Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[WPFarmstead]

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This one? Or different? http://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_06/pickled_eggs.html
I use a basic brine and then add whatever, so many possibilities. 
They are great to halve and top a salad with just like a normal hard boiled egg that ends up getting flavored with whatever dressing you use anyway.

They've updated it since I last made them. It used to only be a bread and butter pickle recipe, which is what we used and tweaked. Really, you just need the basic ratios of water/vinegar/etc and can go from there. And I always toss in any extra onion we have for pickled onions later. We mostly use our pickled eggs for egg salad and in fact I just finished up our big gallon jar this weekend making some for our family cookout.

what do pickled eggs taste like?

I've never eaten them, the looks/smell is extremely unappealing to me.  Says the person who ate chicken feet for the first time recently and found them allright... lol  But the thought of biting into pickled eggs really turns my stomach.

As I said above, we use ours in egg salad, so it's kinds like skipping adding pickles or pickle juice to it, although, I will often chop up some pickles, too.

Me too! My mom always ate pickled eggs that she'd refrigerator pickled in beet juice. I couldn't get past the color at that time and flat out refused to eat them. And I hated beets back then too so it was a double negative in my mind. 

I'm with you on the beets. I don't do pickled beets. Fresh or roasted is fine, but not pickled.

 

[Beer can]

How do pickled eggs taste? Boil a egg put some salt and vinegar on it and taste, very much the same but pickled are firmer.
Think of sliced hard boiled eggs topped on a salad with Italian dressing on them.
The beet pickled eggs while pink or red still has the salt and vinegar to cut the sweetness, they taste the same as plain pickled eggs just with some sweetness from the beets and are colored. The eggs tone down much of the flavor added.

 

[Kev]

Me too! My mom always ate pickled eggs that she'd refrigerator pickled in beet juice. I couldn't get past the color at that time and flat out refused to eat them. And I hated beets back then too so it was a double negative in my mind.

I'm right there with you!

 

[Kev]

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As I said above, we use ours in egg salad, so it's kinds like skipping adding pickles or pickle juice to it, although, I will often chop up some pickles, too.
I'm with you on the beets. I don't do pickled beets. Fresh or roasted is fine, but not pickled.

Thanks for the reply, that makes sense. Cannot stand pickles at all- have an instant pickle detector taste buds linked up with instant removal reflex...

How do pickled eggs taste? Boil a egg put some salt and vinegar on it and taste, very much the same but pickled are firmer.
Think of sliced hard boiled eggs topped on a salad with Italian dressing on them.
The beet pickled eggs while pink or red still has the salt and vinegar to cut the sweetness, they taste the same as plain pickled eggs just with some sweetness from the beets and are colored. The eggs tone down much of the flavor added.

Thanks for giving a better idea of what they taste like. I might try salt/vingear on a boiled egg and see how that goes.

 

[chickengr]

That is very exciting! Will you show us pictures of the eggs and chicks?

if the roo is pure for cuckoo then all of his chicks will be cuckoo.

by the way I have wondered what the eggs would look like after repeated crosses of green eggers back to high quality dark egg marans stock.

I hope that the eggs will not arrive boiled. than I hope they will hatch as this year is not good for hatching. by that time I hope to find out why I cannot connect my cell phone to my computer (I cannot upload pictures).

I guess after 30 years of raising pure cuckoo marans the chickens should be pure for cuckoo.

I need years to find out about olive eggs and their variations. my first attempt to get olive eggers failed.

 

[Phill98]

Ya made me think, never seen a dorking.. are they wide/chunky or longbodied and not so wide? I like that roo very much, he is massive but not a pig. Even stands back and lets his girls eat first. Thanks very much for that picture, I got the idea perfectly. I had the same thoughts- if they were standard sized, oh they would be such nice heavy meaty birds... goal achieved! Managed to remember to take pics yesterday after cleaning and hosing down their pen.. not the best pictures: side pic: face on of the more extreme one with the one above behind her... her legs are *short*, also good pic showing their 'heft' Not a slim bird here(and all birds in pic are same age): Face on of the first bird: Bad pic, but great for size comparsion. I believe the brown bird is possibly their full brother(same father at least)

This hen is the most beautiful little hen I have ever seen. Is she cross of cornish?

 

[Kev]

This hen is the most beautiful little hen I have ever seen. Is she cross of cornish?

This is the father:



he weighs 16 pounds. He's a freedom ranger crossed over black ranger hen. Both are slow growing broilers- with the blacks being lighter weight and leaner in build- more like a super big black sexlink. I'm not sure what the hatchery uses in creating those. there was very obvious cornish influence in some of the freedoms- extremely wide bodies with massive leg muscles and legs set very far part.

The father does have short looking legs, much shorter than his parents had. All of the hens with him were normal NN, not bantam but not huge/heavy either.

There is a short leg gene in cornish, especially in bantam cornish.

Some broiler and layer breeder stock lines are dwarf, to save on feed costs. They will produce 'normal/big' sized offspring if bred a certain way.

I'm not sure if the super short legs/dwarfism in those pullers is from cornish ancestry or dwarfed breeder stock...

the kicker(ha, pun) is one of the little pullets shows signs of being a scaleless carrier.

 

[Phill98]

This is the father: he weighs 16 pounds. He's a freedom ranger crossed over black ranger hen. Both are slow growing broilers- with the blacks being lighter weight and leaner in build- more like a super big black sexlink. I'm not sure what the hatchery uses in creating those. there was very obvious cornish influence in some of the freedoms- extremely wide bodies with massive leg muscles and legs set very far part. The father does have short looking legs, much shorter than his parents had. There is a short leg gene in cornish, especially in bantam cornish. Some broiler and layer breeder stock lines are dwarf, to save on feed costs. They will produce 'normal/big' sized offspring if bred a certain way. I'm not sure if the super short legs/dwarfism in those pullers is from cornish ancestry or dwarfed breeder stock... the kicker(ha, pun) is one of the little pullets shows signs of being a scaleless carrier.

You got to be kidding me. I would never say that something as big as he is can produce something like that. But they do have the same body type, that's for sure. Do you have any scaleless birds currently?

 

[draye]

what do pickled eggs taste like?

I've never eaten them, the looks/smell is extremely unappealing to me.  Says the person who ate chicken feet for the first time recently and found them allright... lol  But the thought of biting into pickled eggs really turns my stomach.

Ummm ummmm ummm they taste like pickled eggs! Ha ha ha ha.






Really though it really is like a boiled egg but has a but if the vinegar taste and the spices and hens that you add to them. The peppers make them just a tad warm, not really hot to me.

If you like pickles and boiled eggs you'll like these. Me I'm not really a boiled egg person ( I prefer fried or scrambled), but I ate one ( pickled a year or so ago) on a salad the other night and wasn't too bad.

 

[chickengr]

Ummm ummmm ummm they taste like pickled eggs! Ha ha ha ha.






Really though it really is like a boiled egg but has a but if the vinegar taste and the spices and hens that you add to them. The peppers make them just a tad warm, not really hot to me.

If you like pickles and boiled eggs you'll like these. Me I'm not really a boiled egg person ( I prefer fried or scrambled), but I ate one ( pickled a year or so ago) on a salad the other night and wasn't too bad.

I don't like boiled eggs either. I need to eat them with salad in order to be able to swallow them. so pickled eggs are a perfect solution for me. one of these days I will make them it is too hot so I don't stay in the kitchen too long these days.