The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[pigeonguy]

I have a pet feature. I'll try it, see if it works.. Though right now no eggs, except under a broody.

You don't have any eating eggs practice with those.

 

[flagirl]

leah's mom--I use by excalibur dehydrater for making yogurt-sooooo easy, clean usually do gallon at a time. wow a stainless interior-how nice-cannot justify a new one though

 

[jendodd79]

The fermented feed has started having some little bubbles!!!

 

[Sally8]

I have a pet feature. I'll try it, see if it works.. Though right now no eggs, except under a broody. 

I so enjoyed candling that I went out to the hen house and candled the broody's eggs. I now have 3 hens setting. Hen #1 had nearly 20 eggs under her. After candling, I threw 3 out and brought 6 in the house. She wants to jump nests all the time. I'm not sure how that will turn out. Hen #2 only has 3 - 4 because I keep pulling them out leaving the marked ones in and hen #3, I pull all of her eggs out and have put my pretty decorative wooden eggs under her. I'm trying to decide, should I place a couple chicks under each hen when they hatch? Will that stop this broodiness? I used to get 12 - 15 eggs a day and I'm only getting 2.

Bulldogma - those pictures are adorable! I especially like the one with your daughter? holding the chicken. Very cute!

 

[Mumsy]

I wrote this on another thread and then thought why not put it here because it is about natural keeping.


In the old days great grandma would put between 2 and 4 inches of flour in the bottom of a very large crock and then threw out the summer and fall put extra eggs in standing up. that old when bought from the store.

So how do you all store your eggs for long periods of time.

I love pickled eggs and I like them hot. As in spicy hot. Few of my family share my love of them so I don't make a whole bunch.
I use a gallon pickle jar. It's hard to find them any more. Every thing going to plastic. I save all my old ones for years and buy them at garage sales when I find them cheap.
My recipe for Hot and Spicy Pickled Eggs: 24 hard cooked eggs Four Tablespoons pickling salt Seven small hot peppers I also like Banana peppers added sliced Three cups Cider vinegar One cup water Two Tablespoons minced fresh Ginger Two Tablespoons Mustard seed Two Tablespoons crushed whole Black Pepper Four rough chopped Garlic cloves

Peirce the eggs with a fork through the white to the yolk.Put the eggs in the sterilized glass gallon jar. In a stainless steel non reactive pot bring all the rest of the ingredients and bring to boil then cover with a lid and simmer twenty five minutes. Pull off the heat and let the liquid cool. Pour the cooled liquid over the eggs and fold up some plastic wrap and cap the jar over that so that brine doesn't come in contact with the metal lid. Put that gallon jar of eggs in the frig. In about a week those eggs will be spicy hot and ready to eat.

These will keep a couple weeks in the refrigerator. They go fast because I like them in sandwiches, salads, and just right out of the jar.

This is not a long storage method but it is a good method for using up a bunch of eggs in a hurry.

 

[delisha]

A tea party with chickens!!
that is the cutest thing I have ever seen!

 

[Bulldogma]

Bulldogma - those pictures are adorable! I especially like the one with your daughter? holding the chicken. Very cute!

Sally8 - yes, that is my middle kid.

A tea party with chickens!!
that is the cutest thing I have ever seen!

The funniest part was when some of the chickens started getting sneaky and stealing food when ever the girls turned their backs - LOL!

 

[aoxa]

You don't have any eating eggs practice with those.

Nothing cool to see though I do have TONS of eating eggs.

 

[aoxa]

BDM, Oh my gosh those pictures are so cute. I love the first one, your youngest looks disgusted, and it made me laugh out loud.

 

[delisha]

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Just a few pics of the grow out pen..I sure hope the chicks will do well in here for a few months