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

[daxigait]

i have an internal pip on a chicken egg

go chickies! How many are in lockdown and what are they?

 

[daxigait]

Time to dig out a whelp box, I think the day is Saturday time to get ready and start taking temps! 

. Good luck with both whelpings. May you get lots of females too!

 

[daxigait]

NO these taste bestest

True, but cold.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Awesome!!

Thanks! i thought they were all due saturday, oops

cause you yummy

NO these taste bestest

did you know i'm starving?

 

[daxigait]

@Fire Ant Farm@ChickenCanoeMy sweet potato casserole is done more like mashed potatoes with a brown sugar and pecan topping. I find marshmallows too sweet. I usually have this, and then have hot pumpkin pie with ice cream a different time since it is my favorite pie. I do it crustless most of the time anymore to try to cut some of the calories and bad stuff.

 

[ocap]

@Fire Ant Farm @ChickenCanoe My sweet potato casserole is done more like mashed potatoes with a brown sugar and pecan topping. I find marshmallows too sweet. I usually have this, and then have hot pumpkin pie with ice cream a different time since it is my favorite pie. I do it crustless most of the time anymore to try to cut some of the calories and bad stuff.

sounds like the recipe my wife uses, add coconut and you have it , yumee

 

[daxigait]

Where is @kwhites634? He is usually in early.

 

[daxigait]

sounds like the recipe my wife uses, add coconut and you have it , yumee

In the topping?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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I do turkey (brined) with the bottom of the roasting pan filled with cut up carrots, sweet potatoes, potatoes, onions, winter squash, parsnips, etc. The drippings all fall down on them as they cook. After the turkey is done I roast the veggies under the broiler. (There are always tons of leftovers of these, which I mix with turkey meat to make hash). I have migrated to more simple sides - I do greens of some sort (usually collards), and green beans (in or out of a green bean casserole). This year I have some salad turnips, so I'll probably make a really yummy turnip recipe I like from Vegetable Literacy (Deborah Madison cookbook). And I make an AMAZING cranberry sauce!!! If I'm organized and in the mood, and I have local fresh pecans, I'll make little 4" pecan pies - eat one and freeze the others.
What variety of apple tree do you have?

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I'm not a big fan of sweet stuff - and NEVER anywhere but dessert (I hate stuff like that sweet potato casserole with marshmallows my family usually made every year).
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- Ant Farm

That sounds wonderful.

I usually leave all that crap alone and fill up on turkey, green beans, potatoes, salad (if it has good greens in it) and that's about it.

I'm a big trekkie too.

@Fire Ant Farm @ChickenCanoe My sweet potato casserole is done more like mashed potatoes with a brown sugar and pecan topping. I find marshmallows too sweet. I usually have this, and then have hot pumpkin pie with ice cream a different time since it is my favorite pie. I do it crustless most of the time anymore to try to cut some of the calories and bad stuff.

Pumpkin is by far my favorite pie. I could live forever without all the other kinds.
When I was a kid we always had a big Tgivig feast at our house. We always got the biggest turkey available and was usually 22-24 lbs.
Pies were baked for days in advance. Usually about 5 apple, a couple peach, among others but always at least 10 pumpkin pies. My parents made them but my dad did the pumpkin.
I think they contain some nutrient I was missing in my diet. I could easily eat a whole pie or more by myself in one sitting.

 

[dan26552]

Thank you Dax, I woke up and read this - you made my day! 

Stay safe and have a good one. I hope you'll be able to get some more rest soon.

I know, I know!!!! I remembered because I'm a Star Trek geek, and I had always wondered if your handle was related to Dax on DS9, and it was (since you named your horse after Dax)!!!!

Good morning!!!!! Thanks for the coffee - Yum!!! 


I haven't gone home for Thanksgiving since freshman year in college (a LOOOOOOOONG time ago) - I just decided to boycott travel at this crazy time. Sometimes I have it with friends, but most of the time I have Thanksgiving dinner for one - which I actually LOVE. I enjoy the cooking, but don't have to have things ready by a certain time or any of that stressful stuff. And I spend a lot of the time while cooking talking to my mother on the phone.

I do turkey (brined) with the bottom of the roasting pan filled with cut up carrots, sweet potatoes, potatoes, onions, winter squash, parsnips, etc. The drippings all fall down on them as they cook. After the turkey is done I roast the veggies under the broiler. (There are always tons of leftovers of these, which I mix with turkey meat to make hash). I have migrated to more simple sides - I do greens of some sort (usually collards), and green beans (in or out of a green bean casserole). This year I have some salad turnips, so I'll probably make a really yummy turnip recipe I like from Vegetable Literacy (Deborah Madison cookbook). And I make an AMAZING cranberry sauce!!! If I'm organized and in the mood, and I have local fresh pecans, I'll make little 4" pecan pies - eat one and freeze the others. 
What variety of apple tree do you have?

I thaw mine in the fridge (I have room) - but Alton Brown suggests if not in fridge to put in a styrofoam cooler (cold packs in the bottom, then a tray/pen to catch any liquid, then the turkey) and putting a probe thermometer through the top to measure air temp. You want to keep it below 40F for safety, so set the alarm (if you have one) for air temp of 38F. Then you're set (and ready to brine!) 

If you need it faster, Alton Brown says if you put your frozen turkey in a 5 gallon bucket with cold water in the tub (changing water every 3 hours), it should take about 2 lbs per hour (so 7 hours).

I hope you get better soon!!!!!

Yum!!! I'm going to try that!!! 

I'm not a big fan of sweet stuff - and NEVER anywhere but dessert (I hate stuff like that sweet potato casserole with marshmallows my family usually made every year). 

Puppies!!!!! Can't wait for PUPPIES!!!!!!!! e

 (Sally, yes, this IS why your bread didn't work...)

Soooooooo funny!!!!! 

OK, I'm off to run a few errands, then into the yard for gardening and chores. See you guys later! 

- Ant Farm