Texas

[jockeyeba]

Anyone have a good pickled egg recipe? I've never made them but we have company coming in 2 weeks that love them. I have plenty of Bantam eggs to use

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Anyone have a good pickled egg recipe? I've never made them but we have company coming in 2 weeks that love them. I have plenty of Bantam eggs to use

My dad pickles eggs a lot and loves them. I'll ask him about his recipe when I talk with him next.

 

[mandaleigh1981]

That's a great story to go along with your photo. You should consider writing it up and putting in the frame if you have the photo mounted. Very cool!

....although, I think I can heart uglychickens heart thump-thump-thumping from here!!

Yep she's gonna love it!

 

[TammyTX]

I don't have a recipe but I know you can put a bit of red beet juice in the jar to make them pink.

 

[akelley]

Anyone have a good pickled egg recipe? I've never made them but we have company coming in 2 weeks that love them. I have plenty of Bantam eggs to use

I write a blog, and I have a recipe for beet pickled eggs on it. Go to wifemeetslife.com and do a search for pickled eggs. They're so good!

 

[LBejaran]

Good afternoon everyone! I went out today to care for the flock (and to finally put my fancy chickadees back into their coop now that is finally dry) when I noticed something strange. It was sunny, but the wind was blowing a pleasantly cool breeze. I was able to do some weeding without a care. And then the thought struck me.


Oh, the shock! The fear!

I'm not prepared at all! I've got to buy hay and mealworms and supplemental feeds and heated waterers and--

Then I remembered. Oh yeah, I live wayyyyy down deep in South Texas. We don't have a winter.

All these people on BYC preparing for the Fall and Winter weather got me pumped for a season of fear and dismay, but I'm all good now. I remembered that I can garden in the winter if I so desired. I can let the chickens out freely. Heck, I could probably hatch chicks in this weather, mwahahaha! So yeah, this is what happens when you read too much on BYC. You prepare for seasons that don't exist where you live.

 

[galanie]

Do you mean something like this? I use this baby to mow my yard which is about 2 acres. It used to belong to my grandfather, but it let it sit so long the ethanol gas destroyed the carburetor and it would not run. Runs like a champ now!

Here is a close up of the hose connection to the carb. I tapped and threaded the intake manifold. I use a standard gas gate valve to control the flow from the tank, which has a standard gas grill regulator on it.

Yes! Only mine is a walk behind. I have that and a tractor. Tractor is diesel so it's not going to be converted lol. I hate to use one of those tiny camp stove tanks for a mower though. Hmm.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Yes! Only mine is a walk behind. I have that and a tractor. Tractor is diesel so it's not going to be converted lol.
I hate to use one of those tiny camp stove tanks for a mower though. Hmm.

You can use a camp stove tank. It is not problem. If you buy a wet line hose you can refill those little camp stove tanks from a larger tank for about 50 cents a bottle. You can mow a standard residential size lawn about two times on one of those little camp stove bottles. Oh, and you can run a diesel off of Natural Gas or propane. I have a 100KW diesel generator that runs off of NG. A friend of mine has a 2004 Dodge supercab dually diesel he runs off of propane.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Adventure Time!
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So my wife goes to check for eggs today. We have some hens laying in the weeds. When she pulled back the weeds to look for eggs, this is what she found in the nest. I heard a scream and went out to see what it was.



For those of you who do not know; this snake is called a "Sonoran Gopher Snake". It is not venomous. It is a constrictor like the Boa Constrictor. Their main diet are small rodents, but they love eggs. This snake had several eggs in it's belly.





I took the snake several miles away and released it because this snake is very beneficial because it help control the rodent population. Most people would have killed this snake, not because it eating eggs, but because of it's uncanny ability to mimic the exact sound and striking pose of a diamond back rattle snake. Here is a poor quality I made of this behavior several years ago. I made this video for educational purposes so that people would know that this snake acts just like a rattlesnake, but is not venomous and should not be feared.

The Sonoran Gopher Snake has a special membrane under it's skin that it inflates with air to make the rattling sound. Just in case you were wondering.

 

[Teri Metcalf]

Adventure Time!
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So my wife goes to check for eggs today. We have some hens laying in the weeds. When she pulled back the weeds to look for eggs, this is what she found in the nest. I heard a scream and went out to see what it was.



For those of you who do not know; this snake is called a "Sonoran Gopher Snake". It is not venomous. It is a constrictor like the Boa Constrictor. Their main diet are small rodents, but they love eggs. This snake had several eggs in it's belly.





I took the snake several miles away and released it because this snake is very beneficial because it help control the rodent population. Most people would have killed this snake, not because it eating eggs, but because of it's uncanny ability to mimic the exact sound and striking pose of a diamond back rattle snake. Here is a poor quality I made of this behavior several years ago. I made this video for educational purposes so that people would know that this snake acts just like a rattlesnake, but is not venomous and should not be feared.

The Sonoran Gopher Snake has a special membrane under it's skin that it inflates with air to make the rattling sound. Just in case you were wondering.

Adventure Time!
​

So my wife goes to check for eggs today. We have some hens laying in the weeds. When she pulled back the weeds to look for eggs, this is what she found in the nest. I heard a scream and went out to see what it was.



For those of you who do not know; this snake is called a "Sonoran Gopher Snake". It is not venomous. It is a constrictor like the Boa Constrictor. Their main diet are small rodents, but they love eggs. This snake had several eggs in it's belly.





I took the snake several miles away and released it because this snake is very beneficial because it help control the rodent population. Most people would have killed this snake, not because it eating eggs, but because of it's uncanny ability to mimic the exact sound and striking pose of a diamond back rattle snake. Here is a poor quality I made of this behavior several years ago. I made this video for educational purposes so that people would know that this snake acts just like a rattlesnake, but is not venomous and should not be feared.

The Sonoran Gopher Snake has a special membrane under it's skin that it inflates with air to make the rattling sound. Just in case you were wondering.

It's a beauty. But at first glance I thought it was a rattler. Glad you just helped it to relocate.