Michigan

[theron]

Olive Hill, I will be able to get the pair of American Blues pretty soon!

We sold quite a few sebastopol geese at the montrose orchard swap and we now almost have room. I would still like to get them, so I am just letting you know that I have not forgotten.

 

[1muttsfan]

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You can actually dry an egg. Put it someplace dry, and the moisture will gradually exit leaving you with the shell and dehydrated contents. Yes it really works. No they don't spoil unless the egg is damaged.

 

[M.sue]

BobBry & OPa...Thanks for the tips.... Don't have many but enough to notice and drive me nuts. They even found their way into the mainbath room.....soap, bubble bath, hairsray etc.....I guess they're on a mission! Thanks again!!

 

[NovaAman]

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You can actually dry an egg. Put it someplace dry, and the moisture will gradually exit leaving you with the shell and dehydrated contents. Yes it really works. No they don't spoil unless the egg is damaged.

Gotta try it...

 

[chickflick]

I've got several that I just let dry up. No smell either.

 

[RIRJen]

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You can actually dry an egg. Put it someplace dry, and the moisture will gradually exit leaving you with the shell and dehydrated contents. Yes it really works. No they don't spoil unless the egg is damaged.

Gotta try it...

We make christmas ornaments out of chicken eggs

 

[RIRJen]

So! Worked on the coop some more this weekend...hoping to get most of the rest of it done next weekend! Here's a couple pictures

Pretty proud of me and my husband because this is our first large chicken coop and it's an A-frame which I think is a little trickier to build!

I put the door on

One step closer!

 

[NovaAman]

I was thinking of doing an a-frame on stilts next year...

 

[Stacykins]

Thinned the flock today of cockerels, and not gonna lie, the birds left are already more peaceful. They were starting to heckle the pullets and causing general mayhem. So to freezer camp they went. So coyotes didn't get a taste of any chicken butchering remains (which I'd normally mix in the compost heap, but with so many, not the best idea) I burned what was left like innards, wings, etc. in the fire pit.

 

[yorkchick]

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You can actually dry an egg. Put it someplace dry, and the moisture will gradually exit leaving you with the shell and dehydrated contents. Yes it really works. No they don't spoil unless the egg is damaged.

My mother was infamous for this in the small circle of my friends when I was growing up. Right after I was born, she was involved in giving a baby shower for a friend of hers. For the centerpiece, she obtained a fresh goose egg and painted a "question mark" using pink and blue dots on the egg. (Because in those long-ago days, for you young'uns, the sex of the unborn child was *always* unknown--you weren't being an adventure-loving free spirited rebel to refuse to find out...) Anyway, a more prudent person might have blown the egg before decorating it. Not my mom. She just set the whole egg on the table as the centerpiece. Then after the shower, she tried to give the egg to her friend, the mother-to-be. Well, Mrs. Mellish was a little more practical than my mother and she (gracefully, I'm sure) declined to accept this ticking time bomb (which my mother clearly expected she would want to treasure forever).

So my mom was a lifelong hoarder (something I have tendencies toward myself but do recognize). That goose egg went into the door of our fridge. And stayed there for decades. Literally decades. This is why I know that the contents of an egg will dehydrate. You could pick up that goose egg and hear the yolk/white rolling around inside of it like a hard little nut. My friends would come over and marvel at this thing. (Not marvel in an admiring way. Oh no. More a delightedly horrified way, shuddering and laughing). (Did I mention I grew up in a very small town? The Egg was a big draw there). (The tour could then continue on to the many jars of soap slivers on the windowsills and the stacks of old newspapers taller than any kid in the house).

The famous egg's most fascinated and least disgusted frequent viewer was my friend Margaret, who was originally the baby that the pink-and-blue dots were painted for. She would always come over and ask to see "her egg." My mom several times tried to give it to her, but Margaret always declined. I am sure her mother had something to do with that... or maybe her sense of normality.

I am not entirely certain as to the fate of that egg. Sometime in the years after I moved out of the house and out of the state, I believe the story is that the egg finally cracked. My mom kept it. Then it cracked some more. Ditto. Someone else I'm sure finally spirited it out of the refrigerator because I can't believe my mother would have given up on it. She always said, "Oh, I'm keeping that for Margaret. Someday she'll want it." No one ever wanted the jars full of soap slivers, either...

Yet my mother saw people very clearly and saw the true good in so many kids who my brother and I knew, who most everyone else wrote off as bad influences and trouble makers. She didn't have much use for goody-two-shoes fakers but she could sense a good heart in a second--and she was a second mom to a few kids who barely had a first mom. (Don't want to go out on a mom-bashing note by any means, she was complicated but she did a lot of good in this world...)