Arizona Chickens

[Timskins]

PS  did you know you should store them pointy side down?

How come?

 

[nwebber]

The girls always get comfy on the kitchen window cill and peck the window so I know they are there. I love these three.

 

[flower]

How come?

storing eggs pointed side down

The only reason that I know for storing eggs pointed side down is for hatching purposes. The chick can more easily peck out through the end with the larger space for the air sack. If they peck into the spot where the membrane is touching the shell they can drown in the fluid. So developing the habit of storing the eggs with the pointed side down will get you ready when you want to hatch your own chicks.

 

[flower]

I may be wrong on this (I admit that I am frequently wrong) but I have an idea that the active ingredient in BlueKote is GENTIAN VIOLET. An old time item like icthammol/black salve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_violet

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Even eating eggs should be stored point down. Keeps them fresher.

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

Quote: Even eating eggs should be stored point down. Keeps them fresher.


From "Moment of Science"
If you think about it, there seems to be no good reason for packaging eggs with their wide end up as opposed to plunking them into the cartons wide-end down: either way will keep the egg from rolling off. Yet cardboard cartons and the plastic egg-tray in refrigerators are made to accommodate a fat-end-up egg. Is there something more here than just coincidence?
In fact, there is: the reason it’s smarter to store your eggs with the fat end up is that the egg itself does not completely fill the interior of the shell. If you crack open a hard-boiled egg carefully at the fat end, you will see that the white part of the egg, called the albumen, does not quite reach the shell — there’s a pocket of air in-between the two. That isn’t the case for the narrow end of the egg, which fits snugly.
That pocket of air allows for the presence, and reproduction, of bacteria. This is not to say there’s something wrong with your egg: any chicken egg will have the air pocket and some measure of bacteria inside it. The trick, then, is to keep the bacteria as far as possible from the yolk, which is much more susceptible to bacterial infection. Albumen contains bacteria-killing enzymes while yolk does not. In other words, the yolk is more perishable than the white.
If you hold the egg fat end down, that air pocket has a tendency to rise — not completely through the egg, but enough to reach the yolk. By storing eggs fat-end up, the pocket of air stays away from the yolk, and the egg stays fresh longer.

 

[Demosthine]

LOL! I would walk into my people doctor and hand him a can of Blu-Kote without saying anything. See if he notices.

Thanks for telling us about this. I am tempted to try the stuff on a chronic skin thing I've got. Just can't figure out how to spray it on my back without staining everything else blue. The can says it stains even when it is dry. Is that true or do they just say that to keep themselves from getting sued?

Even eating eggs should be stored point down. Keeps them fresher.

I could be wrong, but I was thinking that the huge experiment they did a few decades ago had resulted in the freshest eggs being the ones that were rotated every few weeks. Do I remember wrong?


Also, remember that America and Canada are the only two countries in the world that I've been able to confirm refrigerates eggs. From the world travelers I've talked to and the few other countries I've been in, I can tell you they don't. The bloom stays on and they are left on regular shelves. This is an American thing. Also, I second the clean-coop makes for clean-eggs comment. The extent of contamination I have on my eggs is almost never more than small pieces of hay stuck to the shell. My clan doesn't poop or sleep in the nesting boxes and those are the only things that I semi-routinely clean, about once a month.

 

[Timskins]

The main thing I took from that egg storing article was that I could store my eggs in the fridge or not, upside down, inside out and I would have good eggs for at least 2 months.

 

[City farm]

I no longer have a lobster pot. I have a way to keep the water hot. If anyone has one or two please bring them. Thanks, LKD. .

Yes I will bring one.. Along with milk cartons, table,chair, knife, apron, oh & did I mention beer..

Anyone wants to carpool P.M. Us.. We are in Tempe by A.S.U.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

being a former Marine

You pure thing. . . A Marine! :/
i can't get away from Marines, but I'm Army! :/
OPPS! Wait a minute, the great love of my life was a Marine.
Never mind