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| Peggy |
 Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:23 am |
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Hot dry Christmas here also.
Birds of prey real bad here this year .. they are taking heads off young
kangaroos near hear.. when the mothers let the little ones out for a nibble
of grass and be mated so they don't get squashed..
some of the young have been found dead with large scratches down the face &
shoulders.. OR is it the big wild cat thing that appears and disappears
like snow in summer..
Oh poultry I have 50 hens aprox . how many roosters would be a good number
with out damaging the hens ..
Have a god one
Peggy |
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| Catherine Jemma |
| Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:02 am |
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Roosters....it is considered about one rooster per dozen hens is good
The supposed maximum a rooster can "cope" with is about 20 hens
That's what I've read in the past
Unless you specifically want fertile eggs though, why even bother having a
man around ?
Fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly should still be used
within 14 days
UN-fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly are perfectly ok
after 5 months. Yep sometimes here there's a bit of an egg-famine and I
have rationed out eggs (dated when collected) so know this to be accurate
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| Mary Fisher |
| Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:18 pm |
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"Catherine Jemma" <xena@agn.net.auREMOVEthis> wrote in message
news:458f3fee$1@quokka.wn.com.au...
Quote: Roosters....it is considered about one rooster per dozen hens is good
The supposed maximum a rooster can "cope" with is about 20 hens
That's what I've read in the past
Unless you specifically want fertile eggs though, why even bother having a
man around ?
Ukm - I have a man around even though he had a vasectomy in 1969 and a
prostatectomy in 2006 :-)
Quote: Fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly should still be used
within 14 days
UN-fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly are perfectly ok
after 5 months. Yep sometimes here there's a bit of an egg-famine and I
have rationed out eggs (dated when collected) so know this to be accurate
Yes, I've used September's eggs and October's (today) for our Christmas
dishes. They're fine.
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| Susan Hogarth |
| Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 5:01 pm |
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Catherine Jemma wrote:
Quote: ...
Fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly should still be used
within 14 days
UN-fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly are perfectly ok
after 5 months. ...
Why the difference?
- Susan |
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| enigma |
| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:25 am |
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"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth@gmail.com> wrote in
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Quote: Catherine Jemma wrote:
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Fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly
should still be used within 14 days
UN-fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly
are perfectly ok after 5 months. ...
Why the difference?
because finding a developing chick in your omlet is pretty
off-putting 
lee
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| Susan Hogarth |
| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:53 am |
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enigma wrote:
Quote: "Susan Hogarth" <hogarth@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1167080519.548800.148940@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
Catherine Jemma wrote:
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Fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly
should still be used within 14 days
UN-fertilised eggs, collected and refridgerated promptly
are perfectly ok after 5 months. ...
Why the difference?
because finding a developing chick in your omlet is pretty
off-putting
But chicks will not develop at room temperature (unless you live at 40c
day and night), and -certainly- not in the 'fridge.
So I am curious why there would be a difference in storage times for
fertilized vs unfertilized eggs. Do fertilized eggs go 'off' faster?
- Susan |
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