helping a friend with chores on her farm and realized how much I loved stopping in the coop and just watching. Now we have a tiny group of 7 here ... 5 roosters and 2 hens. Yes ... I know ... So far we seem to be getting along just fine. They all grew up together. Ours free range and tend to stick to the front yard and side gardens of our home. Sure makes it fun to watch them pop around when we eat lunch at the kitchen window. I harbour dreams of TOO MANY critters. We do also have three donkeys. Between the chickens and the donkeys I have plenty of reason to be outside and active every day. Wondering how our Canadian winter will treat the chickens. I would love to get to know some other 'mature' chicken owners. Ha!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Hi all. I am a retired late middle ager who has just discovered the fun of chickens. I was helping a friend with chores on her farm and realized how much I loved stopping in the coop and just watching. Now we have a tiny group of 7 here ... 5 roosters and 2 hens. Yes ... I know ... So far we seem to be getting along just fine. They all grew up together. Ours free range and tend to stick to the front yard and side gardens of our home. Sure makes it fun to watch them pop around when we eat lunch at the kitchen window. I harbour dreams of TOO MANY critters. We do also have three donkeys. Between the chickens and the donkeys I have plenty of reason to be outside and active every day. Wondering how our Canadian winter will treat the chickens. I would love to get to know some other 'mature' chicken owners. Ha!

Welcome to BYC! What part of Canada are you in? I lived in NS for a long time. Now i live in Virginia on 13 acres right on the Pigg river! I have 13 guineas, 3 EE, and 24 young Speckled Sussex and Polish chickens. We have a German Shepherd, a Papillon, a Siamese cat and her 3 kittens who are getting bigger by the minute.
What kind of coop do you have? I have been building mine for over a month. It is 8x10 and divided in half so when the young chickens grow up each breed will have half a coop. They will each have their own runs of course. My coop features a skylight i made from shower doors. I have a thread"Helpful hints for building coops". Here is the current state of the coop, i just started putting the cedar siding on the front today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hi all. I am a retired late middle ager who has just discovered the fun of chickens. I was helping a friend with chores on her farm and realized how much I loved stopping in the coop and just watching. Now we have a tiny group of 7 here ... 5 roosters and 2 hens. Yes ... I know ... So far we seem to be getting along just fine. They all grew up together. Ours free range and tend to stick to the front yard and side gardens of our home. Sure makes it fun to watch them pop around when we eat lunch at the kitchen window. I harbour dreams of TOO MANY critters. We do also have three donkeys. Between the chickens and the donkeys I have plenty of reason to be outside and active every day. Wondering how our Canadian winter will treat the chickens. I would love to get to know some other 'mature' chicken owners. Ha!

hey there Welcome to rocking chair not group....... another one from Canada, one breed of chickens some do better than others but most can survive did you build a coop or already have one? I live here in Washington State little place called Mossyrock I refer to us as The Halfway Ranch

 

[Alaskan]

Dsqard and I are camping in NY tomorrow.

We'll post if we need bail.

if you do need bail.....


PLEASE post pictures!!!!!

 

[Latestarter]

Greetings and welcome to BYC @The Meadow Glad you joined us here at TOFH. Make yourself at home and jump in as you will.

 

[Alaskan]

Hi all. I am a retired late middle ager who has just discovered the fun of chickens. I was helping a friend with chores on her farm and realized how much I loved stopping in the coop and just watching. Now we have a tiny group of 7 here ... 5 roosters and 2 hens. Yes ... I know ... So far we seem to be getting along just fine. They all grew up together. Ours free range and tend to stick to the front yard and side gardens of our home. Sure makes it fun to watch them pop around when we eat lunch at the kitchen window. I harbour dreams of TOO MANY critters. We do also have three donkeys. Between the chickens and the donkeys I have plenty of reason to be outside and active every day. Wondering how our Canadian winter will treat the chickens. I would love to get to know some other 'mature' chicken owners. Ha!

welcome!


Pull up a rocking chair and sit a spell!

I am over in Alaska, currently nasty wet and rainy for the last month.

I have a mess of chickens, Muscovy ducks, and 3 milk goats.

Of all of my chicken breeds, only my Appenzeller Spitzhauben can be run with ridiculous rooster to hen ratios with zero ill effects.

Watch your girls closely, especially their backs, and the back of their heads.

How far north are you? I am at Latitude 69...so not too bad. All of that toasty Japanese water comes up my way and helps keep us warm.

 

[ronott1]

Hi all. I am a retired late middle ager who has just discovered the fun of chickens. I was helping a friend with chores on her farm and realized how much I loved stopping in the coop and just watching. Now we have a tiny group of 7 here ... 5 roosters and 2 hens. Yes ... I know ... So far we seem to be getting along just fine. They all grew up together. Ours free range and tend to stick to the front yard and side gardens of our home. Sure makes it fun to watch them pop around when we eat lunch at the kitchen window. I harbour dreams of TOO MANY critters. We do also have three donkeys. Between the chickens and the donkeys I have plenty of reason to be outside and active every day. Wondering how our Canadian winter will treat the chickens. I would love to get to know some other 'mature' chicken owners. Ha!

My six hens were at the sliding glass door waiting for me to give them their kale this morning.

Yep!
They know the routine!