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[chickadoodles]

Chika please share ur pickled egg recipe.

I got this recipe online.

Spicy pickled eggs
I used a quart jar
4 cups vinegar
1 cup water
1 onion sliced
1tsp pepper corns
2 Tbsp. red pepper flakes
2 cloves of garlic
2 Tbsp. pickling spice
4 dashes of Tabasco sauce

Boil the vinegar and add all the ing. boil for 4 minutes. Let cool.
Boil the eggs ( I used small pullet) 8 minutes.
I scoped abt. half of the seasonings into the bottom of the jar and added some slice onion in layers between the eggs when jar is nearly full pour the vinegar into the jar over the eggs. Refrigerate for 2 weeks to cure before eating.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: I saw some recipes with beet juice but I don't eat the pickled eggs, my DH does and he did not want beet juice. But thank you. He likes spicy pickled eggs.

 

[LindaB220]

Ron, I think you've mentioned the Arkansas blues before and I was really interested in them myself! I wish you lived a little closer to me, I'd love to get some of your chicks in the spring too!

Wisher, you were spot on with your view of racism. I couldn't have said it better. I hate it that all those people think anything good would come out of more violence......And against innocent peyote and business owners! I love that the young black teens are going around and helping the business owners, that's just awesome! I wish there were more people like them....of all colors!

CC congrats on all the baby chicks, wow! You and Tara could have a chick off!

I love feeding my babies fermented feed! They go thru WAY less water and less feed too, and I like knowing that they are getting more nutrition from it, PLUS being acidic, it makes their intestines pretty inhospitable to salmonella and other baddies.

I can't remember who was talking about putting in a five gallon waterer, but you should really look into chicken nipples! You can attach 4-5 on the bottom of a five gallon bucket (gotten free from a grocery store bakery or a Chinese restaurant) and hang it up and they won't be able to get the water dirty! I love mine!

Bama, like everyone else said, don't let those nose-in-the-air dummies get you down! Your chicken is very pretty! And just so you know, Meyer Hatchery has light Bramas for only $3.25 each for female chicks, plus shipping! I've been quite pleased with my babies from there so far. I didn't get the Brahma, but been looking at them and some others......geez chicken math!

Oh and I gotta give my list of hotties ;-) Johnny Depp is top dog for me! Then there's Orlando Bloom, Brad Pitt, and I agree with lots that you guys listed! Especially those bad boys...... And I love Liv Tyler, Zooey Deschanel, Laura Prepon and just Miss Audrey Heburn for her classy beauty.

I pretty much agree with every aspect of your post. lol Love, love my fermented feed. Healthiest babies around. The only hatchery birds I bought when I got into this raising thing was from Meyer. Just 2 days ago I got my first egg, yesterday I got 3, today nada. But it's acoming. Got my order of a dozen white rock eggs from Rebel Rooster. Wade kindly replaced my eggs after the first was scrambled. He says they are large rocks and judging by the eggs they are going to be huge. Letting them set to settle today. Love hatching eggs. The best luck I've had hatching has been DMRippy's SBEL's super blue egg layers. She now calls them Sapphires. CC Legbar over White leghorn. Love their little bright personality.
Edited: Ron, I just saw about your version of Super Blues. Good idea. The one with only White leghorn will get both blue and white eggs. My little 7week old ones are looking good. Mainly white, mottled black or barred but cute as a button.

 

[ronott1]

I pretty much agree with every aspect of your post. lol Love, love my fermented feed. Healthiest babies around. The only hatchery birds I bought when I got into this raising thing was from Meyer. Just 2 days ago I got my first egg, yesterday I got 3, today nada. But it's acoming. Got my order of a dozen white rock eggs from Rebel Rooster. Wade kindly replaced my eggs after the first was scrambled. He says they are large rocks and judging by the eggs they are going to be huge. Letting them set to settle today. Love hatching eggs. The best luck I've had hatching has been DMRippy's SBEL's super blue egg layers. She now calls them Sapphires. CC Legbar over White leghorn. Love their little bright personality.
Edited: Ron, I just saw about your version of Super Blues. Good idea. The one with only White leghorn will get both blue and white eggs. My little 7week old ones are looking good. Mainly white, mottled black or barred but cute as a button.

I like the name sapphires!

Adding Cream Legbars should make the eggs a bit bigger on average along with adding the extra blue gene.

 

[LindaB220]

I like the name sapphires!

Adding Cream Legbars should make the eggs a bit bigger on average along with adding the extra blue gene.

Good, DMRippy did say that the cockerels will have the blue gene. So I can breed I suppose. I don't know. This is all a new game for me so I am trying different things. But my heart is my one little Basque Hen. Lovely little bird. I'm in NW La and close to AR. Maybe I can get some AR blues.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

My plan is to keep the run snow free and covered with bedding, and hopefully they'll enjoy playing in the snow outside the run. Not much free ranging to do in the snow though. I don't think they are too thrilled about pine needles as a source of greens.

I know I'm late to this party, but I thought I'd chime in.

Very cold and snowy here. The first few snow days the chickens act like they are going to be murdered by the snow. Then after they realize it's harmless and it's here to stay, they deal with it. I do shovel a path for them (and for myself). After a fresh snow to entice them to come out (if they need it) I'll throw some shavings down or some hay after I shovel.

And my chickens do eat pine needles. We have some large old pine trees near the run that lose branches constantly in the winter. My chickens strip them bare. They do it summer or winter.

 

[Wisher1000]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the blue egg gene is dominant and even if a hen only gets it on one side, it will lay blue eggs if it is crossed with a white egg layer or green if it is crossed with a brown egg layer.

Right?

 

[chickisoup]

Quote: Yep. shoveling here is just out of the question here too. It takes us an entire day after a good snow just to clear all the "people" stuff. In winter my girls have an enclosed "breezeway" that allows them a snow free access to the greenhouse. I would like to somehow enclose my run but have yet to come up with a workable solution for our layout. We do clear a large area they as well as the dog have access to, but my little woosies don't like putting their tootsies in the snow except on the sunniest days.

 

[getaclue]

Quote: I expected to pay postage. That was a given. I only asked for the equipment to be donated, not the postage.

 

[ronott1]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the blue egg gene is dominant and even if a hen only gets it on one side, it will lay blue eggs if it is crossed with a white egg layer or green if it is crossed with a brown egg layer.

Right?

It is simple genetics. If you have a dominant blue and a white and you breed to a white egg layer, some of the offspring will get two recessive white genes.

Oo x oo

IF the rooster passes the o to the hen, then the chick will be oo. See, the confusion must be in thinking that dominant indicates that it is the only one that can be passed on.

If this does not make sense, I will find a chart to show you.

50% will be white and 50% will be blue with the cross you are talking about.