{"id":1995,"date":"2012-02-02T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2012-02-02T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T08:00:40","slug":"q-and-a-introducing-new-chickens-and-canning-yams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/02\/02\/q-and-a-introducing-new-chickens-and-canning-yams\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Introducing new chickens and canning yams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introducing new chickens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I am thoroughly enjoying my chickens. I have a flock of 11, 10 hens and one rooster. I like them so much and their eggs even more that I would like to get more chicks next spring. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Will I need to keep the next set of chicks separate from my current flock permanently or just until full grown?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Erica Kardelis<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Helper, Utah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once your chicks are adult sized, they can be introduced into your current flock. Just make sure they have enough space, indoors and out,s so there&#8217;s no extreme pecking as they settle in. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning yams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I am going to can yams. Am I able to can them with brown sugar? I can only find recipes with plain sugar water. Ideally, I would like to open the jar, heat up and add butter (if desired). But I would like them to be somewhat like the canned ones you buy. Thank you ahead of time for your answers. Love your column in Backwoods Home Magazine! I started ordering the magazine just because of your column and the rest was icing on the cake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sheryl Roberts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Houston, Alaska<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad you like the column. It&#8217;s like all of you are my extended homestead family and I love helping you out to succeed in all you do. Yes, you can put your yams up with brown sugar instead of white. I sure would! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing new chickens I am thoroughly enjoying my chickens. I have a flock of 11, 10 hens and one rooster. I like them so much and their eggs even more that I would like to get more chicks next spring. Will I need to keep the next set of chicks separate from my current flock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}