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Cody A said:
Hey Bobo, I experimented with a few recipes a couple months ago. I was looking for BBQ pickled egg recipes.

This recipes was tasty. The link to the website no longer works. I'm sure I adjusted the ingredients to my liking when I made it but this is what I started with.

1 cup Apple cider vinegar
1/2 water
1 cup brown sugar
1 T Sriacha sauce or other hot sauce
2 tsp crushed red pepper
1/2 tsp cumin
2 tsp kosher salt
2 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon
4 garlic cloves crushed
1/2 fresh jalapeno sliced with seeds removed
black pepper to taste
2 T Liquid smoke

You'd want to bring all the above ingredients to a boil for at least 5 min as you would other pickled egg recipes then let cool before you put in jar with eggs.
I used this for refrigerator pickled eggs. I didn't do the true canning(non refrigerated)

I also made some that have been in the fridge for about 10 days now. I used my favorite BBQ sauce "Show-Me" from Missouri. I made sure to use 1 cup apple cider vinegar for the pickling and added as much sauce as I could to fill the jar. They have a nice flavor to them if you like BBQ flavored eggs.
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Thanks man. I've been lookin ar a few different ones I may combine and try.
 
I got brave enough to handle the rooster this morning. His spurs are TERRIFYING. Pretty sure they've double in size since getting him. Husband was taunting me from the safety of the bathroom window. When I finally grabbed the roo I went ahead and gave him a once-over. Looks good to me!! Really heavy, solid, and thick shiny feathers.

My FBCM and a few of the white hens have runny noses. I'm getting worried that I've got that chronic respiratory stuff. :(
 
campingshaws said:
I got brave enough to handle the rooster this morning. His spurs are TERRIFYING. Pretty sure they've double in size since getting him. Husband was taunting me from the safety of the bathroom window. When I finally grabbed the roo I went ahead and gave him a once-over. Looks good to me!! Really heavy, solid, and thick shiny feathers.

My FBCM and a few of the white hens have runny noses. I'm getting worried that I've got that chronic respiratory stuff.
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Roosters can be scary. I hope if any of my new RIRs are roos they are nice ones. Otherwise - freezer camp!

Hope you aren't getting any illness in your flock!
 
We are treating our chicks once a day with a few live mealworms.

If you don't raise them, it is super duper easy!!! And makes your mealworm treats WAY cheaper than buying the dried ones at the store.

One of the little cochins is a frizzle for sure. Macaroni!!! And is has the proper ## of toes.

@campingshaws I have read that the best way to take care of a roosters spurs are to use a good pair of pliars and grab the end of the spur and twist if firmly. Since it is made of fingernail type material and grows in a spiral sort of way it just twists off at the point above the pliars. I have not had the need to try this. But its supposed to be way easier on the bird and safer than cutting the spur straight off. If I tried it I would just make sure that I didn't grab the spur too close to the birds leg. Try this at your own risk!
 
LemonMeringue said:
We are treating our chicks once a day with a few live mealworms.

If you don't raise them, it is super duper easy!!!  And makes your mealworm treats WAY cheaper than buying the dried ones at the store.

One of the little cochins is a frizzle for sure.  Macaroni!!!  And is has the proper ## of toes. 

@campingshaws
  I have read that the best way to take care of a roosters spurs are to use a good pair of pliars and grab the end of the spur and twist if firmly.  Since it is made of fingernail type material and grows in a spiral sort of way it just twists off at the point above the pliars.  I have not had the need to try this.  But its supposed to be way easier on the bird and safer than cutting the spur straight off.  If I tried it I would just make sure that I didn't grab the spur too close to the birds leg.  Try this at your own risk!
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Thanks, Lemon! I do think I remember reading that somewhere. He's pretty docile so I'm happy to leave him be, for now. I grew up with a girl who had a prominent scar on her eyebrow from being spurred by a rooster, and I guess that's really stuck with me for the past 20 years. But Easy is nothing but a gentleman, and the few times I've had to mess with a hen and he has run up to me, all I had to do was wave my hand and he backed off. It seems crazy to say, but husband and I agreed we'd rather lose a hen or two than lose him.

How do you grow your mealworms? I've heard they're really smelly. Since we have a (very literally) backyard operation, possible strong smells have kept me from doing things like compost, mealworms, and fermented feed. If/when we get the shed up, we've talked about storing the feed there (instead of behind the sofa :lau ) and maybe that would open up our options some?
 
LemonMeringue said:
We are treating our chicks once a day with a few live mealworms.

If you don't raise them, it is super duper easy!!!  And makes your mealworm treats WAY cheaper than buying the dried ones at the store.

One of the little cochins is a frizzle for sure.  Macaroni!!!  And is has the proper ## of toes. 

@campingshaws
  I have read that the best way to take care of a roosters spurs are to use a good pair of pliars and grab the end of the spur and twist if firmly.  Since it is made of fingernail type material and grows in a spiral sort of way it just twists off at the point above the pliars.  I have not had the need to try this.  But its supposed to be way easier on the bird and safer than cutting the spur straight off.  If I tried it I would just make sure that I didn't grab the spur too close to the birds leg.  Try this at your own risk!
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Macaroni love your name. I has wondering if you were still raising meal worms and thinking of doing it myself. Pam
 
There are a few different ways you can do it. Basically you just need a container/containers, something to feed them (dry and wet) and some worms to start out.

CONTAINER
I use a little Rubbermaid type of small tote. Its small! I need to start another one and separate the worms from the beetles. They need to breath, but the adults can't fly. Really any old container will work. They don't care if its pretty. Mine is drawer style, so we just pull it out and take it to the chickens and pick out what we want.

FEED
I use oatmeal and chick crumbles as the dry feed/bedding. Some people use wheat germ. But since I am allergic to wheat it is not a good idea for me. Cheap store brand oats are good enough. As far as the wet food. They get their hydration from that. The suggestions I have seen most often on Youtube videos are potato or apple slices. But here in our humid climate they mold WAY too fast. So I use carrots or slices of sweet potato. I like baby carrots the best. They keep well and the worms eat them until they are almost completely gone without having an issue with mold.

WORMS
I bought a TINY little container from Petsmart to start out. It only had somewhere around 25 -50 worms in it.

All you do is pour a good deep layer of bedding about 2 inches deep if possible and add your worms. Then set a couple of pieces of their veggie on the surface. Adding a small piece of something for them to hide under is appreciated by the beetles. After awhile you will see an alien looking white-ish pupae. Then after that they turn into the small Darkling Beetle. Treatment of the adults is the same as the worms. Some people separate the different phases of the life cycle to avoid newly hatched adults from being damaged by the others. There are a ton of YT videos about it too. I need to set up a couple of more bins because we just had a BUNCH of adults hatch.

Time it takes in a week to tend to them??? Maybe about 5 minutes.

Do they smell. A little. But adding more bedding will dry it out a bit and then its not bad. Eventually though you can make a new bin and transfer what you want. But then there might be a LOT of baby worms left in the soiled one. So you just want to leave that out of the way and check back later. Eventually they will either quit hatching out and growing, or you could just sprinkle that out in the chicken yard for them to be completely devoured by your chickens.

Watch YT videos to see if I missed any tips.
 

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