The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

No, regular 2 pane. However, they're still cold when you stand next to them. This also helps with the air flow around the window (it isn't always airtight).

2 panes with gas filling? (now I am thinking donuts ) Mine don't let in that much cold... except for the cracked one, and the 2 fogged ones.

Well guys, I gave up, I was trying to catch up, but I was staying around 1,900 posts behind you guys AND BYC just kept dropping me in the middle of a page NOWHERE near where I was supposed to be when I would click on the "first unread" button... then I would have to go BACK like 5 pages to find where I had read last... so... I jumped up here and read the last few pages.

Anything major happen that I should know about?

Howdy!

good to see ya!

No help here though. .. I am bad at re-caps.

 

[pennyJo1960]

The eggs change as the hen ages. The white gets less stiff for example. For me, the eggs from the older hens do not stick as much as eggs from younger hens.

I might be getting better at boiling eggs though

learn something new daily is my motto thank you Ron

 

[drumstick diva]

I think Ron is the recap person at least at hatching chick-a-thons

 

[pennyJo1960]

I sure would have to agree there diva

 

[microchick]

Two batches of oatmeal cookies done. One no sugar added with dates, craisins and raisins the other straight oatmeal chocolate chip.

I think I'm sick of cookies already.

Hi @Kusanar Glad you could drop in. Same old same old going on around here.

 

[bruceha2000]

As the eggs age, not the hen as i understood.

hard boiled eggs get easier to peal as the hens age.

My understanding is the same as @CapricornFarm BUT I've not considered the possibility of the hen's age. Something to check ... in the spring. At the moment the only girls laying are the 4 that were hatched in April.

 

[Beer can]

Store bought eggs peel easy. Homegrown eggs never peel easy, month old eggs, two months...never peel easy, makes you wonder what's up with those store bought eggs?!!
Most fool proof method was actually mentioned to me by my littlest brother, what a idiot, doesn't know anything about chickens, not on byc, thinks his Easter eggers are Ameraucana's lol. Only good bird he has is the white giant rooster I gave him a few yrs ago when his beloved hatchery buff orp turned into a man killer. Lol. He told me to chop up a lemon and put in the water for boiling eggs
I tried every method on here every method and not much luck, what!?, lemon? LOL!
It works! Not sure why or how, vinegar doesn't. I actually tried cheap just lemon juice last time and it worked also. For the whole lemon it works for dozens of eggs just re-use the water. I don't know why it works but it for sure does. I pickle a lot of eggs, used to boil twice as many as I needed don't have to using lemon.

 

[Beer can]

Oldest DD , cracked me up, black Friday sales, she came home with a couple cases of canning jars ? And some clothes and whatever, but canning jars? why??
She moved out a week later....
Now I feel old....
Canned some apple sauce and ready to fill chunks with spices for pies, a couple jars got mold on them. Dw and her thought the added lemon juice was for the browning of the apples, and didn't add any, could've been for the added acid I said , ...
I've seen tomatoes canned go bad, if they don't have a good acid content you can't get away with just water bath canning them.
IDK , some stuff never goes bad? I've never seen a jar of beans or peas carrots tators etc ever go bad??

 

[Beer can]

Just skimming through, tators, I haven't bought seed potatoes in many yrs, just buy big bags of regular eating potatoes and set the bag in our cellar, and also use whatever in our cupboards that get eyes, tons of seed, fyi, cut them up as small as possible, inch squares if they have a eye, best harvest ever, only takes a little piece with a eye to make a ton of tators.
Ronnet, try the barrel method, put the seed potatoes in the bottom and add soil as they grow, supposed to grow tons of tators...big fail for me when I tried. Ended up with not much, few lbs... I'll have to try a long growing potato rather than a quick growing one. I bet it works if you use a potato with a longer growing season.

 

[Alaskan]

Oldest DD , cracked me up, black Friday sales, she came home with a couple cases of canning jars ? And some clothes and whatever, but canning jars? why??
She moved out a week later....
Now I feel old....
Canned some apple sauce and ready to fill chunks with spices for pies, a couple jars got mold on them. Dw and her thought the added lemon juice was for the browning of the apples, and didn't add any, could've been for the added acid I said , ...
I've seen tomatoes canned go bad, if they don't have a good acid content you can't get away with just water bath canning them.
IDK , some stuff never goes bad? I've never seen a jar of beans or peas carrots tators etc ever go bad??

There ya are! Proof that the ph has to be right!

And on tomatoes... so many kinds of those! Some have no bite to them at all.. sure vary.

Now carrots and peas... I would think those would need something to keep them good. Haven't canned either, so don't know.