➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

11 year old Pomeranian has a broken pelvis and a collapsed urethra. From the 24/7 emergency clinic he was taken to the veterinary specialty services center to see if he's a candidate for surgery since he also has an enlarged heart. We haven't heard anything since. They are so busy, they don't even answer the phone. The emergency clinic bill was $1,000. If he gets surgery it will add another $3,000 minimum. One side of the pelvis is crushed.
THANK GOD I didn't do it or she never would have forgiven me.


OK, other than caring for 8 flocks of chickens in the midst of 4 days of rain, needing to butcher 10 roosters, prepping to drive to Arkansas to bring back 5 bee hives and building trap nests. Those are the highlights of my lengthy to do list.

Who did the running over?

 

[Blooie]

I’m still trying to figure out what a balut egg is.

Okay, since the question seems to buried already (slow down, you guys!) I'll take a stab at it. It's a partially incubated egg - usually duck, from what I can figure out - that is sold in some Asian Food Markets. They are considered delicious by those who have been that brave. Some of them have been prepared, since they are often eaten hard boiled at that stage of development, others are not so that the consumer can do that at home. Kiki bought a couple to do a taste test of different poultry eggs, put them in her fridge, then decided to candle them only to see living embryos in them. And here we are....

Now excuse me while I go get an Alka Seltzer.....

 

[Aji Dulce]

An egg with a live baby duck in it (could be a chicken in it too)
that is then boiled and eaten.

Is this a regional custom?

 

[Blooie]

I gotta type slower, read faster, or type shorter.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

What?

I think I will just monitor this thread. Very interesting, but I have never hatch chicks without a broody. In other words I have never hatched chicks (the hen did). LOL So I don't think I have anything of value to add but can't wait to see what happens.

 

[Kiki]

50% is fine!

My problem is I don't know just how off this ghetto electric gauge is.
Can I assume it's off just a little since the thermometer part is off just a little?
The therm is off by about 2 degrees.

 

[Aji Dulce]

Okay, since the question seems to buried already (slow down, you guys!) I'll take a stab at it. It's a partially incubated egg - usually duck, from what I can figure out - that is sold in some Asian Food Markets. They are considered delicious by those who have been that brave. Some of them have been prepared, since they are often eaten hard boiled at that stage of development, others are not so that the consumer can do that at home. Kiki bought a couple to do a taste test of different poultry eggs, put them in her fridge, then decided to candle them only to see living embryos in them. And here we are....

Now excuse me while I go get an Alka Seltzer.....

Thanks

 

[Blooie]

You're welcome!

 

[Kiki]

The problem is that at lockdown they do not move much so it is not as useful as regular candling.

It should not be used to determine if an egg goes into lockdown or not--too many good eggs will not wiggle in the water

I'm pretty sure I will not be trying this water wiggle thing out.

 

[Kiki]

I had one last year that was missing an egg tooth. I checked at the end of hatch and heard cheaping. When I carefully got the chick out of the shell, It was fine and healthy.

You never know!

Egg tooth?