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Egg Noodles

08.20.2019 by thriftyhomesteader // Leave a Comment

homemade noodles

  Although noodles are not expensive to buy, they cost only pennies to make, and you can use your own organic eggs. They are also delicious and incredibly easy to make. These noodles make a great chicken soup when cooked with a stew hen. Feel free to double this recipe. However, you will probably have to split it up into two batches to roll out, depending upon how thick … [Read more...]

Categories // eggs, recipes

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

02.23.2017 by Janie Hynson // 6 Comments

Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks book

To continue “Chicken Week” on the blog, I wanted to write about Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks by Gail Damerow. I read this book last spring as part of a Pastured Poultry course I took through the UMass Amherst Stockbridge School of Agriculture. For the class, we also read Harvey Ussery's The Small-Scale Poultry Flock and Joel Salatin’s Pastured Poultry Profit$, both … [Read more...]

Categories // books, chickens, ducks, eggs, poultry, reviews, turkeys

Want eggs? Get ducks!

06.23.2016 by thriftyhomesteader // 25 Comments

by Victoria Redhed Miller Ducks are fun and easy to raise. We have raised mainly Khaki Campbell ducks for eight years now, keeping them strictly for eggs. At one point we had some Indian Runner ducks and Blue Swedish also, but we've pared it down to just the Khaki Campbells now, and just love them. If you're looking for a small farm enterprise, duck eggs are a great niche … [Read more...]

Categories // ducks, eggs

6 reasons homesteaders need a kitchen scale

10.26.2015 by thriftyhomesteader // 3 Comments

When I started reading about how to make soap, I noticed that everyone said I needed to have a digital kitchen scale. Why do I need a scale to make soap when people have been making soap for thousands of years? Eventually I learned that when people made soap historically, they used whatever oil was available locally, which usually meant lard or tallow in the U.S., coconut or … [Read more...]

Categories // canning, cheese, eggs, food, home dairy, homesteading, soap making, Uncategorized

Hens on holiday: 3 strategies for eggless living

12.17.2014 by thriftyhomesteader // 2 Comments

A few years ago, a family friend asked one of our daughters, "So, where do you buy eggs when your hens stop laying?" My daughter replied that we never buy eggs. He responded with disbelief, and my daughter told him that we had not bought eggs since our first hens started laying in 2002. The friend had a hard time understanding how we lived without eggs during the winter months, … [Read more...]

Categories // chickens, eggs, food, Uncategorized

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