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1. This week was chicken week…chicken tenders, fingers, breasts (cut thinly), shreaded, cubed, etc. I also did hot peppers and a little bit of broccoli.

   The remnant of Harvey came thru my area Thursday and will be moving on north this afternoon. We had no damage to the house, out buildings or the barn, however the garden is soggy. It is a good thing we waited to plant the fall crops or the rain would have drowned them out. We have not gone down into the woods yet so there may be some damaged trees which we can use for firewood or fence posts (depends on the type of tree). Praying for those victims in TX who were flooded out.

2. For those who haven’t tried, if you line your trays with parchment paper it makes things much easier to remove the finished product. Plus as an extra, the trays stay a whole lot cleaner. This weeks production is thin sliced peaches.

3. Goodness…I LOVE my Easter Eggers! Out of all the many breeds we’ve had, Easter Eggers are one of our favorites. If you want flighty chickens that would be Icelandics. They may be good foragers but flighty as all heck.

   1. We used to have Buff Orpingtons that we bought locally, but had many issues with health. I think the inbreeding in this area has just reached epic proportions. We tried several different local suppliers and just couldn’t get healthy chickens. I originally got the Easter Eggers for the kids, but they turned out to be good layers so we kept them. A couple of years ago, we decided to purchase chicks from Murray McMurray and obtained Red Stars. Wow, these are layers and they are friendly too. Mrs Latimer purchased a bag of dried mealy worms for them and it’s hilarious watching them. Whenever you want them to come to you, you just shake that bag and they ALL come running with there chests puffed out and the heads held high! It takes me about 30 seconds to pen them up when I need to with those mealy worms.
      On the first order, McMurray threw in an “exotic” which turned out to be a Cuckoo Maran rooster. He’s lonely because the Red Stars and Easter Eggers prefer the Red Star rooster so we ordered a couple of Cuckoo Maran hens for him this last time. They are only about 8 weeks old at this point, but I’m looking forward to the eggs. They apparently lay chocolate colored eggs.

      I think there is a part of me that secretly hopes the eggs are chocolate flavored as well 🙂

      1. You ought to try silver laced wyandottes the next time you order. They are epic layers.

4. We raise our clicks in the house in a 50gal aquarium to socialize them for the first three weeks ,a bit of a mess but well worth the extra work,even white leghorns are friendly and calm with us around

5. We have our own chickens for eggs as we aren’t as fortunate to have organic eggs for $3 a doz. Here the going rate for pastured eggs is $6 a doz. Our chickens are true free range and we give them non-gmo feed. Other prices you may be amazed by – http://www.grassfedgeorgia.com/pdf/prices.pdf

6. We have ordered from Murray Mcmurry for close to 20 years. They are fantastic ! They have a 24 or 48 hour refund policy. If a shipped chick doesn’t survive they will refund you the money you paid for that chick. We like their red sex link chickens. We have hatched out some of their eggs and their off spring lay lighter but still large eggs. They are a medium size chicken so don’t consume as much food. They lay well in cold weather up here in northwest montana as long as you have lights on them. We have our led lights set up on a timer for 16 hours a day as we also have layer ducks.

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