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We put 22 of our dark brahma eggs in the incubator and the oldest was two weeks. Only have 2 breeder hens and trying to build the flock from them. Last year we got over 90% and this time square on 50%. Of 22 eggs we got 11 live birds. 2 eggs never developed and There is 7 down there developed...

Anyone make either of these? I rendered all the fat off a deer the year before last and still had it sitting around. Once strained it preserves rather well warm in a bag in the basement. I made a batch with Beeswax for bullet lubing and 200 45 Colt bullets and I hardly dented it. I got plenty...

I did a search and did not turn up any thread in gardening or cooking for caning. did I miss it, or no one does it? We caned pickles, salsa, cowboy candy (wow), apple butter, pawpaw butter, chicken and deer. experimenting in canned deer soup, stroganoff and chicken soup to be noodle or rice...

Anyone grown these yet? I plan on growing 50 plants for me/daughter and neighbor to can sauce and salsa. I an thinking about a Florida weave trellis, 6' stakes every 5 plants or so. I'm figuring they grow up and grow back down. I am just wnting to hear if anyone else has experience growing...

Anyone know why the message board will not take to embedding rumble videos? Does it need an update, or the service not supported? I can embedded them on my wordpress site but not on here.

Anyone canned pumpkins, and if you did how are you using/eating them? Canning in pints or quarts? My daughter has a line a farm ditching them for a truck load for $10 :eek: I got no idea on how to eat them besides pie. I got a 4' wide by 6.5' truck bed and no way we could put that up. Maybe...

I was very happy with my collapsible brooder and Ohio brooder for raising chicks. The problem I have with it though is it was in the third bay in the garage. My truck in the second and wifes van in the first. My truck, partially her van and everything in the garage looks like someone tried...

Are you all using the raw pack or hot pack methods? I just did some B&B and my daughter did some Dills all as raw pack. I like the crunch, but they seem to float and it might be excessively crunchy. I got a bunch more to wanted to see what you all are doing with yours.

I preface this, I have flat out quit tilling. I have a fenced in garden with 1 1/2" - 2" of hardwood chipped mulch on it. I hate weeding. Cucumbers, tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon and pepper are doing fine. Even beans were coming up but the young rabbits can fit through 2x4 fence and are...

So I had enough of the turning my garage into a chicken sauna with the standard open top brooders. So I build a small ohio brooder that is 2' x 40" and sits inside a 4' x 8' collapsible brooder that can go into the attic. Detailed list and instructions all posted on my blog here. I do a...

I have a GQF Hova-Bator 1588 and have eggs in it and I have a LG 9300. I am trying to help my daughter start line breeding her Dark Brahmas she has an only one hen has The right qualities for the future. So I was trying to stage hatch as we have her and the rooster locked in the breeding coop...

I want to make a big brooder that might be 4' x 8' and I am trying to find designs that break down into stackable sections that don't a lot of space when not being used. I will make it out of wood and probably stick and Ohio brooder inside of it and play around with a temperature controller for...

We have one Dark brahma rooster and three hens. My daughter wanted to breed some more and I checked all three hens and found only one I wanted in the future line. So we have her and him in a breeders coop, but I have yet to see her submit and him cover her. Of course, I am not over there a lot...

I have 10 dark cornish girls about 10 months old. They are hatchery birds from Ideal and didn't hit the weights I wanted for growing my own meat birds. So I am selling them off to someone that might want them just for yard birds and laying hens. I probably get 5 - 7 eggs a day from them. They...

I killed my two cornish hatchery roosters off this morning as I am not breeding them. Largest one only got to 6.6# and 2nd was 5.7# and nothing to care about for a meat only bird at 9 months size wise. I figured I would skin them and put trim the breast and legs for soup. The breast came out...

Not a chicken recipe, but any other hunters/farmers might like it. It would take a lot of chicken livers to make this! I never found a way I really liked cooked liver until one day I saw a recipe for Liverwurst, my family always called it Bruanschweiger. I edited the recipe from pig livers to...

Does anyone else do it while they are alive? I used to use a kitchen scale but they hens aren't cooperative and the rooster about need a neck ringing to still still. Last time I tried it I would have made a sailor blush. So I was thinking about using this fishing scale and getting a small rope...

Ok, anyone made any custom toppers for waterer like this? My layer flock is good, my cornish flock won;t stop day roosting on it and crapping the lid up. Looking for ideas to make it too difficult to fly up here.

Anyone make candles here? I have rendered deer fat down and seen people use it for candles straight. I did render it for Black powder wads in shooting, but one deer makes more than I can use in 10 years once cut with beeswax. I was looking for some other craft type uses and candles came into...

What are you all using for breeder pens? I have a old rabbit hutch I might rebuild that is about 4' wide and 3' deep with a nesting box off the side. I figure 4 birds could roost in it at night with three hens and one roo. Probably build a 6' x 12' run maybe? Looking for ideas and experience...