Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[Kassaundra]

Would you try balut?
Would you produce balut eggs to sell?

Eat it????? H*** NO!!!!!!!! would have to be hungrier then I have ever been in my life.



Grow balut eggs to sell, if there was a viable market, and could make a profit, absolutely.

 

[Beekissed]

Would you try balut?
Would you produce balut eggs to sell?

I really cannot imagine how anyone eats a baby duckling whole...guts, beak, legs and all. I'm just not fond of eating baby animals...gives me the skeevies. I just can't imagine who first had the idea about cooking babies in their shells and then eating them...bad incubation experience perhaps?

 

[Triple Willow]

I'd like to know who come up with the idea of eating eggs, period! LOL Something falls out of an animal's backside and somebody says, "Hey! I think I'll eat that!" Gross!!! lol

 

[Demosthine]

Absolutely never would try them or sell them. I think it's an abomination to eat a chick like that. A developing embryo should never be eaten by humans and goes against the very core of my beliefs. I will happily eat almost any other meat source, but this is just off limits, even for me. I've tried some rather exotic foods, too.

 

[Triple Willow]

Absolutely never would try them or sell them.  I think it's an abomination to eat a chick like that.  A developing embryo should never be eaten by humans and goes against the very core of my beliefs.  I will happily eat almost any other meat source, but this is just off limits, even for me.  I've tried some rather exotic foods, too.

I don't think it is much different than eating a fertilized egg, just a whole lot grosser!

 

[deserthomestead]

totally gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it! And it seems like such a waste of a potential source of meat...

 

[Beekissed]

I don't think it is much different than eating a fertilized egg, just a whole lot grosser!

I think it's a lot different as a fertilized egg is not progressed toward being a chick and will not do so unless incubated. A perfectly good chick growing... and then boiling it to death in the shell... is a big step beyond eating a fertilized egg.

I just couldn't do it...

 

[RoseMarie1]

Nah...ambient temps have a lot to do with how quickly it ferments, so make sure it's in a warm area to get things started. You don't even really need the ACV if you are fermenting in warm temps, as it will draw aceti from the air along the way.

Oh, yeah! Fat girl don't like to sweat...

At first she wanted the hen back but then she remembered that hen is 3 yrs old and so she didn't want it back.

About that tarping on the run..I've learned something along the way and a nice arch under tarps, with the tarp stretched tautly, can withstand really high winds, rain and snow. If you had a way to create an arch with pvc or cattle panels or such it sure would save wear and tear on your tarp and shed water well.

PVC pipe would do great and WHY didn't I think of that! I could attach it to the sides of the run and arch it over to the other side! DUH

LOL @ you calling yourself fat girl!

 

[RoseMarie1]

I'd like to know who come up with the idea of eating eggs, period! LOL Something falls out of an animal's backside and somebody says, "Hey! I think I'll eat that!" Gross!!! lol

 

[Kassaundra]

I have no ideological issues w/ balut, just find the whole concept of eating it disgusting and unappetizing. I also find it odd how arbitrary most of us (including myself) are about which animals are food and which are taboo, or what age an animal can be eaten or not, or in the case of balut how some animals (mostly seafood) is acceptable to boil alive while embrionic chicks and ducks are off limits. Those comments were just musings and not pointed at anyone's previous comments at all. I am not casting stones in any way from my glass house as I have just as many food hang ups as the next guy.