EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[mlm Mike]

Quote: She's not down, getting caught up at home.

Winter solstice was at 4:44 this morning here. That means tomorrow will be longer - and every day to follow till summer.

Quote: Mmm yummy brandy balut!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Next week we will celebrate Hanukkah for 8 days ( yes 8 days off! e ) and there is a custom in this holiday to eat fried delicates So you have the usual donuts with hundreds of fillings And from North Africa we have the "Spinj" that what you are seeing And from east Europe you have the "latkes" made with potatoes and onion ect. But as much as l love them, I can't let myself eat them! My dear mother is an EXPERT in making them!

My husband is from Ireland & they make latkes there too, but they call them boxty. I am not a fan of them but he loves them. I love doughnuts though. Hope you have a happy Hannukah! I am making my skinny rooster soup today, hopefully it turns out well. They gave me the giblets & there was something there I didn't recognize, looked like 2 large beige kidney beans. Didn't know what it was so I threw it away. Hopefully it wasn't something that should go in the soup.

Mmm they where its mmm.... testicle!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Latkes! Yummmmmmmm. My heritage is Pennsylvania Duetsch on my dad's side and Irish and Cherokee Indian on my mom's. I grew up with mom making the Pennsylvania Duetsch version of Latkes when she had left over mashed potatoes. She would add a bit of flour for them to hold together, egg, onion and salt and pepper. Drop by tablespoon fulls into a lightly greased skillet and brown, flattening them with a spatula as you turn them. I made them for my husband one day and he really liked them. Happy Hanuka to you and your family also Akrnaf2 [COLOR=545454]שָׁלוֹם .[/COLOR] [COLOR=545454]I'm trying to get a cold. Just what I need. Tomorrow I need to bake cookies and Pumpkin/cranberry bread. Should be interesting especially since DH is trying to come down with the same cold. Since we haven't been around people until yesterday when we had to take our diabetic cat to the vet for his monthly check up and were feeling crappy by the time we got home at noon we have no idea where the cold came from unless it rode in on the mail. [/COLOR] So I had a stomach virus around Thanksgiving. Only fitting and proper I guess that I'm sniffling and snotting my way though Christmas. At least the weather has modulated meaning the chickens are out in the run and not hanging around inside the coop. Some of my hens are starting to sing their egg song again and hanging around the nest box so hopefully more eggs will be forthcoming. I threw a few ceramic eggs in the boxes this morning just to spur them on a bit and freshen up their memories of 'oh yeah, I'm supposed to lay eggs there!' My luck they will all go broody on me. Little *****. Yeah, I'm a bit of a grump today.

Next week we will celebrate Hanukkah for 8 days ( yes 8 days off! e ) and there is a custom in this holiday to eat fried delicates So you have the usual donuts with hundreds of fillings And from North Africa we have the "Spinj" that what you are seeing And from east Europe you have the "latkes" made with potatoes and onion ect. But as much as l love them, I can't let myself eat them! My dear mother is an EXPERT in making them!

My husband is from Ireland & they make latkes there too, but they call them boxty. I am not a fan of them but he loves them. I love doughnuts though. Hope you have a happy Hannukah! I am making my skinny rooster soup today, hopefully it turns out well. They gave me the giblets & there was something there I didn't recognize, looked like 2 large beige kidney beans. Didn't know what it was so I threw it away. Hopefully it wasn't something that should go in the soup.

Thank you very much!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Like the structure on the left? Testicles. - Ant Farm

Exactly!

 

[Honora]

Like the structure on the left?




Testicles.

- Ant Farm

Ah, that's what I suspected. Do people eat them?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Exactly!

I took this photo during processing to help explain rooster behavior to a friend - testicle on the left, heart on the right. I think she may have replied with a snide comment about males in general...

- Ant Farm

 

[ChickenCanoe]

We have our own calendar and all the holidays is according it.
So Hanukkah is always in 25 of the month of Kislev כ"ה כסלו
And it could vary if you compare it to the Gregorian calender.

Wild boars are native here, and are one of the hunting animal, especially by the Christian community and some of Jewish people that don't mind eating them.

Catholicism calendar is wild too. All by the moon and solstices. Easter varies dramatically every year.

My husband is from Ireland & they make latkes there too, but they call them boxty. I am not a fan of them but he loves them. I love doughnuts though. Hope you have a happy Hannukah!

I am making my skinny rooster soup today, hopefully it turns out well. They gave me the giblets & there was something there I didn't recognize, looked like 2 large beige kidney beans. Didn't know what it was so I threw it away. Hopefully it wasn't something that should go in the soup.

They're what we call in the mammalian world, Rocky Mountain Oysters.
I've never cooked the poultry variety though.

I took this photo during processing to help explain rooster behavior to a friend - testicle on the left, heart on the right. I think she may have replied with a snide comment about males in general...

- Ant Farm

Something about being bigger than the heart?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote:
I may have put them in soup with other bits, I don't recall. I was going to feed them to the chickens along with the liver and heart, then I wondered if there might be a hormonal effect on the girls. Never looked it up, though...

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote:
Bingo. And that's just one of them.

She thought it was hysterical...

- Ant Farm

 

[Akrnaf2]

Like the structure on the left? Testicles. - Ant Farm

Ah, that's what I suspected. Do people eat them?

Yes indeed!

Not my pic!