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

[Beer can]

Yep... plucking won't take long.

Nope! Easiest I ever plucked, dip them in hot water and you realize how naked they actually are, just strips of feathers, looks are deceiving.

Mink fat is the best for that!
But in the "civilized" world we use this.
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Mink oil is very popular here for waterproofing. Though maybe most don't know where it actually comes from

 

[BullChick]

ROLL CALL

Heddo!

 

[dan26552]

ROLL CALL

Hey Sally!

 

[dan26552]

My chinquapin chestnuts are blooming! I only planted them as small saplings three years ago.

 

[Beer can]

I boil them and make deviled eggs out of them.

If it was 20yrs ago, you betcha I would have had to have put some balut eggs in with the pickled eggs just to see how the guys liked them while in the middle of a big $$ poker game
I almost made spedies for them (popular here local thing, marinated chunks of meat grilled sort of like kabobs) out of a woodchuck I run over but I just couldn't skin it

 

[BullChick]

My chinquapin chestnuts are blooming! I only planted them as small saplings three years ago.

That is great!!

 

[dan26552]

That is great!!

Yeah! I can't wait! Maybe I can roast chestnuts over an open fire this year.

 

[BullChick]

Ummm. Yes, sir. You can!

 

[Beer can]

My chinquapin chestnuts are blooming! I only planted them as small saplings three years ago.

Awesome!!
Are they native? My dad and my FIL have been swapping pollen on their American chestnuts. Hoping for some fertile nuts.
Crazy stuff, heard after finding a whole ton of them where I hunt, been clear cut, dozed, big skidders, but they left all the big oaks, great hunting. All sorts of small chestnuts now producing! Never saw them before. Heard the nuts, maybe it was the roots? can lay dormant for decades and the dozing and skidding sprouted them.

 

[dan26552]

Awesome!!
Are they native? My dad and my FIL have been swapping pollen on their American chestnuts. Hoping for some fertile nuts.
Crazy stuff, heard after finding a whole ton of them where I hunt, been clear cut, dozed, big skidders, but they left all the big oaks, great hunting. All sorts of small chestnuts now producing! Never saw them before. Heard the nuts, maybe it was the roots? can lay dormant for decades and the dozing and skidding sprouted them.

They are native, not too common either. (So I've read)

Nice. That's interesting. It's probably the nuts that'll lay dormant