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[Cynthia12]

I'm always amazed at the things you do! You bake, you cook, you do your own coffee beans, I'm pretty sure that I saw that you will butcher your roos to eat. I think I saw once that you also do a bit of sewing, or quilting. Have to ask, do you hunt? Deer..Elk..big game, fowl like pheasant...quail?

 

[pennyJo1960]

I love steel cut oats the real oatmeal only way I will eat it

 

[Latestarter]

I wanted to thank @superchemicalgirl for the lovely gift she bestowed upon me a month or so ago. She sent me a beautiful quilt with some of the row by row patterns that I gifted her from Colorado. I wanted to hang it for display but wasn't going to do that while in the midst of packing a house to move. It is hanging now in my new home and friends visiting me today all commented on how beautiful it was

Thank you once again SCG! It really is very beautiful! It's been mostly cloudy since I hung it and I need better sun to get a picture of it. Once I do I'll post it here. Thanks also to @dsqard as I understand she had a hand in it as well.

 

[microchick]

I have a Nesco dehydrator. It's been doing overtime lately drying apples for me. I'll have to look up the drying trays before our girls start to lay again. Worthless little freeloaders indeed. All mine are good for is to chase bugs around and they only do that when it doesn't interfere with their 8 hour dust bath. But come spring I will be having 23 hens laying. 15 will barely be 2 and 8 at POL so hopefully The Great Egg Drought of 2016 will be a thing of the past. I usually give the garbage man Fed X delivery guy and the nice ladies in the post office eggs as thank you tips, but if I can dehydrate for the next big drought I'd be thrilled.

Ronott1 once dehydrated do you just use a blender to powder them or is there an easier method?

I was just over on the Missouri thread where they are talking about an earthquake south of Joplin tonight about 7ish. Didn't feel a thing here but we are in the opposite corner of Missouri.

Personally I will be glad when this molt is done. This afternoon I noticed one of the hens pecking around one of the Welsummer rooster's back side, I caught him and discovered that the idiot had pulled out a new pin feather on his tail and was bleeding like crazy. I brought him into the house, hosed him off and blue coated his butt. He's in with my Buff O hen and her 7 week old chicks now. Last I checked him he was craning his neck around checking out his pretty purple back side, resplendent with it's one remaining, bedraggled, sickle feather sticking out of it..

Please guys, tell me that the first molt is the hardest.

 

[ronott1]

I'm always amazed at the things you do! You bake, you cook, you do your own coffee beans, I'm pretty sure that I saw that you will butcher your roos to eat. I think I saw once that you also do a bit of sewing, or quilting. Have to ask, do you hunt? Deer..Elk..big game, fowl like pheasant...quail?

I have hunted Dove, quail, pheasant, duck, squirrel and rabbit. When I was in High School, before moving off of the prune orchard, I would go out after school and hunt Quail that lived on our property. I would clean them and when I had 12 or so I would make stew out of them.

I also fished quite a bit growing up and still get out to fish for trout some times. I did not make out this year though.

I do a lot of stuff like grinding my own flour, making sausage and ground beef. I also cook dinner nearly every night. Tonight was smoked baby back ribs, baked potatoes and oven roasted green beans. We did have Chinese take out on Friday though which pushed Tacos to yesterday on my menu.

I think growing up on the prune orchard and living far from a major city made all of us in my family very self reliant. I am trying to pass this on to my Children. My Oldest DD got a job as a car sales person because she knows how to drive a stick shift .

 

[Beer can]

Ronott1 posted awhile back his method for dehydrating eggs, maybe we can get him to do it again so we don't have to search back? :-D
I remember there was a bit more to it than just dry and pack.
Would be super awesome to have one of those 'Harvest Right' freeze dryers, if we were rich. Maybe someday they'll get cheaper.

 

[ronott1]

I have a Nesco dehydrator. It's been doing overtime lately drying apples for me. I'll have to look up the drying trays before our girls start to lay again. Worthless little freeloaders indeed. All mine are good for is to chase bugs around and they only do that when it doesn't interfere with their 8 hour dust bath. But come spring I will be having 23 hens laying. 15 will barely be 2 and 8 at POL so hopefully The Great Egg Drought of 2016 will be a thing of the past. I usually give the garbage man Fed X delivery guy and the nice ladies in the post office eggs as thank you tips, but if I can dehydrate for the next big drought I'd be thrilled.

Ronott1 once dehydrated do you just use a blender to powder them or is there an easier method?

I was just over on the Missouri thread where they are talking about an earthquake south of Joplin tonight about 7ish. Didn't feel a thing here but we are in the opposite corner of Missouri.

Personally I will be glad when this molt is done. This afternoon I noticed one of the hens pecking around one of the Welsummer rooster's back side, I caught him and discovered that the idiot had pulled out a new pin feather on his tail and was bleeding like crazy. I brought him into the house, hosed him off and blue coated his butt. He's in with my Buff O hen and her 7 week old chicks now. Last I checked him he was craning his neck around checking out his pretty purple back side, resplendent with it's one remaining, bedraggled, sickle feather sticking out of it..

Please guys, tell me that the first molt is the hardest.

The eggs are blended first. It is very important to get them as blended as possible. They then go onto the fruit roll up trays making sure to not over fill them. They dehydrate at 130 degrees for 8 to 10 hours. They will be fairly but not evenly dry then. They get broken up and blended again. The egg powder is put back onto the trays. I start with 5 trays and after blending they go down to two.

Dehydrate them for another 5 hours or so. I usually dehydrate over night for the first batch and then blend them in the morning and dry them the second time while I am at work.

They will be dry after the second drying and then run them again in the blender. You will get the powder you see in the photo then. They need to go into the vacuum seal because the omega oils in the eggs will oxidize if they are exposed to oxygen.

It is a bit involved but dehydrated eggs are expensive. They are Prepper food after all. They will keep you going for a long time during the Zombie Apocalypse.

 

[microchick]

Thanks Ronott1. I'm on FleaBay looking for trays now. My unit is older but still gets the job done.

You're a bit ahead of me but I love to fish and hunt. In fact deer season starts next Saturday here and for sure I'll be out in the timber letting Bambi make a fool out of me.

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh Ron, you mentioned fishing! Back in the day, I loved loved going fishing. I always caught the most! No kidding, I really would catch a lot. Maybe I already shared that story with you. Need to go find that photo. I am holding a Big Mouth Bass. Used to fish at Lake Powel a lot. Man, those were the days. I hunted also. Deer, Elk, Grouse, Pheasant. Never did hunt the quail, but the hubby did. We had the most wonderful English Setter to find them for us. And talk about holding a point! We had to put a bell on her to hear her when she would move, as the bird would move. The bird moves, she would slightly move, then point..move again..point again..she could hold a bird like no other!

 

[Cynthia12]

Here is photo of our English Setter. She didn't have the real pointy nose like they should. She was pure, but now show quality, unless she would have been in a filed show..she would have won! We joked she was good at hunting because her nose was shorter.
Brisckal..my little sis named her..wanted to say she was frisky/brisky..so Brisckal came out. It stuck.


Back in the 70's.