Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[bullof7battles]

I would use the same amount of duck eggs as I would chicken eggs. The duck eggs have a larger yolk, making things taste a little richer. Try making brownies from a box with duck eggs. You may see what I mean!

 

[kimmie6067]

I would use the same amount of duck eggs as I would chicken eggs. The duck eggs have a larger yolk, making things taste a little richer. Try making brownies from a box with duck eggs. You may see what I mean!

Where to get duck eggs?

 

[Opa]

Just what's needed this morning. A cup of coffee that's constantly filled. Woke at 3am which is much too early to start ones day but that's when I woke so I guess I'll just have to deal with it.

Looks like we have another storm headed this way but hopefully it will track south as forecasted and leave us alone. No doctor appointments this week and it looks as though I might actually to go fishing later this week.

I have got to stop looking at Craig's List. I found the perfect boat for river fishing in the winter. An 18' heavy duty aluminum jon boat with a cabin but unless I win the lottery I will just have to look and wish.

 

[ladyrsanti]

Grrr... all of my BCM hatching eggs that I bought from Cedar Creek Hatchery are infertile. Nothing against them personally but still... Candled them at day 7 and again at 10 and nothing. Took them out and broke them open... nothing. I could have put them in the frying pan and made breakfast they were so infertile. All of my *FREE* mutt eggs, all 10 of them are alive but the ones I shelled out serious money for are duds.

On the upside, the buff brahma eggs are okay (though they were a substitute for the breed I really wanted - buckeyes - that weren't laying at the time). So... just as a cautionary warning.

 

[Wrightsx4]

Grrr... all of my BCM hatching eggs that I bought from Cedar Creek Hatchery are infertile.  Nothing against them personally but still...  Candled them at day 7 and again at 10 and nothing.  Took them out and broke them open... nothing.  I could have put them in the frying pan and made breakfast they were so infertile.  All of my *FREE* mutt eggs, all 10 of them are alive but the ones I shelled out serious money for are duds.    On the upside, the buff brahma eggs are okay (though they were a substitute for the breed I really wanted - buckeyes - that weren't laying at the time).    So... just as a cautionary warning. 

That's awful!!!! Now I'm concerned...I pick up my eggs from them next Saturday (16th), already paid. I'm getting assorted marans, Delawares, and bluebells. I hope their rooster is doing his job next week. Did you contact them about it? Maybe they'll replace them?

 

[Opa]

You never know with shipped eggs. I sent 28 Welsummer eggs to western Oklahoma and 25 hatched. A week later I sent 12 eggs to another Oklahoma member that was slightly less distance and none of them hatched. Eggs came from the same birds. The same shipping technique was used. Go figure.

 

[ladyrsanti]

They weren't shipped. I picked them up, fresh laid and stuck them in the incubator a couple of hours later. Anyway, yeah, I contacted them to let them know. Their policy states that they don't guarantee hatching eggs and understandably so. But they'll at least need to know, if they haven't had issues hatching their own already.

 

[Wrightsx4]

I'll be driving to pick mine up so hopefully they're fertile to start with.

 

[Wrightsx4]

I'm sure they will appreciate you letting them know - I know I do! Hopefully they'll add or replace a rooster. Since mine are assorted I will let you know if I get any BCM and how they do. Sorry you didn't have any hatch

 

[Opa]

Sitting here drinking coffee, listening to the weather forecaster talking about the coming storm, and looking at the cold white covering of snow on everything within sight when suddenly spring doesn't seem like a fantasy. For the first time since last year I'm watching tom turkeys strutting. Tails spread wide, wings dragging the ground, heads flashing colors of warning to their opposing foe while a flock of hens watch in a state of ennuis.