How to Make a Really Big Pencil Eraser with Materials You Probably Have Sitting Around the Farm

Lorell tried to make cheese the other day, because that is what you do if you are a farmer. Unfortunately, the instructions were not as clear as they could have been about not heating the milk above 88 degrees. The end result was a chunk of cheese that had the structural properties of vulcanized rubber. We fed it to the chickens*, with no obvious bad effects. Here is a picture of said cheese floating in the whey.

*Interesting side note (actually, this is disgusting enough that you really don't want to know this; I write it only in the interest of scientifically documenting life on the farm. So stop reading now. I can't be responsible if you continue reading.) Chickens seem to be able and willing to eat many surprisingly disgusting things with no obvious bad effects. Cockroaches, for example; they snap them up like popcorn. The one that surprised me, however, was that a few weeks ago we were trimming the goats' hooves, which had become way overgrown and thus smelled like Feta cheese. The chickens ate the hoof trimmings with apparent relish. (Don't you wish you had stopped reading? You were warned.)