Kind of small, but it is a start. One was broken, as the hen layed from the roost, but the other is perfect. I'll check for more tomorrow for more eggs, and hopefully get a few more for a good breakfast shot.
At about $750 per egg, the first two were a bit spendy, but the rest are free.
hell yea! nothing pisses me off more than finally dialing in a killer king salmon cure. my eggs out fish thier's to the point of being owned! only to have others ask why do you do it that way?
Looks like someone needs a little work on their netting technique...
the kid has landed more fish than you and richard simmons, english pete and the geek mike spike combined!!! the kid is a man amongst men!!! keep in mind we had barge barreling at us too.
Here is the first egg (left) and the two laid today! I also added another store bought "jumbo" to show what size they are relative to that. The first one is pretty small. Almost a banty sized egg, and very dark.
Banded the two who laid these, a barred rock and a rhode island red. Two down, fourteen to go.
When you start wondering how you're going to eat all those eggs, check out some frittata recipes. Pretty versatile base that can incorporate a lot of different things into it.
12 hard boiled eggs, chopped 6-7 fist sized red potatoes semi-firm boiled then cubed 5-6 Farmann's German style dill pickles chopped 1 white onion, chopped 4-5 stalks celery from the heart, chopped 1 tsp yellow mustard or 1 heaping tbsp whole grain 2 tbsp grated horseradish (optional) 1/2 tsp black pepper 1 tsp salt Stir in Miracle Whip to texture.
When I was nine years old, my aunt made me a turkey on wheat with Miracle Whip. One bite and I threw that sh!t on the ground and yelled "Pull your head out of your ass!"
Miracle Whip, people either like it or they don't. I like it, I guess because I was introduced to it as a kid before I ever had real mayanaise. So Irie's potato salad recipe looks pretty good to me. I checked out those instructions for homemade mayo, and it would have to be pretty killer stuff for me to consider going through that bother. Then again, I don't think I've ever had homemade mayo.
Of course Andy wants to make his own mayo. I had the best I've ever had potato salad last week. Tyeedog brought it. He put freaking snap peas in it. It worked. New potatos. Eggs probably came from his yard...not sure on that. Maybe he'll put up the recipe.
So we go from mayo and chickens and potato salad to canning smoked salmon. Same guy I mentioned above (Tyeedog) brought canned smoked salmon. It was excellent. I tried my hand yesterday and did my first batch of canned anything in the machine. I've canned fruit and steelhead and stuff but never with pressure. Looks good but haven't tried it yet. Weird how the jars still boil for a long time after taking them out.
This is reminding me of the Martha Stewart recipe for a prime rib dinner:
18 months before your dinner date, purchase a black angus steer calf; feed, water, groom, etc. for 17 months and two weeks; slaughter steer; remove prime rib cut from hindquarter, left if a Democratic dinner party, right if a Republican one; etc., etc.
One thing about using farm fresh eggs is they gotta be 10-14 days old before you boil them. Otherwise they're a real bitch to peel.
You mentioned some eggs being small; we have a cochin hen that lays little bitty eggs, about half the size of the orpington's eggs. Every now and then we find an egg with a really thin soft shell. Weird.
We have had a few soft shelled eggs. Paper thin shell, or leathery like a turtle egg. Some of the small eggs are about 2x a quail egg, and we see those as each new layer comes into laying. Of the 8 eggs tonight, all but one were approaching normal size.
