New Chicks and Other Cheep Stuff

I know. What a corny, corny title, right? But they really were cheap little cheepers! We hatched them ourselves from our own eggs so the only cost was the price of the electricity for the incubator. They are just the cutest things around. Fingers crossed that at least most of them don’t ever emit even the tiniest crow. They come from show quality stock, but it is still really hard to place a rooster in a non-chicken sandwich home and I’ve already been informed that no rooster eaters will be allowed within ten feet of these cuties.

While these peeps were hatching out, I was making my own cheese. I was going to buy a $50 DIY kit, but it seemed so unthrifty. I did a bit of improvising and a bit of researching and ended up spending $11 total, which included a gallon of whole milk, a container of lemon juice and a packet of rennet tablets. While they can sometimes help you save, kits usually are code for more expensive than doing it completely on your own. Before you spend a ton on something that you may or may not fall in love with, think about whether the original “manufacturers” had all those gadgets. With cheese, the answer was no, so I knew I could scrounge what I needed (except for the rennet.)