Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

This is a question I've been loath to ask. I would not want to find out I've been boiling eggs all wrong all my life.

Me too. It's horrifying.

 

[featherhead007]

No cooperation from the chooks. No overcast sky, so the sun is shining

Update: they are all tucked in for the night. (Jaffar got his waddles rubbed as well) he likes that!

 

[BY Bob]

How do your soft boiled eggs turn out?

Mrs BY Bob also starts her soft cooked eggs with cold water.

 

[BY Bob]

Volt. What mud problem.
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Volt again.
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That is a muddy mess. WOW. Some straw maybe?

 

[BY Bob]

It can be funny (if not a little annoying) when they want to lay at the same time in the same space. During lockdown when DH was working from home, I’d be at work and occasionally get a text like “OMG Nyssa shut up”!

And they say roosters are loud.

 

[BY Bob]

Perfect. It is my favorite way to eat eggs. I like soft boiled with marmite soldiers (sorry!) and hard boiled with a dab of salt or in a sandwich.
Start cold. Medium high heat until boiling properly. Turn heat down to barely simmer. Soft boiled is the 3 mins for set white and yummy runny yolk and hard boiled is 9 mins.
I have an old fashioned egg timer - the kind with sand - that does me 3 mins.

That is exactly how Mrs BY Bob does hers. Eggsactly!

 

[BY Bob]

Opening myself up for ridicule by admitting not only do I dislike hard boiled and soft boiled eggs....but dislike eggs in general unless cooked very hard in butter and the yolk is throughly mixed with the whites with lots of black pepper to hide the egg taste.
Also I am not much for baking, so eggs are really wasted on me.

Hence you have chickens!

 

[BY Bob]

Or you know that and were asking whether pricking it adds to the ease?

I was asking if the pricking somehow made them easier to peel. I am confused as to whether it does or not now.

 

[micstrachan]

I thought owls 'barfed up' the undigestable stuff like bones and fur? (In the States we call them 'owl pellets') I'm surprised they had that many animal remains/that many 'feedings' still in them and not regurgitated.

X2!

 

[BY Bob]

First, their "scanning the sky" head tilt gets about 20% of the sky, judging by a recent picture, and that's only IF they're proactively scanning. They really don't have anything near the range of sight of non-poof chickens. Second, they are talking all the time with each other. Like, all the time. I personally love hearing them, but how can they hear anybody else over their chatter?

Seriously, my opinion is they need extra, extra care until they are bigger, older and wiser, and can spend quality (life-saving educational) time with the bigs.

They are going to have to be to taught by the others and protected by the tribe's sentinel. It is my job to get them old enough so the others can teach them.