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Let's talk about eggs

oh mee gee, i have completely forgotten about eggs. i mean, i've used them in stirfry lots of times, but i need to get back into boiled egg recipes. i love eggs, every which way they come. yummmers in my tummers!
 
Busty St Clare said:
I am like you Neo, all my life I have hated eggs. Little foetuses have always turned my stomach.
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Ahh, I'm glad I'm not the only one :D

L2R said:
oh mee gee, i have completely forgotten about eggs. i mean, i've used them in stirfry lots of times, but i need to get back into boiled egg recipes. i love eggs, every which way they come. yummmers in my tummers!
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A lot of my mates are like this as well, and I could never understand it :D


This afternoon I bought a fresh carton of eggs. It was rather hilarious because I have never bought eggs before so it took me about 10 minutes to decide which size, checking that they're free range, longest expiry date available (let's face it, I probably won't eat them all before they expire) etc etc. I was clearly a noob =D
 
eggs last longer than you'd think. the inlaws overseas just have a bucket of eggs next to the fridge. like a proper sized bucket. when i saw it i was like how the hell do they eat all those in time.

not to mention their family source is free'er than free range. no fencing at all.
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Nawwww chickens are so cute!! I spent about an hour today researching how to build a chicken run/coop =D
We'd probably just get 2 hens.

And yep, no fencing at all is about as free range as you can get! Those eggs must be super tasty and healthy <3
 
n3ophy7e said:
Thank you very much for your feedback hun, and I am actually looking in to getting some chickens right now :D


Who here actually has some chickens??
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I have a few chickens, normally keep them for 3 years before they go in the pot. the eggs just go out daily and pick them up, I don't keep a rooster so dont have to worry about checking for fertilised eggs, normally you have 6 weeks with eggs, but as I said easiest way to tell is to see if the float or sink. Normally pick up between 3-6 eggs a day. the eggs from pullets are smaller but after a year you tend to notice they are bigger as they develop.
they will eat all scraps, damn near the same as pigs for eating everything going down However a big bag of bird seed tends to last a couple of months.
the more ground you have to let them run the better as they can quickly clear an area of bugs also depending on where you are what kind of housing, where I am it is blooming freezing so we have extra insulation in.
 
Awesome info hun, thank you! My one concern at this stage re: owning chickens is my Jack Russell. The chicken run would have to be Jack Russell proof....which I think can be done....but it would have to be done properly.
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What do you use for insulation inside the coop?
 
In high school I took Agriculture as a subject.
They had a bunch of chickens
they were gonna kill
(not to eat; wasn't allowed in some school code somewhere)
so I saved one
and took it home.
I named it Alex Reid.
It never laid eggs
+ died of a mysterious bird disease the following Summer.

I'm about to eat a can of quail eggs. (?)
I'll let you know how it turns out.
 
Eggs are an awesome snack food in my opinion. I work as a sales rep so I'm always travelling around and never sure of what food might be on offer in the area I'm in when I get hungry.

A couple of hard boiled eggs for morning and afternoon tea is really convenient and easy to transport snack. Plus if you do it a lot you get really quick at removing the shell.

I'll definately add my voice to the free range egg argument. In Australia at least there is always someone around selling eggs that come from chickens kept in a backyard or farm that are fed on food scraps etc. The nutritional content has got to be far superior even if the animal cruelty argument isn't enough to sway you away from eating cage laid eggs.

Another thing I've head but don't have a good source to back up is that the eggs that are marketed in supermarkets as being high in omega-3s are not all that good for you. Apparently the hens are fed very low quality omega-3s which in turn produces a low quality egg. I'm not totally convinced however as I've never heard of any other high versus low quality omega-3 fat issues.
 
Yep, we hard boiled a few dozen eggs and then packed them in a cooler for our road trip. It worked out well. Little balls of instant amino acids really help keep your energy up on the road.
 
I like eggs, but not all the time. They are good source of protein and have all the amino acids the body needs. I get put off when you crack one open and see the different parts like the aborted feotus red bit and string on it but if you boil them then you can skip that bit.
I heard you don't shit any part of the egg out, is this true?
I always to try get at least free range eggs, not that free range means much these days but I would rather pay more for some quality eggs from a happyish hen than battery abused hens.
 
n3ophy7e said:
Awesome info hun, thank you! My one concern at this stage re: owning chickens is my Jack Russell. The chicken run would have to be Jack Russell proof....which I think can be done....but it would have to be done properly.
Hmmm...

What do you use for insulation inside the coop?
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inside I use straw but as sad as it sounds my girls have insulation between the walls of the coup in form of polystyrene sheets and we used left over kinspan I think its called for the underneath.
When putting up your main posts put them down and extra couple of inches and the fencing use pegs to hold it down at intervals to stop the dog getting in as easy. my dogs started with them and any time tried to give chase the girls would peck at them, they leave them alone now :)
 
^^ That's not sad at all, that's great! I know it gets pretty darn cold where you are so the more insulation for them, the better :)
Thanks for the tips re: dog-proofing the coop. I am going to seriously discuss this with my partner :)


Do any particular breeds of chickens make nicer eggs? I love silkie chickens and bantams but I imagine their eggs would be really small? Not that that is a problem I guess...

UnSquare said:
Turns out they had past.
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Boooo :(
I have to say though, canned quail eggs didn't really sound all that appealing in the first place ;)

TakeItAll said:
A couple of hard boiled eggs for morning and afternoon tea is really convenient and easy to transport snack. Plus if you do it a lot you get really quick at removing the shell.
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Hard-boiled eggs as a transportable snack....this is something that had never crossed my mind. Brilliant!
 
Heehee thanks for the welcome! Yeah I must've just been really hungry to eat four :D
How do you usually have your eggs KStoner?
 
i can inhale hardboiled eggs. love them, especially with a touch of salt, but even without.
 
n3ophy7e said:
Heehee thanks for the welcome! Yeah I must've just been really hungry to eat four :D
How do you usually have your eggs KStoner?
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Favorite way is having someone who knows what they're doing prepare a tasty omlette with every vegetable thrown in. But that is a rarity, so it's usually me scrambling 7 jumbo eggs at home. A little pepper and pico de gallo on top and I'm scarfing them down as part of my early morning pre-work routine. =D

I've gotten where I can manage to eat 7 boiled at once also now. 3 used to make me gag. I definitely do not eat the boiled for taste. Usually for convenience if I'm on the run or something. Oh and my friends get mad as hell as soon as they see my little ziplock bag. Yah I bring them out sometimes and as you know, they're not considered air freshners by any means. =D
 
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