What did you do in the garden today?

[Rise722]

I went around gathering up my battery timers and draining the lines. The freeze should be coming soon.

 

[Ascholten]

Thank you for the ways to cook OLD chicken.
Ill print all these out, with a picture of a clock and a big RED zone around anything before 7 am !! see if they get the hint. Chicken soup, stew, and especially pot pie, I do a I guess you could call it modified shephards pie that is just calorically decadent but oh so good !!

Aaron

 

[Elyrian1]

@Ascholten

Just like the others said, I cook mine in the Instant Pot. It literally falls off the bone. It isn't chewy or rubbery that I've noticed. We use it in stew or pot pie

Generally for tender age I cook at high pressure for 12 minutes for fall apart tender. How long do you cook the old birds for?

 

[Ascholten]

Generally for tender age I cook at high pressure for 12 minutes for fall apart tender. How long do you cook the old birds for?

I really have not. I know someone trying to get rid of some roosters, and is essentially the type of person who'd just ... cull them.. to be done with them. I don't wan't to see good food goto waste, yet heard that old birds can be real tough and rather undesirable to eat. So I am trying to get inputs if this is true that they are too tough to enjoy or not, and what IS the best way to cook older birds. all the birds I have eaten in the past, that I processed, or was involved in, were MAYBE..a year and a half old at the outside?

Aaron

 

[589205]

The ONE thing I was really looking forward to after a very long icky day...

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• Gammas Bearded Babies
• Oct 18, 2022

sneaky raccoons…

It looks like you may need to adjust your trap a little bit just to make sure that it actually closes on ‘em when they get inside of it and maybe try staking or tying your bait down and blocking off all the sides so that they can’t reach into it and grab your bait without getting caught…Then once you do get em - please DISPATCH and DO NOT relocate them to make it someone else’s problem! (It’s very difficult to catch them again once they’ve been set free after being caught!)

 

[NewBoots]

My mother also just cleans them, and put them whole in a pot with water some onion, garlic, tomatoes, rice and Bharat, and salt of course.

Your mother sounds like a great cook, I love foods cooked slow in a Dutch oven. And I had to look up Bharat recipes for find out that it sounds wonderful. Next time I have an older hen to cull, I am trying that, I can practically smell it now.

I do a I guess you could call it modified shephards pie that is just calorically decadent but oh so good !!

I do those too when I have any type of leftover meat and mashed potatoes. Thanksgiving leftovers make a great shepherd's pie, with the stuffing, turkey, gravy, mashed po...how soon is Thanksgiving again?

I don't wan't to see good food goto waste, yet heard that old birds can be real tough and rather undesirable to eat.

Old chickens are the best thing for making a good stock.

I took a young rooster out of the freezer last night and he'll be joining us for lunch today. At least I'm hoping it's a young bird, I forgot to label it so it might be a poor layer too. Hope not 'cuz I'm doing a bake/fry.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

sneaky raccoons…

It looks like you may need to adjust your trap a little bit just to make sure that it actually closes on ‘em when they get inside of it and maybe try staking or tying your bait down and blocking off all the sides so that they can’t reach into it and grab your bait without getting caught…Then once you do get em - please DISPATCH and DO NOT relocate them to make it someone else’s problem! (It’s very difficult to catch them again once they’ve been set free after being caught!)

Thank you for your feedback...it has been quite frustrating to say the least!
After I had the one happen in the video...would you believe a larger one came and brought a possum...after the small possum got angry at the large coon it took off..so guess they weren't "together".
I had a very difficult time getting the bait back far enough without tripping the door on my arm. It doesn't have a safety catch or anything.
I pray tonight goes better!

 

[Sally PB]

Ive always put my music an inch or so down and it has done very well. Garlic loves water but the killer is STANDING water.

Yes, good point! I have it in my sandy soil garden.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

It got down to 35F this morning. Frost on the roof tops but very light on the ground. In my backyard under the tree cover there was no frost. I am looking forward to the milder temps right now. Some of my hens have large bare spots where the new feathers are poking through their skin. Ouch! Likely won’t go into the garden until tomorrow morning for more clean up.

 

[Ascholten]

Son of a #$$ch. I just seen the forecast, you gotta be kidding me. FROST????
This is FLORIDA, we don't get FROST BEFORE HALLOWEEN. Hell I can't really recall EVER seeing frost before december really maybe LATE november.
dammit I got a ton of trees to move around, crap crap, i might just set the lawn on fire, it'd be easier at this point

aaron