HOW TO BOIL A FARM FRESH EGG

I know it probably sounds crazy that I would be sharing with you how to boil an egg, but unless you have boiled a FARM FRESH egg before you may have trouble like we did the first time we tried. Ever have eggs rip apart when you try to peel them?

 

The key to boiling a farm fresh egg is to disrupt the unusually thick membranes that connect it to the shell. As you will see in the step-by-step directions, the key is to add the eggs to already boiling water. By doing this you can disconnect the membranes.

 

Check out the EGGZY blog. This is the site I found the directions on when I searched How To Boil A Farm Fresh Egg on Google! I hope this helps.

 

I also wanted to tell you guys about a brand new feathure here at the Stinnett Family Farms site. I call it the HOMESTEAD TOOLBOX. How to boil a farm fresh egg will be the very first entry in the new toolbox. We hope to fill it with hundreds of useful tips and tricks that will save you time and money around your homestead. Feel free to e-mail us if you have any helpful tips and tricks that you use and would like to share with the community.

 

Thanks for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning. And as always....

 



Prayer Warrior Chain For The People Of Boston

 

 

 

I come to you tonight very sad for the people of Boston affected by these horrendous explosions today. I was reading about it on Yahoo! earlier this evening and it just makes me sick to think about the awful things somebody is doing to our brothers and sisters in Boston.

 

Why does the government continue to let their guard down here at home and allow these things to keep happening? That is all I am going to say about the politics of this whole situation. I am not a POLITICS kind of person.

 

These bombings in Boston are absolutely terrible. The last I read there were two deaths (one of them an 8 year old baby) and 130 injured? The reason for my post tonight is to bring everybody across the country together in prayer. As I am writing this it is now 1030pm central time. I want everybody to come together at 11pm central time to pray for the people of Boston and pray for our country.

 

Something has to happen because America has changed. Our great country is in a terrible situation and it is going to take us asking for God to help us through this.

 

Who is with me??

Chicks Are Hatching, Bunnies Being Born, Spring Is In The Air

Hello all you homesteaders!! Just wanted to touch base and let everybody know what's goin' on at Stinnett Family Farms. Spring has definitely been in the air for the past week or so. Been through the whole sinus problems with all the POLLEN in the air. 



This one we call a little naked buff lol. He/she is half buff
orpington and half naked neck. Aint they the cutest??

This one is half buff orpington and half domineker. The
rest are full buff orpington.

Here at the farm we are gearing up for baby chicks. The Hatching House is nearly complete. The only thing left is to add an outside run and paint and it will be awesome!! Can't wait

Here is the gang in one of our brooder boxes.

 to show you that. Anyway, we have our first batch of chicks hatched. They are about 3 days old now. When they outgrow the brooder box they move to a wire bottom cage that is also inside the hatch house. From there they go to the dirt floor and then allowed to go out into the run on warm days. From the hatch house they move to the grow out pen until they either join our other hens for next years eggs or they go into the freezer. We plan to raise at least 60 for butcher this year. The wife and I figured one chicken a week for our family plus one here and there. That is pretty much our operation as far as our chickens go.After we hatch the chicks we are going to hatch for the year we will start keeping the eggs unless someone requests some chicks then I might hatch a few. I have a huge incubator I found really cheap so I hatch all my eggs.

We have garden spots and vegetables being planted in every dry spot we can find on our property. We were not planning on nearly half our land being under water all winter. It will take forever for it to dry out to plant. So we are trying to clear out and plant in the dry spots.

Over at Bouncing Bundles Rabbitry, Bee, our holland lop doe, has a new litter of four little bundles of joy. They are 2 days old. They are soooo precious. We have new rabbits that will be joining our herd soon. Two new Californian rabbits for sure. A new bloodline to mix with. Also we are going to be getting a new Holland Lop Doe and hopefully we will get a color we want to keep out of Bee this time. If not I may trade her with a friend of mine for other rabbits for our breeding program. We hope you will follow along on the Bouncing Bundles site as we introduce new breeders and new litters of babies.

Anyway, just love going out and spending time with the critters. The wife and I truly "BOND" while we are together interacting with our animals. They are dependent on us for feed and as a homesteader we are dependent on them to feed us in return. Our animals are SUPER SPOILED!! lol. Still looking for yall to share what you have growing and being born at your farm and as always...

 

Best Way To Hatch Eggs Ever! Mrs. Feathers Nest!!!

 

Wanna know the best way in the world to hatch your eggs? Under a DUCK of course!! I was able to catch Mrs. Feathers off her nest this morning while we were feeding the critters. Guess she got hungry!! LOL!!

 

I THINK I COUNTED 19 AT LEAST!!

 

Remember I told you Mrs. Feathers had laid a nest out in the field in an old chicken coop that I was in the process of tearing down. Here is a close-up where you can see the 4 nest boxes in the back of it. She is in the first one on the left. It looks like cotton all around her. Ill add another pic later when I catch her back on the nest. It was cool this morning but the eggs were all roasty and toasty!!

 

We CAN NOT WAIT for Mrs. Feathers to bring 19 new little mouths to feed (just kidding) 19 of the most precious little bundles of joy they are going to be ADORABLE!! I can't wait to share them with you.

 

Do you have any little ones being hatched or born? We want to see them. We would love to share them with our readers if you don't mind!! You could end up featured in one of our "You Can Homestead Series" Manuals. Chicks, Bunnies, Goats, anything you like to share!!!!!

 

Hope you guys are enjoying sring time and as always....

 

HAPPY HOMESTEADING!!!

From Stinnett Family Farms

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I want to stress to you that this is not some get rich quick scheme! This is a program that will teach you how to set-up, maintain, and market an online business.

 

We hope you will take a minute to look around and see what we have to offer. All of the products and services we offer are at ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Plus if you tell us you heard about it on the Stinnett Family Farms Site we offer our homesteaders a special discounted price on most packages!!

 

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Thank you guys for following us and as always...

 

 

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DONKEYS GARLIC DUCKS OH MY!!!

Hello all you homesteaders. I wanted to let you know whats happenin at the farm!! We went to visit my brother over the weekend and he stopped at a friends house to show me some donkeys the man is finding new homes for. My wife is in love with them she has been talking about donkeys for a while so we are thinking about it. What do you think??

The garlic patch is growing nicely. We planted it in the fall and mulched over it but it came up and grew all winter long. Cant wait until the fall so we can EAT IT!!! We also started alot of seeds for a variety of vegetables and are starting to work on herbs as well. I am so ready to start putting plants in the herb garden we worked so hard on.

And that leads us to Mrs. Feathers. We have been waiting patiently for her to start a nest. Well, this  morning my wife and I rode the 4-wheeler back to the pond to look around and we couldn't find Mrs. Feathers anywhere. Well, we went back up to the barn to call em and I spotted her in a nest box on this old chicken coop we are in the process of tearing down. Mrs. Feathers is sitting up there like a queen overlooking the pasture and the pond. We are sooooo very excited to have little ducklings running around in a month or so. More pictures are coming so stay tuned!!!