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

[daxigait]

@heatherfeather7 Do you have a number that you can call to check on Abi?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Me too. Good morning Phil

Good morning everyone. First cup of coffee done going for second then outside stuff.

I'm through my first poor pot and still tired

 

[Pensmaster]

@heatherfeather7 Do you have a number that you can call to check on Abi?

Morning Dax. Hope the prep for trip is going well or have you been already?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Now that's more like it! Some nice brisk discussion this AM...

Yes don't just boil them
Do this!
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Oh, I wasn't going to just boil them, I was going to boil them until tender, then fry them.

Matirials
0.5 kg of gizzard
2 diced onions
3-4 potatoes
1 tbs of tomato past
1 tbs of paprika ( sweet ,miled, hot it is your decision )
1 tsp (tea spoon )of cumin
Salt
Paper
Vegetal oil
Parsly
M.O
Boil the gizzard for 1.5-2 hours
CUT them to nice pieces
In a good pot fry the onion until is golden, put the gizzards and stir, put the paprika and cumin and stir, after 1-2 minutes put the black pepper and the tomato past and stir cover with water ( or MUCH BETRE with that wonderful stock you have made!) Let to cook for 30 minutes, cut the potatoes to pieces, put in the pot and let to cook until tender, add salt and pepper to fix the taste, serve it with chopped parsley on!
Bon a petite!

This sounds wonderful - I'm going to try this!!!

One suggestion....send a mess of 'em my way
Haven't had any since I was home eating Mom's cooking.
Wonder how they'd be dipped in egg, covered with flour or cornmeal (whatever you'd use for fried onion rings), & deep fried.

I want to try some that way as well - I'm a southern girl, after all.

I pressure canned some of them from the first cull this spring - I'm interested to see if by pressure canning them, I get them some or all of the way toward that tender stage (and so don't have to do the 2 hour boiling thing).

thanks everyone alls good now its sorted itself out,,,my other question was can you put in say five eggs on the first day then five eggs into incubator on second day to make up ten eggs incubating

You can but you are better off putting them all in on the same day.

Depending on your incubator and hatcher it can be a problem at hatching time.

x2 - best to hold the "older" ones one more day, then put them all in at once. Momma chickens do this, of course - they lay a series of eggs, day after day, but start sitting on them all at once (so they are all on the same "hatching clock", so to speak.

Just a day or two more and I'll know if i'm drinking on my birthday. LOL

All of my coops except the new growout ones have automatic doors on solar and light sensors, so I'm used to not having to let them out and more importantly, lock them up at night. Last night/this AM I woke up at 4:30am in a panic, thinking I had forgotten to close up their coops. Took me a while to settle down and remember that I had. Sooooo, those doors are going in TODAY!

Got lots of coop cleaning, yard work, etc., to do as well.

I was reading my copy of The Book of Schmaltz this AM, and there's a nice recipe for chicken confit (and accompanying chicken rillette). Yum! And easier than duck confit, with regard to materials (I have tons of chicken legs, tons of chicken fat that I will be making into schmaltz and freezing).

But Indian spiced cabbage is higher on the list for today, as is putting up pickles. Stuff to do, inside and out!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[Pensmaster]

I'm through my first poor pot and still tired

This place has beat me up this year. Takes the week to get caught up from the weekend. This weekends weather is awesome in the 70's next weekend different story low 100's Heck it might even rain this Sunday so chores will need to be done before next weekend at least the heavy stuff.

Guess you need another pot of coffee. My father in law would take the coffee pot to work with him everyone knew they could get a cup from him. He was in construction so having a coffe pot with you was unheard of.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Down here, we use elephant spray; keeps them away really well...haven't seen an elephant around here in months.

Yes YOU HAVE !

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

This place has beat me up this year. Takes the week to get caught up from the weekend. This weekends weather is awesome in the 70's next weekend different story low 100's Heck it might even rain this Sunday so chores will need to be done before next weekend at least the heavy stuff.

Guess you need another pot of coffee. My father in law would take the coffee pot to work with him everyone knew they could get a cup from him. He was in construction so having a coffe pot with you was unheard of.

Ugh - sorry to hear. Weather hasn't gone too psycho here yet, but it's coming. I'm going to try to take some days off work to catch up on setting up the watering system as well as the mister system. Misters worked very well for me last year, but I have more pens/coops this year, and am going to try to DIY it putting those little brass mist nozzles into PVC. We'll see how it goes.

(Your FIL was brilliant!)

Still eating a BIG breakfast of eggs (I woke up HUNGRY!). Worried I'm going to be so full after that I'll want a nap, though...

- Ant Farm

 

[Pensmaster]

Now that's more like it! Some nice brisk discussion this AM...



Oh, I wasn't going to just boil them, I was going to boil them until tender, then fry them.



This sounds wonderful - I'm going to try this!!!



I want to try some that way as well - I'm a southern girl, after all.

I pressure canned some of them from the first cull this spring - I'm interested to see if by pressure canning them, I get them some or all of the way toward that tender stage (and so don't have to do the 2 hour boiling thing).

x2 - best to hold the "older" ones one more day, then put them all in at once. Momma chickens do this, of course - they lay a series of eggs, day after day, but start sitting on them all at once (so they are all on the same "hatching clock", so to speak.






All of my coops except the new growout ones have automatic doors on solar and light sensors, so I'm used to not having to let them out and more importantly, lock them up at night. Last night/this AM I woke up at 4:30am in a panic, thinking I had forgotten to close up their coops. Took me a while to settle down and remember that I had. Sooooo, those doors are going in TODAY!

Got lots of coop cleaning, yard work, etc., to do as well.

I was reading my copy of The Book of Schmaltz this AM, and there's a nice recipe for chicken confit (and accompanying chicken rillette). Yum! And easier than duck confit, with regard to materials (I have tons of chicken legs, tons of chicken fat that I will be making into schmaltz and freezing).

But Indian spiced cabbage is higher on the list for today, as is putting up pickles. Stuff to do, inside and out!!!!

- Ant Farm

Wow!!!!
Well except for all the food stuff list is similar. Garden is well, incubators are holding 19 days or so left on that.

 

[daxigait]

Morning Dax. Hope the prep for trip is going well or have you been already?

Preparation is going alright. I'm down to just a few more items that I need. As far as conditioning I have been carrying my pack a couple of days a week for walks I wish I had more time but I also have to condition my backside for the Six-Day horse backpack trip and it's all in August.

 

[daxigait]

Wow!!!!
Well except for all the food stuff list is similar. Garden is well, incubators are holding 19 days or so left on that.

So have you incubated or had enough broodies to try to recover some of your losses from this spring? How are you?