Thanks - we might try the egg pudding. In particular sometimes now it’s hard to get my Mom to eat well, but she snacks a lot and might like the egg based chocolate pudding.
My wife has been making egg salad and macaroni salad (with plenty of egg in it) quite a bit — potato salad is on the “to make” list tomorrow so long as I prepare the potatoes... ;-)
Mr. Amberlink is now in pieces in the freezer. (Wifey is a Filipina and cooks and eats chicken feet.)
Foxes are moderately sparse here, but we have many hawks, coyotes, raccoons, and even opossums will sometimes take down a hen. Plus neighbors’ dogs — in the last several years we’ve lost more chickens to neighbors’ dogs than anything else. That has not been a problem recently though. The one time a few months ago it might have - the new neighbors across the road dog got loose, I heard our flock squawking and ran out with my well scoped .22 pellet rifle. I yelled at the dog, it ran home, and the neighbors’ teenage kid concurrently saw the “rifle” in my hands — the dog hasn’t been loose again since.
A large dog trained to guard the chickens can help a LOT, but that’s not in the cards for us just now.
Gotta call it a night - busy day tomorrow.
A tip on making the egg pudding - unless you have a very powerful blender, like Maria, cut your hard boiled eggs into pieces & feed them into the blender gradually. Really let it mix - you will get a surprisingly ‘silky’ pudding.
The pudding will be great for your mom, if she’ll eat it. Easy way to get a lot of protein & elderly folks really need it (my 87 yo mom, too). There is also a hard boiled eggnog recipe, if your mom likes eggnog - she can drink her protein. I haven’t made this recipe yet, but will probably do it for New Year’s.
https://mariamindbodyhealth.com/hard-boiled-eggnog/