Posted on 09/17/2021 3:53:23 PM PDT by SamAdams76
” And seeing chicks at Tractor Supply stirs up the “crazy chicken lady” in me, sort of like crazy cat lady.”
LOL! When I saw the chicks this spring at Tractor Supply, I really wanted to take some home even though I had nothing set up for them.
Mama looks all clucked up…..
“nothing better than watching CHICKEN TV”
Watching multicolored chickens foraging for food is entertaining!
But I've been converted.
I used to always see those roadside "farm-fresh" eggs signs on the backroads with usually an honor system way of paying. You push your money into a jar and take your eggs.
Finally I decided to do it and was pleasantly surprised by how much better they tasted. You also have a harder shell so you need to really tap those eggs to get the shell open.
I will never go back go supermarket eggs.
My local farmers market carries such eggs
Free range farm eggs are better though by miles.
AND, you don’t need to refrigerate them!
How many roosters to chickens and how many of the eggs get fertilized?
I think I saw Andrew Zimmern eat one once.
Not for me…
Now I’m curious, I’m gonna have to search out some free range eggs.
You are correct ... no need to refrigerate them until you wash them.
Set your chickens free! (Gilbert Shelton fans may remember that.)
I love making and eating deviled eggs. My biggest problem has ALWAYS been peeling them.
I make them three ways-
Mild
Spicy
Weaponized🥵
It’s also easier to shell a week old egg than a very fresh egg.
Who are you to question a layer that identifies as a rooster!?
The fresh eggs will sink to the bottom.
If it floats to the top - don't eat it! Unless you are poaching it.
“Kerrygold butter”
Heaven right there.
True... You are better off leaving them in the fridge to dehydrate a week or two if you are going to hard boil them though. Peeling farm fresh hard boiled eggs is a nightmare. There are some chemistry and physics tricks you can use but just the time in the fridge and they are easy peasy to peel and no funny business pulling out of old text books. Quality is hardly effected and the peeled eggs are whole. They dont dehydrate as fast un-refrigerated.
Homegrown food isn’t about cost effective.
It’s about growing food that is better than what can be grown for profit. As the OP explained, these chickens get freedom to roam, eat bugs and even do some hanky panky. This will improve the nutrient profile and reduce negative things like stress hormones.
As for me, I pick my tomatoes when so ripe that they bruise if sit on a counter for a day or so. You can’t sell commercially at that ripeness.
My plants are grown with exotic minerals from the entire world. Bat and bird guanos, volcanic rocks, mineral deposits, kelps, etc. The taste is unbeatable and I’ll bet nutrition is too.
“Kerrygold butter”
Great butter. Been using it for years.
Try using clarified/rendered duck fat some time to fry potatoes, ie hash browns for breakfast. You’ll be amazed at the taste.
Cute chicken. We have Cream Legbar. Ours are in a predator proof coop but we let them out in the fenced area. They eat every bug and the weeds. We are spoiled.
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