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Egg salad with sour cream dressing
I enjoy a salad with a couple of slices of bread as my lunch, but it needs to be hearty enough to keep me working all afternoon and simple enough that I can knock it up fairly quickly. One of my...
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‘Spanish’ eggs
I was flicking through the copy of Maw Broon’s But an’ Ben Cookbook that the Other Half gave me for my birthday when I found a recipe for Spanish eggs. I wasn’t familiar with the name, but as I read...
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Marketing eggs
In a moment of cosmic serendipity, the Other Half has updated our “eggs for sale” sign at the same time as Hedgewizard asked visitors to his blog how they’d word a blurb for their eggs. I posted my...
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Scots Grey chicks hatching
We’ve had a batch of Scots Grey eggs sitting in the incubator for the past three weeks, which meant they were due to begin hatching yesterday. The boys, who have been keeping a close eye on the eggs,...
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Hatching going well
Six Scots Grey chicks have now emerged from their eggs, with another two well on their way. A further two chicks are pipping. None of the remaining eggs show pipping at this stage. Filed under:...
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What price welfare?
Once again British farmers will be squeezed as Britain implements tighter welfare standards while other countries fail to do so. UK farmers, who are on course to comply with EU-imposed welfare...
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Baked eggs
Saturdays mean cooked breakfasts on the croft. Today was no different, well, except that I made baked eggs, an egg dish I’ve not come across in the UK and the Other Half has not eaten before. (Don’t...
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Keeping chickens: basics
Small-scale chicken keeping goes through regular bouts of increased popularity, depending on media coverage of issues that catch the public eye: ‘living the good life’, animal welfare, the cost of...
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Exploding eggs
Shortly after 6pm, I mixed the evening feed for the chickens, poured it into a bucket and walked around to the first of the chicken runs out on the hill. I do the job day in, day out, which makes for a...
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Hens back in lay
Better later than never… A couple of our hens have decided it's time to come back into lay. Now for the other 30.— Stonehead (@stonehead1) March 08, 2013 Filed under: Crofting, Farming &...
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