Two weeks ago, I dug up my parsnips that were in the garden. I had never grown parsnips before and quite honestly, I didn’t feel that I had that much success with them since out of an entire row, I only got eight or so plants. But I was so surprised at how big the…
Chicken Incubation Day 26 – Conclusion and A New Beginning
Well, it is official. None of our eight eggs that we incubated have survived. Yesterday we removed the eggs from the incubator. Since I was curious as to what happened to our eggs, I opened them up by the compost pile. What did I find?Three full size chicks, one partially developed chick and four very…
Home Chicken Incubation – Day 24
Today is day 24 of our eggs being incubated and sadly I believe that none of the eggs will hatch. On Wednesday night, we had some movement of the eggs which continued until Friday morning. But now there is no movement, chirping or pipping. I am going to wait a few more days before I…
Cooking For A Crowd: No Boil Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
For the third year in a row, I have coordinated our home-school spring banquet. This year we had our largest attendance with about one hundred mouths to feed. My personal goal this year was to keep the food simple yet delicious. The menu consisted of the following:– Spiral cut ham cooked in the crock pot– No-boil Macaroni and…
Chicken Incubation Day 8 – Keeping The Temperature Steady
This is day 8 of our incubation project. In this video, we talk about what temperature to keep the eggs at and how to do that successfully without a thermostat.We plan on doing a almost daily video documenting our experience as novice, small scale, home egg hatchers. Please be sure to follow us on Facebook as well as Twitter…
Chicken Incubation Day 6 – Egg Fertilization 101
I had a comment the other day that I needed to cover basic egg fertilization. So, our video today quickly talks about egg fertilization 101. If you try using Egg-lands Best or your local supermarket’s eggs, you will only “hatch” a bunch of rotten eggs. Local grocery stores only carry unfertilized eggs. If you want…