Using sound judgment to be more self-reliant.
What are the best laying hens? The answer will vary, depending on your needs. First, ask yourself some basic questions: What is your purpose for getting chickens? Do you primarily want a good source of eggs? If so, how many eggs do you want in a week? What egg color do you want? Will your chickens be more like pets than working livestock? Do you want a dual purpose breed so that you get a little meat? [Read more…]
I recently had the pleasure of reading “The Small-Scale Poultry Flock – An all natural approach to raising chickens and other fowl for home and market growers” by Harvey Ussery. This book is overflowing with detailed information on every aspect of natural poultry care. It's a worthwhile investment for new poultry people and experienced growers alike. This is not a “pet chicken” book, but a practical manual grounded in decades of experience. [Read more…]
Since I live out in the country, when I don't have an ingredient on hand, it's not very handy to pop out to the store to pick up what I need. Over the years I've found an assortment of kitchen substitutions that have worked well for me, so I thought I would put them all together in one spot and share them with you. These won't work *exactly* like the original ingredients, but they should do in a pinch. You may even like them better than the original. [Read more…]
I was listening to the radio the other day, and the morning talk show hosts were going on about how to boil an egg. Since I've boiled several hundred eggs over my lifetime (possibly thousands – we used to boil an awful lot of eggs for the catering business when we made big batches of potato salad in the summer), I may qualify as an egg boiling expert. 😉
So, how do you boil an egg? There are two types of boiled eggs, hard boiled and soft boiled. [Read more…]
