When we see a nice piece of beef chick on sale, we bring it home and turn it into chili. I run the beef through the meat grinder then brown it in a heavy pot. Remove the beef, clean out the pot and sweat plenty of diced onion plus several cloves of garlic, chopped fine. […]
The new Rhode Island Red hens we recently moved into the orchard with the existing flock are adjusting quite well. They’ve even started laying their own eggs. Can you tell which egg belongs to the new hen? It’s taken us six months to recover from the fox attack that reduced our flock of laying hens […]
Our 27 Rhode Island Red hens started laying eggs for the first time in the fall and they have not let up. That creates one small problem: what to do with all those eggs? They were piling up in the fridge faster than we could eat them or give them away. We’ve had some success […]
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