Author: Herrick Kimball
Publisher: Whizbang Books
ISBN: 9780972656443
Category : Chickens
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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This book tells small-farm and backyard poultry producers how to easily build an inexpensive professional-style "Whizbang" tub plucker. The Whizbang plucker will strip feathers (pinfeathers too) off scalded chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese with the simple flip of a switch. It takes about 15 seconds to completely pluck the birds. The reader need not be a welder, engineer or machinest to build a Whizbang plucker--basic carpentry skills are all that's needed. A Resources chapter at the end of the book tells the reader where to find needed parts.
Author: Jill Winger
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250305942
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.
Author: Herrick Kimball
Publisher: Whizbang Books
ISBN: 9780972656450
Category : Chicken industry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Small-farm and backyard poultry producers will be interested in a new publication from Whizbang Books. Anyone Can Build A Whizbang Chicken Scalder, by Herrick Kimball provides complete instructions for transforming a common 40-gallon propane water heater into a high-efficiency chicken scalding device.According to the author, his scalder design allows a person to select the exact water temperature they want, and the units controls will automatically maintain that temperature within 4°. The result is a precision scald that translates into fast, clean, and easy feather plucking.The Whizbang scalder is attached to a wood framework with wheels. So it can be easily transported by one person. The frame also supports a dunker mechanism that will hold three chickens at a time and can be operated by hand or with a motor. When motorized, the auto-dunker will process up to 120 chickens per hour.Kimball says the Whizbang scalder can be built by anyone who knows how to use basic carpentry and mechanical tools. The estimated cost to construct the scalder, framework, and a manual dunker, using all new materials, is around $675. A used water heater and some resourceful scrounging will significantly reduce that price..The Whizbang Scalders tank is sized to handle chickens only. But the same state-of-the-art temperature controls, coupled with the burner from a salvaged water heater, can be employed to heat a tank with turkey capacity. This option is discussed in the final chapter of the book.About The Author:Herrick Kimball, of Moravia, New York, is a homesteader and grassroots inventor who has been raising and processing his own poultry for the past six years. He is the author of "Anyone Can Build A Tub-Style mechanical Chicken Plucker."
Author: G Mead
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1855739038
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Poultry products are universally popular and in recent years the consumption of poultry meat has risen dramatically. To ensure the continued growth and competitiveness of this industry, it is essential that poultry meat quality and safety are maintained during production and processing. This important collection provides an authoritative review of the key issues affecting poultry meat quality in production and processing. The book begins by establishing consumer requirements for meat quality, before examining the influence of breeding and husbandry, and techniques for stunning and slaughter of poultry. Chapters 5 and 6 look at primary and secondary processing and Chapters 7, 8 and 9 discuss packaging, refrigeration and other preservation techniques. There are also chapters on microbial hazards and chemical residues in poultry. Quality management issues are reviewed in the final group of chapters, including shelf-life and spoilage, measuring quality parameters and ways of maintaining safety and maximising quality. Poultry meat processing and quality is an essential reference book for technical managers in the Poultry Industry and anyone engaged in teaching or research on poultry meat production. An essential reference for the entire poultry meat industry Reviews the key issues affecting poultry meat quality in production and processing Extensive analysis of poultry meat safety issues
Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143038583
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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"Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award Author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.
Author: Gail Damerow
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1603424695
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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A guide to raising one chicken or one hundred. It features topics from starting a backyard flock to putting eggs on the table.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712358415
Category : Medical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"This text has been published from an untitled manuscript that was among the Conan Doyle papers sold at aution in 2004 and acquired by the British Library."--P. [121].
Author: Martin E. P. Seligman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019937449X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities for the guidance of thought and action that is the cornerstone of human success. Much of the history of psychology has been dominated by a framework in which people's behavior is driven by past history (memory) and present circumstances (perception and motivation). Homo Prospectus reassesses this idea, pushing focus to the future front and center and opening discussion of a new field of Psychology and Neuroscience. The authors delve into four modes in which prospection operates: the implicit mind, deliberate thought, mind-wandering, and collective (social) imagination. They then explore prospection's role in some of life's most enduring questions: Why do people think about the future? Do we have free will? What is the nature of intuition, and how might it function in ethics? How does emotion function in human psychology? Is there a common causal process in different psychopathologies? Does our creativity change with age? In this remarkable convergence of research in philosophy, statistics, decision theory, psychology, and neuroscience, Homo Prospectus shows how human prospection fundamentally reshapes our understanding of key cognitive processes, thereby improving individual and social functioning. It aims to galvanize interest in this new science from scholars in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, as well as an educated public curious about what makes humanity what it is.
Author: Christopher J. Washburne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135385475
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the notion of what makes "good" or "bad" music changed over the years-and what does this tell us about the writers who have assigned these tags to different musical genres? Many composers that are today part of the classical "canon" were greeted initially by bad reviews. Similarly, jazz, country, and pop musics were all once rejected as "bad" by the academy that now has courses on these and many other types of music. This book addresses why this is so through a series of essays on different musical forms and performers. It looks at alternate ways of judging musical performance beyond the critical/academic nexus, and suggests new paths to follow in understanding what makes some music "popular" even if it is judged to be "bad." For anyone who has ever secretly enjoyed ABBA, Kenny G, or disco, Bad Music will be a guilty pleasure!
Author: Gail Damerow
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 158017325X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 477
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Book Description
Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more.
