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    Making Balut from eggs that haven't hatched?

    That's why I asked, if an egg is visibly rotten obviously not but if the egg just hasn't hatched because it's a late hatcher would that be okay? I'm talking about chicken chicks, which I am currently incubating, quail eggs are too small to bother with.
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    Making Balut from eggs that haven't hatched?

    I'm incubating chicks right now, and although I've incubated quail dozens of times this is my first time with chickens. I have 30 eggs in there and I was wondering, could the eggs that don't hatch be used for Balut? I've had Duck Balut from street carts in Vancouver, but never chicken, and since...
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    Scot in British Columbia, raising chicken, quail and rabbits for self suffiency

    Thank you, I love my meat rabbits. They are very cute which is difficult, and I have to keep a strong boundary between my breeding rabbits (who are my pets, with names and will live out their natural lifespan) and their offspring, who are my food. However, I've noticed that in North America...
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    Scot in British Columbia, raising chicken, quail and rabbits for self suffiency

    Hello, thanks a lot. I'm on Vancouver Island, halfway between Victoria and Nanaimo, born and bred in Ayrshire in the southwest of Scotland, came here about 5 years ago.
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    Can Pheasants be induced to breed and lay eggs out of season?

    I'm primarily raising quail for meat right now, along with rabbits and a few Silkies who mainly give me eggs for baking and breeding food (not a big egg eater), I love the taste of quail and rabbit but they're both just so tiny, 1 bird is one meal and 1 rabbit is two meals, which means that I...
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    Scot in British Columbia, raising chicken, quail and rabbits for self suffiency

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I've been raising my own birds and rabbits meat for about 6 months, but as a child our family always kept a few egg-laying hens. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Not very many at the moment, two Silkie hens. However I...
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