Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Sudsy Chick]

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Oh no! We have never, ever had anyone eat eggs here, it must have been an accident. She absolutely HATES being cooped up, and I'm sure she has been grumbling a lot!

 

[blueducklings]

So, I reckon Balut is out of the question then?

 

[Chickielady]

I'm still getting calls from many of our Asian customers, for roosters. Some of them also wanted us to make Balut for them. (I'm not doing that though). I prefer roosters for broth. To be really scientific though, you'd have to make one pot with a roo, and one with a hen to taste them together to see if there really is a difference.

true, and I do not think there is a taste difference.
I think what she likes is the healing properties in the rooster.....................................

Not necessarily the taste is better.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK so I went back for a refresher. I think it may do us good to revisit this. Maybe that can help us all move on.
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[Chicken Rustler]

For our girls, they are very rare (as in this is the first and probably only one

). The blue egg in back of her sister's is the usual shade of blue that she lays.

I have always been told that a hen won't change egg color. The shade of the color may vary but not from say a blue to a dark brown!

Have I been mis-informed??? I have never had it happen with any of my girls.

 

[Chickielady]

Not positive, but the final tally seems to be :
13 Blues
5 Splash
The rest is Blacks & a few OEs I hatched in the mess of JGs.

Long hatch that went on from Sunday AM when the OEs came blasting out right on time, as usual, and then slowly, the JGs pipped & hatched over until yesterday afternoon with 1 left that pipped.
The egg still sitting there pipped this morning waiting patiently, so I helped it out, and all is well...........................woah it was a long hatch !

get to rest today though...(FEED RUN)......and will meet up with mikeyb Thursday or maybe Friday...giving the babies time & then their vaccine tomorrow morning.
But then there is one more load of bark in the trailer for the pathways in the garden..................at least the bark is lightweight !

 

[Totalcolour]

OK so I went back for a refresher. I think it may do us good to revisit this. Maybe that can help us all move on.
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Thank you CR.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Himself is talking about getting pigeons and quail! Tasty food. anyone know anything?

The only question I have- and it's a quetion, not an answer!- is how complicated it is to raise domestic animals when the woods are full of their wild relatives; Cooper Point has huge colonies of Band Tailed Pigeons (the true PNW natives) as well as Rock Doves around old piers and docks, and there are California Quail everywhere these days (something I rejoice in every morning, myself). I'd be worried about pest and disease transmission both ways.

I know that the late Crazy Tenant raised the giant doves (I've forgotten the variety name, but their like the Jersey Giants of the dove world) for Falcon food after his RIRs became socially difficult (that is, the rooster slept in the pear tree, and any time he got hit by car lights he'd wake up and attack visitors), and that they interbred with another neighbor's racing pigeons while there was a barn for them to nest in; now that those are gone I have several pairs of Mourning Doves zooming around.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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I don't think you've been mis-informed. It didn't go from blue to brown, it went from light blue to dark blue. If I had to guess, I'd say it either took a really long time to get through the tube

Or maybe went through twice? And got extra coating. But that's just a guess! Only the egg knows for sure

 

[oesdog]

I think it's that dark because it was coated twice? or because it was her first egg in a while? She's 18 months old, her eggs are usually the blue color in the back.


For our girls, they are very rare (as in this is the first and probably only one

). The blue egg in back of her sister's is the usual shade of blue that she lays.

Well I for one am impressed with the beautiful egg - I have wanted a blue egg layer for - like ever!!!!! So I don;t care what negatives anyone else says about it - for me I think it is the most lovely egg and - good for you and your "VERY RARE to you, dark BLUE egg laying HEN"

Oes