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[PacsMan]

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K, what's the recipe?

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There's an idea! I'll try that this weekend.

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I've got a deal for you! We've got some neighbors 1 1/2 houses down, in our back yard who have chickens. They've got a nasty loud rooster. You can board him if you want!

Someone called on another one they had 3-4 months ago, and they got rid of it, but they have another now. I'm as legal as I know how to be, but I hesitate calling on the neighbors which might alert the chicken police to poke around....

Suggestions?

 

[muddypuddles]

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K, what's the recipe?

Yes, please.

 

[hen-thusiast]

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Our neighbor's rooster wakes us up at 4:30 EVERY blasted morning, they don't coop their chickens, so I keep hoping a coyote or fox gets it. No such luck for us yet. I'd love to know if anyone has any suggestions too..... We have six HUGE cottonwood trees that blow 95% of the leaves into their yard. I felt guilty until I realized that it's sort of sweet revenge.

kimbobim - I'm afraid you are going to have to share the recipe with all of us. That sounds yummy!

 

[kimbobim]

OK, here's the quiche recipe, along with some notes - I love quiche! I also have a triple mushroom quiche recipe that's divine, and a fabulous southwestern quiche (it uses a brown rice crust).

Aztec Quiche

1 1/2 cups grated Monterey Jack Cheese
1 cup grated Cheddar Cheese
1 cup Half and Half (fat free works fine, but I usually grab the regular)
5 eggs, beaten lightly (I've used up to 7 or 8 eggs, depending on their size, always turns out fine)
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp cumin
1 4-ounce diced green chilies (NOT jalapenos, unless you like it HOT)

You'll need a pie crust/shell of some sort when you bake it - pre-made frozen shells, or the boxed kind work fine.

I combine all the ingredients together in medium bowl. You can use more or less of the cumin, depending on your taste. Also, you can drain out the juice of the peppers, too, if you don't want that much chilies flavor. Pour into a quart freezer bag, label, and freeze lying flat.

To use, thaw in the fridge overnight or in the microwave on a defrost setting. Pour into a pie shell and bake, uncovered, at 325 for 45 to 55 minutes - until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean (it'll be a little wet looking, but not covered in egg). You can sprinkle the top with additional cheese before baking.

Can be served hot, room temperature, or cold. Enjoy!

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If you want to make and bake it the same night, sprinkle half the cheese and the chilies in the bottom of the pie shell, combine eggs, half and half, seasonsings and pour carefully into the pie shell. Top with remaining cheese and bake.

I should add - I always freeze these ahead of time. On hectic nights I'll pull one out and thaw it in the microwave while I'm putting the pre-made crust in the pan (I keep a box of these in the fridge, since I can't seem to figure out how to make decent pie crust). I don't thaw it all the way, because I'm always afraid it'll start baking in the microwave. So I'll pour it into the quiche pan with some ice crystals still in it (break the bigger frozen chunks up in the bag) - bakes up great.

I've frozen these for up to five months in our big upright freezer and they've been fine. Sometimes I'll lay thin slices of fresh tomato on top before baking.

Also, for the pancakes, I just follow the buttermilk pancake recipe in the old red/white checked Better Homes & Gardens cookbook, but increase it by 6 times - it takes 2 quarts of buttermilk, but it makes up a ton of pancakes. I'll let them cool on cooling racks, stack them up and put 4 stacks into a gallon-sized freezer bag. If you don't cool them first, they tend to stick together when frozen and are hard to get apart. My kids can throw 'em in the microwave for 15 seconds to thaw them, then in the toaster oven to toast them up. We alternate making pancakes with waffles every weekend and always have a stash of them in the freezer - all of our school-aged kids have to be out the door by 7:45, so this saves my sanity in the mornings.

Marty - no thanks on the rooster! Can you report the loud rooster anonymously? I'm a big weenie when it comes to confrontations with neighbors - luckily I have great neighbors right now. I can't remember where you are - aren't you in Sandy, but unincorporated SL County? I seem to remember something about you being able to have a large number of birds, but is there any regulation on roosters? Here in Highland, you can have roosters, but I only know a couple of folks who have them - one neighbor with a rooster is about 1/3 mile away and we can hear him every once in a while - but it's far enough away that it's not too irritating (and we can't hear it inside our house, which is where I am in the early AM). Our friend who lives closer to them HATES that rooster. I guess he crows a lot in the middle of the night. Another friend has 30 acres and they have several roosters because their 50 or so chickens range all over - the roosters each have their own little circle of gals that they protect and they do hatch out their own chicks (but they name all the cockerels "Crock Pot").

Why does your neighbor want a rooster? I mean, are they intending to hatch out their own chicks? I can't think of any reason to have a rooster in a suburban area - there aren't that many daytime predators. Do they get slapped with a fine for having a loud rooster? Maybe if they get turned in enough, they'll quit getting roosters.

 

[PacsMan]

My one and only black australorp has gone broody!

Not that I mind too terribly, because her eggs were the smallest of any of my other gals. The whole family thinks this is kind of exciting, as we’ve never hatched eggs before.

I’m looking for someone local has some fertile, non ‘mutt’ chicken eggs. What I’d really like is to get some buff orpington eggs, but if the price is right, I’ll consider almost anything. I’ve emailed Christie at Sunny Brooke, but don’t have a reply yet.

Does anyone know where I can get some local, fertile buff orpington eggs for my first attempt at hatching?

Marty

 

[hen-thusiast]

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I'm sure someone on here will help you out, but here's my suggestion if all else fails....

I'd try the Farmer's Market. I'd talk to the vendors, who knows maybe a lot of the eggs sold there are fertile to begin with. I've heard people here on BYC talk about buying fertile eggs at the grocery store and hatching them.

 

[Stands With A Fiddle]

I know nothing about this site, but here goes:

http://www.hatchingeggs.net/

I found it when I was considering hatching my own at one point.

 

[kimbobim]

I'm hoping that someone with more experience than I have will be able to answer this - I've been trying to find info on moulting. What I've found here on BYC seems to indicate that it happens in the fall and can take up to 3 months to re-grow all their feathers, but that they don't usually moult until they're 18 months or older. (is it molting, or moulting - BYC'ers spell it both ways). I have one chicken that is 5 years old, the others are all 11 months or less. We got Lola last February after she was coming out of her moult, so I've never seen her while she was in the worst of her moulting stage. I'm assuming she'll moult again at about the same time of the year (my friend told me she started in November of last year).

So, my question is, what do I do with a naked chicken in Utah's winter/cold temperatures? Our coop is insulated, but at 7 x 11 with a 7-ft high roof (steeply pitched) is she going to freeze out there? Have any of you had chickens moult in the fall/winter? What should I expect? Do they moult ALL of their feathers off - will she just be fluffy like a baby chick, or will she just lose patches of feathers? I'm probably being overprotective, but I don't want her to be miserable if I can help it.

 

[RyanAndMeri]

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We have some eggs if you don't mind having Blue, Black, Splash, and Buff Orpingtons... We have a beautiful Blue Orpington Roo and a mixed flock of black, blue, splash, and buff orp hens. So far we've hatched three chicks from them: 2 buff, 1 black and they're all beautiful birds. PM me and we can work something out if that's what you want to do.

Btw this is a rather urgent - we had some hatching eggs from online - 24 of htem - and only ONE hatched. We're afraid it will not do well by itself so we're looking for anyone in utah who can spare a chick to be a companion with this little banty Mille Fleur we just hatched.. we'll pay top dollar, please let me know via PM if you can spare a baby chicky less than one week old.

 

[Poppycock]

kimbobim - I am in Alpine, and have a black austrolorp, Phoebe, who was feather - pecked pretty badly last fall/winter. She still literally has more skin showing than feathers. She made it through the winter ok with only half her feathers. She spent her days in the run even in the snow, and at night was in the insulated coop with 5 others to keep her warm. We have no electricity in the coop, and many mornings the water inside the coop was frozen, but she seemed not to be overly bothered by it. So if your hens begin molting in late fall, which mine are scheduled to do also as they will be 18 months old then, my experience has shown that even in our Utah winters, they'll be ok. Good luck!

PS. I'm a Kim too and my dad used to call me Kimbobim when I was little