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Health Issues with Chickens

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 How to Treat Chickens for Pasty Butt a Foot Infection and Mites How to treat chickens      As with all animals, chickens can have health problems. Our chickens have had both normal, and bizarre health problems. Our first problem was pasty butt, which I talked about in another blog post, but, why not talk about it again? Our second problem was a weird foot infection. Then our chicken’s latest health issue was feather mites.      Pasty butt is actually dried feces that is blocking the chicken’s vent. This normally happens with chicks, but it can happen to adult chickens, too. This problem has the easiest, most instantaneous cure, the cure is a simple wet rag. Take the wet rag and dab at and gently rub the chick’s vent where the dried feces is, this will soften the dried feces and eventually remove it. When one of our chicks got it, we caught it, either the day after it happened or the same day, because she wasn’t in any sort of discomfort. It ...
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How did the Hatfield McCoy feud start, and what were the results?

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 How did the Hatfield McCoy feud start, and what were the results?                                   In the late 1800s, a massive feud between two families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, made national news as the families literally battled, killed, and kidnapped each other.      The Hatfields were headed by William Anderson (“Devil Anse”) Hatfield, while the McCoys were led by Randolph (“Rand’l”) McCoy, of which, both had 13 children. The families lived on opposite sides of a West Virginia-Kentucky border stream, the Tug Fork—the McCoys in Pike County Kentucky, and the Hatfields in Mingo county, West Virginia. Their differences started during the Civil War, when the McCoys were Unionists and the Hatfields were Confederates, but thats not what started the feud. There is still debate over what exactly started it, but it was either a land dispute, or Rand’l McCoy...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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                      Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Gunfight Between the Cowboys and Marshals in Tombstone AZ      On October 26, 1881, in Tombstone Arizona, marshals, Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan Earp, along with Doc Holiday met cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury in a bloody shoot out at the O.K. Corral. The next day the Tombstone Nugget newspaper said that day was "one of the crimson days in the annals of Tombstone, a day when blood flowed as water, a day always to be remembered as witnessing the bloodiest and deadliest street fight that has ever occurred in this place, or probably in the Territory."      The cowboys were known as trouble makers and thugs. The Earps and the cowboys were in a dispute about who should control the town of Tombstone. They had previously been in court, and in court, B illy C laiborne made threats against the life of Vi...
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Sunday Brunch

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                               Sunday Brunch   It's Been Said that Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day.     For many years my family has had the tradition of having an elegant brunch every Sunday. Why Sunday? Sunday is a rest day, Genesis 2:2-3 says, “ By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” Because we use Sunday as a rest day, we, therefore, don't have much going on, so we have time to make and eat a big breakfast.      I normally am one who makes brunch, the staple of w h ich is eggs and bacon. Then, I will also make either waffles, cr e pes, or pancakes. If I make waffles, we usually have fresh or frozen strawberries and homemade whipped cream as ...
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Maple Syrup

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                 How to Make Maple Syrup Sweet and Sticky, Golden and Glorious, Maple Syrup Makes a Great Topping for Many Things      Maple syrup has been made since before the Europeans came to America, though there is no actual history about how it started. The smells of spring are always refreshing, but they’re even better when you have the sweet smell of syrup in the air too.      Now, I’ve wanted to make maple syrup for years, but as with many things, I had to get the idea past my mother, and into reality. So after some years, I was able to convince her last year, with the help of my dad.      After ordering 6 five gallon buckets , 50 ft of tubing , and taps for the tubing, we were ready to tap four of our trees. In order to get the best results, you have to drill on the south side of the maple tree, about three feet off the ground, and under a branch if you can. After w...
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The Chicken Journy Pt. 3- The coop

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                    How to build a Chicken Coop How we Built our Chicken Coop Taking the tree house apart Taking the tree house apart      After writing the research paper, we got to work on the coop. Instead of building a brand new structure, or buying one from Tractor Supply, we used our playhouse/swing set We unscrewed and removed all of the unnecessary wood, so that it was only the frame. We then took ¼ in plywood and mounted it on the outside as the outer wall. Because we live in Central PA and winters get cold, we sandwiched ½ inch insulation between the outer and inner walls. Putting the outer walls on Working on the roof                           Near the roof we put two ventilation cutouts at the top for the summer, which we hinged so it would be covered in the winter. We replaced the leaky cedar roof with asphalt shingles, ...
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Pumpkin Pie

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 How to Make Fresh Pumpkin Pie Starting from Scratch with a Whole Pumpkin      I’ve always been into baking, from simple cookies to Scottish scones, I’ve made it all. Recently, I’ve wanted to make a pumpkin pie, so I did. But this was not the ordinary pumpkin pie made from a can of Libby's pumpkin. I believe everything's better when you can make it fresh, so the adventure started with a freshly picked pumpkin. Being a gardener, my first thought was, “once I roast the pumpkin I can collect and dry the seeds to grow next year!” so instead of throwing away the seeds I saved them for planting.      I was concerned about how the pie would taste because the recipe I used didn’t call for Pumpkin pie spice, all it called for was cinnamon , ginger and ground cloves. Whats more is I couldn’t find the ground cloves in our vast array of spices. So I had to just use cinnamon and ginger. In the end though, the pie still tasted like pumpkin pie, to be hones...
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