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  1. Finnie

    Pullet or Roo Easter egger

    I think they are both cockerels.
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    Ideal Poultry Langshans - Show Me Your Eggs!

    I can try to make a point to post photos of them here from time to time.
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    How long to hard boil goose eggs in a pressure cooker

    I did 4 minutes in the large (12 qt) pressure cooker. What I noticed was that the top ones weren’t quite cooked enough but the lower down ones were. This reinforces my thought that the large pot may be too big. I plan to try the 8 quart one and see how that compares.
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    Ideal Poultry Langshans - Show Me Your Eggs!

    I ordered both black and white chicks from Murray McMurray to arrive in April.
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    Crocheters Thread

    Ha ha, thanks. I forget it’s there because it’s been years since I looked at BYC on anything other than my phone! Somehow it’s set up to not include any signatures. Edit: it’s the portrait orientation. I keep my phone locked in it. If I go to landscape, everything shows.
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    Ideal Poultry Langshans - Show Me Your Eggs!

    My first two black Langshans (from a show breeder) would have been 9 years old this spring. They died over the winter. Pretty pleased with that age. I also had two that died who would have been 7. Those ones descended from chicks I got from MMcM. First time in 9 years that I have no Langshans...
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    Crocheters Thread

    I made a koi. From this pattern:
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    How long to hard boil goose eggs in a pressure cooker

    Ok, so I did a little experiment and boiled 8 goose eggs in my 3 quart pan that I use for boiling a dozen chicken eggs for eating. I took one egg out at 10 minutes of boiling (simmering), one out at 12 minutes, one at 14 minutes, and the rest out at 16 minutes. Here they are, 10-16 minutes, left...
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    How long to hard boil goose eggs in a pressure cooker

    10 minutes in the pressure cooker may have been too long… Part of the problem may be that I do huge batches to feed out to the birds. So it takes a long time for the whole thing to come up to pressure. I may have to do a test batch with a smaller number of eggs.
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    Crocheters Thread

    I crochet, my sister knits. She sent me this cartoon: 😂
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    How long to hard boil goose eggs in a pressure cooker

    Apparently nobody on the internet knows how long to hard boil goose eggs in normal boiling water, let alone in an Instant Pot. I found some soft-boiled goose egg recipes, and some for hard boiling duck eggs. So, I decided to just do 10 minutes in my electric pressure cooker. (NOT an Instant...
  12. Finnie

    Ganders fighting

    If they are used to free ranging, you could alternate which days each pair gets to be loose.
  13. Finnie

    Question of the Day - Friday, January 19th, 2024

    Black Beauty. 90s version.
  14. Finnie

    Rookie mistake...footware for inside coop?

    This was my first pair of chicken yard shoes. I absolutely loved them, but years later when they wore out and needed to be replaced, they were discontinued. Now I randomly buy any type of slip on clog, with holes for summer and without holes for winter. (That is, when I don’t need to wear rain...
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    Hens bullying young cockerels

    It seems like you have enough run space that you could temporarily close up the run and not allow any free ranging until the cockerels learn to stand up to the two bully hens. Assuming the run part is predator proof, the cockerels would be safe overnight on nights that they can’t get past the...
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    BYC's 15th Annual New Year's Day Hatch-Along—2024

    Yay Chickies! ❤️ You did it!
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    Hoop coop related question

    Yes! That’s the exact one! I didn’t remember where I had seen it.
  18. Finnie

    December 2023 hatch-a-long

    That could be. Another thing I’ve noticed is that my ambient humidity changes with the season. I would have good hatch rates in the spring, and as summer progressed with higher humidity, my hatch rates would go down because of chicks drowning after pipping. My basement humidity seems more...
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    Hoop coop related question

    TSC does have a reasonable daily rate to rent a trailer. If neither your truck nor your friend’s truck can tow the trailer, I bet the Home Depot truck can. Also, I once saw photos on line of somebody securing long 2x4s on top of their mini van, and then loading and securing cattle panels on top...
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