Arizona Chickens

[Mikey D]

We have been 5 for 5 in the last 2 days

Not bad for 4-6 month old girls, but now I have to figure out what to do with all of the eggs. Does anyone ever freeze or pickle them?

A large round slice of ham in a muffin tin (Simulating a cupcake wrapper), crack an egg into it, bake & top with cheese, scallions etc...

 

[AZKat]

If you have the fridge space, eggs will keep for several months at 40 degrees in an air tight container.

 

[Demosthine]

This is way cool. It is in chinese [I think] but just watch!
http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/cooking/1160651.html

Now that is just too freakin' awesome! I never would have thought of that. I just use my fingers and gently cradle it. The whites usually just fall right off the yolk and I rarely break them. But that would be a neat party trick for, say, a Pampered Chef party?!?

 

[Demosthine]

If you have the fridge space, eggs will keep for several months at 40 degrees in an air tight container.

As long as they have never been refrigerated, eggs that still have the bloom are supposed to last several months just sitting on the counter without loosing their nutrition. Up to about 9 months is good, but a year is supposedly pushing it a bit. The more they've aged, the better the hard boiled eggs, but the harder it is to get stiff egg whites. You can see this article or this article for more information. I was quite intrigued to find out we are the only major country to store eggs in the refrigerator. I've confirmed this with quite a few co-workers who are from various parts of Europe, Japan and Australia.

Once the bloom is washed off or they are refrigerated, all bets are off, though. Well, without the creativity of the second article above. I'm a bit leery about this, though, because mineral oil is supposedly bad for you and causes cancer. I guess the oil can leech through the egg shell. I don't buy in to all of that cancer hype, but that is the only "concern" I've heard with that method. I just wanted to throw it out there, just in case.

 

[AZBootsie]

This is way cool. It is in chinese [I think] but just watch!
http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/cooking/1160651.html

Pretty cool.

 

[notinoz2007]

A large round slice of ham in a muffin tin (Simulating a cupcake wrapper), crack an egg into it, bake & top with cheese, scallions etc...

that is in the 1975 betty crocker cookbook for boys and girls, except they use bologna as the cupcake wrapper. actually, there is a lot of bologna used in that cookbook, LOL
my family loves fried bologna and egg sandwiches so i am going to try this recipe soon. THANKS, for reminding me i wanted to do that

 

[Odii]

Chicks wwill be hrre in 2 weeks. Im so excited im going crazy!

 

[MagicChicken]

I was on the other side of town this afternoon when my neighbor called and told me not to bother coming home for a while, our neighborhood was flooding. Finally did make it home to find 3.4" of rain in the gage and the chickens up on their roost giving me the stinkeye. Looks like they had 3-4" of water running through the coop. It broke through all my diversion channels. At least it drained well, their food didn't get wet, and it washed a lot of poo out of the run. All is well.

Kinda wish I'd been here to see it, but it gave me time to go shopping instead. Funny thing is there was hardly any rain at all a few miles east of here, where I was hanging out waiting for the water to recede. Did you get any rain, Gallo?

 

[AZBootsie]

Can anyone ID this tree please?? We transplanted it form a friends property. It's great because it tolerated neglect beautifully.

 

[AZKat]

Demosthine: You might want to check out the article that Mother Earth News did awhile ago, where they tested various methods of preservation. They didn't use mineral oil, although I would suspect that lard would have similar properties when it comes to preservation. The end result is that the coated eggs lasted about six months, but the refrigerated eggs were still almost as good as fresh when the experiment ended, which they credited to the bloom still being on the egg. This matches pretty well with my own experience. I don't think that refrigeration by itself would mess with the bloom, but I can see where people would come to that conclusion, since a a lot of eggs do get washed before they hit the fridge. Personally, I stick my eggs in the fridge, especially in the summer, since my house is usually around 85 degrees, which is comfortable for me, but a good fifteen degrees higher than most sources suggest storing eggs unrefrigerated long term.

AZBootsie: It looks like Eucalyptus to me.