Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[baymule]

Spending first night at the farm. Everything is a mess, but I don’t care. Son and I will move sheep and dogs tomorrow.

 

[CrealCritter]

do copperheads eat groundhogs, rabbits, raccoons, chipmunks, mice or deer? if so i like them.

Welcome to my neck of the woods. If you really like snakes, there are Shawnee national forest service guided tours for snake road in southern Illinois. They are getting ready to shut the road down for 3 weeks starting September first for the fall migration

PS. enjoy the videos

PSS. Don't ask me you go with you, I've seen enough snakes of my own this year

PSSS I'm safe from snakes with my guard kitties, guarding me

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Alaskan]

@Mini Horses I do not have but 1.5 acres and fenced it because of baby deers coming and with chickens, I was afraid of a predator would come after the deer and find an easy chicken dinner.
However. I dislike Wyndottes. Had 3 and for nothing in the world in a year could integrate them with my original 6. Culled them and cooked one and it was like leather and the taste was horrible. Was the breed or something I did wrong? I just cut under throat, put in hot water to remove feathers, cut open and removed all. Saved the gizzard and heart. Then, after super wahing, put them on ziplock bags and freezer them. As part of self-sufficient, would like to get meat birds but if they taste like that, I guess walmart will still have my wallet. I am so new to this, so sorry

Store bought chicken is YOUNG, like 8 weeks or some such.

Home grown chicken is usually much older... we usually eat ours at 6 months to a year, it is great meat, AS LONG AS you cook it at LOW heat! Low and slow!

So... if you are using it for soup, NEVER let the water boil. If the water boils the meat will be shoe leather tough. Super low simmer is the max heat.

 

[CrealCritter]

Spending first night at the farm. Everything is a mess, but I don’t care. Son and I will move sheep and dogs tomorrow.

Texas is now a gentle breeze

 

[Alaskan]

Kitties do not deal with snakes! What they DO deal with is mice that snakes like for dinner. So.....a round about way of dealing helps but doesn't prevent.

Deer are well fed here due to a lot of corn and pnut grown in area, plus winter wheat. I don't hunt BUT could take out a few most any evening at or on my property. It can be great meat, cooked correctly. Of course, I raise goats, so meat available.

Our ranch cats would go after snakes. They would hunt them down.

 

[Alaskan]

Spending first night at the farm. Everything is a mess, but I don’t care. Son and I will move sheep and dogs tomorrow.

Hurrah!!!! A messy house is proof of a brilliant mind!

 

[Dreamz]

Hurrah!!!! A messy house is proof of a brilliant mind!

Lol have not heard that one in a very long time. Home is home! If it looks like in a magazine, nobody lives there.

 

[baymule]

@Mini Horses I do not have but 1.5 acres and fenced it because of baby deers coming and with chickens, I was afraid of a predator would come after the deer and find an easy chicken dinner.
However. I dislike Wyndottes. Had 3 and for nothing in the world in a year could integrate them with my original 6. Culled them and cooked one and it was like leather and the taste was horrible. Was the breed or something I did wrong? I just cut under throat, put in hot water to remove feathers, cut open and removed all. Saved the gizzard and heart. Then, after super wahing, put them on ziplock bags and freezer them. As part of self-sufficient, would like to get meat birds but if they taste like that, I guess walmart will still have my wallet. I am so new to this, so sorry

I found the thread for the first batch of Cornish Cross I raised.

Cornish Cross Spring 2018 Cost/Profit/Loss or Freezer Meat

I got 30 Cornish Cross chicks this morning, one was dead, leaving 29. They cost $1.60 each. We got week old CCX chicks at TSC a few days ago for FREE. We got 25, one died leaving 24. So now we have 53 CCX chicks. I will post cost, any sales, and freezer meat. Y’all join in...

www.sufficientself.com

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hurrah!!!! A messy house is proof of a brilliant mind!

HA! I must be a flippin' genius!

 

[Mini Horses]

ME TOO..... Beyond genius even.