I have looked for weeks for eggs that i was sure my Buff Orpingtons should be laying. For weeks! I happened to walk outside by slight accident this morning to give the chickens a treat of hard boiled eggs. (too old for me to want to eat, boiled 2 weeks ago) I caught Miss Songbird very sneakily kicking leaves BACK into a corner & not like she was looking for bugs, but like she was covering something up. There happens to be a little tree by the back door of the laundry room where the dryer vent comes out. about a foot from the house bc mom misjudged when she planted it how big it would get 30 yrs ago. She has dug out a nest back in there & is covering it up with leaves after laying an egg to hide it. The blasted chicken had a dozen eggs in there! She's lucky we didn't rake the leaves up last week & ruin the eggs. She's sitting on the empty nest now glaring at me & acting like she was trying to be broody. I keep telling her until she's giving me so many dozen eggs, she's not allowed to be broody. but i now have nice medium sized beautiful brown eggs. :)
now.. question. I know there was a thread on it somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find it.
How long is a hard boiled egg good? I'm assuming it partly depends upon how old the egg was to begin with but I'm not sure. I know we use to keep them a good two weeks.. but I'm hesitant to eat them after a week. I've got so many bantam eggs that I need to keep hard boiling them but i can't eat them fast enough. I'm tried of feeding the chickens their own eggs back & not getting to use them. So how long do you leave them in the fridge?
egg snatcher :)
Greykyttyn, I love your chicken stories. Guess it's a good thing (for my DH) that we live in the city so I'm limited to what and how many animals I have. I'd love to have chickens too, but am pushing my luck with getting ducks (my DH still asks why). If I had the money and time, I'd do what Claire does, have a farm for rescue animals.
I make hard-boiled eggs only when I need them for salads, otherwise I rarely make them since I only eat them warm. You can freeze fresh eggs too. I know I posted a thread here about it.
i can't find the thread.. that was the one i remembered.
I've attempted to used frozen eggs (granted frozen by mistake bc they were put on the wrong shelf of the fridge) and it didn't' work so well. We ended up throwing them out.
I'd love to have ducks. My mom refuses. I'd love to have enough money to run a rescue shelter.. i have the space.. but not enough money. I take in cats & chickens at this point & that's it.
Mom went to the garage ( i feed the chickens on the concrete slab in front). She comes back with an egg. Seems someone was so busy eating she couldn't stop long enough to go lay the egg so she just laid it amid the corn & crumbles & kept right on eating breakfast. Shesh... idk what to do with lazy chickens.
Thank you!!!
Awhile back, I was reading a thread on BYC (I couldn't find it too many to look thru), one person has a hen that comes into the house every morning. She gets into a cupboard in the kitchen, lays her egg, then goes back outside. Wonder if I could train ducks to do that?
i've heard of that. My aunt had a chicken growing up that would come into the screened in porch, get in her little box, lay her egg then go back out side to spend the day. idk how she trained her to do that. I just heard stories growing up about it.
From my experience so far, I think it may be a lot easier to train a chicken than a duck. (But perhaps I just have dumber-than-average ducks.)
I was joking about training the ducks to come lay eggs in the house. I've already assured my DH that the only way a duck will be in the house would be if it were hurt or sick; then it would be in tote in the laundry room. There is a gal on BYC who has trained her two ducks to wait for their treat, and to jump up to get a treat, not that they can jump high....lol.
I heard a story on the radio recently about a new summer camp for kids where they teach the kids how to train animals. They take kids from ages 5-12 and give them each a chicken for the week. apparently, within one day they can get the chicken to come when called, and by the end of the week the chicken should be able to preform 5 tricks (for treats) of the child's choosing. They said they picked chickens as the animal to work with because they're sooo easy to train and even a 5 year old can handle them with out any problems. Wish I remembered the name of the camp.....
ya can i go? my chickens seem to think they rule the yard.. i am only a servant. they trained me not me training them!
taynors - i dig up worms too.. then have to call them.. flop the dumb worm in their little faces.. & see if they are slightly interested. they are so spoiled.
Silkie came up while i was hanging out clothes & wanted to sit on my foot. i'd move, she'd move... & sit on my foot again. her feet were damp from the wet grass.. but come on.. she's a chicken.. she should like grass. When i spend any time in the yard she wants me to carry her around with me. She's so cute tho. her lil puffy hair do. I want several more like her. They laid eggs in the lil hidden nest again. & totally covered it with leaves. leveled it off too so u wouldn't know they'd been there. idk how to move them from this spot. If it rains, it will flood. If it snows, it will be buried.. if it ices.. i'll have Popsicle eggs. Tho if i could figure out a way to make a shelter over it that wouldn't scare them off.. all i have to do to collect eggs is open the laundry room door & reach into the nest. how convenient for me. :)
That was so cute Greykyttyn! I miss the chickens so much... to read your story is almost like being there!
Honeybear laid a huge green egg last night!!!! (so my mom says, i'm not currently in town) She laid it in the hidden nest of course. :) at least one EE lays green eggs. A welsummer laid an egg.. i seriously thought they were suppose to have dark brown spots on the eggs.. but mine was white.. dark brown with pure white spots. Cute lil thing.
ZZ's I am changing Greykyttyn's name to DRAMA QUEEN. LOL, every time I read her post or comment I feel like I have been transported to JOPLIN, MS. LOL
I had a customer call me yesterday to ask a question! During the converstation she procceded to tell me about a red star she had bought from me probably six months ago. She said her son had trained the chicken to come in the house and watched TV with him. She said the chicken sat on his lap and watched two episodes with the boy and then promptly gets up and walks out of the house and back to the pen. The girl had been sick and she was afraid it was going to die. I guess they have become really attached. I thought that was a cute story. Haystack
two yolks in the same egg... as far as I know at least.
Found several new hiding spots. They are laying in empty flower pots, an old metal can, under the old wood stove.. & I've got one that still walks along, goes ooo egg... squats, splats the egg on the ground, stands up & keeps walking. So i find random eggs from her everywhere. The welsummers very sweetly lay in the boxes & one EE is laying a huge green egg. i actually saw her in the box when we were working on the coop. She crawled in, moaned a bit.. fussed a bit.. laid the egg, then breathed very hard for a few minutes then sang her little song.. It took her 25 minutes from start to finish. I felt so sorry for her.