This video explains how I managed our animals (poultry) whilst we were away on vacation/holiday and also my recipe on how to pickle a glut of chicken eggs to preserve them.
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Quick question… Can these be stored at room temperature or only in Refrigerator? Also, how long will they keep?
Cheers to an excellent video & thanks mate!
Eggs are such a miracle. Wonderful taste and protein, but they keep so well without refrigeration.
I use a steamer basket. It is unbelievably easy to peel
Haven't heard a shoutout for Toowoomba in a while, also I have that same shirt
I use a rice steamer and my fresh from henhouse eggs are easy to peel
New eggs left out for 4-5 days will peel easier
that hen is broodie ready to set
11:32 How to make the pickling vinegar
2 parts white vinegar to one part water
Throw in whatever herbs/spices you want (dill, mustard seeds, bay leaves)
Add sea salt – 1 tablespoon per liter
Chuck in some garlic
Add whole chilis
Bring to the boil and then switch off the gas
Add some of the cooked herbs/garlic chili etc to the bottom of the jar so it looks sexy
Throw your boiled eggs in
Pour the pickling vinegar over the eggs to fill the jar
Big fan of the channel, but come on man, let's not call the chicken who doesn't want her unborn babies taken "miss nasty". I'd be pretty pissed myself. Anyway, again, great channel.
You've spoke of your military service. i'm military as well. any chance of a video showing you showing your service?As a vet, i love seeing service related videos
Google how to peel eggs with a mason jar. You won’t be disappointed
Put vinegar in the water when you boil the eggs and it makes it much easier to peel
If you slide a teaspoon under the shell to the shape of the egg, the peel will come off easily.
Ducks are a special kind of creature. I mean SPECIAL. My friends duck tried to dive an an old paint can full of water and got stuck and drown. IN A PAINT CAN just wow
You have ducks too! Neat!
I use a spoon, whack the eggs with the back of the spoon, then use it to get under the membrane and work around and peel the eggs. Faster and easier.
I lost all my chickens last year to two back to back hurricanes Laura and Delta Just three weeks apart. The eye of both came over my home, dead centered. A tornado missed my house but got my chicken coop and yard and took out a lot of big old oak trees. I'll be starting over this spring. A few years ago I had a bad fall, broke my leg in two places and ruined my knee. So I'll be making a raised chicken coop and pen and a regular chicken run on the ground. I'm going to make this closer to my house due to the leg injury, tendons don't heal well for people over 50. I look forward to making pickled eggs. I am gonna try the raised beds, this would be heavenly for me, getting down on the ground is simply a no go situation for me. If I got down I would never get back up with out help. I love your videos I live on the Louisiana gulf coast of the U.S. , we are on the verge of being sub tropical. It's warm here 85 to 90 % of the year. I plan to make the coop and pen out of cinder blocks and cement about two feet off the ground So I do not have to squat down of kneel and I can hose it off I plan to make this completely covered with wire mesh and a roof. I am hoping to have this finished in a few weeks. I am going to recruit a bunch of young people to help me out So the work will go quickly.
hi Mark, really surprised you don't make fermented eggs. delicious, should give them a try.
growing up without a dad and being in foster care, this was the kinda man i dreamt my dad would be 🙂
Love seeing your animals. I adore your life with animals. I live in the city and I can’t have anything here but a couple reptiles.
Hey brother to guarantee a perfect peel add a couple tablespoons of salt and a couple tablespoons of vinegar boil them for 12 minutes cool them for 15 And literally the pills just fall off of them it’s fantastic I’m 65 and I just learned this and I usually boil about 60 eggs at a time
I’ll bet you tell your boys the same thing you told your dog! Don’t be a ….. good on ya!
Thanks for your video… I have never eaten a pickled egg but I am making three dozen of them today…
Extremely difficult to follow with the camera panning around so quickly. Love the humour and the helpful tips. Thank so much Mark
With all those eggs that were out there, how do you know no baby chicks were in there before boiling them?
I have great success peeling boiled eggs if I get the kettle of water on a gentle boil before adding the raw eggs. Gently lower the eggs into the boiling water. After they are done cooking, you run them under cold water and they peel very easily. Please try it and let me know what you think.
Forgot to add to my previous comment–I also let the egg shells dry out for composting. I grind mine into a fine powder in an old blender.
Cool them off with baking soda the shells will piss off better.
Great video!
2 items here…
1. As for peeling newer eggs, I tried all the different methods…the one that works 100%:
Get a very pointy knive (i use a fillet knife, but any very sharp pointed device will do), and poke a small hole into the broad-end of the egg PRIOR to boiling. Doesn't matter if you make too big of a hole… just that tiny punch allows the hot water to penetrate and release the shell. Easy-peasey!
2. Eggs outdoors for 10+ days…? How long can they be left out before going bad?
Cheers!
JerBear
Charlotte USA