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What on earth is Monkey Butter??? All of it sounds divine to me!
ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal
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elevan
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Well, I got the Red Onion Marmalade and the Monkey Butter done today but now my back is killing me. So revised plan is to do the Lemon Thyme Marmalade tomorrow, the Sundried Tomato Jam on Thursday and my baking on Friday. And some where in there I've decided to also do a Cherry Blueberry Preserve.
My egg customer ended up getting a LOT of eggs and since she's gluten free she's planning on coming to the Farmer's Market on Saturday to check out my stuff.
Got an order for 4 dozen eggs, chamomile jelly and sundried tomato jam for tomorrow (I only have 2 jars of the sundried tomato jam left...that order of tomatoes better come tomorrow!).
Also have a guy coming tomorrow afternoon to pick up some guinea keets. They'll be from Cinni's clutch as he wants them younger. I don't plan to sell more than 10, which will leave her with 6. We want to grow our guinea population but not by the explosion that it is right now
My egg customer ended up getting a LOT of eggs and since she's gluten free she's planning on coming to the Farmer's Market on Saturday to check out my stuff.
Got an order for 4 dozen eggs, chamomile jelly and sundried tomato jam for tomorrow (I only have 2 jars of the sundried tomato jam left...that order of tomatoes better come tomorrow!).
Also have a guy coming tomorrow afternoon to pick up some guinea keets. They'll be from Cinni's clutch as he wants them younger. I don't plan to sell more than 10, which will leave her with 6. We want to grow our guinea population but not by the explosion that it is right now
Monkey Butter is a Banana - Pineapple - Coconut Jam. It's very good spread on crusty bread or over ice cream or as a fruit dip.SDBoerGoats said:
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Well, my buff brahma that was setting a nest left it today. So that's one less broody.
I still have one Blue Laced Red Wyandotte (Dove) setting a nest and Skeeter, a Barneveldar is setting as well. Oh, can't forget the guinea hen who's setting too!
I took some pics while I was in the field this evening to share.
Goats and calf munching around the big pond:
Priya playing on Jerry's back:
Honey Locust Pods! The "gel" in these pods tastes just like honey and the pods themselves make excellent livestock fodder.
The chickens have been digging dust bath holes in this little hill and Ranger thinks it's a goat couch
Ranger:
Snickers:
The 2 new boys playing "king of the little hill"
One of the new boys:
The new ducks:
T-Bone (calf) and Mancha (goat) were playing head butt games through the goat entrance to the barn. I just barely missed a pic where T had his head in the entrance and Mancha was head butting him
I still have one Blue Laced Red Wyandotte (Dove) setting a nest and Skeeter, a Barneveldar is setting as well. Oh, can't forget the guinea hen who's setting too!
I took some pics while I was in the field this evening to share.
Goats and calf munching around the big pond:
Priya playing on Jerry's back:
Honey Locust Pods! The "gel" in these pods tastes just like honey and the pods themselves make excellent livestock fodder.
The chickens have been digging dust bath holes in this little hill and Ranger thinks it's a goat couch
Ranger:
Snickers:
The 2 new boys playing "king of the little hill"
One of the new boys:
The new ducks:
T-Bone (calf) and Mancha (goat) were playing head butt games through the goat entrance to the barn. I just barely missed a pic where T had his head in the entrance and Mancha was head butting him
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Priya is awfully cute..........
(and Jerry is awfully patient)
(and Jerry is awfully patient)
Pearce Pastures
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Love the pics. You have a nice set up! Oh and since multiple people have asked about your monkey butter, I think you are just going to have to make a bunch and mail it to us 
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We picked up 6 more ducks today. That was a real ball of laughs. Lady that works with my mom said she needed to give them away. So I took the truck and we went to get them. Lady was obviously a little afraid of them. She suggested we take the cage (large dog crate) off the truck and place it at the coop door and run them in. Made sense, right? Only the cage doesn't have one of those slide in floors, so we flipped it upside down leaving the big spacing on the top. Ran the ducks into the cage and carried it back to the truck. As we were lifting it on one of the ducks flew out of the big spacing at the top and took off. 
So then my mom suggests that we slowly flip the cage so that the big spacing ends up on bottom and the ducks cannot get out. That makes sense. But we flipped it so that the spacing ended up toward the lady who was giving away the ducks and all but 1 of them escaped! 
Down the embankment and into the creek they all went.
That's it! I was ready to leave. My mom and her brilliant ideas.
But the lady waded into the creek and with the help of her daughter got all the ducks back into the coop by chasing them with a stick.
Then I told them to just stand back and I went into the coop and grabbed each duck and put it into the cage properly.
Then the lady said she wanted to give us all the stuff that she had for the ducks.
A heated water stand
A 5 gallon metal waterer
2 wall mounted metal feeders
2 30 gallon metal trash cans FULL of food
2 50 pound bags of feed
And 6 bales of straw.
I gladly accepted most of it. I drew the line on the straw though...with everything else on the truck and me without any straps to tie things down it wouldn't be safe. We safely put on 2 bales, then my Mom says "You can put another on top...it'll stay"....(remember those words).
I had to call the guy who was coming to pick up guinea keets to push it back a little since it was taking longer than I had expected. No problem.
Then we started on our way. About halfway home I noticed that Mom was no longer following us. I asked K to turn around and see if that 3rd bale was still on the truck. NOPE. :/
Next thing I know Mom is calling my cell and saying that the bale almost hit her windshield and that the car behind her almost hit her. Well...I kind of told you so...
So that bale is sitting by the side of the road outside of Sunbury if anyone is in the area and needs a bale of straw...
Here is a pic of the new ducks just before I released them on the big pond:
Guy showed up right on time to get the guinea keets. He bought 8 of them. Turns out he drove almost 2 hours to get to me. I asked him how he found out about me (thinking it was here or BYC) and he tells me that he just googled "guinea keets for sale" and my FB post came up. Wow. That's pretty cool, I think.
You should see Priya and Precious using him as a mountain bouncing off of him and romping all over him. He just lays there and happily munches grass. Maggie used to ride around on his back when she was a kid.
Ok, so change of plans. Went with Mango Blueberry Preserves instead of Cherry Blueberry. And I must say YUM! Gonna have to grab some vanilla ice cream to pour it over!
Here's a pic of it in the making:
Lemon Thyme Marmalade has been started. It needs to sit for 18 hours as part of it's process and then will be finished up in the morning. It took me quite a while to break down all of those lemons. And I now know where every little crack is at in my hands. Ouch!
My order of sundried tomatoes just arrived via UPS. So tomorrow morning I'll finish up the Lemon Thyme Marmalade and do a couple of batches of sundried tomato jam.
So then my mom suggests that we slowly flip the cage so that the big spacing ends up on bottom and the ducks cannot get out. That makes sense. But we flipped it so that the spacing ended up toward the lady who was giving away the ducks and all but 1 of them escaped! Down the embankment and into the creek they all went.
That's it! I was ready to leave. My mom and her brilliant ideas.
But the lady waded into the creek and with the help of her daughter got all the ducks back into the coop by chasing them with a stick.
Then I told them to just stand back and I went into the coop and grabbed each duck and put it into the cage properly.
Then the lady said she wanted to give us all the stuff that she had for the ducks.
A heated water stand
A 5 gallon metal waterer
2 wall mounted metal feeders
2 30 gallon metal trash cans FULL of food
2 50 pound bags of feed
And 6 bales of straw.
I gladly accepted most of it. I drew the line on the straw though...with everything else on the truck and me without any straps to tie things down it wouldn't be safe. We safely put on 2 bales, then my Mom says "You can put another on top...it'll stay"....(remember those words).
I had to call the guy who was coming to pick up guinea keets to push it back a little since it was taking longer than I had expected. No problem.
Then we started on our way. About halfway home I noticed that Mom was no longer following us. I asked K to turn around and see if that 3rd bale was still on the truck. NOPE. :/
Next thing I know Mom is calling my cell and saying that the bale almost hit her windshield and that the car behind her almost hit her. Well...I kind of told you so...
So that bale is sitting by the side of the road outside of Sunbury if anyone is in the area and needs a bale of straw...
Here is a pic of the new ducks just before I released them on the big pond:
Guy showed up right on time to get the guinea keets. He bought 8 of them. Turns out he drove almost 2 hours to get to me. I asked him how he found out about me (thinking it was here or BYC) and he tells me that he just googled "guinea keets for sale" and my FB post came up. Wow. That's pretty cool, I think.
Jerry LOVES his goats. Especially the kids.redtailgal said:Priya is awfully cute..........
(and Jerry is awfully patient)
You should see Priya and Precious using him as a mountain bouncing off of him and romping all over him. He just lays there and happily munches grass. Maggie used to ride around on his back when she was a kid.
Pearce Pastures said:Oh and since multiple people have asked about your monkey butter, I think you are just going to have to make a bunch and mail it to us
Ok, so change of plans. Went with Mango Blueberry Preserves instead of Cherry Blueberry. And I must say YUM! Gonna have to grab some vanilla ice cream to pour it over!
Here's a pic of it in the making:
Lemon Thyme Marmalade has been started. It needs to sit for 18 hours as part of it's process and then will be finished up in the morning. It took me quite a while to break down all of those lemons. And I now know where every little crack is at in my hands. Ouch!
My order of sundried tomatoes just arrived via UPS. So tomorrow morning I'll finish up the Lemon Thyme Marmalade and do a couple of batches of sundried tomato jam.
autumnprairie
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I needed the laugh thanks, I am glad that no one was hurt and you got all the ducks home. I want to learn canning from you so can you come down for a week? It looks yummy
It looks yummy redtailgal
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lol, gimme a minute then read my journal.
