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Soft boiled eggs

Tarmac

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can you get it perfectly soft-boiled every time?
 

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This thread forced me to make eggs, and I'm not even hungry. Damnit!!!!
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Most eggs that say free-range, really aren't. Most of the time the chickens never go outside. There will be an opening for the chickens to exist their "shelter" but it is on the opposite side of where the feed and water are. It is a joke.

This is from Mother Earth News...

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Relis...D-Content.aspx

In the past, we've found that eggs from hens raised on pasture, as compared to those commercially raised factory farm eggs, contain:

"¢ 1⁄3 less cholesterol
"¢ 1⁄4 less saturated fat
"¢ 2⁄3 more vitamin A
"¢ 2 times more omega-3 ***** acids
"¢ 3 times more vitamin E
"¢ 7 times more beta carotene

Our latest tests show that pastured eggs have anywhere between 4 to 6 times as much vitamin D as typical supermarket eggs.
 

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Originally Posted by michaeljkrell
We got eleven hens in the backyard, so I usually have two soft-boiled eggs a day.

STOP BRAGGING
 

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Originally Posted by michaeljkrell
We got eleven hens in the backyard, so I usually have two soft-boiled eggs a day.

I'm seriously considering raising some in a piece of underused property we have. Is raising chickens difficult?
 

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Originally Posted by acidicboy
I'm seriously considering raising some in a piece of underused property we have. Is raising chickens difficult?

It depends what your climate is like. If you are warm all year, than it isn't too bad, but if it gets cold the first 6-8 weeks can be a pain because the baby chicks can't get very cold. Than again, I was taking care of like 24 baby chicks (we had some roosters who we killed and then a cat got some other ones).

You got to worry about cats unless you want to keep a rooster or two (they will defend the hens). Most dogs will kill chickens for the heck of it. Again, depending on the size of the dog a really mean rooster could do some damage to the dog.

If they have eaten all the green grass in their fenced in area they will find a way to get out and get to some green grass unless you have a very well put together area.

I really like chickens. They are nice to have around and very relaxing just to watch go about their business. Most are pretty friendly too.
 

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Fried eggs in bacon grease, yum.
 

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Originally Posted by michaeljkrell
It depends what your climate is like. If you are warm all year, than it isn't too bad, but if it gets cold the first 6-8 weeks can be a pain because the baby chicks can't get very cold. Than again, I was taking care of like 24 baby chicks (we had some roosters who we killed and then a cat got some other ones).

You got to worry about cats unless you want to keep a rooster or two (they will defend the hens). Most dogs will kill chickens for the heck of it. Again, depending on the size of the dog a really mean rooster could do some damage to the dog.

If they have eaten all the green grass in their fenced in area they will find a way to get out and get to some green grass unless you have a very well put together area.

I really like chickens. They are nice to have around and very relaxing just to watch go about their business. Most are pretty friendly too.


Thanks! Yeah, climate here is warm all year, and its not unusual for people here to raise their own chickens. I'm thinking of keeping them in a coop instead of going free range. I'm just in it for the eggs.
 

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Just try to get them greens. That is what makes the yokes bright yellow. That was the thing that surprised me the most is just how yellow the yokes are.
 

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I want to keep some ducks so I can have balut.
 

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Originally Posted by DarkNWorn
I want to keep some ducks so I can have balut.
I'm now always going to associate balut with kwilk and gosurface.
 

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Originally Posted by robin
I'm now always going to associate balut with kwilk and gosurface.

The bastard result of those two mating?
 

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Originally Posted by DarkNWorn
The bastard result of those two mating?

Originally Posted by kwilkinson
GoSurface makes me cook those for him every "morning after." I've come to take a liking to them, although it may just be symbolic of liking what went down beforehand.

;_;
 

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