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First thing. You really should make sure it is called a pressure canner and not a pressure cooker....a pressure cooker may not maintain adequate pressure to can something safely. If it is a canner just make sure the bottom is not warped. If someone used it incorrectly it may have been warped and...

Do you have garage sales or flee markets around your house???

You need to begin with reading the Ball book from front to back. Keep in mind when you are reading how you get temperatures to be high enough to kill off certain bacteria and other bad things in certain foods. Also pay attention and learn what foods are low acid and hi acid. You can get the...

Hay tortoise, You are doing the right thing. When you learn something you should go to well respected and correct info. Learn correctly until you are well acquainted with what you are doing and the reasons why you are doing them. If I see a new thing that seems different I look it up before I...

sumi, I am sort of new here and really don't know you. So tell us if you water bath can things and if you have ever pressure canned anything. When you say from start to finish could mean a large amount to teach. All the above comments give you great advice if you have canned "something" before.

Oh! That is very very cool....but not if they steal chickens.....but still cool....

I have this very heavy netting that goes over the whole chain link area, where the chickens run, to protect them. I have seen hawks fly over them and swoop down to try to get them without success..

Great pics. It's really nice to see others pets....I too, have to protect my chickens from some of those critters....I have electric fences that really work. We have found very very large droppings where a bear intestinal muscles didn't work while hitting the fence... My chickens are also locked...

Welcome Lynn...from Pa....

The Red Golden Pheasants are $60. a pair, the Silver Pheasants are $80. a pair, the Lady Amherst Pheasant are $80. a pair, the Mandarin Duck are about $125. a pair. We also have Ring Teal and Call Ducks. The Ring Teals are $100. a pair and the Call Ducks are $25. a pair. We also have Shelducks...

@frustratedearthmother No I don't produce that many chicks....12 or 20 of some.....I get the most our of my Serama chickens. I always save out the shortest ones and get rid of the tallest ones....

@frustratedearthmother No I never sold any eggs except my normal chicken eggs that are not fertile...Do you think you know of me????

We raise them for resale. We sell them locally and at our club "tail"gate sales.....They are to expensive for them to be mouth-candy....

We are getting duck eggs now and some, maybe pheasants too....not good timing but I will put them in the incubator anyway....

I have been doing this for 5 years now. I do ok with it.....Everyone loves them.....I sell out every week....no one comes to my house for don't want lots of traffic coming and going all week. I just do it all in one day with no one visiting me....

I get 100 eggs a day...50 to 60 dozen eggs get washed and hand delivered to my 50 customers each week. Everyone doesn't order each week and some get allot every week but it all averages out for me....Delivery takes about 4 hours....

I have allot of chickens who live in a fenced in corral.. They eat about 50 pounds of pellets a day. I feed them most all things I out of my fridge that I am not going to use, cooked or raw. I get all the homeless peoples leftovers. There is no where for the homeless food pantries to put...

These dang birds just won't stand still when the camera comes out... Red Golden Pheasant Silver Pheasant Silver Pheasant protecting his female Lady Amherst Pheasant Mandarin Duck

Thanks everyone... my hubby really doesn't have great skills. When we first got married he told me he only can do rough wood working and he doesn't do toilets....:bow I will keep doing the toilets if he keeps doing these rough wood working things.....:thumbsup :lol::lol::lol:

@Beekissed How cute....and the little girl also.....I love it...