Any Home Bakers Here?

[Aria]

Ron you will enjoy the Whiting eggs....the largest I have ever seen.
And they are a light blue in color (like the top bar shade in the reply
page on this forum). VERY PRETTY.

They are an enjoyable productive breed. I will check our roosting bar
....perhaps it need to be the hight of the feed bins. ha ha.

Do you have other Breeds? Aria

 

[ronott1]

Pita pintas(avatar) and hens hatched from Trader Joes fertile eggs

 

[Aria]

Ron I knew Trader Joe sells excellent food....never knew he sold fertile chicken eggs.
INTERESTING. Pretty chicken. Just learning the many different breeds of chickens.
Thanks for sharing. Aria

 

[AllenK RGV]

Gotta love sourdough! It will last for years in dried state

When the baking bug starts to bite again I just fire up my own starters about 1 week in advance. The King Arthur All Purpose has never fired up for me(but it is a great feeder). What I find works 100% of the time is just simple wheat(hull and all) flour that is my first 48 hour feeding go to. It is my opinion that after 1 month your "dried starter sourdough" will be replaced by your own localized flora anyway. That is my opinion and I am sticking to it!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Thank you for posting this recipe! I tried it today and it was fantastic!

I found some dried sourdough starter in the cupboard that's been there for at least a year I managed to successfully revive it and use it

love how we can abuse it but it still will let us use it

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ron I knew Trader Joe sells excellent food....never knew he sold fertile chicken eggs.
INTERESTING. Pretty chicken. Just learning the many different breeds of chickens.
Thanks for sharing. Aria

closest one is in Olympia but never gave thought to fertile eggs from them wonder if they are mixed or purebred?

 

[Kusanar]

love how we can abuse it but it still will let us use it

I've even turned mine pink and managed to save it and get it healthy again... VERY forgiving stuff.

 

[ronott1]

When the baking bug starts to bite again I just fire up my own starters about 1 week in advance. The King Arthur All Purpose has never fired up for me(but it is a great feeder). What I find works 100% of the time is just simple wheat(hull and all) flour that is my first 48 hour feeding go to. It is my opinion that after 1 month your "dried starter sourdough" will be replaced by your own localized flora anyway. That is my opinion and I am sticking to it!

That is true of any starter you get. It will become local to you. The older ones still pack more of a punch though.

Drying some when you are baking and then rehydrating it will get better results.

This has instructions:

 

[ronott1]

closest one is in Olympia but never gave thought to fertile eggs from them wonder if they are mixed or purebred?

they are hy line brown rooster x hy line white hens. Some will lay brown eggs because of the rooster

 

[AllenK RGV]

Pita pintas(avatar) and hens hatched from Trader Joes fertile eggs

That is true of any starter you get. It will become local to you. The older ones still pack more of a punch though.

Drying some when you are baking and then rehydrating it will get better results.

This has instructions:

Thanks for the link to preserving cultures now its another project on the to do list, and yes that would speed things considerably- Thank you!

I have to admit I was thinking "Trader Joe's" was a member not the store but I looked at(and was floored):

https://www.traderjoes.com/announcement/about-trader-joes-offerings-of-eggs
"With regard to eggs, we have offered a range of choices from “conventional” and “cage-free” sources (among them organic, cage-free, free-range, and fertile options; a list of egg-related terms and meanings can be found in our Product Information FAQs). "