Beginners Chicken Keeping

Mesquite

It is what it is.
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You like pickles….A two pint Kilner jar will hold a dozen eggs if they're pickled. Pickled eggs go well with salads, sliced on sandwiches, in packed lunches, and they can be used to make Scotch eggs if folks like chutney tasting ones. Not to everyone's taste, but very good food.

Chili pickled eggs are particularly tasty if you do pickle any eggs Hugh :D
 

Lister

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I should get some snaps of our chickens, we've had them just over 2 years now;

A Sussex
A Cream legbar
A Leghorn
4 Rhode Rocks
2 Gold Star

They get free-range of the garden, much to the dismay of the garden, it needs regrassing and the holes filling but they enjoy it so can't complain.
 
I used to do Chilli and Garlic pickled eggs

put Peeled hard boiled eggs in jar add Chilli peppers and clove of garlic sarsons pickling vinegar Lid on leave for at least 6weeks (have had some years later after finfing on a cupboard top couple had been sactrificed to teh God of pickling and mush in the bottom but rest where fine :cool:

For effect put in a small Cooked beetroot (or few drops of red food colour) eggs turn Red yolks go a little green looks like pickled hearts ;)

Jsut trying out a Pickled Goose egg as we have a few now 1 per small jar with a little garlic
 

British Red

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yep normally small to start and probably a lot of double yolks as well

Had a few of them, a couple of thin shells and now, as more come on to lay, a huge size variation

Egg size variation by British Red, on Flickr

The hens are maturing nicely, you can see most of them here

Chicken flock by British Red, on Flickr

The Goldstar is a particularly striking looking bird

Gold Star by British Red, on Flickr

and the Speckeldy are both large and oddly turkey like we think

Speckledies by British Red, on Flickr

All good fun so far, and less work than bees!
 

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