Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Beekissed]

I just read that blow the shell off thing and I think I'll pass. I'll take the little deformed looking ones.

Oh, man!!! I've gotta try this!!! Must go boil some eggs to try this....

My boys will be very impressed!

 

[Lacy Blues]

Now, if only we could get the rest of society to understand all of this knowledge and accept that "germs" are not the bad things that the big commercial cleaning and pharmaceutical companies want us to believe. Combine that with the extreme overuse of prescribed antibiotics and antiviral medication, then America's survival looks rather bleak. My girls are banned from using the hand sanitizers. Not that the church or school necessarily listens, but that was the instructions they were given. I understand they have hundreds of kids they deal with every day and can't remember each person's directions, either.

I find it completely ironic how different individual family members can be. My wife hates milk and isn't fond of honey, so she never drinks or eats it, respectively. My eldest daughter is intolerant of dairy products, so we had to substitute homemade rice milk instead. Those two are sick more often than the rest of the family combined. My two younger daughters and I drink plenty of the raw milk, plus I've been working on cutting out all the commercial foods. My Baby Girl is sixteen months now and has had nothing but the home-prepared foods and raw milk. She is by far the healthiest and best developed of the three. My other two were raised on formula and boxed meals long before my wife was with me. Their teeth are horrible, both are pigeon toed and they just aren't quite as well developed.

I just started fermenting our own pickles, so hopefully the girls take a liking to those. It's healthier than the commercial brands and should boost their immune systems. I'm looking at homemade natural recipes for soaps and hair care lately, too. It's just so hard because every website has their own recipes and nobody has given any great books to reference.

Usually, when a person is intolerant of dairy products, it is the pasteurized version that kills all the good stuff in milk. Has she tried the raw milk you now drink?

When my son was young they said he had asthma and loads of allergies, they told me not to let him outside for a few months and that he will be a very sick child. Well I took him off of formula at 1 month and started making his food (still supplementing with breast feeding with what I could), and within a week all of his problems disappeared. It turns out it was the formula that was making him sick! When he got better I started letting him play outside and he hasn't been sick once since then. He is almost 5 now.

Yep, me too. When my daughter was a little tiny girl the doctor said she had asthma and prescribed some medicine for her to have... excuse me? I don't think so! Anyway, she had never had formula at that time and as far as I could see, she was a very healthy little girl. Now, fast forward 8 years. When we first started trying to make our own chicken feeds and using bagged alfalfa leaves, it really started to bother her. Then a couple years later, we got some horses. Feeding the horses became a nightmare for her. A couple years down the road, we sell the horses and have since moved to the desert where they grow... guess what?... alfalfa! However, smelling it fresh and growing and even when they cut it for baling, bale it and stack it, she is fine. When the dust from the dried alfalfa wafts through the screen on her bedroom window at night, she wakes up because she cannot breathe. If the farmers are moving the dried bales or heaven forbid we happen to be driving past one of the many feed lots around here at feeding time when they put their alfalfa hay through a grinder to be sent out a chute to put the alfalfa where the cows can reach it, we have to roll up the windows and close any air vents til we are well passed the green dust cloud. She holds her breath for as long as she can and then we can open the vents and windows.

She has the same kind of breathing problem when she does aerobic exercises.

However, she has found a help. Essential oils called "breathe" has various herbal oils in it (I don't know what they all are) she uses this and it really helps.

I'll help...

Hey Bee or anybody else, how do you boil fresh eggs and get them to peel right?

I boil my eggs for a good long time, about 20 minutes, and as soon as they are finished, I dump the hot water and run cold water over them. I run it to overflowing of the pot and reach down among the eggs and wave my hand around to circulate the cold water. Then I let them sit for about 10 minutes or so, when I come back, if the water is warm, I'll dump it again and run cold water again. Usually this is enough and once the eggs are cold, they will peel a lot better. I think the trick is cooling them down as quickly as possible. At this point I take an egg and crack it against the counter top, rotating all the way around so that the whole shell is somewhat fractured and drop it back into the cold water. When I've finished doing this to all the eggs, then I start peeling.

Putting them back in the hot water and cooling again seems like a lot of work to me but if you have the time to do it and are willing to spend it doing it... who am I to say it's not worth the trouble?

 

[swirler]

I just age my boiling eggs for 2-3 weeks first (at room temperature, of course). Boil for three minutes, rapidly cool them - stream of cold water, then leave in pan filled with cold water and a gel ice pack thrown in - and they peel easily.

 

[Beekissed]

But...but...don'tcha wanna at least blow one boiled egg out of the shell, just once in your life??

 

[Triple Willow]

@Lacy Blues... the directions said after you cool them you just dip them back in the hot water for 10 seconds then peel. You don't have to cool them again, they're not that hot. I dunno, it worked.

 

[Triple Willow]

But...but...don'tcha wanna at least blow one boiled egg out of the shell, just once in your life?? 

Did it work?

 

[Lacy Blues]

But...but...don'tcha wanna at least blow one boiled egg out of the shell, just once in your life??

Maybe. I'll have to check it out. Did you do it?

 

[Beekissed]

I haven't tried it...but maybe tomorrow. If I do, I'll report back!

 

[Kassaundra]

Somehow I missed something, how do you blow a boiled egg out of it's shell?????

 

[Beekissed]

Somehow I missed something, how do you blow a boiled egg out of it's shell?????

Watch the vid in this how too....neato!!! http://www.wikihow.com/Blow-the-Shell-off-a-Hard-Boiled-Egg