We make hot pepper (chili) oil as a replacement for the red pepper flakes we often see in Italian restaurants in the United States. Why? Because when we went to Italy, we found that they were using the hot pepper (chili) oil to spice up their pizza, spaghetti, etc. rather than the red pepper flakes. Why Make Hot Pepper (or Chili) Oil? In Italy, we noticed that many restaurants had hot pepper (or chili) oil on the tables instead of pepper flakes, and we found ourselves liking it ... continue reading...
Young Chick Care
Young chick care wasn't something we were initially familiar with because we eased into chicken-keeping by first getting three pullets (to make sure that we enjoyed having our own chickens). That was a huge success, so we eventually decided to get a traditional coop and add more hens. However, six young chickens came with the new coop (see New Chicken Coop) and were a complete surprise, so we scrambled to accommodate them. Preparing for them really just came down to what is best for housing, ... continue reading...
Goat Health Record Form (Downloadable)
A goat health record form is extremely important for keeping track of your goats' health care. Things like registration numbers, CD&T & BoSe shots (see CD/T & BoSe Injections For Goats), worming dates, breeding dates, kidding dates, number of kids, copper bolusing, and annual disease testing are all things that need to be documented all year long. It's also a good idea to keep records on feeding, milk production, and show awards. The form shown below is one that I ... continue reading...
Keto-Friendly Indonesian Ginger Chicken
This keto-friendly Indonesian Ginger Chicken is an extremely tasty recipe for chicken from Ina Garten's first cookbook The Barefoot Contessa. I've been making it for years, it's so easy and good. Basically, you marinate your chicken overnight in Asian seasonings and then put it in the oven and bake the next day. The results are great hot, warm, or cold. It makes an easy dish for entertaining - everyone seems to like it. I haven't made it much recently because we're trying to ... continue reading...
The Homestead Barn (Important Questions Before Building)
Planning the homestead barn is a very important step, and the better you know exactly what you want to do on your homestead, the better you can design your barn to accommodate your needs before building it. What To Consider When Planning The Homestead Barn Some important things to consider are how big, siting, flooring, electricity and water, livestock accommodations, feed storage, and handling manure. We could have done a better job of planning, so below are some ideas to ... continue reading...
Making Goat Milk Butter (with a KitchenAid mixer)
I've read that you need a cream separator (see one HERE) and butter churn for making goat milk butter, but we've come up with a method that doesn't require either of those pieces of equipment. Instead, we manually separate the cream from the goat milk and use a KitchenAid mixer to churn the butter. It takes a few days, but the cream in the goat milk does separate and rise to the top of the jars we use for storing the milk; so we just spoon the cream off and add it to a freezer ... continue reading...
What Causes Double Yolks?
Many folks question what causes chickens to sometimes produce double yolks in their eggs, so here's an attempt at the explanation. To Understand What Causes Double Yolk Eggs You Need To Learn About Hens Reproductive System A hen’s reproductive system (for more in-depth discussion click HERE) consists of an ovary and an oviduct. The ovary contains undeveloped egg yolks. The number of yolks (or ovum) that are contained here are the total number of eggs that the chicken can lay in her ... continue reading...
Monster Zucchini? Chickens Love Zucchini!
Chickens really do love zucchini! The recent rains were very welcome but caused some monster zucchini to grow in our garden – they are really much larger than I want to use for cooking. So, what's one to do with all those monster zucchini? Feed them to the chickens, of course. They'll eat them immediately and the zucchini are good for the chickens too. To feed zucchini to the chickens, simply split the zucchini in half down the middle, that gives the chickens access to ... continue reading...
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