Q and A: Odd chicken egg

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Odd chicken egg I got the craziest egg today. It is perfectly round, only the size of a yolk and the shell is very thin. Is there a reason a hen will lay an egg...

Spring is dragging its feet this year

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It seems that this year, spring is dragging its feet. Or maybe we just got spoiled when it was 60 degrees a week or so ago? Each day brings another "fit and start." One...

Q and A: Stewed tomatoes, Canning chicken soup, and Chickens losing feathers

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Stewed tomatoes I hot packed 7 pints of stewed tomatoes at 10# pressure for 15 minutes. I added 2 Tbsp. of thin sliced carrots on a whim! Are they safe to eat? Karen Gregory Ontario, New York They...

The cows got into our pumpkin/corn patch

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Yesterday Will was bulldozing the horse manure in the horse pasture where we feed round bales all winter up into a compost pile. He noticed that the cows seemed to be too far north...

The flower gardens are looking great…and so is our woodpile

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Besides all the great improvements going on around here, the big garden, our new house garden and keeping busy taking care of Mom, I have had a few minutes to work in the flowers....and...