California - Northern

[Shark Akhrrana]

Don' t worry It's probably just an "oops" egg. Some call them " fart" eggs. If you start getting a bunch of other odd eggs like no shell,thin shell, deformed ect, then start to worry.

Trisha

ok I'll keep an eye on them. Thanks . I feel less worried now.

 

[debs_flock]

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I have a collection of them. I just put them on a shelf and they dessicate pretty quickly on their own.

 

[chiqita]

ok I'll keep an eye on them. Thanks . I feel less worried now.

Its like shes in a hurry and runs to the car without her coffee ( coffee= yolk and stuff)

 

[tommysgirl]

I tried to move my broody when she was sitting in the nest box to another area after getting her some eggs to sit on. She wouldn't sit on them, so I put them under her where she was. The next day, I moved her and the eggs to the other area and she stayed there. Whew!

Why do they have to make things difficult?? I am not overly invested in this little broody experiment since I am just giving her eating eggs...fertile, but eggs that were gonna be breakfast. I am looking at it as a learning thing for me. Though I would like to have her or someone, be a proven mama by next spring if possible so I can add some of Deb's SPRs and Lord knows what else back there.

 

[tommysgirl]

I think I'm going to need to hire that person to follow me around outside and keep squirting me with a hose.

LaBron has a guy who follows him around and picks up his warm ups when he comes off the bench and back into the game. With your Chicken prowess and Baking success you ought to have a hose boy.

 

[chiqita]

This is what became of the great apricot opportunity of 2013:

OK, here is what I did with them:

1 box I just cooked down to butter and froze, for making stuff later, got hot and I got unmotivated

1 batch of nectarine Apricot cardamom chai butter ( also frozen until a cool spell)

1 batch of straight apricot syrup. The left over pulp will become fruit roll ups

1 burnt batch of apricot waffle syrup with brown sugar that became ( friend with 2 hr chicken emergency= apricot syrup on low= seriously smokey sauce) sweet and smokey apricot glaze for pork

1 mixed pepper apricot glaze ( this was innocent until day 2 then HOT ****)

1 apricot spicy BBQ sauce

1 apricot pineapple jam.

1 batch dried apricot halves ( now in the car drying)

A whole bunch of happy chickens and turkeys.

a whole slew of apricot desserts this week, from a bunch of Martha Stewart recipes. This = fat husband.

I'm debating about going back and getting another box if they still have it this week for eating....

Thank you all for the ideas and recipes! I'm keeping an eye on CL for more boxes to freak Mario out with!

 

[chiqita]

Why do they have to make things difficult?? I am not overly invested in this little broody experiment since I am just giving her eating eggs...fertile, but eggs that were gonna be breakfast. I am looking at it as a learning thing for me. Though I would like to have her or someone, be a proven mama by next spring if possible so I can add some of Deb's SPRs and Lord knows what else back there.

They don't fixate on eggs so much as spaces. Its her broody space, she thinks all things good are there. It is nature way of keeping them from getting lost and sitting on other eggs. ( nature did not do a great job of that however, as you will see later with multi broodies)it could be worse, they could fixate on eggs and only sit on things they have layed.

 

[Happy Chooks]

This is what became of the great apricot opportunity of 2013:

OK, here is what I did with them:

1 box I just cooked down to butter and froze, for making stuff later, got hot and I got unmotivated

1 batch of nectarine Apricot cardamom chai butter ( also frozen until a cool spell)

1 batch of straight apricot syrup. The left over pulp will become fruit roll ups

1 burnt batch of apricot waffle syrup with brown sugar that became ( friend with 2 hr chicken emergency= apricot syrup on low= seriously smokey sauce) sweet and smokey apricot glaze for pork

1 mixed pepper apricot glaze ( this was innocent until day 2 then HOT ****)

1 apricot spicy BBQ sauce

1 apricot pineapple jam.

1 batch dried apricot halves ( now in the car drying)

A whole bunch of happy chickens and turkeys.

a whole slew of apricot desserts this week, from a bunch of Martha Stewart recipes. This = fat husband.

I'm debating about going back and getting another box if they still have it this week for eating....

Thank you all for the ideas and recipes! I'm keeping an eye on CL for more boxes to freak Mario out with!

Well, that certainly kept you busy.

Thanks to my DH's grandmother, I now have a box of apricots (most of a box after I shared with my MIL and mom). I'm so making the apricot cheesecake bars that was posted. Maybe some apricot pineapple jam too.

If they don't rot from all the rain we've had, I'll go pick more in a couple weeks. Her tree is loaded.

I have a dehydrator, maybe I'll dry some as well. What peppers did you use for the glaze? I have serrano peppers in my garden. Apricot cardamom chai butter sounds good too. (and I happen to have cardamom)

 

[chiqita]

I used some Thai and some jalipeno. What I had in the fridge basically.

I'll find the link for the chai recipe. I didn't follow it but it gives you an idea. I put the chair car do on tea bags I. While I was cooking and put the other spices in a cheesecloth bag and just left it in there and let it soak overnight after cooking.
here it is
http://julesfood.blogspot.com/2012/05/apricot-ginger-vanilla-chai-jam.html

 

[Ali707]

And yes, I've had chicks drown in a teaspoon of water. You check, everything is fine, leave the room for 15 minutes and come back to a cold, wet, stiff chick. I've had chicks like that, dried them with a hair dryer and they came back around. Only to go back into the brooder and do the same thing. I then start to look at it as a genetic purge for survival instincts.............too dumb to live.

That...... sounds like a bad date.

Have you seen the 5 day forcast?

110 on Monday for Woodland.

YES! I have seen the forecast and I am already in Whine Mode. I absolutely hate the heat.

I'm a native Northern CA girl. I do not like 80% humidity.

I am right there with you. Last night when I got home around 6pm after the rain had stopped and it started getting warmer, I thought to myself...... is this what Florida feels like? It was awful. Felt like I couldn't get a deep breath.

This is what became of the great apricot opportunity of 2013:

OK, here is what I did with them:

1 box I just cooked down to butter and froze, for making stuff later, got hot and I got unmotivated

1 batch of nectarine Apricot cardamom chai butter ( also frozen until a cool spell)

1 batch of straight apricot syrup. The left over pulp will become fruit roll ups

1 burnt batch of apricot waffle syrup with brown sugar that became ( friend with 2 hr chicken emergency= apricot syrup on low= seriously smokey sauce) sweet and smokey apricot glaze for pork

1 mixed pepper apricot glaze ( this was innocent until day 2 then HOT ****)

1 apricot spicy BBQ sauce

1 apricot pineapple jam.

1 batch dried apricot halves ( now in the car drying)

A whole bunch of happy chickens and turkeys.

a whole slew of apricot desserts this week, from a bunch of Martha Stewart recipes. This = fat husband.

I'm debating about going back and getting another box if they still have it this week for eating....

Thank you all for the ideas and recipes! I'm keeping an eye on CL for more boxes to freak Mario out with!

Wow! You people on here seem to have a lot more energy than I do.

I have a squatter!!!!!!

I am so excited!....our first egg should be within weeks!


Terri

Yay! I had a squatter last night too, BUT that is impossible, because she is only almost 9 weeks old! Lol...... I must have pet her just right because she spread her wings and squatted. Of course she is a Polish and a really strange chicken. From day 1 she has run right up to you if you put your hand in the cage like she was going to peck you to death, but stopped short. I thought for sure she was a boy.

She may still end up a boy because she is a turd. She pecks at my feet and STILL runs right up to me when I come in like an attack chicken and then she stops short and stares. Then she tries to scratch at my shoes and eat them. Silly chickens.