Squirtgunsquirter
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I use 4 and 5 pound bags all the time... how many people are you feeding?? lol
I use 4 and 5 pound bags all the time... how many people are you feeding?? lol
Just finishing up everything for the week! I’m just thinking of what kind of prepping plan I can do this weekend. I think it might be time to till up the greenhouse and get it started towards planting before long. I also need to finish pruning the grapevines, which should have been done a while back now. Somehow it seems like prepping is a lot of work sometimes!
I tend to keep at least 200 lbs of flour at all times. Its amazing how much you go thru really when you are baking from scratch. My bread recipe is anywhere between 5 - 6 cups to make a couple loaves of bread each week, depending on weather. plus whatever else you do with it. 500 lbs of sugar is not unreasonable either. . . specially when its canning time.
Me, I'm still working on my quilt but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. . . I really want to finish it up before I need to start planting. I did get out in the garden a couple days ago. We've had so much rain again this year my muck boots sunk around 3 1/2 - 4 inches when I got off my walkways. I've still only got my mustard, collards, turnips, lettuce and onions right now and I let them go to seed, except for some purple tops. I've got enough jars put up, but these will get dehydrated. The greens will go to the goats and cows. They will love them. Betsey Lou always looks forward when she sees her momma coming with a handful.
I got pushed down while feeding the hogs once, when they were fully grown and ready to send out. I went down swinging. They weren't so pushy for a few days after that.
Honestly, I was scared. Watching them eat walnuts like it was a peanut.
The wife ordered Red Rangers. They are smaller and take longer to mature than the heavy breeds like the Cornish X, but she felt they would suit us better. They're better forgers too. We are going to buy a drum picker later this spring. I think the one we're looking at will plucked 5-6 birds at once. When I was a kid we plucked by hand, won't do that again.Old poultry farmer and breeder here: cold is not the problem with chickens. Heat is the problem, in the summer. That's why you have to slaughter the very heavy meat chickens early. You COULD do Cornish hens, you know. With some of them. That would be so fun. Do you have one of those feather pickers, or are you relying on Amish slaughter/picking? They do a good job.
Not that there is anything wrong with hot nearly boiling water and doing it by hand.
Seven hens have always been enough for our one small family, for eggs. Migod, they lay so many! More and you've got a consumption problem, or at least we did. You can feed them to dogs and cats, put extra in everything you cook, eat more egg dishes ---- it goes on. I am betting you are selling the excess, with 18 a day.
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