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    Burned applesauce on the bottom of the pan

    I don't have any better suggestion about getting off the burned stuff - but I did discover that cooking applesauce, tomatoes, etc. in the oven prevents scorching to begin with. Fill up your big kettles and put them in a slow (250-300F) oven and the stuff will cook beautifully without burning...
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    Family Cows for sale on Craigslist

    Beats me! But seriously - chances are she'll either let them or she won't in a pasture situation. Some will let any calf suck - some won't (some of course won't let their own calf suck). Some cows will adopt any calf they can get hold of - others couldn't care less about any other than their...
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    Runner Duck hens

    This was the "Year of the Runner Duck" at our place this year and I still have 6-8 nice young hens that need to go live somewhere else. Mostly blues and blacks. $5 each - I'd trade one for a decent muscovy drake if you had one too. I'm in northern Portage County, Ohio. ericruehr@yahoo.com Thanks.
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    Family Cows for sale on Craigslist

    Hmm - it does seem a little high - and they aren't producing that well for holstein/swiss crosses. I think he was offering to train the cows to allow multiple calves to suck - not just her own - so you could feed extra calves and not have to take so much milk for the house. At least that's the...
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    Carrots boosted goats production

    Root crops are great - poor man's silage. I put in a quarter acre of turnips this summer for the cows - they LOVE them. I've just started feeding them since I'm out of grass here. I didn't manage to get the mangles in this year - but they love them even more! I used to bother chopping roots (put...
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    OFG-isms List your favorite :D

    "Even tears of joy smell bad on a goat..."
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    Bin Laden is dead!

    Hey - OFG - you suppose the guys stood there, looked and each other and asked," Hey, you think he's fakin' it?" buuwaahaahaahaa....
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    Kidneys are WAAY better than one would think. The thing though is to have them a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y fresh. As in same day as you kill it. A lot of times they're hung with the carcass for a day or two. Don't. Eat them immediately and they're GREAT! Wash 'em out and you're good to go. Liver? It can...
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    What's everyone doing for "earth day?"

    Hey - OFG - I'm done with my polar bear steak - howz 'bout you and Wifezilla herd some more of them baby seals over this way...
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    Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

    mmmmm.... cabrito... drool..... But no - that makes for some pretty expensive eatin' when you can get some sucker, I mean animal lover, to pay that much for little tiny things like that! Get rid of them babies and get that milk into a PIG! :)
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    organic, grass-fed

    It does sound like it burned in the freezer. It does also depend on the breed - the older ones (breeds) look like pigeons next to the cornish crosses. While they do get a lot of their feed naturally when free ranging/pasturing chickens do still require quite a bit of feed (grain) to get any size...
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    Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

    bacon? def. chewy - or better yet boiled! :P Hey OFG - Spring is coming - tapped trees today - it's supposed to go down to 16 again but be warm and rainy end of the week. Should be boiling by Thursday!
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    Liverwurst cooking advice needed....even if you've never made it!

    I grind the liver, fatty pork, onions, garlic and sage (all I put in mine - oh - a little red wine too) all together raw. Then I whirrr it up in the food processor some more (or use one of those stick blender thingies) to get it really smooth (I like it 'grob'- but it seems to get too crumbly...
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    Liverwurst cooking advice needed....even if you've never made it!

    That should work - or - I put it in jars and either cook it in the waterbath in the oven - or fill about 2/3 full (I use half pints as that's as much as I can eat in 2-3 days. Usually...) and put a big dallop of lard on top - put lids on and process 10lbs for what? I think it's 75 minutes for...
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    Free's piggie thread...new pics p 19

    Yeah! You can (and should!) eat the liver, etc. right away - that day - for lunch! You could also cut out the tenderloins (also called backstraps and other things) but those will be better the day after if for no other reason than that there is so much liver/heart/kidney to get through the first...
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    How to remove the hair or skin etc from hog legs, feet, tail and ears

    I cure the trotters like I do bacon - smoke 'em and throw them in when I make bean soup - or split pea - or whatever. Best soup EVER. I could never get excited enough about the ears to bother cleaning them. We cut the jowls off the head to make bacon out of them. I made headcheese once because I...
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    How to remove the hair or skin etc from hog legs, feet, tail and ears

    I don't use the ears - if you pour scalding water (155*F) on them you can scrub/scrape the bristles and gunk off. The trotters I skin - lop off the toes with pruners and skin 'em out. Too hard to pull the nails off if the leg's cut off. You could scald them then too - but skinnin' is easier.
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    Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

    Pant, pant, pant....groan and pass out... .35 qts of pears OFG! We'll think fondly of you all winter - not that we wouldn't anyway, but - you know. Ah - country life - at our old house I'd have been hauled of to jail immediately for running from the house screaming anglo-saxon obscenities and...
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    Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

    Ummm - OFG - it already is. Did you know you can actually get mashed potatoes at the store? Seriously - already mashed in a bag or something. Then you heat them up. The neighbor was at a school function recently and was asked about the potatoes they grew. The woman wasn't sure what people would...
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