Greenstorm's Journal

I love that feeling when a hobby circles around and feeds into another hobby.

F'rinstance, farming --> excess produce --> preserving --> booze --> distilled stuff
farming --> fertility and weed control --> extra eggs --> preserving

distilled stuff + eggs = advocaat and aged eggnog

It just feels good

Today is kind of an egg day. I put together 3 kilos of goose egg pasta -- it's resting in the fridge, I'll need to roll it, cut it, and freeze or dry it tonight. I'm thinking of doing a couple more kilos of duck egg pasta. I figure if I eat even just 0.5lb of pasta every third day, that's over 50lbs of pasta in a year. And I often have someone eating with me. It needs freezer space but it's pretty much an instant and good meal, especially if I open a can of tomato sauce from the garden for it. I'm not quite sure about how to dry and store it safely (maybe with a packet of dessicant in a vac sealed bag?) so I'll likely be just freezing it for now.

10 goose eggs makes 2.8kg of pasta.

I also am supposed to take my duck eggs out of the century egg brine, I think.
It's been about a month. I'll test one for firmness and then vac seal them awhile for the anaerobic part, I think. Maybe vac seal half? Accounts vary about how you're supposed to handle them honestly.

And then I am actually going to set up the incubator today. It's been long enough that I can start collecting ancona eggs and putting them in. I have some chicks arriving on the 17th so I want some chanteclers hatching about that time.
I currently have 3 chanties sitting on nests, one in the pure lines and two in the goose coop above the embdens. We'll see how it all goes.

I really, really wish the instant pot was reliable for pressure canning. I want to put up a couple roosters but don't want to go through the whole rigamarole.

Today I'm putting up some duck eggs as century eggs. They'll be put into a ratio of 1 litre water, 40g lye, and 60g salt. They should be in there from 3-4 weeks, then into a vac sealed bag.

I'll also be putting up some goose eggs similarly but haven't got a container for them yet.

I'm using 1- to 2- day old eggs, no older.

The duck eggs are clean and washed, the goose eggs are less consistently clean and are also washed.

Edited from the future: goose eggs didn't get done, try duck eggs 10 days next time.