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Comments (17)I use a regular light bulb - heat lamps are TOO HOT! My light is on an extension cord with a metal-cone shield around it like the heat lamps, but it is not a heat lamp. I have had it for a long time. I think you can still get them at lumber yards and hardware stores - maybe WalMart too. I have it strung up to the ceiling and hung on a large teacup hook over their cardboard box. I laid aluminum window screens on the top to keep them in and safe. The lamp lays right on the top of the screens. It should not be too close to the chicks however. No closer than two feet anyway. You have to check it often until you figure it out. Much depends upon their brooder box (container). They need room enough in the box to move away in case they get too warm. Don't set the lamp over their water. I just use a large, carboard box for my Brooder Box (a lawnmower came in the one I am using now). No need to buy fancy equipment. They grow too fast to put out money for a few weeks worth of use, unless you are going into the chicken business for earnest. Put the box in a safe place where other animals cannot get to them and where they are out of any drafts and weather. In the bottom of the cardboard box, sprinkle just enough pine shavings (or you can use cedar shavings) to lightly cover the bottom (about $9 per bag). This is their litter and it is also their bedding, so it needs to be changed regularly, as you would any baby. Once a day or every other day, clean it out and put in fresh shavings. It scares them, but as long as you talk to them calmly when you care for them, they will eventually calm down. You can put the soiled litter in your compost pile. Their droppings are tiny beads, about the size of a pea, but very odoriferous. Change their water several times a day. Clean it out with Clorox bleach and water once in awhile to keep down germs and other icky stuff. Make sure they have fresh, clean, cool water, even on cool or cold days. They can go longer without food than they can without fresh, clean, cool water. If the chicks huddle together under the lamp, then it isn't warm enough. If they huddle together away from the lamp, then it is too hot. If they are scattered all around in the box, pecking and softly peeping, then the heat is perfect. If they are peeping loudly, then something is wrong. Check all of the above to see what is the matter. They do prefer to huddle together when they sleep however. As they get older, each week you can raise the light lamp up a little. During the day if it gets warmer where they are kept, and more and more as they grow bigger until they don't need it any longer - when they get their real feathers. I have noticed that chicks get so accustomed to the light that they are afraid of the dark, so I keep a nightlight on in the chicken house. If you ever need to move them or take them to the vet, box them up in a pet taxi or cardboard box with a lid on it after sundown, at night and in the dark. (you can use a flashlight.) Chickens don't put up a fight in the dark, even the meanest old rooster in the world. That is why foxes and other predators raid the henhouse at night. Easy pickins! The hens don't even make a sound. If you go to a feedstore, you should be able to find little booklets on raising chicks and chickens. Also, there are a hundreds, if not thousands of websites you can go look at. Everyone does it a little differently, but the basics are all the same. Mine are only three weeks old. Already they are flying about in the bottom of the box. They hop up onto the top of their watering pot (which gets pooped on - ugh). They also have started to hop onto my hand or arm when I reach in to change their food and water. I have just this week begun to give them very finely clipped bits of tender grass and chickweed. I use kitchen scissors. Chickweed tastes like juicy lettuce. They love it and fight over it, even though I put plenty in the box for every chick. This is normal chicken activity. You learn as you go. You make mistakes, but you become "The Mom" very soon. ~Annie...See MoreKitchen accidents?
Comments (15)Last summer I set my bread knife down on the counter, it spun around, fell to the floor but not before landing on my foot just above my big toe (had sandals on) and severed the tendon. Such a tiny cut too! It didn't hurt too much, but I knew something was amiss when I was unable to raise the toe :( A trip to the ER for stitches, a few days later surgery to re-attach the tendon and 6 weeks in a hard boot. Ugh. I was slicing potatoes on the mandoline when my hand slipped off of the guard slicing a large piece of my ring finger and nail off in the blink of an eye. That hurt like crazy! I wore a finger splint for months to protect it from being bumped. It took months before I used the mandoline again. May the kitchen gods spare every single one of us from harm this year :)...See MorePerfect recipe for chicken and biscuits.
Comments (13)Confession time. I have never eaten, let alone made, Chicken and Dumplings. So after reading this thread and google searching several more recipes, I found one that sounded good. This was inspired by my making a vat of chicken stock yesterday, so I knew I would have that and the picked chicken meat from the carcass pre-stock. I decided to use Pioneer Womans recipe (with only a few changes to adapt to what I had on hand). The first taste was amazing. The first bowl was a religious experience. The family has begged me to make this every week for ever moving forward. Oh my, this stuff is GOOD! Anyway, if you are interested in the PW recipe, I have copied it below: Chicken and Dumplings Ingredients ⢠2 Tablespoons Butter ⢠2 Tablespoons Olive Oil ⢠ý cups All-purpose Flour ⢠1 whole Chicken, Cut Into Pieces (cut Up Fryer) ⢠Salt And Pepper ⢠ý cups Finely Diced Carrots ⢠ý cups Finely Diced Celery ⢠1 whole Medium Onion, Finely Diced ⢠ý teaspoons Ground Thyme ⢠ü teaspoons Turmeric ⢠6 cups Low Sodium Chicken Broth ⢠ý cups Apple Cider ⢠ý cups Heavy Cream ⢠Dumplings: ⢠1-ý cup All-purpose Flour ⢠ý cups Yellow Cornmeal ⢠1 Tablespoon (heaping) Baking Powder ⢠1 teaspoon Kosher Salt ⢠1-ý cup Half-and-half ⢠2 Tablespoons Minced Fresh Parsley (optional) ⢠Salt As Needed Preparation Instructions Sprinkle chicken pieces with salt and pepper, then dredge both sides in flour. Melt butter in a pot over medium-high heat. In two batches, brown chicken on both sides and remove to a clean plate. In the same pot, add diced onion, carrots, and celery. Stir and cook for 3 to 4 minutes over medium-low heat. Stir in ground thyme and turmeric, then pour in chicken broth and apple cider. Stir to combine, then add browned chicken. Cover pot and simmer for 20 minutes. While chicken is simmering, make the dough for the dumplings: sift together all dry ingredients, then add half-and-half, stirring gently to combine. Set aside. Remove chicken from pot and set aside on a plate. Use two forks to remove chicken from the bone. Shred, then add chicken to the pot. Pour heavy cream into the pot and stir to combine. Drop tablespoons of dumpling dough into the simmering pot. Add minced parsley if using. Cover pot halfway and continue to simmer for 15 minutes. Check seasonings; add salt if needed. Allow to sit for 10 minutes before serving....See MoreFavorite Chicken Recipes Redux
Comments (40)Ann, try saving it to your Clippings. Look to the right of your last post (just above this). You will see the word Clippings in green letters. Under that it will say Clip This Post. For each recipe or comment you want to save, click on Clip This Post. Another way to do it is to highlight the entire thread, or the parts you want, right click with your mouse and then click on Copy. Start a new document in Word and paste the thread into that document, then save it to your computer. If you want me to do that for you and then email it to you, let me know....See More
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