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Running continuous batches of chickens this year now that we have an incubator. Tried growing the flock with broody hens and had poor success. With our flock dwindling down and the price/availability of chicks going up it was time to upgrade our chicken system.

Soon when the weather warms up will be able to go directly from the incubator to the brooder outside. For now, we have a stock tank inside until the chicks get some feathers.

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rev.hodl 1y ago

Saving up a stockpile of eggs after rebuilding chicken flock

Bought a egg incubator to hatch some chicks last season and it's paying off now. Getting more eggs than we can eat each day so we are building a stockpile. We pickle a couple dozen at once, which make for a good quick snack. We are also scrambling them and freezing them in 6 egg packages. Hopefully this winter when our chickens stop laying we will have enough frozen eggs to make it through the winter without buying any. We tried water glassing eggs in the past with success but wanted to try freezing instead.

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Maria2000 1y ago

We currently have extras too, gonna try the freezing method. Thanks for reminding me.😊

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i think one thing that might make it work better is putting the egg juice inside a highly insulated container so it forms extremely fine crystals and doesn't break the membranes so much... if it takes 3 days to get to freezing this is much better than freezing in 5 hours

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

or have i got that back to front?

for crystallization, slow is better... for freezing, you overall reduce the size of water crystals because the whole mass is of a more even temperature... hmm let me read up

yeah, slower = bigger crystals of water

probably you want to drop it into liquid nitrogen to be sure 🤣

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/How-does-fast-freezing-improve-the-quality-of-frozen-foods

yes, the faster you can make it cold, the better the quality at thawing

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

if i was busy with this stuff, i'd get a chest freezer, bolster it's insulation layer by at least 2x, and modify the thermal pump controller so i can just turn it on and leave it on until i switch it back to maintaining temperature... and hm yeah actually, might be better to get a smaller chamber to use for this, for specific freezes, and get them to freeze fast, and then once frozen drop them into a normal big freezer... would be worth getting the compressor from a giant freezer, and put it on a tiny little thing enough for your day's eggs so you can freeze them up in like 3 hours hard solid, probably they would thaw out and be almost like fresh eggs

jamw 1y ago

Yep, this is the method for rapid freezing in electron microscopy specimen preparation, precisely to minimise ice crystal formation and consequently cellular damage.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

it might help also to have a circulating fan within the insulated chamber to keep the thermoclines short as well

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

wowser i got so excited i managed to make next.nostrudel.ninja double post

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

it might help also to have a circulating fan within the insulated chamber to keep the thermoclines short as well

kerimae 1y ago

This is great. I'd love to hear how this all turns out this winter, for example how the frozen cooked eggs are. I need to get myself an incubator; that's something we haven't done yet.