who laid this beautiful egg? WINNER ANNOUNCED! discussion in progress

[KattyKillFish]

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i just ate up four of them. yes, they are beautiful. they are from the glaucous-winged gulls we get here, herring gull eggs are MUCH bugger! larger than a good sized duck egg, but they look identical to this one. they get really fussy when you are near a nest so it's not to hard to find them.

early next month i am going to get some more when the whole flock starts laying. they peel SO EASILY! it's like they are meant to be eaten! the shell of a boiled egg just slips right off. the whites are very firm and can become almost blue when cooked. yolks tend to be dark orange to almost red. they are certainly one of my favorite native foods, along with loon eggs which also look very similar but darker with a much pointier tip.

i dunno, i can PM you if i get enough to blow them out. i have 2 in the incubator. i don't think it's legal for me to hath them out, so i REALLY don't think i could sell fertile eggs to people legally

i'm taking a chance as it is

i'm sure for someone living in a city or in the states they would be kinda hard to raise. you gotta have a whole lot of different kinds of fish & things handy and put them in a blender for the first month, get live fishies and teach them how to catch them. they eat A LOT OF FISH! and i mean A LOT! they need great variety too. salmon, trout, sticklebacks, bullheads, herring, flatfish, moose meat, Mc Donalds.... but for us up here in Alaska it's easy to get most of that for free. except Mc Donalds, we don't even have one here

i could totally blow some out if a get a few more. it's really hard to get out there though, they nest in a really swampy area. i would have gotten more today but a thunderstorm rolled in while we were looking.

if anyone is interested in blown out eggs i can certainly do that as long as i can find enough. heck, later in the summer i might even try pickling them!

 

[austinhart123]

why dont you let the moms raise their own babies, they must be really sad to see their babies bieng taken away=[

 

[Kansaseq]

I might be interested in buying some blown out eggs when you get some. Just pm me and let me know how much you would want with shipping. Thanks!

 

[KattyKillFish]

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it is Naive Alaskan subsitance. i myself am a Native Alaskan. this is what my ancestors are ti survive! we have very strict rules on it, too. for example if there are only one or two eggs, we cannot take any. if there are three we can take one, and any more than four we can only take two. generally there are 4-5 eggs in a nest. we are also only allowed to harvest them during certain times of the year.

it sounds cruel and odd, but to me as a cultural person it is the way of my people. i am as respectful as i can be about it too, i often leave them a good amount of fish eggs near the nest when i take an egg. they do eat it, and i always make sure i never ever take all of the eggs. THAT is just cruel, and it is damaging to the species. plus, only registered tribal members are allowed to take the eggs. we pick up a paper at the local Fish & Game and write down the amount of eggs in each nest and how many we took, what day it was and so fourth. we return the papers after we are finished gathering. so, there are some pretty good rules put on us to ensure the survival of the species. we aren't allowed t visit the same area more than twice in one week iether.

i personally am very glad there are rules and regulations on subsitance food. out here in Alaska there are quite often food shortages and high prices due to the supply barges being late and such. a lot of the local Natives are very poor as well and can't afford to buy food, so they have to subsist. salmon, moose, caribou, grouse and eggs are what they usually eat, and it is a healthy traditional food, too.

i am no disagreeing with you, just giving information so that people don't think i go crazy stealing eggs from nests. i was raised eating these kinds of things. i grew up in a very small village of less than 100 people and no local market or store. to get to Illiamna Trading we had to jump in the boat and go 40 miles across the lake. it was pretty tough, so the majority of what we ate was what we could find.

it's not poverty, we feel like the richest people in the world! i am very thankful to live in a land that is so bountiful with plenty of wildlife and potential meals. it is not surviving, it is a way of life! and that is the way that we like it

i would much rather go hunt a moose and share it with the village than go to the supermarket and simply buy my meat. Keeping Chickens is a pretty good way to be sure we always have food, too! a lot of Natives like to keep them around. and i mean A LOT! most of my family keeps them so that when the caribou herd decides to take another rout, we at least have some fresh eggs!

thank you for asking the question

i like educating people on the Alaskan Native subsistence lifestyle.

 

[nzpouter]

seagull is it..

I knew it must be some sort of ground nesting birds...

Do they come ready salted..?

 

[KattyKillFish]

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we like to boil them in sea water

tastes great!

i've never actually put salt on mine though, i like them plain boiled.

 

[NancyDz]

Very cool Katty.. thanks for sharing all that... interesting to know how they regulate it.

 

[AkTomboy]

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it is Naive Alaskan subsitance. i myself am a Native Alaskan. this is what my ancestors are ti survive! we have very strict rules on it, too. for example if there are only one or two eggs, we cannot take any. if there are three we can take one, and any more than four we can only take two. generally there are 4-5 eggs in a nest. we are also only allowed to harvest them during certain times of the year.

it sounds cruel and odd, but to me as a cultural person it is the way of my people. i am as respectful as i can be about it too, i often leave them a good amount of fish eggs near the nest when i take an egg. they do eat it, and i always make sure i never ever take all of the eggs. THAT is just cruel, and it is damaging to the species. plus, only registered tribal members are allowed to take the eggs. we pick up a paper at the local Fish & Game and write down the amount of eggs in each nest and how many we took, what day it was and so fourth. we return the papers after we are finished gathering. so, there are some pretty good rules put on us to ensure the survival of the species. we aren't allowed t visit the same area more than twice in one week iether.

i personally am very glad there are rules and regulations on subsitance food. out here in Alaska there are quite often food shortages and high prices due to the supply barges being late and such. a lot of the local Natives are very poor as well and can't afford to buy food, so they have to subsist. salmon, moose, caribou, grouse and eggs are what they usually eat, and it is a healthy traditional food, too.

i am no disagreeing with you, just giving information so that people don't think i go crazy stealing eggs from nests. i was raised eating these kinds of things. i grew up in a very small village of less than 100 people and no local market or store. to get to Illiamna Trading we had to jump in the boat and go 40 miles across the lake. it was pretty tough, so the majority of what we ate was what we could find.

it's not poverty, we feel like the richest people in the world! i am very thankful to live in a land that is so bountiful with plenty of wildlife and potential meals. it is not surviving, it is a way of life! and that is the way that we like it

i would much rather go hunt a moose and share it with the village than go to the supermarket and simply buy my meat. Keeping Chickens is a pretty good way to be sure we always have food, too! a lot of Natives like to keep them around. and i mean A LOT! most of my family keeps them so that when the caribou herd decides to take another rout, we at least have some fresh eggs!

thank you for asking the question

i like educating people on the Alaskan Native subsistence lifestyle.

Very well written. I have had to explain the Alaskan life to the hubbys family in SC more than once. You did a great job. And thanks for showing me an seagull egg. Growing up here I have always wondered what they looked and tasted like. Perhaps a few pics of them when cooked Id love to see the blue "white" of the egg.

 

[KattyKillFish]

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it is Naive Alaskan subsitance. i myself am a Native Alaskan. this is what my ancestors are ti survive! we have very strict rules on it, too. for example if there are only one or two eggs, we cannot take any. if there are three we can take one, and any more than four we can only take two. generally there are 4-5 eggs in a nest. we are also only allowed to harvest them during certain times of the year.

it sounds cruel and odd, but to me as a cultural person it is the way of my people. i am as respectful as i can be about it too, i often leave them a good amount of fish eggs near the nest when i take an egg. they do eat it, and i always make sure i never ever take all of the eggs. THAT is just cruel, and it is damaging to the species. plus, only registered tribal members are allowed to take the eggs. we pick up a paper at the local Fish & Game and write down the amount of eggs in each nest and how many we took, what day it was and so fourth. we return the papers after we are finished gathering. so, there are some pretty good rules put on us to ensure the survival of the species. we aren't allowed t visit the same area more than twice in one week iether.

i personally am very glad there are rules and regulations on subsitance food. out here in Alaska there are quite often food shortages and high prices due to the supply barges being late and such. a lot of the local Natives are very poor as well and can't afford to buy food, so they have to subsist. salmon, moose, caribou, grouse and eggs are what they usually eat, and it is a healthy traditional food, too.

i am no disagreeing with you, just giving information so that people don't think i go crazy stealing eggs from nests. i was raised eating these kinds of things. i grew up in a very small village of less than 100 people and no local market or store. to get to Illiamna Trading we had to jump in the boat and go 40 miles across the lake. it was pretty tough, so the majority of what we ate was what we could find.

it's not poverty, we feel like the richest people in the world! i am very thankful to live in a land that is so bountiful with plenty of wildlife and potential meals. it is not surviving, it is a way of life! and that is the way that we like it

i would much rather go hunt a moose and share it with the village than go to the supermarket and simply buy my meat. Keeping Chickens is a pretty good way to be sure we always have food, too! a lot of Natives like to keep them around. and i mean A LOT! most of my family keeps them so that when the caribou herd decides to take another rout, we at least have some fresh eggs!

thank you for asking the question

i like educating people on the Alaskan Native subsistence lifestyle.

Very well written. I have had to explain the Alaskan life to the hubbys family in SC more than once. You did a great job. And thanks for showing me an seagull egg. Growing up here I have always wondered what they looked and tasted like. Perhaps a few pics of them when cooked Id love to see the blue "white" of the egg.

thank you for your compliment

i like educating people about that sort of stuff. i LOVE living the subsistence life! even if i was the richest person in the world i would still live in the middle of nowhere in the woods here in Alaska FAR away from anywhere.

and what a great idea! too bad a already ate all the eggs. i should post some pics when i go out to get more in a week or two.

 

[KattyKillFish]

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your quite welcome!

if they catch you without your tribal card, Fish & Game will fine you a pretty penny. they are pretty strict on who collects eggs and how many. usually they have a few people from the Fish & Game parked in a van between you and how you get to the nesting grounds. asking to look and see how many eggs you have. they ALWAYS ask for your tribal card. even when your out hunting they always manage to find you! those Fish & Game people, they're NINJAS!