My girls all started out laying smallish (30-37 gram) eggs but over about two months the size gradually crept up. I don't always weigh them now that daily eggs are a routine part of my life, but when I do they are always between 52-58 grams. My RIR typically lays the largest (and most elongated)...
I'd expect so...each of my birds have laid quite regularly after their first egg. My RIR and White Leghorn each lay six or seven eggs a week, and my EE normally produces five.
Congrats on the egg, it's a great feeling to find the first one!
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My EE started laying 17 days after my White Leghorn, and 10 days after my RIR. Her beautiful blue/green eggs were well worth the wait though. Although a little smaller than those from the other girls, they have the darkest yolks and the best flavor. I'm getting 5 or 6 a week from the...
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You could...it would probably cook a little faster with the hole in the middle. Be sure and coat the inside with butter and grated Parmesan like the recipe says...you need that texture to give the souffle something to grip as it rises.
BigMike, you'd be shocked by Lake Sherwood now...the hippies have been replaced with golfers (maybe they morphed into golfers!) and it's all gated communities.
I usually make this for dinner (it's a lot of work and takes time) but the leftovers do make a spectacular breakfast! The spinach...
This is one of my favorite recipes, and a great way to use up some of those extra eggs that you've got. It's essentially Alton Brown's "Good Eats" cheese souffle recipe, with some chopped frozen spinach folded in. A link to the associated episode is below. It's worth watching, as there are some...
Finally, my Easter Egger has decided to start contributing to breakfast! Got home and found the usual brown and white eggs...plus this dazzling lil' blue/green number! No heavyweight at 39 grams, but a great start to Hana's egg-laying career.
Will do...I'll have to type it up when I get home from work.
For anybody who can't wait, it's Alton Brown's cheese souffle recipe from his "Good Eats" show...the only change is that I stir in a pound of frozen chopped spinach (thawed, with all the water wrung out) just before folding in the...
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It's a little painted wire cage, designed to hold suet cake for feeding wild birds. Mine was two or three dollars at Walmart, or any pet store will have them. The idea was to hold the greens up off the ground...not strictly necessary, but I prefer it to throwing them on the ground. Plus...
I pack a small suet cage with whatever greens I've got around and hang it in the run each morning. My three birds go straight to it, usually cleaning it out within a half hour. Their absolute favorite is butter lettuce, a local market sells small dark heads of it very inexpensively and the...
Is she squatting yet? My EE just started squatting on sunday, around 23 weeks...hopefully she'll soon join her WL and RIR flockmates as contributing members of the household. This morning she was hanging around in the nesting box for the first time, checkin' it out.
Should you manage to catch it, I'd definitely quarantine it from your existing flock until you're quite sure it's healthy.
I'm sure chickens have the instincts to survive on their own for a good long time. My city has a few well documented feral populations that have survived for decades and...
mrs b. bates farm :
im jealous, my babies wont let me touch them,,they take food out of my hand and come near me but they wont let me pick them up or,touch them..i hand raised them and love them so much,so it kinda sucks they wont let me touch them..
Mine were like that as well...they would...
So far, they have all been clean as a whistle...at most, a bit of pine shaving sticking to the bloom on the just-laid ones.
These five round out an even dozen two of our girls have laid for us...now I wish our EE would start producing, to add some blue/green to the composition!
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Excellent tip, I'm going to start doing that. I'm finding that my over-easy eggs are so thick in the middle (due to freshness!) that the white doesn't cook through even when it otherwise looks done.
The yolks don't flatten out either, they look like a sphere standing up in the pan...
Nine days after our White Leghorn (Ethel) started laying, our RIR Virginia has decided to get in the game! It's quite chilly this morning, but this beautiful brown egg was still quite warm when we found it...eggs don't get much fresher than that. Ethel's last egg is to the left.
Now if we can...