Here’s a marinade I created for barbecued chicken, inspired by the fresh ingredients we had on hand. The amounts are flexible, make it to your own taste. But beware: it’s tasty– People sometimes eat it by the spoonful!
1 cup apricots, pitted
1/2 stalk rhubarb, chopped
1 jalapeno pepper, or to taste
1/4 cup apple juice
1-2 Tbs fresh parsley [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chickens’
Summer Recipe: Apricot Chicken
Canada’s Egg Police: Industry vs. Small Farmers
In Canada, a small farmer with 99 or fewer hens can sell “ungraded” eggs at his/her gate, but nowhere else. So a small farmer who sells eggs at the farmers market is breaking the law. With prices for farmstead eggs skyrocketing, industrial egg producers are fighting back against what they see as an infringement [...]
Ranch Picture of the Day
(Brigette Adams Photo)
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Ranch Picture of the Day
(DJ Mitchell Photo)
This is my rooster Silky. As you can tell he is a very calm rooster. If a rooster or hen is turned on to their back they will fall asleep.
Ranch Picture of the Day
(Suellen Hockey Photo)
I took this photo using my left hand. The picture I was trying for was of our faces. There is a second delay before my camera actually takes a picture. During that delay the chicken on my shoulder turned around to show her tail feathers. I am laughing because I knew she had turned [...]
Ranch Picture of the Day
(Suellen Hockey Photo)
Every time I raised my right arm up to take a picture of the chickens in the coop yard these two hens would jump up on my arm to roost. I took this picture with the camera in my left hand.
Ranch Pictures of the Day
(Suellen Hockey Photo)
Snow + Sunshine = Mud Our chickens think it’s a lot fun to scratch in the mud.
Ranch Picture of the Day
(Suellen Hockey Photo)
The Chicken of Today
Made in 1948, this film discusses the post-war program to develop “The Chicken of Tomorrow”– the chickens we buy in stores today. I doubt they realized at the time that the chicken industry would be completely changed, based on mono-crops raised in confined spaces. Already, the methods displayed in the film show chickens confined, unable to [...]
Everyone loves snow
In honor of the winter weather. (It was -25 degrees at home this morning!)
