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How can you make some money with your chickens? Find out what people in your area like. Colored eggs are all the trend right now where we live. Keeping hens on the homestead that produce these eggs makes it easy to sell eggs for eating or for people wanting to hatch chicks. Selling eggs and chicks from these genetics is what helps us cover a lot of our feed costs.

We keep a variety of colored layers but one of my #silkies mix hens is laying a light purple egg recently. Its hard to capture the color of the egg. It looks more purple in person!

#sustainable #chickenkeeping #homestead

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When your soup gels up in the fridge from homemade bone broth that came from chickens you grew on your homestead, you know this stuff is good for you!

Extra roosters we grew and butchered this year are still providing plenty of nutritious food for us.

#bonebroth #soup #heritage #dualpurpose #homemade #chickenbroth

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The Silkie babies that our broody hen hatched out are finely getting their cozy feathers in. They are enjoying the warm brooder in our coop during the chilly nights we've been having here in South Carolina 😀

#silkiechicks #backyardchickens #homestead #sustainable

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Cooking With Extra Roosters 🐓🍽️
One of the most underrated parts of homesteading is turning “unwanted” extra roosters into delicious, nutrient-dense meals. If you raise dual-purpose or heritage breeds, this is one of the most sustainable ways to feed your family — and no, the meat does NOT have to be tough when cooked the right way!

These roosters came from a hatch earlier this year (some of you watched that processing video!). We raised them ourselves, processed them on the homestead, and turned them into a simple, healthy, farm-to-table dinner.

Here’s exactly how I cooked this meal:
• Thawed the rooster meat overnight
• Added it to the Instant Pot with spices, pepperoncini + juice, and a stick of butter
• Pressure-cooked on LOW pressure for 1 hour
• Slow-released and let it continue to slow cook for ~2 hours
• Picked the meat off the bones + turned drippings into gravy
• Served over rice with a fresh side salad


4 ingredients. 5 minutes of prep. And some of the best chicken you’ll ever eat — especially if you raise heritage or dual-purpose breeds.

Fun fact ➜ One rooster had black meat and bones (a Silkie mix), which is known in many cultures as a delicacy and is almost twice as nutrient-dense as commercial chicken.

If you’re homesteading, hatching your own chicks, or learning to cook with what you raise… this is one of the most satisfying parts of the lifestyle.

👉 Watch the processing video here:
https://youtu.be/noI9meQMPOk

#homestead #backyardchickens #heritagechickens #roosters #sustainability #farmtotable #chickenkeeping #cookingfromscratch #instapotrecipes #homesteadinglife

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
So thankful for the abundance of food! Bless the nations, homeless, and children that are going without today! You are in our thoughts!

When you come from a VERY big family, it requires 3 turkeys for the holiday gatherings!

Greatfull for everything we have 🙏

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

#abundance #Thanksgiving #dinner #thankful #blessed #fromscratch
I hope you all have a blessed day!

#Thanksgiving #dinner #Huge #family

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Thanksgiving side dish! Quick pickled tomatoes. Delicious, looks beautiful on a serving dish and healthy.

Very easy and quick to make!

Brine for half gallon jar
2 cups water
2 cups vinegar
4 tsp. Salt
8 tsp. Sugar

Heat to dissolve and set aside.

Put desired spices in the bottom of jar. I used garlic, red onion and fresh basil leaves.

Poke a hole with a toothpick in the bottom of each cherry tomatoes as you put them in the jar. I like to add more basil leaves and onions as I go. Fill to the neck of the jar and add enough brine to cover everything. Set into the refrigerator and let sit for at least 2 days. I'm letting mine sit in the counter overnight to speed up the process so it's done on time for Thanksgiving.

What's your favorite side dishes?

#Thanksgiving #sidedish #holidayfood #homestead #cooking

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We are still using up those apples we got a while ago. Fresh home baked apple pie from scratch! What is your favorite apple dessert? I need ideas for the coming holidays. 😀

#apple #dessert #fromscratch #homecooked

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First freeze of the year! Woke up to frozen chicken water and some garden plants. The little amazon greenhouse didn't do too well for frost protection. But all the chicks are still doing great with the heat lamp 😊

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Fermenting more food almost every week. I find myself running out pretty quickly. Tomato basil is still my favorite. I'm trying whole Roma tomatoes instead of cut in halves this time. Also trying fermented apples! We are still going through our big apple stash from a month ago 😅

#fermenting #guthealth #homemade #preserving #probiotic

2 months ago | [YT] | 2

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Its always fun to see what eggs the new pullets end up laying! These are two new layers from pullets that I hatched out of my Black Copper Marans and Olive eggers in the spring. I am breeding for speckled and dark eggs. These do not disappoint!

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