Little Feet Creek Farm

07/10/2024

Meet the insect you probably didn't know you're eating: the cochineal parasite. This insect is used for its red dye, carmine, in many popular foods. Here are 7 foods that contain the cochineal parasite for its color:
- Starbucks: Raspberry Swirl Cake, Birthday Cake Pop, Mini Donut, and Red Velvet Whoopie Pie
- Kellogg’s: Fruit Loops cereal and Fruit Snacks
- Tropicana products
- Betty Crocker: Red Velvet Cake Mix
- Nestlé: Nesquik Chocolate Cookie Sandwich (Strawberry) and Wonka Nerds
- Skittles
- Dannon yogurt: Strawberry, Blueberry, and Raspberry flavors
Side note: It takes about 40,000 of these insects to produce 1 pound of carmine dye. Incredible!

07/02/2024

06/25/2024

24 GENERAL EGG KNOWLEDGE
1. Storing eggs upside-down makes them last longer. Turning your eggs pointy end down in the carton will prevent air pockets inside the shell from coming in contact with the yolk, which helps slow down the aging process.
2. It is generally not recommended to eat eggs from reptiles like snakes and lizards, or other non-bird animals, because their eggs are not a good source of nutrition for humans. They are often high in fat and low in protein compared to bird eggs. Some reptile eggs can carry harmful bacteria or parasites that can make you sick.
3. Washed eggs need to be refrigerated. When a hen lays an egg, with that egg pops out with a nearly invisible coating called a bloom. This bloom helps prevent air and bacteria from permeating the shell and prematurely aging the egg. That is why fresh eggs straight from the chicken are often placed in bowls or baskets on the kitchen counter. Grocery store eggs, on the other hand, have been washed, thus removing the bloom and requiring refrigeration to keep them fresh.
4. The colour of the egg yolk should be very bright yellow or deep orange. The difference in colour is based on what the chicken is eating. Chickens who only eat the grain feed given to them will lay eggs that are yellow. Chickens that are free-range and eat mostly bugs and vegetation will produce these orange yolks.
5. Chickens can still lay eggs even if there is no rooster (Male chicken). Many people think that you need a rooster for a hen to lay eggs. Most of the hens producing eggs today have never seen a rooster in their life.
6. In the stores, you can usually find small, medium, large, and jumbo or extra-large eggs. Some may speculate this has to do with breed, but in the commercial industry, it usually has more to do with a hen's age. The Older the Hen, the Bigger the Eggs. The older the hen, the more likely she is to produce these larger eggs.
7. Apart from using water to test the freshness of an egg, there are other ways to tell if an egg Is fresh:
If the shell seems unusually thick, then it is fresh.
If the yolk stands really tall after you have cracked the egg, it is fresh.
If the yolk has wrinkles or dissolves into a puddle when you crack it open, then it is an old egg.
8. A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in a way to make her think a day is 28 hours long.
9. Eggs are good for your eyes. They contain lutein which prevents cataracts and muscle degeneration.
10. Breed determines egg shell colour. Commercial eggs are brown or white, but some breeds can also lay blue, green, or pink eggs.
11. Duck eggs are higher in fat and better for baking.
12. Brown eggs are more expensive than white eggs, because the hens that lay them are larger and require more feed.
Written by: Food Research kitchen

Who knew?! Some of the things I did know and a few I didn’t. I have definitely eaten my fair share of eggs throughout my life and I have also had cataracts removed from both of my eyes at a mere 50 something years of age! So not too sure about all that! But I do appreciate the chicken 🐓! She’s an awesome bird 💕
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06/19/2024

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06/11/2024

Good Morning 🌞

05/23/2024

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05/19/2024

Fanta Orange in the US vs. the UK. UK Fanta gets its color from carrots, pumpkins, and orange fruit, while the US version gets it from dyes (red 40 and yellow 6). Also it has 3 times as much sugar in the US version versus the UK version, and the US Fanta has high fructose corn syrup while the UK version has sugar. Also there's no orange juice in American Fanta. Gotta love it😒

04/15/2024

04/15/2024

💕 Nostalgic ...Still can see the muddy clothes, hear the uncontrollable excitement and the splash of frog eggs into the aquarium . So many tadpoles hatched here. Miss those
days 😭

04/13/2024

🌺NEW SIGHTINGS IN ILLINOIS, KANSAS, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA & NEW MEXICO!🌺

Migration Report (April 12) Hummers are on the move!
Coming Soon to a Feeder Near you...
💛 💛 💛 💛 💛 💛 💛 💛
4.12 Tennessee (North Central) -Linda
4.12 Alabama (North) -Brandi
4.12 Louisiana (South) -Cathy
4.11 Texas (South) -Barbara VanMatre
4.11 New Mexico (NW) -Kim
4.09 Kansas (SE) -David
4.06 Illinois (NW) -Kelly

VIEW MIGRATION TRACKING MAP TO FIND OUT WHERE THEY ARE NOW.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?hl=en&mid=1tat771eKSlDMfSAgn_37ApsT2u587v4&ll=32.65727187119577%2C-99.2359089036141&z=5

04/13/2024

04/07/2024

FREE!
Fresh EGGS available at our location on Peasleeville Road! Visit us soon as the cooler gets restocked now. Strictly FCFS due to high demand. Sorry, no delivery option for these batch of eggs.
***LOOK FOR THE PURPLE COOLER AT THE END IF THE DRIVE

03/31/2024

I have
GOOSE EGGS ($6 per dz)
DUCK EGGS ($4 per dz)
for sale

07/21/2023

Introduction This article is written in response to several requests to write up how I make my own chicken feed for my flock of heritage and rare breed chickens. I started keeping chickens in 2017, and initially fed them entirely on commercial...

07/21/2023

07/16/2023

Babies every where 🫠

07/16/2023

07/15/2023

Hope everyone has a spectacular Saturday

07/15/2023

Mama brought the twins for dinner tonight ❣️

07/08/2023

Citizens of Maine now have a Constitutional right to grow, raise, process, barter, trade and sell their own food without government interference The State of Maine just took cottage food laws to the next level. In addition to being allowed to sell non-perishable jellies, candies and baked goods prep...

07/08/2023

Nothing to see here.....just a hen & her Gosling 🤦‍♀️

🫣🤣 the dang hens are at it again

Two nests and approximately 20 eggs (all goose) 🫣

07/08/2023

Huge thank you to Turtle Ledge Wood Working for these amazing pieces!!