{"id":3903,"date":"2014-04-06T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2014-04-06T03:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T07:00:21","slug":"q-and-a-raising-meat-rabbits-and-canning-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/04\/06\/q-and-a-raising-meat-rabbits-and-canning-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: raising meat rabbits and canning chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Raising meat rabbits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have recommendation(s) for meat rabbit raising books\/resources?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Shellie Gades<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Evansville, Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My favorite rabbit book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/store\/files\/fp56.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Storey&#8217;s Guide to Raising Rabbits<\/em><\/a>, available through <em>Backwoods Home Magazine<\/em>. And Bass Equipment has lots of good rabbitry supplies\/equipment. Their website is: www.bassequipment.com. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning chicken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I canned chicken according to your instructions last week (2 and 4 days ago) but just realized today that I used instructions for bone-in chicken (65 minutes) instead of boneless (75 minutes). I usually go a minute or 2 longer than specified. Do you think my chicken is ok? Is it too late to re-can? I hate to throw out 16 pints of chicken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sam Allen<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bessemer City, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I would open each jar, and if it looks and smells fine then I&#8217;d dump the jars into a large pot and bring to a boil. Then pack back into washed jars and re-can the chicken for the correct time. Your chicken will then be fine. I, too, would sure hate to throw away 16 pints of chicken but I&#8217;d rather re-can it instead of just hoping it&#8217;ll be okay. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising meat rabbits Do you have recommendation(s) for meat rabbit raising books\/resources? Shellie Gades Evansville, Minnesota My favorite rabbit book is Storey&#8217;s Guide to Raising Rabbits, available through Backwoods Home Magazine. And Bass Equipment has lots of good rabbitry supplies\/equipment. Their website is: www.bassequipment.com. &#8212; Jackie Canning chicken I canned chicken according to your instructions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903"}],"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=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}