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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Bluberry Muffins

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             How to Make Blueberry Muffins 

Making Blueberry Muffins from Scratch

    Bake sweets and carry a big whisk, that's what I did yesterday because I was bored. When most people have nothing to do they turn to the TV, and eat snacks. Instead of turning on the TV and eating snacks, I turned off the TV and made the snacks.


    Light and fluffy, with a crumbly topping, blueberry muffins are perfect for an early breakfast, a midday snack, or even something to munch on during a long road trip. Blueberry muffins require the perfect timing, and if you do it right, they take no longer than 25 to 30 minutes to make, plus twenty minutes in the oven. Along with simple ingredients, it is one of the best snacks I know of.


    First things first, put liners in the muffin tray and heat your oven to temperature. Then you have to create the topping in a bowl, so that the muffin batter isn't waiting on you to be put in the oven. After you make the topping make the actual muffin batter, once it is made take a soup spoon and put a generous scoop into each muffin tin. The batter shouldn't reach the top of the liner, it should be about ¾th of the way full. You leave a gap, because after all the batter is used up, you put the topping on.


Blueberry muffin batter
Batter

Muffin crumble topping
Topping mixed







  

     Now you’re ready to bake the muffins, just put them in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. To check them, insert a toothpick into the middle of a muffin and pull it out, if it comes out clean they are done, but if its coated in batter, it’s not done. If your toothpick does come out with something on it be sure to see if its batter, or if you stuck it into a blueberry.


muffin pan
Topping the muffins
blueberry muffin
A finished muffin
Its time to enjoy the product of your hard work now that its done!



Recipe:

  • 2 cups all purpose flour

  • 1 cup sugar

  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

  • ½ teaspoon salt

  • 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

  • 2 eggs lightly beaten

  • ½ cup milk

  • ½ cup melted butter

  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

  • TOPPING

  • 3 tablespoons softend butter

  • ½ cup all purpose flour

  • 3 ½ tablespoons sugar

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F

  2. Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Add milk, eggs, butter, and vanilla and whisk until combined.gently fold in blueberries. Spoon batter into muffin tin, filling each cup 2/ full.

  3. Make the topping. Mix butter, flour, and sugar until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle on top of muffins bake for 15-20 min or until toothpick comes out clean. Serve warm or room temperature.

     

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  1. Donna, aka GrandmaApril 3, 2024 at 2:49 PM

    look really good and easy to make

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