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

[Kiki]

And no one is afraid from interdiction of new pathogen to the us?!

I highly doubt these eggs are trout in from anywhere outside of Texas....in my store...the eggs in my store are most likely laid here in Texas.
(I will ask tomorrow who the supplier is)

 

[Kiki]

Do people really eat live duckling in egg

Hello!
They boil them first.
Have you not been paying attention?

 

[Kiki]

It is a duck embryo in its shell that some people think it is tasty.
And it is the food item that Rhalpie most like to eat!

It can be a chicken embryo too although duck seems to be more popular.
Probably because the eggs are bigger?
More juice?

I need to ask this too.
Why the duck eggs are more popular!

 

[biophiliac]

Do people really eat live duckling in egg

they cook it first

 

[Kiki]

Hey Kikis, I'm curious....did you calibrate your Accurite humidity & temp monitor?
I use the same monitor sometimes but before I do, I do a salt test calibration because the ones I have are not very accurate and change each time I calibrate them...usually 12 to 16% diff error.

No Sean I have not done this yet.
I need to but...but....but...
I need to find the directions again on how to do so.
Someone want to PM them to me?


I am pretty mushy right now.

 

[pamelajean]

I just want to say....how cool is it that there were a couple of partially developed ducks - along with all those other eggs on that counter - that were meant to be consumed before they were hatched and now, by some crazy fluke, they have this chance to hatch and LIVE!!! Seriously, what a journey!

 

[Kiki]

I just want to say....how cool is it that there were a couple of partially developed ducks - along with all those other eggs on that counter - that were meant to be consumed before they were hatched and now, by some crazy fluke, they have this chance to hatch and LIVE!!! Seriously, what a journey!

 

[The Golden Egg5]

Ugh! I keep following threads and none of them are alerting me when there is a new post! I am now behind 100 pages

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I'm confused here. Can someone on this busiest of threads tell me how it is possible to hatch balut eggs? I mean, after all, who would incubate their duck eggs from the start for 15-20 days, pull them out of the incubator, put them in the refrigerator for a week or more, warm them up again and expect the embryo to still be alive?

By the way, while a balut egg could be any species of bird, Mallard ducks are most commonly used.


Do NOT trust that hygrometer. At the very least, put it outside, wait 30 minutes, put your zip code into the location box on accuweather, find out what your ambient humidity is and compare that to what your hygrometer says.


A lot of cultural diversity here. Our International Institute has been sponsoring refugees for 100 years. There are huge enclaves of Bosnian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Bhutanese, Somali and Botswanan peoples that make this a very interesting place to live. We have an annual festival of nations featuring foods and arts from their homelands.
We have lots of Asian markets. Jay's Asian is a favorite but I go to Seafood City Supermarket. It is a huge combination Asian/Latin market. You can find anything there. Just the fish department is the size of a medium size grocery store. Another section just as large for rice and grains. A whole aisle for teas another aisle for seaweed.



Ya' think?



I recommend this one.
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/stc-1000

Omg. I can't get caught up. . but @KikisGirls
Your hygrometer/thermometer looks almost like the one I just bought. . and the humidity only read 67% during the salt test instead of 75% like it should.
I bought another digital one that's for reptiles and it doesn't read correctly either.

Mallard eggs are blue. Definitely not mallard.



From what I was reading, there is a duck equivalent of the production Leghorn called a "white layer". That's what I'd put my $ on.

http://www.metzerfarms.com/WhiteLayerDucks.cfm?Breed=White Layer&BirdType=Duck&ID=WHGOL

Luckys eggs weren't blue

 

[ronott1]

Ugh! I keep following threads and none of them are alerting me when there is a new post! I am now behind 100 pages

Go to the top of the thread and un follow. Then follow and say you want email alerts. Default is to get alerts on your watched thread page