How Do You Like Your Eggs In The Morning?

[The Boofon]

Baby chicken's cheap but eggs are getting more expensive.

 

Very happy about this as it's outlawed the smallest battery hen cages now. Next step is banning them altogether.

 

Eggs increasing in price.

 

 

Time for you to buy some chickens folks. I have three chickens out the back who lay an egg each every morning without fail. Virtually no cost to keep save for a big bag of layers pellets every second month although you can save that money by only using food scraps and boiling the shells of your used eggs and crushing them before feeding to your hens again so that the sell is recycled back into a fresh egg.

 

Speaking of fresh eggs did you know that a supermarket can call eggs extra fresh when they are already 9 days old.

 

Extra fresh in Boofon manor is 15 minutes old and the difference between a shop bought egg and one that has been laid at home by your own free range chook is like night and day.

 

You don't need a big garden, they are friendly pets and once they stop laying it's into the pot for Sunday dinner. What's not to like?

 

 

 

EGGS

 

Many recipes call for

[tup]

Who gives a fuck if the hens suffer, they're thick as mince, let them take it.

 

They need to evolve if they want an end to that suffering.

 

As long as they're cheap I couldna care less how they got onto the shelf.

[The Boofon]

Who gives a fuck if the hens suffer, they're thick as mince, let them take it.

 

They need to evolve if they want an end to that suffering.

 

As long as they're cheap I couldna care less how they got onto the shelf.

 

It's the taste that makes the difference Tup.

 

Great pets as well. The bairns would love em.

[tup]

It's the taste that makes the difference Tup.

 

Great pets as well. The bairns would love em.

 

I've got a dog, he's good value, and cute.

 

Hens dinna have many redeeming features.

[a don in oz]

I've got a dog, he's good value, and cute.

 

Hens dinna have many redeeming features.

Oh I don't know! Any animal that can survive with its head missing has to be pretty good.

 

 

 

[tup]

Oh I don't know! Any animal that can survive with its head missing has to be pretty good.

 

And of course fairly brainless, such is it's ability to function without it's main faculty.

 

Ergo, fair game for caging and persecuting for maximum benefit.

[Redmist1903]

The wife often tells of how when up visiting her Portsoy Grannie she used to get pecked by the chicken she kept in her backy. A pet chicken in the backy must be quite common up your way is it?

[jessisgod]

Baby chicken's cheap but eggs are getting more expensive.

 

Very happy about this as it's outlawed the smallest battery hen cages now. Next step is banning them altogether.

 

Eggs increasing in price.

 

 

Time for you to buy some chickens folks. I have three chickens out the back who lay an egg each every morning without fail. Virtually no cost to keep save for a big bag of layers pellets every second month although you can save that money by only using food scraps and boiling the shells of your used eggs and crushing them before feeding to your hens again so that the sell is recycled back into a fresh egg.

 

Speaking of fresh eggs did you know that a supermarket can call eggs extra fresh when they are already 9 days old.

 

Extra fresh in Boofon manor is 15 minutes old and the difference between a shop bought egg and one that has been laid at home by your own free range chook is like night and day.

 

You don't need a big garden, they are friendly pets and once they stop laying it's into the pot for Sunday dinner. What's not to like?

 

 

 

EGGS

 

Many recipes call for ‘fresh eggs’, and there can be a big difference in taste and texture. You can calculate when an egg has been laid by subtracting 28 days from the ‘best before’ date.

 

Legally, eggs can arrive on shop shelves as much as ten days after being laid (‘extra fresh’ means they are less than nine days old). Marks & Spencer promises to get eggs onto the shelves within seven days.

 

But most professional chefs would insist on eggs less than a week old, because the raw egg becomes more liquid with age and the taste deteriorates.

 

Although the egg industry now prints a ‘best before’ date on most eggs, it has rejected calls to print the actual laying date. But if you subtract 28 days from the best before date, you can work it out.

 

Do you keep your chickens in an enclosed area? Or do they free range? Looking into getting some but da want the bairns stepping in chicken shit a the time...

[The Boofon]

Do you keep your chickens in an enclosed area? Or do they free range? Looking into getting some but da want the bairns stepping in chicken shit a the time...

 

 

Free range at the moment and have full roam of the ground. Away to sort out a specific area for them though but they'll still have at least a penalty box sized bit of ground to roam about in. Key to free ranging is having a garden with plenty things for tem to poke around in. Just a garden full of grass will bore them. Shrubbery will have them prowling all over the place and keep them from being bored and pecking each other.

 

As for the chicken shit you'd be surprised both how little there is during the day and how big their dumps actually are. Dog shit sized so easy to clear up. They do most of their crapping at night while in the coop.

[The Boofon]

The wife often tells of how when up visiting her Portsoy Grannie she used to get pecked by the chicken she kept in her backy. A pet chicken in the backy must be quite common up your way is it?

 

I know a couple of other people who have them in the town. Large garden though and not a backy. That's a bit too common for me.

[Dandyesque]

I was considering a few hens, but we have a lot of badgers and foxes in the area - mink have taken neighbours' hens too.

 

How do you deal with the local predators.?

[tightbreeks]

could they not genetically modify a chicken to lay an egg that was all yolk. my sudgers love a runny yolk.

 

cross a chicken with a frog or something, a fricken!

[The Boofon]

I was considering a few hens, but we have a lot of badgers and foxes in the area - mink have taken neighbours' hens too.

 

How do you deal with the local predators.?

 

High walled garden impenetrable to foxes, badgers and the like.

 

Also they go into the coop before dusk and the door shuts automatically leaving them safe and sound.

 

No need for a full stop after your question either. The question mark is sufficient.

[tup]

The question mark contains a full stop.

[The Boofon]

The question mark contains a full stop.

 

 

No it doesn't.

It contains a period.

 

A full stop is something completely different.

[tup]

The crowd say bo selecta!

 

DJ Construct & MC Question Mark in the house.

[robbo]

im not overly interested in eggs for their taste. its their protein content im after

 

ive stockpilled eggs from makro - 180 for

[The Oxford Don]

Kelt posted up a thread on here not long ago which contained an interesting suggestion of what to do with chickens, namely turning them into velociraptors.

 

So yeah. Slightly more exciting than using them to lay eggs, or roasting them in the oven.

 

Having said that, I don't think roast velociraptor would taste very nice. However, I've been wrong before.

 

Incidentally, eggs are great, particularly when cooked scrambled in real butter. WIN.

[The Boofon]

im not overly interested in eggs for their taste. its their protein content im after

 

ive stockpilled eggs from makro - 180 for

[looksgoodinred]

Kelt posted up a thread on here not long ago which contained an interesting suggestion of what to do with chickens, namely turning them into velociraptors.

 

So yeah. Slightly more exciting than using them to lay eggs, or roasting them in the oven.

 

Having said that, I don't think roast velociraptor would taste very nice. However, I've been wrong before.

 

Incidentally, eggs are great, particularly when cooked scrambled in real butter. WIN.

 

is there any other kind of butter?

[The Boofon]

is there any other kind of butter?

 

 

I can't believe it.

[robbo]

 

You get better protein by cooking the eggs.

 

That's for the diet and fitness thread though.

 

A chicken running up the garden when you open the door to get some corn does look like a mini dinosaur.

 

bollocks, your right.

 

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/128/10/1716.full

 

i hate boiled eggs. taste aint great and your farts are horrendous.

[The Oxford Don]

is there any other kind of butter?

 

 

I think boofon got the point I was making, i.e. about 'proper' butter as opposed to any number of margey alternatives.

 

Having said that, I've scrambled eggs in Lurpak before and that actually worked out ok. But still not as good as the real stuff. Incidentally ghee produces the best results of the lot.

[The Boofon]

bollocks, your right.

 

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/128/10/1716.full

 

i hate boiled eggs. taste aint great and your farts are horrendous.

 

Have an omelette instead. :thumbs:

 

Or a creme egg. They taste fine as well.

 

Not so good for you though.

 

Creme Egg, Cadbury's

 

Calories in 100g of creme egg (Creme egg weighs 39g)

 

Calories 445.0 cals

Carbohydrate 71.0g

Protein 3.0g

Fat 16.0g

Fibre 0.0g

 

 

 

I am going to stick a creme egg into the coop for the daughter to find when I get home though so thanks for making me think of that little trick to play.

[Dandyesque]

High walled garden impenetrable to foxes, badgers and the like.

 

Also they go into the coop before dusk and the door shuts automatically leaving them safe and sound.

 

No need for a full stop after your question either. The question mark is sufficient.

 

 

Ah.

 

I've got beech hedges on the estate, so walling the whole area would be a significant cost compared to that of buying eggs.

[The Boofon]

Ah.

 

I've got beech hedges on the estate, so walling the whole area would be a significant cost compared to that of buying eggs.

 

Keep them indoors instead.

 

Provided your home is built of suitable material it should be able to keep all predators at bay and ensure your chickens are safe and sound.

[tommo1903]

In order, I prefer

 

Scrambled Eggs

Fried Eggs

Boiled Eggs.

[Dandyesque]

Keep them indoors instead.

 

Provided your home is built of suitable material it should be able to keep all predators at bay and ensure your chickens are safe and sound.

 

No thanks.

 

I'm henophobic.

 

Couldn't have them in the house.

[looksgoodinred]

In order, I prefer

 

Scrambled Eggs

Fried Eggs

Boiled Eggs.

 

Fried over easy.

Scrambled.

Poached.

[Henry]

Scrambled are OK

Fried are alright, occasionally.

 

Poached and boiled - gads.