The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

It's an interesting egg day. First I was wondering why four chickens were pecking at something large, roundish and brown in the yard, and went out to find that Wilma had laid an egg in the middle of the lawn. Our first egg that wasn't at least attempted to be laid in the nest boxes. Luckily our egg shells are so hard at the moment that four beaks pecking on it didn't break it. Now I heard the loudest egg song I've ever heard, and went to investigate. Töyhtis had laid a bit of a whopper. Usually she has been laying in the 35-38 gram range. There have been two double yolkers, around 50 grams. But now she had laid a 61 gram egg, our biggest egg yet. I know that's what you usually get from the store, but after a few months of not buying eggs, it felt humongous. I wonder if it's a triple yolker.


A slight difference in size between today's and yesterday's eggs. That must have hurt.

 

[Cynthia12]

It's an interesting egg day. First I was wondering why four chickens were pecking at something large, roundish and brown in the yard, and went out to find that Wilma had laid an egg in the middle of the lawn. Our first egg that wasn't at least attempted to be laid in the nest boxes. Luckily our egg shells are so hard at the moment that four beaks pecking on it didn't break it. Now I heard the loudest egg song I've ever heard, and went to investigate. Töyhtis had laid a bit of a whopper. Usually she has been laying in the 35-38 gram range. There have been two double yolkers, around 50 grams. But now she had laid a 61 gram egg, our biggest egg yet. I know that's what you usually get from the store, but after a few months of not buying eggs, it felt humongous. I wonder if it's a triple yolker.


A slight difference in size between today's and yesterday's eggs. That must have hurt.

I'm waiting for one of my hens to do this. (not hurt though.

) She is a big girl, has only given me two eggs about the size of your small one there. Often they do lay larger like this, then back down again, but not as small. I've been waiting for her to lay for a while as it is. I though she would never start! At least I'm getting something now. You will have to let us know what's inside..two..three?

 

[vehve]

Quote: This girl is pretty small, so I'm surprised she made that big of an egg. I haven't weighed her, but I'm guessing maybe 3 pounds.

Her half sister hatched the same day as she did, she's a BCM. Probably weighs about two times as much as this one. She started laying about a week later, made two eggs and then paused for a week. Now she's been laying 5 days straight, and makes our biggest eggs on average, in the 42-45g range.

 

[drumstick diva]

I was looking at your photos but it wouldn't let me leave a comment. I wanted to warn you that the building in back, looks like it will topple at any minute. Whew, glad you and Karin are OKAY. BTW Karin is very attractive and young, sorry I can't see you well except you are tall & slim - good combination.

 

[chickadoodles]

I love looking at all the sizzle and frizzle chicken pics and Cynthia I love your frizzled polish it is so cute with its top knot! Felix I am also getting a bunch of tiny pullet eggs right now. I am collecting them to make some pickled eggs.

So sad to lose Robin Williams.

 

[vehve]

I was looking at your photos but it wouldn't let me leave a comment. I wanted to warn you that the building in back, looks like it will topple at any minute. Whew, glad you and Karin are OKAY. BTW Karin is very attractive and young, sorry I can't see you well except you are tall & slim - good combination.

Yeah, my sisters boyfriend tried to keep it upright, I even have a picture of that. He couldn't straighten it out though.

I shall tell Karin you said so, and then she will say "pfft"

. I tend to not photograph well when I'm aware of the camera. I still haven't learned to look natural. (Also, I look silly in hats. This btw is a different hat than in the avatar, it inspired me to buy my own.)


Tall I might be, and a bit slim at the moment, but I would need to find a pleasant way of building upper body musculature. I've gone down from 211lbs to 182lbs since Christmas, and I'm starting to look like a junkie soon. The coop build was a good project, but now I haven't had to do any heavy lifting in a while and it's starting to show again.

 

[vehve]

I love looking at all the sizzle and frizzle chicken pics and Cynthia I love your frizzled polish it is so cute with its top knot! Felix I am also getting a bunch of tiny pullet eggs right now. I am collecting them to make some pickled eggs.

So sad to lose Robin Williams.

Pickled eggs is something that intrigues me. I've never tried them, and I don't really like anything pickled, but there's something fascinating about pickling eggs. The pullet eggs are nice soft boiled, and work very well in cooking and baking too, so that's the way I'm consuming them.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: I have never eaten pickled eggs or anything other than pickles that were pickled. But my DH and many of my children and grandchildren love pickled everything! lol

 

[vehve]

Well guys, it's been a while since the last episode of Cooking and Carpentry with Felix, so here's today's recipe.

Coconut-Oatmeal cookies




I use a scale for measuring stuff, but I'll provide US approximations for you metricly challenged guys again. The US measurements are slightly bigger, than they actually would be, but it'll work. You can also just set your kitchen scale to grams.

100g butter (about a stick)
90g sugar (½ cup)
80g oatmeal (1 cup)
65g wheat flour (½ cup)
100g shaved coconut (½-1 cup)
1 small egg
1tsp salt
1tsp baking powder

Mix everything together with your hands, form about 24 1 inch balls, place them on a pan (only do 12 on one pan), and flatten the balls. Bake at 175 deg C (350F) in a convection oven for about 7 minutes until they've gotten some color around the edges.

 

[vehve]

Guys, you need to wake up now, I feel like I'm talking to myself here.

Update on Veera: Today she has exited the coop twice on her own. When you have had broodies, how do they snap out of it when you let them do it by themselves? Is it gradual, or do they just decide to stop sitting on the nest and don't return to it?