I am 85 years old, we did this when I was a child...if people lived on a ranch FAR from town, & without power or phone....their negative attitudes would be changed to thankfulness.....you did a great job young lady with class & style.
@White Rider , the kjv bible is the only solution to this fallen world. I live on a homestead and get the greatest riches out of it, because 1ST= IM A BIBLE BELIEVING, BIBLE OBEYING, SPIRIT FILLED DECIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST. WE MUST REPENT= STOP, THINK AND TURN FROM OUR WICKED WAYS.. THEN BELIEVE THE WHOLE BIBLE AND BELIEVE HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS.. THATS ONLY DONE IN A RELATIONSHIP, NOT RELIGION. TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.
@@Heseesyou I am a Christian myself BUT that has nothing to do with this video. MANY people of many religious backgrounds believe this is the end times. Trust me, it isn't (as much as I wish it were).
Jeanette the, which I have a good time Wright.....Mmmm, I was wondering the same. Our hens will occasionally get poop on the eggs. I suppose those eggs would just have to be washed and used immediately, instead of stored. Most of the time, they are clean.
Also called calcium hydroxide and slaked lime, hydrated lime is highly caustic and can burn skin and eyes. It is used in cement and mortar, and it can kill a number of lawn-inhabiting parasites, such as fleas. Farmers often use it on outlying lands to protect animals from parasites that can sicken or kill them. Because hydrated lime's use is restricted in some locations, check your area's regulations before using the product.
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* extra pearl of wisdom* “If you don’t have a lid for your croc to stop evaporation, add a layer of olive oil and then cover with a clean cloth.” 🤔 Genius dressed in work clothes... Thanks Carolyn!
@@wrAIth-AI I Guess it wasn't clear what I was saying, If the eggs are not initially washed, could there be other contamination we should be concerned about. 🤔
@@chesternichols1662 if you take good care of your chickens and control internal parasites that should not be a problem. You should be able to to wipe your eggs with a dry cloth they will be safe. If you have poop covered eggs your birds have internal parasites. Wash those eggs under water but eat them now, do not water glass those eggs.
Five gallon buckets can end up causing some eggs to crack due to weight over time. Gallon buckets, jars or quart jars don't seem a issue. Great video, very pleasing to listen to, needed a reminder, you did well.
This lady is legit. My wife and I have succeeded in every tutorial that we've had the chance to try. Thank you for your hard work, from the Ozark mountain folk:)
Howdy Ozark neighbor!! There is an Ozark Homestead group now in Missouri-- we meet monthly in Texas Co. More info in Prepared Homestead RUclips videos if you're interested
I was just thinking the same thing! She reminds me of Bob Ross. Takes something that seems a little daunting to me and makes it seem easy, and fun with a positive soothing yet informational tone! Love people like this!
Yes! I am mad that people moved from being self saficient life styles! I am trying to get back to that but I am missing the last piece that I was going to get before the outbrake. I wanted chickens and goats.
When using preserved eggs, always crack each egg into a separate container, then if good add to whatever you are preparing. That way you don't spoil the batch if you have a bad egg.
This is also a good practice with any eggs, especially if you have young helpers in the kitchen. It makes it much easier to see if there are any bits of shell and also makes it easier to get them out.
We never stop missing our mothers 😢 16 years gone and my heart still aches just to hear her voice or have a comforting hug from her. Eternal rest to all our heavenly mothers 🕯🙏🏼 🕯
I like how you guys think "let the chicken be a chicken" its logical and straight to the point and I agree God put us on the planet and made us ambassadors of the realm and that is to respect and take care of the animals and the planet we call mother which is earth
Wow! I'm 63 y.o. and this is 1st I've ever heard of this. AMAZING!...how much knowledge has been lost to us by mass farming & mechanization. But... 200 years ago I'd bet it was common knowledge. Thank you for this.
well just this evening I found out you can can potatoes, you can make your own tomato paste and you can can dry beans and now, you can save your eggs......I'm 65 and thought I knew thing or two...
Uh, how do you make chickens take a break from laying,or, for that matter, make them lay eggs. Either they do or they don't. It's not a demand that you can force on them.
Poor Chickens never get a break, They lay year round, stay outside (mostly) they know if they stop laying their days are numbered. We have a few as pets and the eggs are a benefit but we keep them warm in the winter and try to keep them clean. Our oldest lived just over 10 years. My wife had a rooster named Romeo he was her shadow and protector he was very special and made a wonderful pet. Romeo (rip) but he was rough on his hens.
@partison lol true but internet is super useful and you can run it off of solar /wind power setup. Or she could make a WiFi harvester out of an old dish network satellite dish and get free WiFi from a mile away.
So many inconsiderate people in this room :( I have watched so many videos that go too fast and you are left with so many questions. I like the way she took her time and explained everything. It's called being informational. She doesn't have any links on where to buy the buckets and all. She isn't promoting any products. You out there who want to complain and say mean things need to stop and continue on to other videos that would fit your narratives.
(Tina here) Having made my own soap for several years, I really don't want to stick anything into any type of hydroxide solution, least of all food or my bare hands. Sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are extremely caustic, why would calcium be any different? They are on the same part of the periodic table of elements so have nearly identical properties. Therefore, I don't know how hydrated lime = calcium hydroxide.
@@tomandtinadixon it’s in the fist paragraph of the wiki en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_hydroxide I’m a chemist. “In the same part of the table” is not quite accurate. Calcium ions carry a +2 charge and sodium and potassium ions only carry +1 charges. What that means is that the calcium ions “hold” onto the hydroxide ions more tightly than an equivalent amount of potassium or sodium hydroxide would. That means that overall calcium hydroxide is much less caustic than sodium or potassium hydroxides. Just because something has a chemical name doesn’t mean its dangerous.
@@GucciCaligula OK thanks for the clarification. And yeah I get that everything in existence is pretty much a chemical. But still, if it's caustic, I don't feel comfortable with using it. I know how the other two types are, so if calcium hydroxide is "half" (correct me?) as caustic it's still somewhat nasty. Also, after looking it up myself, it even tells you NOT to use the construction grade stuff for home use, especially for food. Use ONLY the food grade, or pickling, lime.
@@tomandtinadixon again I think you’re letting a fear of terms distract you from what’s actually at issue which is overall safety. Caustic just means basic. Baking soda is caustic. Also the “half as caustic” thing isn’t right either. There’s an annoying thing with chemistry and science in general where in order to answer a “why” question you need to go waaaayyy beyond the scope of the original question, or you need to oversimplify or tell a half truth (this is called hand waving) so you don’t spend all day explaining something simple. The truth about how basic “caustic” a compound is depends on the pKB of the compound. This is a log scale measurement of how likely the compound is to dissociate in water (they can only “do” base things when dissociated) with higher numbers meaning less likely to dissociate. The pKB of Sodium Hydroxide is about .2 the pKB of calcium hydroxide is about 2.4. And remember this is a log scale, so calcium hydroxide is 100x LESS basic than Sodium Hydroxide. As for the use thing, yeah. The food grade really just talks about the purity, food grade means it got lab testing for its purity. Construction grade didn’t, it doesn’t mean that construction grade isn’t safe to use, it just means that no one checked. Use something that you’d be comfortable with.
Having now embraced homesteading and truly understanding how important it is to be at one with nature, your videos are so, so important and such a true blessing. You guide, help, make us laugh! I feel very blessed to have found your channel! My grandma would be very happy I've gone back to a better way of living Thank you
I watched this a year ago and followed her instructions, (though I used pickling lime), and it worked great! I have eggs from a year ago that are still good. Just one tip I'll add: do not try to make hard boiled eggs with these. The air pocket disappears and they explode when steamed or boiled.
@Stephanie Ford Do you wash the eggs after you take out the eggs out of the pickling lime? And where did you purchase the pickling lime; and what kind of container did you use and where did you purchase it? Ty
Mammaw, I used Mrs Wages canning lime from our local grocery store.. Currently eating 9 month old eggs. I did it in February as an experiment, works great.
FYI I did this in May, kept my eggs at room temperature until December and just tried one. Did the float test first with no buoyancy whatsoever. The egg looked completely normal, with no off odor at all. I scrambled it up and tried it and it tasted like a regular store egg. So not the ultra fresh delicious farm egg taste, but a very respectable run of the mill, perfectly acceptable to eat taste.
@oj johnson I would use a food grade container. Lowe’s buckets are not food grade. I used one of those big containers that Sams Club cheese puffs come in, and I had a plastic 2 gallon food prep bin. Glass jars hold surprisingly few eggs, even the half gallons so there was a lot of wasted lime water. I am able to get food grade buckets from the grocery store bakeries for free (they get icing in them so they have several a week)
My grandma just used the big box that kept the wheat flour for this. Meaning, just bury your eggs in flour and you are done. No chemicals needed. We had a room set in the house where the temperature was lower than in the rest and the quantity of sunlight was kept at a minimum, that was the place where the flour and other ingredients were kept, and the eggs just went in the flour.
@@CleverGirlAAH I watched a video on a lot of different options including ashes. So far the water glassing looks the best to me. The one I will try when I move out to the property. The ash or mineral oil just did not sound appealing to me.
It’s really cool to learn how our grandparents preserved food before refrigeration became common place… only 75 or 80 years ago! Thanks for producing this type of content!
I loved how she said " Let chickens be chickens" we tend to forget that animals have to be animals, whether they are farm animals or domestic ones. Nice video. I came her out of pure curiosity. I don't have chickens, but really enjoyed this lady. She is so calm and makes un-stresses me with her suave voice!
@@MrAdamNTProtester Off topic much? Nobody who shares your views wants to hear from you?? Please hush and go where you're wanted and appreciated, if you can find your way there...
I was following the advice of one of my other homesteading ladies and she recommended black seed oil sunflower seeds, these are sold in feedstores. She also recommended oats and corn. We have had to order organic now because of the Riund Up contamination in so many things especially feed. So if its damaging my animals, it will damage me too. So the sunflower seeds , even with the shells on, has caused my hen's to lay in January, and we have long winters and snow.but I also make sure they get an electrolyte in their water year round with. Vitamin D in it, and it has minimal amounts if A and Bs and magnesium and potassium, but that D makes a difference in their winter depression. Before adding this ssf supplement, they would get depressed in winter and not come out if there was snow on the ground, and not get out to eat ( I put the feeder inside now in winter) and they would die from lack of calories. But th he D has really made a difference in their happiness . ] But those oil seeds also must be loaded with nutrients because I've never had them just start blasting out eggs in january before.
The other thing that I want to mention is that in the old days people would have multiple buckets. When a bucket was filled with eggs to be stored they then emptied it out placing all the eggs in a new bucket - thus putting the newest eggs to the bottom . That way you pick the oldest eggs out first when you started to use them :)
I've done this 2 years now, I use 1 or 2 gallon crocks or jars and eat oldest to newest. First year I didn't and the eggs at the bottom were a year old when I got to them, they were still good, but I'd prefer eating oldest to newest.
@@cluckieschickens Do you know how to "clean" the eggs without "washing" them? I was totally miffed by this statement. How do you have "clean" eggs without "washing" them? Thanks for any response.
Keeping eggs viable for over 6 months is one thing but up to 2 years is absolutely incredible. My grandmother used to pickle eggs but I don't ever remember her using this technique. Thank you and God Bless 🙏🏻
But weren't they selectively bred by people around china? They used to only have a big population boom when the bamboo went to seed because there was enough food to feed all the eggs you could lay in a month, not 3/4 of every year of their lives. Don't tell God what his plan is while you're in your house made of his trees.
@@danisprettygay yes! exactly....they are domesticated....and WE (humans) have done that so that we can have a more abundant source of food. If God gave man domain over the animals and the ability to domesticate them, we already make these animals do what they would not "naturally" do in the wild. To be honest, our family can't afford to feed animals year round without egg production. We stew our chickens at around three years anyway, so they don't live super long lives anyhow.
Certain breeds will keep laying year round if you want them without giving them lights. I believe the buff orphington is one of them(if I spelled that right lol)
Sold! Once you gave the argument of "If GOD gave them the ability to stop laying eggs at certain times than maybe its not good for their bodies" That was game right there!
Chicken originate in warm climates were they produce year round. If God wanted you to preserve eggs he would've preserved them for you, see how dumb that sounds?
I had to comment. We just opened two eggs from the 42 (there is meaning to that) we put away in lime water in July of 2020. 14 months ago. They are perfect. Thank you so much for this video. We are amazed at the results.
This is good stuff to know in this day and time. You can never tell when the power grids will go down and we have no power. This was my job as a kid. My grandma started me out young on this. And it also seems like anything else to do with a chicken was my job too. From feeding to plucking. We didn't get to ask too many questions, if granny said do it, you just went and done it.
Same here. As long as I can remember I was feeding the chickens & gathering eggs. We grew our own chicken for our freezer so it was also my job to help process them each summer. I'm grateful that I know how to raise and process my own food
"if god created the chicken to stop laying eggs during the winter, then maybe that's best for their bodies" - Yes!! No matter what higher power (or not) you believe in, we need to start understanding that nature tells is when we can or cannot benefit from it. We need to start following more traditional teachings that understand the life cycle of plants and animals, so that we aren't over-using and depleting our resources for food like the western world currently does. Homesteaders should definitely do some research into traditional indigenous teachings in hunting and gathering, as they follow so many of the same principles as you just said, like knowing when it is time to prepare for winter like this, like being wary of hunting females (life-givers), like hunting and gathering in season.. Anyways, wonderful video on egg preservation! Thank you! Let chickens be chickens!
@@peterstiff8988 if your child drew a picture for you that you knew was crap, would you throw it away or put it on the fridge? It doesn't matter what people believe as long as it's with the best intentions. That said: there's a reason nature exists as it does and it's best not to mess with the natural flow of things, whatever the reasoning. Please stop spreading hate and just appreciate the knowledge she was willing to share
Ness, do agree the West needs to stop over-using and depleting their resources on the East and South whose hunting and gathering methods aren't able to feed their overpopulated nations.
Couldn't you argue that god allowed for the technology to allow for chickens to lay eggs year round? If you pick and choose you should live in the wild with no technology, not even fire unless it comes from nature.
Don't worry about the thumbs down, they have nothing better to do and live to be mean! I found buckets with lids for $1.79 (post-pandemic) at the local grocery store bakery! I also bought the Masonry hydrated lime for $10.98 for 50lbs at Menards (post-pandemic). Forwarded this video to like minded friends and told them I have enough lime to share. My dear, you rock! I've utilized much of your shared knowledge and thank you from the bottom of my ❤ heart! Farmers warn that since poultry feed prices have quadrupled that eggs will be $12 a dozen very soon!
Just Google farms near you. Call them and ask for unwashed. They will happily help you. Prob have dozens for you. Pls Support local farms We Need Them. EVERY CUSTOMER COUNTS ❤️
Another homesteader taught me that you can used store-bought eggs if you can't get fresh farm eggs. You just have to grease them with crisco or lard before putting them into the lime. It simulates the protective "bloom" that the chicken leaves on the egg. It works perfectly.
The Lord bless you, and keep you: The Lord make his face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
AMEN!!!! I realize that this video is a few years old, but it's amazing I never new that you could preserve fresh eggs for that length of time. Thank you so much for sharing, God bless and have a Blessed & Joyful day, Bernice
Oh I love your take on letting the chickens follow their natural pattern of laying eggsas they choose and the idea of letting them rest, how beautiful is that!! I'm looking to live off grid and although I can't underestimate the challenges I'm also relishing the natural way of life! 💚
Lisa is 100% right. The industry is beyond cruel with how much they force these chickens to lay eggs. It completely drains them and sucks so much nutrition out of their bodies. They were never meant to lay as many eggs as humans are forcing them to. It’s so cruel. Not to mention what the egg industry does to the poor little baby male chicks that are born. It doesn’t get any more disturbing than that.
Do it. Even if it's something you don't know if you can pull off 100%. Each skill you learn and use and the satisfaction of being responsible and self-sufficient in certain areas will enhance your life.
@@claesmansson9070 We had the cutest thing happen. We had our eleven hens about a year and we get so many eggs, when I started noticing a pile of them in a hard-to-get-to corner of the coop, I just left them. I noticed a couple hens had become broody sitting on them all day long. One morning I opened their side boxes and heard peeps! I hadn't heard that in so long, at first i thought it was small birds around. I looked inside and surprised ten little chicks running around the bottom of the coop with the hen clucking after them! So thrilling to see nature at work!! God's plan is perfect. When i realized they'd soon need feed and water (their shells looked about exhausted), we set them up in the top of the coop away from the herd--except sleeping. When they got big and brave enough they came down the ramp and braved the other hens and two roosters. 🥰
I just thought I'd share a little of my experience with water-glassing. It does not appear I can upload a couple of pictures here, as an example, but I am just now using October 2022 eggs, here in Nove 2023. My observation is the shells are just a little more fragile and possibly a little thinner. They do not appear to be as tough as they were when I first put them into the lime water. I also noticed the yolks are not quite as bright and the whites appear a little thinner, but they still cook up without any difficulty. I use food-grade hydrated lime for my preservation. I have been water-glassing for 5 years now. Also, I have 10 dozen eggs per 5-gallon bucket; although I have found 8 doz seems to be an optimal fit with less loss of product. I have occasionally lost 1-4 eggs in any given bucket. I currently have 90-100 dozen in storage.
You have NEVER waterglassed an egg because lime is NOT anything but lime. Waterglass is Sodium Silicate and is better and more expensive than lime. saw some at home depot for concrete sealer, also you can find crystals.
I thought the water glassing method was presented very well. The fact that chickens don’t lay or lay very little during the winter certainly does attest to God’s care for them and for us since He gave us a brain to figure out ways to preserve our foods. Any one that thinks God made chickens out of lizards is very odd and probably should see a phyche doctor.
Some do lay all year but like she stated, most of the time their laying is drastically reduced. The solar clock is what regulates their egg laying, which is why she doesn’t use artificial light. I completely agree with her, the hens typically last longer and have a better life. Every hen has a finite amount of eggs she can lay from birth til the end. Let ‘em live a little. Looks like God knew what he was doing, huh?
Haha Peter your reply is so funny!! Im sorry for those that are too serious but since the crap news everyday I thought I would never laugh again. Peter Thankyou so much I needed that. My stomach is hurting😝😝
Does the lime settle on the bottom of the bucket? I’m doing it for the first time and after mixing it well and adding my eggs the lime settled on the bottom.
I’m really glad that I found your channel. Greetings from North Carolina. I just inherited 50 acres of family land that has been in our family since 1834. Looking forward to moving out there and getting my own homestead going and teaching my grandkids how to live off of it. Thank you guys for the wealth of info that you give out.
She’s a source of a lot of great information and I highly respect her and her family and all the work they’re doing. She just happens to be wrong about using pickling lime and having to start with unwashed eggs that have never been put in the refrigerator.
Howdy Neighbor!! What part of NC?!? I grew-up on a very old family farm near Greenville, NC and my parents/some extended family still live in the area. I spent most of my professional life in New Bern, NC and I now live near Wilmington, NC but visit the Greenville, NC area whenever possible. ❤️
great video, was very shocked my chickens did not stop laying this winter for some reason. I followed your pickle recipe, and they came out better than the store thank you.
Ever hear the saying we've forgotten more then we now know? Lost knowledge. This would have been common knowledge in everyday life at one time. I'm always reminded of this when I learn new gardening techniques. "I'm sure this was common knowledge at one point in time". Great vid Thank you
It's because things are made to be as easy as possible. With electricity and refrigeration people dont need to know this method. Which isnt smart because if a disaster happens and those things are gone..people will be screwed. It should be mandatory for everyone to learn how to survive without electricity and how to grow and preserve food.
Okay. As wonderfully informative as this preservation method is, I feel like what blew my mind the most was the olive oil evaporation trick! How genius! It’s one of those things that I never would’ve thought of myself but as soon as I heard it, it makes perfect sense and I’m definitely going to use that idea!
@@lovinfl07 she mentions using olive oil, if you don’t have an airtight container. The concept is, the oil will lay on top of the water solution, preventing the water from evaporating. Which would allow your eggs to eventually spoil, if the air gets to them.
That includes adulterating chickens to harvest them earlier-- Why?? (I raised chickens on our small farm- they are ready to eat plenty early without adding chemicals to them... Ughh)
@@carriepo8671 Well,if you grew them without any chemical/artificial enhancements then that is totally fine. I'm not saying that people shouldn't make their farm operation as efficient as can be.What I'm saying is we should not put unnecessary chemicals/stresses on our animals just because we want more from them.
The main reason chickens do not lay eggs in the dark days is because the eggs are to produce baby chicks and they must be kept warm. The darker days are colder.
Its amazing how much we as a people have forgotten after only a couple generations. Really valuable info. Please keep teaching us city folk!! Thanks for waking me up, now I just need a farm with chickens!
I'm just curious as to who in the crap gave this a thumbs down?? She's pleasant, informative, and did a great job demonstrating.. She answered all the questions surrounding this method, so what is your problem?!? Geeeezz!!! What has this lovely woman done to deserve your hate? And how do you think you could have done this any better?? Honey, you ignore these people who are giving you negativity. As a small homesteader, new to the game, you got it going on!! I just happened upon your channel! I will sub! Look forward to all your wisdom!
I feel like this is the most useful \educational video I've seen in years. Seriously, I'm going to buy this 50lb bag asap. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
@@martinkerker1190 yet i noticed she does not answer any one , or likes anyone's comment , its like she just makes the video and leave you with what she posted and that's it.
Vincent ferrando what the hell do you need to know?? The video is self-explanatory. You probably ask a stupid ass question like the comment you posted... Dumbass!
I loved this! The quick history lesson, the info on chickens laying less in winter, the hydrated lime comparisons and manufacturing. This I already was very familiar with, I had chickens as a kid and had to pour cement with my dad and carry mortar as I was the right age....under 16 and older than my useless brothers. (Forced child labor in the summer, lol) Yes, I was at times an angry teen, but this was an informative and enjoyable video to watch. She is an excellent teacher as was my father. I learned a skill that has helped me my entire life. At my current residence I have put in 10 yards of concrete and built privacy block walls, much of it with little to no help. My father taught science, mathematics, and physics. If you have been taught to read you can read the warnings on labels, decide yourself if you want to use this method. There are warning labels on many things, even Christmas lights, phone chargers, extension cords, gas pumps, I even read a cereal box from the dollar store that read, may contain lead, how about... produced with GMO ingredients. I DON'T EVEN FLINCH KNOWING IT IS HYDRATED LIME. I have used it in other applications. Even pickles but years ago purchased it at the grocery store just to save time but paid way too much for it. Be responsible for yourself. Thank this lovely lady for her time and information. Be a positive force in this world. Share your knowledge, even knowledge like this that has been lost due to our fast paced work, work, work, to get out of debt mentality and pay too much at the grocery store fatigue. Sorry about the rat race rant, I feel there are undeserved negative comments. I'm so appreciative of the ability to be able to get this information, and to have free speech. Thank you for making this!
"Forced child labor", Hell yes! And I'm a much better person for it. To this day I could care less if the tv was on or not. Nothing on there worth watching anyway.
681 thumbs down??? What world am I living in? Was it not eggy enuff for ppl? ... Not homesteady enuff? ... Maybe a pleasant lady giving genuinely interesting information just makes ppl hate things? I don't know you, homesteading family, but I (for one) learned something I did not know. So thanks. And 👍.
It's growing... 797 thumbs down when I watched! Morons! Probably people working for big pharma or the gubment! Lol you know how they hate us working together passing on solutions that actually benefit ourselves
Thank you, thank you, thank you for reinforcing the stability and constancy of the design of God's plan to guide our lives through Mother Nature. Though I'm not religious whatsoever, our Creator had the best plan laid out for the whole of us for a reason and it's sad to see that we no longer follow that plan that's the best for all; nature, humankind, the environment, and the All!
I homesteaded in the '70s in Western WV. We would buy waterglass in the grocery store and mix 1 qt of it with 2 1/2 gallons of water in a 5-gallon crock and fill it with eggs like you using the extras during the spring and summer. I kept them in the cold cellar with a wooden lid and a brick on it to keep out mice ( one mouse spoils the whole batch). They would get us through the winter. One point was that the yolks would be flat and often break when you cracked the egg so they were no good for frying, OK scrambled with other ingredients, and just fine for cooking cornbread and stuff like that. It was a good healthy life but you had to work every day all day just to survive! The city kids mostly washed out and back to mom and dad when the weather turned.
My brother told me recently that chickens have about 500 eggs . I never knew that. So they either lay them over a number of years at a natural pace, and have vacations in winter, or they are pushed to lay their eggs continually with lights. And then they are all used up quicker.
@@pattysherwood7091 human females the same...born with the total amount of possible eggs...use em up and there are no more...some with fertilization and you have an offspring...circle of life...with the chicken or the egg question... Not yet andwered
WOW you're never to old to learn something new. I'm 65 yr old & I must say I have never heard of this before. Great job young lady you're a great teacher ❤️☺️
+Jim Groth Unless you become as little children (believing), you shall in no way enter into heaven. You too. It may hopefully may touch your poor deceived heart when you are up against disaster or at deaths door. The logic of man is never enough, however useful God made it to be.
I had to finally check on my water glassing experiment. 17 months of waiting. It was time to go through it. I lost some due to the extreme cold of the garage through winter but I am shocked! They are amazing. They smell and look great! Some yolks are a little weak but some are standing up high like store bought. Blows my mind. I am making mother lodes of pasta with them.
I feel so connected to this woman. She's so straight forward in her delivery. No hesitation, she knows what she's saying. I dident know that that is how water glass was made. And I've known of it for many years. Thanks. You learn something new every day, This is my first time watching, keep it up.👍
I thought water glass was some unobtainable old-timey potion years ago, when I had a springtime egg glut and was researching egg storage. This was just before the internet became widespread. I never did try it, but I will now.
I did this, just as explained, and 9 months later did a comparison between these eggs, and fresh eggs. NOBODY could tell the difference. Thank you for making this presentation. I enjoyed all of your insight, and very valuable information. My girls started laying again like crazy, so I'm going to start with a second batch, and use up the older eggs. Blessings to you, and your homesteading family!!
RonRay What this world needs is someone who is not afraid to tell the truth... as is. Robbing other species from everything precious to them, including their lives to eat their eggs is absurd, unethical, unnatural, foolish and self - destructive behaviour. There's nothing sustainable, nor humane or ethical about animal agriculture! A good mother will NEVER, EVER feed her own children with the blood and flesh of someone else's children. I use to think like you un till the light bulb enlighten my 18 year old brain blindfolded by my ancestors stupid, absurd ideas and traditions. When we wear, use and eat animal products we create, encourage, allow and promote diseases, wild life extinction, hunger, deforestation, pollution, global warming and violence. Do some home work, before you jump all over me. Here few places to start with. On youTube, Netflix or/and Google: -WHAT THE HEALTH -FOOD CHOICES -THE FOOD WE WERE BORN TO EAT -WHAT'S THE "NATURAL" HUMAN DIET -NUTRITIONFACTS.ORG -DON'T EAT ANYTHING WITH A FACE -BBC : FOOD ON THE BRAIN -DR. COLIN CAMPBELL- THE CHINA STUDY -DR. ESSELSTYN -RAWFORBEAUTY.COM -HUMANEFACTS.ORG -NUTRITIONSTUDIES.ORG -RAN.ORG/RESPONSIBLE_FOOD_SYSTEMS -BEYOND CARNISM AND TOWARD RATIONAL -2 AND 1/2 MILLION YEARS THE BULK LIVED ON STARCH BASED DIETS -FOOD STUDIES INSTITUTE - FOOD IS ELEMENTARY, AWARD WINNING NUTRITIONAL CURRICULUM TEACHING..... - EUROPE'S DARK SECRET : EYE OPENING SPEECH - UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS : UPC-ONLINE.ORG THANKS
Mike Luther Why? Uhh, I guess the truth is bothering you. Well, not sorry to tell you, don't care. I'm not going to STFU so you stay comfortable and ignorant. If anything, YOU STFU, do your home work, check out the great life - saving links I kindly provided earlier to know and do better than this. Good luck, you need it. Thanks
cooperrosa--What the world needs is for liberal imbeciles with big mouths like you to all fall in a deep deep deep pit where we don't have to see or hear you anymore! That's the nice way of saying it...others won't be so kind.
I’m an urban chicken daddy and just started water glassing. I’m in north Texas so we don’t have a long, hard winter, but the girls do slow down and even stop their laying in the colder months and shorter days. I’m using pickling lime and 1-gallon glass pickling jars.
Just wanted to let you know, I water glassed a bucket of eggs back in May and we are now eating them. They are totally edible and not much different then a fresh egg. The yolk is a little flat but all good. Thanks for the tip on water glassing. Happy 2019!!
J.E Anderson What does that even mean? Of course the lime will settle over the eggs, especially as more will sink to bottom naturally, (gravity), and you want the lime to surround your eggs, as shown. The eggs are immersed in the solution so unless you keep your eggs in only an inch of water, how do you think the lime won't settle on the whole egg, top side? If you clarified you could actually be helpful. I hate when people ask beginners who cite issues, questions they know will make the beginner feel stupid. Just be thoughtful and helpful without asking questions or being ambiguous, using technical terms, or other when replying to those with observations or questions. If you have trouble explaining things, or simply like being a smart a--, don't respond.
the thing is you should still be able to get enough eggs for your sunny side up in morning but for pancakes, cakes, other recipes etc the waterglassed eggs are no different than regular
Thanks for sharing these valuable conserving tricks we need it much in our area cause the electrical power going so bad god bless you i appreciate your feminine efforts a lot with all my respects
@@myohmy451 I think I'm wondering the same thing; Once you whisk the solution around and put in all your eggs, the lime seems to settle to the bottom. I whisked my solution several time, but still a lot of the lime settles. I guess that's just going to happen, and the top less-settled solution is enough to preserve the eggs that aren't sitting on the bottom of the container. I don't suppose there there's some trick to keep the lime from settling, since it will never fully mix with the water. (by the way, I'm using Mrs. Wages pickling lime and filtered water)
I’m totally digging your kitchen and you’re wearing an apron, reminds me of my grandmas house! She gardened, canned, raised her own meat. Towards the end her and my grandpa started calling the butcher to come out and process the beef and pork. My best memories are of summertime at grandma and grandpas house. We got to drive tractors build forts in hay, eat strawberries till we got sick of them. We would get up with grandpa at 4:45, the smell of his percolating coffee was AWESOME walk in to kitchen and there he would be with his big smile and his warm blue eyes asking if we wanted oatmeal or what we called baled hay which was that wheat cereal that literally looked like bailed hay in a bag, forget the name. 2 bales came in each bag in the box. I could go on and on but is really really wish I had followed my grandma and grandpas lifestyles with my family. So nice and very exciting to see young folks today taking on the adventure. Your kids are going to be so happy and well adjusted.
Hahaha! I know the cereal you're talking about. Like the frosted mini wheats just bigger. We used to call it hay cereal too. That's to funny. Beautiful memories you have. A lot kids will never have memories like that these days. I try and make sure my kids will have some like that.
In Europe we used another watery solution to prepare eggs - the real water glass (natrium silicate 1 : 9 mixed with water). Your method is not real "water glassing", but laying the eggs in a calcium hydroxide solution. Both methods work on a similar principle. The advantage of using natrium silicate is that it does not give the eggs a chalky taste. But natrium silicate is more expensive. Thank you for your interesting video!
I thought she said at the start of her video that there are several different ways to do it, so I'm guessing that there isn't a right or wrong method... just different methods of getting the job done.🙂
Interesting side note. Yesterday I filled my 4 gal bucket with about five dozen eggs. I then, a bit concerned about the lime being evenly distributed, very gently stirred them with my hand. This morning I went to rearrange them with the pointy end down and everyone one I checked was already in that position. I was shocked until I realized the air space in the big end had obviously floated to the top all by itself. Thank you, God.
I have this question also... Is there any problem with the lime settling? And if you use a big container and add the eggs gradually, the lime is already settled on the bottom. In this case I've given my eggs a gentle stir to move the lime around but I've ended up with cracked eggs twice! :(
You should always throw away and egg that floats. I am absolutely against stirring the solution, even gently one eggs are in it, because sooner or later an egg that is going bad by itself will float when you add take the ones on top of it that are unharmed by its presence. The whole idea that you have to worry about the solution because the powder settles to the bottom is wrong! Some of you think you have to stir it because it settles to the bottom is incorrect because the solution will seek saturation because of the natural motion of the ions in solution due to being present in the water. You don’t understand the science of a saturated solution. A saturated solution means that it’s holding all of the calcium hydroxide (in this case) that it could possibly hold. You don’t complain about the Dead Sea having crystals of salt on the bottom, thank you somehow have to stir it! Even when you first put it in, if it’s not saturated within a day or two it will become completely saturated without any help or interference on your part. Try not to make this complicated! It’s as simple as putting the eggs in gently walking away from it and picking them up gently and not stirring the water after putting in even a single egg; ever ever ever! Just leave the powder alone on the bottom and equilibrium will take care of itself and you won’t ever have to worry about stirring it yes if you stir them. If you stir, don’t be surprised. You’re going to crack them;stop stirring the solution as soon as you are ready to put in the first egg. I repeat stop stop stop stop!!!
@@cyndibird7758 The short answers there’s absolutely no problem with it settling. You’ve made a newbie mistake which I’ll explain in another comment. Making that mistake doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. ;)
Hi Caroline, i did this process, i started around July and i just started eating the eggs this January and their is no difference, it is awesome, thank you so much, i bought the 50lb bag at the feed store and your right it will last forever.
Mellissa Saucedo-Yes, to the first part. Yes, you need to find a cold dark place to store the bucket with eggs. You only remove the eggs that you want to use at that time. The rest stay in the bucket. This method preserves the eggs up to 8 month from the time you put them in the lime mix.
Hi all- PLEASE use food grade lime, not construction grade. Construction grade can be contaminated with inorganic arsenic and is NOT safe, even in small amounts, especially for kids and pregnant women. This woman may believe God will protect her, but for everyone else let's use common sense and not use industrial grade chemicals in food processing.
This is such a great video! So easy to understand and follow all the steps. Thank you for making this. My backyard pullets are laying more than I can eat this, their first, winter so I am saving some this way in case they take a hiatus during the summer heatwaves (110+) we get where I live. Then I'll save the spring eggs for next winter when they will have their first molt. It is so exciting and rewarding having a little backyard flock.
Hydrated lime is also used for drinking water treatment in large industrial and municipal water treatment plants. It's used for the softening process. You have to be careful with it in an industrial plant because it generates a lot of heat and can burn your your skin. I used to be a licensed water and wastewater treatment plant operator in Florida.
Hello-I bought some “Dolomitic Hydrated Lime” in mason section of building supplies store. Do you know if this is ok to use for this egg preserving project? Is it the same kind of lime as in video?
@@eva-zb6ni I'm not familiar with that type of lime. The lime I used was Industrial calcium hydroxide. We got it delivered 50,000 pounds at a time in a tanker truck. It is also known as slaked lime.
This is exactly what I needed to hear for my emergency food supply. I'm going to a farmers market this weekend and I will definitely ask if the eggs are cleaned or not. Otherwise I will get myself directly to a farm. God bless you and your family. Thank you so much for sharing this information.
Backyard chickens. Check local laws to make sure you don't get in trouble, they are easy to care for and the "pay rent" in egg production. Check your local tractor supply or atwoods etc for baby chicks. Most of them are a few bucks each and realistically almost anything can serve as a coop. I live in the city literally 3 blocks from City Hall and we have 25 laying hens and a rooster. We get so many eggs we give them away. Our friends and neighbors love them. Now I will have to do this too, so as to save some for the hard times coming up.
My grandma sold eggs. She had me "candle" them and put in cases. I had no idea what I was doing but know I realize it was to ensure a chick wasn't forming so it would have been dark or darkening. The candling was a light bulb in a cardboard box with a hole at top where I set or held the egg to check it.
Slaked lime is also known as Calcium Hydroxide Ca(OH)2 it is mildly caustic and like natural soap has a PH level that provides a hostile environment for bacteria. Without bacteria there is no degradation and eggs will be preserved providing the PH level is maintained
Makes me wonder if you could soak store bought eggs in water with a few drops of liquid iodine+iodide (aka Lugol's solution) since it's a natural antibacterial. Vinegar is also a natural antibacterial so I wonder if that might work too??
@@Donna777 vinegar is acidic not alkali and will dissolve the calcium in the egg shell. I understand why you thought that iodine would be antimicrobial but I don't think it would be safe to use as a food preservative and would most likely affect the taste and colour of the egg.
I live in south central Pennsylvania, and this is what I did to preserve store-bought eggs at room temperature. I took regular sandwich bags, put one egg in each bag, coated the eggs with mineral oil, and put them in with my canned goods. 6 months later I cracked and ate the first egg, and it was just fine. I only added enough oil to coat the eggs and have a little bit left in the bottom of the baggie. Hope this helps 😁👍
I am 85 years old, we did this when I was a child...if people lived on a ranch FAR from town, & without power or phone....their negative attitudes would be changed to thankfulness.....you did a great job young lady with class & style.
@White Rider , the kjv bible is the only solution to this fallen world. I live on a homestead and get the greatest riches out of it, because 1ST= IM A BIBLE BELIEVING, BIBLE OBEYING, SPIRIT FILLED DECIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST. WE MUST REPENT= STOP, THINK AND TURN FROM OUR WICKED WAYS.. THEN BELIEVE THE WHOLE BIBLE AND BELIEVE HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS.. THATS ONLY DONE IN A RELATIONSHIP, NOT RELIGION. TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.
Great comment!
@@Heseesyou I am a Christian myself BUT that has nothing to do with this video. MANY people of many religious backgrounds believe this is the end times. Trust me, it isn't (as much as I wish it were).
So I should not wash my fresh eggs at all?? Can I wipe the dirt off or NO???
Jeanette the, which I have a good time Wright.....Mmmm, I was wondering the same. Our hens will occasionally get poop on the eggs. I suppose those eggs would just have to be washed and used immediately, instead of stored. Most of the time, they are clean.
Coronavirus lockdown got me learning so much!
This lady looks so warm and cozy.
Her life looks like my daily hopes ‘n dreams.
Peter Stiff - Why are you even watching this video? You can’t glass pizza rolls
Also called calcium hydroxide and slaked lime, hydrated lime is highly caustic and can burn skin and eyes. It is used in cement and mortar, and it can kill a number of lawn-inhabiting parasites, such as fleas. Farmers often use it on outlying lands to protect animals from parasites that can sicken or kill them. Because hydrated lime's use is restricted in some locations, check your area's regulations before using the product.
Makes me wish I was back living in Idaho...
I'll bet all these survival video channels are really growing since this covid19 outbreak hit the scene lol. I am so glad we have these channels though. They really mean so much to me. Also peeps hit my friends book up if u can, it's about kale, she just put it out I'm sharing it for her thx! www.amazon.com/Easy-Amazing-Health-Drink-Recipes-ebook/dp/B085N9M7ZM/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=simple%20amazing%20kale%20health%20drink%20recipes&qid=1585015632&sr=8-1-fkmr1&fbclid=IwAR3eMmFt85ktpzgmabnECsEbj6dbQUftLIJ1AoTxJDk_bK6zJKwwOUrRo04
Great video but if you live in New York or any major city get the Fuc# out.
Thank God for great teachers like yourself. Back to the basics 😂
Why am I watching this? I don't have chickens. I live in the middle of a city.
Watched the whole damn thing from start to finish.
🤣 I was watching soap making and somehow I got here and have sent it to three of my friends, it’s so interesting 😀
Same!🤣
Just in case?
Me too!
Quarantine life
Why would anyone thumb this down? It is so informative, and you couldn’t ask for a more pleasant person to demonstrate it.
Jealous ☺ She did an awesome job and I will pass this on to a family who has chickens and gives away a lot of eggs. .
It is the trolls and the ignorant who want us nursing on the government breast. Dependent & at corporate mercy.
Dislikes dont matter... she gets more just from someone clicking ... its called interaction
Could be militant vegans.
SJW’s who think it’s abuse to eat animal products and keep animals as pets or food. Ignore them.
* extra pearl of wisdom* “If you don’t have a lid for your croc to stop evaporation, add a layer of olive oil and then cover with a clean cloth.” 🤔 Genius dressed in work clothes... Thanks Carolyn!
Mmm..."crock"
What About Feces Contamination?
@@chesternichols1662 Wash your hands once in a while.
@@wrAIth-AI I Guess it wasn't clear what I was saying,
If the eggs are not initially washed, could there be other contamination we should be concerned about. 🤔
@@chesternichols1662 if you take good care of your chickens and control internal parasites that should not be a problem. You should be able to to wipe your eggs with a dry cloth they will be safe. If you have poop covered eggs your birds have internal parasites. Wash those eggs under water but eat them now, do not water glass those eggs.
Five gallon buckets can end up causing some eggs to crack due to weight over time. Gallon buckets, jars or quart jars don't seem a issue. Great video, very pleasing to listen to, needed a reminder, you did well.
Yes! This happened to one of my buckets and all the eggs inside went bad 🤢 I think a 1-2 gallon container is about the max the eggs can handle.
I'm starting with a gallon. I can't lift heavy things.
@@kathryncolton4423ya. I'd rather do smaller batches.
120 is my guess.
I'm starting in a half gallon- we only have 4 chickens rn
This lady is legit. My wife and I have succeeded in every tutorial that we've had the chance to try. Thank you for your hard work, from the Ozark mountain folk:)
Howdy Ozark neighbor!! There is an Ozark Homestead group now in Missouri-- we meet monthly in Texas Co. More info in Prepared Homestead RUclips videos if you're interested
Think Arkansas is a good place to settle?
Do you know if it's the Type S hydrated Lime?
How long do they last ?
@@EdiMeanG they say up to 2 yrs
She's definitely the Bob Ross of food preservation. I could literally just sit and listen to her for hours.
I was just thinking the same thing! She reminds me of Bob Ross. Takes something that seems a little daunting to me and makes it seem easy, and fun with a positive soothing yet informational tone! Love people like this!
Well said! 😆
First off, she reminded me of Miss Nancy from, Romper Room, because of her sweet demeanor. Bob Ross is another good comparison.😊
Phaandor Pertwee i hear ya,lol
Love Bob Ross
Am I the only American here who noticed that once we got away from the "Old Fashioned" way of doing things our health went to sh*t?
Yes! The additives, preservatives, etc. And kids are what was set before them.
Yup!! So sad
Yup! That's what they wanted. They as in the higher ups/ government.
Yeah now that everyone is living past 70 years we are all suffering from cancers and shit instead of kicking the bucket by 50 as God intended
Yes! I am mad that people moved from being self saficient life styles! I am trying to get back to that but I am missing the last piece that I was going to get before the outbrake. I wanted chickens and goats.
I love learning what and how our great grandparents survived without refrigeration
When using preserved eggs, always crack each egg into a separate container, then if good add to whatever you are preparing. That way you don't spoil the batch if you have a bad egg.
I do this with all our eggs, we have roosters.
Right. When using three or more eggs, always crack each egg into a bowl and then dump that egg in with the others.
This is also a good practice with any eggs, especially if you have young helpers in the kitchen. It makes it much easier to see if there are any bits of shell and also makes it easier to get them out.
@@kathyzoll6886 its just a clunp of cells.
When using ANY eggs, crack then separately
Thank you for explaining everything about eggs so well. I guess I could call you an eggspert
ahaha that's so cute
Faith 😂 that was awesome!!
Haha silly goose 😂
eggzactly!
Egghead would be charmed.🙂👍
I'm 73 and city born but my mom was a farm girl from Minnesota and told me about what they did with eggs and other food sources. I still miss her.
We never stop missing our mothers 😢 16 years gone and my heart still aches just to hear her voice or have a comforting hug from her. Eternal rest to all our heavenly mothers 🕯🙏🏼 🕯
@@lourdesbaby964 how tender-hearted you are. I love your comments abt your Mom. May God bless you.🤗
@@debracampbell9040 , AMEN
@@lourdesbaby964 , AMEN
@@judithbeers7598, thank you.
I like how you guys think "let the chicken be a chicken" its logical and straight to the point and I agree God put us on the planet and made us ambassadors of the realm and that is to respect and take care of the animals and the planet we call mother which is earth
Wow! I'm 63 y.o. and this is 1st I've ever heard of this. AMAZING!...how much knowledge has been lost to us by mass farming & mechanization. But... 200 years ago I'd bet it was common knowledge. Thank you for this.
well just this evening I found out you can can potatoes, you can make your own tomato paste and you can can dry beans and now, you can save your eggs......I'm 65 and thought I knew thing or two...
@@leelaural now you know a few more and if you want you can continue to grow your knowledge. Everyone that keeps learning stays young.
E. M. I am 72 and this is the first time I have ever heard of this.
62 and never heard of water glassing! Great info and very inspirational!
@@peterstiff8988 and you are incredibly self-centered and rude for no intelligent reason...
Thank you for letting your chickens take a break in the winter - we do the same! ❤️🐓
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in winter they lay more eggs 😂😂😂😂, in summer they dont
Uh, how do you make chickens take a break from laying,or, for that matter, make them lay eggs. Either they do or they don't. It's not a demand that you can force on them.
@@TheJackPrice thats fake news it depends on the chicken,
Poor Chickens never get a break, They lay year round, stay outside (mostly) they know if they stop laying their days are numbered. We have a few as pets and the eggs are a benefit but we keep them warm in the winter and try to keep them clean. Our oldest lived just over 10 years. My wife had a rooster named Romeo he was her shadow and protector he was very special and made a wonderful pet. Romeo (rip) but he was rough on his hens.
I was able to store 162 eggs in my 5 gallon bucket with a 3 - 4" of head space. That is 13.5 dozen. Yay! \o/
Can you do this with a plastic bucket or do you have to use a glass container?
Would love to try this it seems worth it.I hope I can find the hydrated lime we have chickens this year .This is knowledge thanks.
That’s a haul.. good to know.
I was concerned about filling my 5 gallon bucket so that is good to know, thank you
@@patsyrichard7596 I found masons hydrated lime at Menards. 60# for less than $8. My Home Depot didn't know what I was talking about .
You are so knowledgeable and have such a grace. Thank God for your family!
Very impressed with your respect for the chickens and doing things God's way!!
May He bless you abundantly! 💜
🙂
Please pray for me for an unspoken request. God Bless You!
@@janetphillips2875 Praying and believing that His hand is upon you and yours. Amen!
@@lionsden6 TY! You have made my day today!
See my reply in the comments section about hens laying in the winter.
I live off grid with very little electric and no refrigeration. You have just made my day!
@partisan hahaha
@partison lol true but internet is super useful and you can run it off of solar /wind power setup. Or she could make a WiFi harvester out of an old dish network satellite dish and get free WiFi from a mile away.
How you live off grid but be watching RUclips 😂
Spinderella 360 .... WHY?
Get some soller panels.
@partisan You beat me to it. Nice one.
So many inconsiderate people in this room :(
I have watched so many videos that go too fast and you are left with so many questions. I like the way she took her time and explained everything. It's called being informational.
She doesn't have any links on where to buy the buckets and all. She isn't promoting any products. You out there who want to complain and say mean things need to stop and continue on to other videos that would fit your narratives.
Plus, she'd just adorable and has such a friendly demeanor and informative presentation.
Peace to all
Everything about this video is perfect, candy candy candy
Thanks much
AWB
I found this video extremely interesting and helpful! Saved it for later use when my family's chickens start laying again!
@@SkyBrigidRain build a catapult when this happens and lob some fresh eggs my way, if you will. That would be great.
Screw rude people. Probably jealousy.
This lady is teaching absolute gold.
Hydrated Lime is also called Calcium Hydroxide, just in case its not sold like that where you are.
Thank you !
(Tina here) Having made my own soap for several years, I really don't want to stick anything into any type of hydroxide solution, least of all food or my bare hands. Sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are extremely caustic, why would calcium be any different? They are on the same part of the periodic table of elements so have nearly identical properties. Therefore, I don't know how hydrated lime = calcium hydroxide.
@@tomandtinadixon it’s in the fist paragraph of the wiki en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_hydroxide
I’m a chemist.
“In the same part of the table” is not quite accurate. Calcium ions carry a +2 charge and sodium and potassium ions only carry +1 charges. What that means is that the calcium ions “hold” onto the hydroxide ions more tightly than an equivalent amount of potassium or sodium hydroxide would. That means that overall calcium hydroxide is much less caustic than sodium or potassium hydroxides.
Just because something has a chemical name doesn’t mean its dangerous.
@@GucciCaligula OK thanks for the clarification. And yeah I get that everything in existence is pretty much a chemical. But still, if it's caustic, I don't feel comfortable with using it. I know how the other two types are, so if calcium hydroxide is "half" (correct me?) as caustic it's still somewhat nasty. Also, after looking it up myself, it even tells you NOT to use the construction grade stuff for home use, especially for food. Use ONLY the food grade, or pickling, lime.
@@tomandtinadixon again I think you’re letting a fear of terms distract you from what’s actually at issue which is overall safety. Caustic just means basic. Baking soda is caustic.
Also the “half as caustic” thing isn’t right either. There’s an annoying thing with chemistry and science in general where in order to answer a “why” question you need to go waaaayyy beyond the scope of the original question, or you need to oversimplify or tell a half truth (this is called hand waving) so you don’t spend all day explaining something simple.
The truth about how basic “caustic” a compound is depends on the pKB of the compound. This is a log scale measurement of how likely the compound is to dissociate in water (they can only “do” base things when dissociated) with higher numbers meaning less likely to dissociate.
The pKB of Sodium Hydroxide is about .2 the pKB of calcium hydroxide is about 2.4. And remember this is a log scale, so calcium hydroxide is 100x LESS basic than Sodium Hydroxide.
As for the use thing, yeah. The food grade really just talks about the purity, food grade means it got lab testing for its purity. Construction grade didn’t, it doesn’t mean that construction grade isn’t safe to use, it just means that no one checked.
Use something that you’d be comfortable with.
I pioneered in the 60's with no power. I water glassed my eggs for years. They were great.
How long were they good?
With lime?
@Sandra Kisch How long did your eggs remain fresh? Do you still do this with your eggs? Thank you!
Lime is NOT waterglass! Sodium Silicate is waterglass. Wake up back to landers!
Thumbs up on letting chickens be chickens 👍
Thanks for the video !! ❤️
Gail Stone hhhfffhvhhhjg gvjjg
Absolutely right to let your chickens be chickens. If your chickens had to be cows they wouldn’t fit in the henhouse... 🤣
Roast chickens are happy chickens. The eggs are the nex generation or can be used in egg fried rice or served on toast.
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Having now embraced homesteading and truly understanding how important it is to be at one with nature, your videos are so, so important and such a true blessing.
You guide, help, make us laugh!
I feel very blessed to have found your channel!
My grandma would be very happy I've gone back to a better way of living
Thank you
I did this with about 8 dozen eggs last October 2019. It's now March 2020. I'm still eating and baking with the eggs. They are fine.
Inkdraft.. do they taste any different?
So you can eat them straight, not just use them for cooking?
@@peterstiff8988 😂😂😂😂
Are they still good for frying and scrambled ect?
@@peterstiff8988 You dropped this L, simp.
I watched this a year ago and followed her instructions, (though I used pickling lime), and it worked great! I have eggs from a year ago that are still good. Just one tip I'll add: do not try to make hard boiled eggs with these. The air pocket disappears and they explode when steamed or boiled.
They lose porosity. Just poke a pin hole in the air sack area just before boiling but after you was off the lime.
Thank you both for this information.
@Stephanie Ford Do you wash the eggs after you take out the eggs out of the pickling lime? And where did you purchase the pickling lime; and what kind of container did you use and where did you purchase it? Ty
Mammaw, I used Mrs Wages canning lime from our local grocery store.. Currently eating 9 month old eggs. I did it in February as an experiment, works great.
@@attheflattrackraces4662 hi Mike, how long do you keep the eggs in the solution?
FYI I did this in May, kept my eggs at room temperature until December and just tried one.
Did the float test first with no buoyancy whatsoever.
The egg looked completely normal, with no off odor at all. I scrambled it up and tried it and it tasted like a regular store egg. So not the ultra fresh delicious farm egg taste, but a very respectable run of the mill, perfectly acceptable to eat taste.
Can you use 5 gallon bucket like from lowes or a glass jar.
@oj johnson I would use a food grade container. Lowe’s buckets are not food grade.
I used one of those big containers that Sams Club cheese puffs come in, and I had a plastic 2 gallon food prep bin. Glass jars hold surprisingly few eggs, even the half gallons so there was a lot of wasted lime water.
I am able to get food grade buckets from the grocery store bakeries for free (they get icing in them so they have several a week)
Well when you’re starving it will be a feast fit for a king
Thank you. I'm always looking for large food storage containers. The bakeries use icing in the bucket size I'm looking for. 👏
Lowe’s does sell five gallon food grade buckets
My grandma just used the big box that kept the wheat flour for this. Meaning, just bury your eggs in flour and you are done. No chemicals needed. We had a room set in the house where the temperature was lower than in the rest and the quantity of sunlight was kept at a minimum, that was the place where the flour and other ingredients were kept, and the eggs just went in the flour.
Reeeeally? Interesting
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@@CleverGirlAAH I watched a video on a lot of different options including ashes. So far the water glassing looks the best to me. The one I will try when I move out to the property. The ash or mineral oil just did not sound appealing to me.
Interesting way to preserve things, but unfortunately mice, rats or other animals could still get the eggs that way
@@CHFG24 I agree, this is where petting a mouse killing machine brings joy 😂
It’s really cool to learn how our grandparents preserved food before refrigeration became common place… only 75 or 80 years ago!
Thanks for producing this type of content!
Keeping the old ways alive ensures we don't go complete stone age when the switch is turned off.
I loved how she said " Let chickens be chickens" we tend to forget that animals have to be animals, whether they are farm animals or domestic ones. Nice video. I came her out of pure curiosity. I don't have chickens, but really enjoyed this lady. She is so calm and makes un-stresses me with her suave voice!
@@MrAdamNTProtester we need more chickens, kill the babies.
@@MrAdamNTProtester Off topic much? Nobody who shares your views wants to hear from you?? Please hush and go where you're wanted and appreciated, if you can find your way there...
I was following the advice of one of my other homesteading ladies and she recommended black seed oil sunflower seeds, these are sold in feedstores. She also recommended oats and corn. We have had to order organic now because of the Riund Up contamination in so many things especially feed. So if its damaging my animals, it will damage me too. So the sunflower seeds , even with the shells on, has caused my hen's to lay in January, and we have long winters and snow.but I also make sure they get an electrolyte in their water year round with. Vitamin D in it, and it has minimal amounts if A and Bs and magnesium and potassium, but that D makes a difference in their winter depression. Before adding this ssf supplement, they would get depressed in winter and not come out if there was snow on the ground, and not get out to eat ( I put the feeder inside now in winter) and they would die from lack of calories. But th he D has really made a difference in their happiness . ] But those oil seeds also must be loaded with nutrients because I've never had them just start blasting out eggs in january before.
@@MrAdamNTProtester mind your own business. Not everyone shates your views.
Yeah but humans made domesticated chickens,
The other thing that I want to mention is that in the old days people would have multiple buckets. When a bucket was filled with eggs to be stored they then emptied it out placing all the eggs in a new bucket - thus putting the newest eggs to the bottom . That way you pick the oldest eggs out first when you started to use them :)
She didn't say what she was going to do with the dirty eggs. Said she had something else to do with them
I've done this 2 years now, I use 1 or 2 gallon crocks or jars and eat oldest to newest. First year I didn't and the eggs at the bottom were a year old when I got to them, they were still good, but I'd prefer eating oldest to newest.
@@shedlady6121 we eat our dirty eggs as regular, don't store them.
@@cluckieschickens Do you know how to "clean" the eggs without "washing" them? I was totally miffed by this statement. How do you have "clean" eggs without "washing" them? Thanks for any response.
@@deeannray5093 I wait for the crud to dry and take a soft toothbrush or rag and carefully brush it off
Keeping eggs viable for over 6 months is one thing but up to 2 years is absolutely incredible. My grandmother used to pickle eggs but I don't ever remember her using this technique.
Thank you and God Bless 🙏🏻
Raw eggs?
Pickled boiled and shelled eggs used to be sold in pubs and chippies (fish and chip shops).
I never ate one.
I'd be happy with just 8 months.
You get a "Thumbs Up" from me when you said, "Let them be just chickens!".
No sense living naturally, and not allowing your chickens to too
But weren't they selectively bred by people around china? They used to only have a big population boom when the bamboo went to seed because there was enough food to feed all the eggs you could lay in a month, not 3/4 of every year of their lives.
Don't tell God what his plan is while you're in your house made of his trees.
@@danisprettygay yes! exactly....they are domesticated....and WE (humans) have done that so that we can have a more abundant source of food. If God gave man domain over the animals and the ability to domesticate them, we already make these animals do what they would not "naturally" do in the wild. To be honest, our family can't afford to feed animals year round without egg production. We stew our chickens at around three years anyway, so they don't live super long lives anyhow.
Certain breeds will keep laying year round if you want them without giving them lights. I believe the buff orphington is one of them(if I spelled that right lol)
Sold!
Once you gave the argument of "If GOD gave them the ability to stop laying eggs at certain times than maybe its not good for their bodies"
That was game right there!
Chicken originate in warm climates were they produce year round. If God wanted you to preserve eggs he would've preserved them for you, see how dumb that sounds?
Peter Stiff No U
You need a time out!
@R C Wray? You didn't see that coming? Stay healthy. Don't feed trolls. ✌🏻
Amen!
I had to comment. We just opened two eggs from the 42 (there is meaning to that) we put away in lime water in July of 2020. 14 months ago. They are perfect. Thank you so much for this video. We are amazed at the results.
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Is it possible to wrap store bought eggs with saran wrap and get the same result?
What if you don't have fresh unwashed eggs?
@@bethreyes1189 good question
Thank you
Thank you for caring about the chickens 💜
This is good stuff to know in this day and time. You can never tell when the power grids will go down and we have no power. This was my job as a kid. My grandma started me out young on this. And it also seems like anything else to do with a chicken was my job too. From feeding to plucking. We didn't get to ask too many questions, if granny said do it, you just went and done it.
Awww good for you.
Been there, and I learned a lot!
Unfortunately, I never learned this.
Great respect for your elders!
Same here. As long as I can remember I was feeding the chickens & gathering eggs. We grew our own chicken for our freezer so it was also my job to help process them each summer. I'm grateful that I know how to raise and process my own food
We always burnt the feathers off, no plucking.
"if god created the chicken to stop laying eggs during the winter, then maybe that's best for their bodies" - Yes!! No matter what higher power (or not) you believe in, we need to start understanding that nature tells is when we can or cannot benefit from it. We need to start following more traditional teachings that understand the life cycle of plants and animals, so that we aren't over-using and depleting our resources for food like the western world currently does. Homesteaders should definitely do some research into traditional indigenous teachings in hunting and gathering, as they follow so many of the same principles as you just said, like knowing when it is time to prepare for winter like this, like being wary of hunting females (life-givers), like hunting and gathering in season..
Anyways, wonderful video on egg preservation! Thank you! Let chickens be chickens!
The chicken originates from Southeast Asia near the equator where daylight hours are longer all year round. There is no 'winter' in that area.
@@peterstiff8988 if your child drew a picture for you that you knew was crap, would you throw it away or put it on the fridge? It doesn't matter what people believe as long as it's with the best intentions. That said: there's a reason nature exists as it does and it's best not to mess with the natural flow of things, whatever the reasoning. Please stop spreading hate and just appreciate the knowledge she was willing to share
Ness, do agree the West needs to stop over-using and depleting their resources on the East and South whose hunting and gathering methods aren't able to feed their overpopulated nations.
Shove ur religious shit where your God shines
Couldn't you argue that god allowed for the technology to allow for chickens to lay eggs year round? If you pick and choose you should live in the wild with no technology, not even fire unless it comes from nature.
She's sooo lovely! She's a breath of fresh air, so authentic & down to earth & I've no doubt she's a wonderful housekeeper, mother, wife etc.
Wow
Don't worry about the thumbs down, they have nothing better to do and live to be mean!
I found buckets with lids for $1.79 (post-pandemic) at the local grocery store bakery! I also bought the Masonry hydrated lime for $10.98 for 50lbs at Menards (post-pandemic). Forwarded this video to like minded friends and told them I have enough lime to share.
My dear, you rock! I've utilized much of your shared knowledge and thank you from the bottom of my ❤ heart! Farmers warn that since poultry feed prices have quadrupled that eggs will be $12 a dozen very soon!
Even though I may never use this- no way to get fresh eggs- I learned something here. Thank you for posting this.
Just Google farms near you. Call them and ask for unwashed. They will happily help you. Prob have dozens for you. Pls
Support local farms We Need Them. EVERY CUSTOMER COUNTS ❤️
Another homesteader taught me that you can used store-bought eggs if you can't get fresh farm eggs. You just have to grease them with crisco or lard before putting them into the lime. It simulates the protective "bloom" that the chicken leaves on the egg. It works perfectly.
@@dajw7540 Could you explain more up until her steps?
The Lord bless you, and keep you:
The Lord make his face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
Shalom
Shalom!!
I sing this to my kids every night :)
Don't tell me that please. Thanks
AMEN!!!! I realize that this video is a few years old, but it's amazing I never new that you could preserve fresh eggs for that length of time. Thank you so much for sharing, God bless and have a Blessed & Joyful day, Bernice
Oh I love your take on letting the chickens follow their natural pattern of laying eggsas they choose and the idea of letting them rest, how beautiful is that!! I'm looking to live off grid and although I can't underestimate the challenges I'm also relishing the natural way of life! 💚
It’s how it should be Such a cruel industry.
Lisa is 100% right. The industry is beyond cruel with how much they force these chickens to lay eggs. It completely drains them and sucks so much nutrition out of their bodies. They were never meant to lay as many eggs as humans are forcing them to. It’s so cruel. Not to mention what the egg industry does to the poor little baby male chicks that are born. It doesn’t get any more disturbing than that.
Industry?,did you think hens produce one egg per day naturally,naturally they use eggs for making chickens,pip pip.
Do it. Even if it's something you don't know if you can pull off 100%. Each skill you learn and use and the satisfaction of being responsible and self-sufficient in certain areas will enhance your life.
@@claesmansson9070 We had the cutest thing happen. We had our eleven hens about a year and we get so many eggs, when I started noticing a pile of them in a hard-to-get-to corner of the coop, I just left them. I noticed a couple hens had become broody sitting on them all day long. One morning I opened their side boxes and heard peeps! I hadn't heard that in so long, at first i thought it was small birds around. I looked inside and surprised ten little chicks running around the bottom of the coop with the hen clucking after them! So thrilling to see nature at work!! God's plan is perfect. When i realized they'd soon need feed and water (their shells looked about exhausted), we set them up in the top of the coop away from the herd--except sleeping. When they got big and brave enough they came down the ramp and braved the other hens and two roosters. 🥰
I just thought I'd share a little of my experience with water-glassing. It does not appear I can upload a couple of pictures here, as an example, but I am just now using October 2022 eggs, here in Nove 2023. My observation is the shells are just a little more fragile and possibly a little thinner. They do not appear to be as tough as they were when I first put them into the lime water. I also noticed the yolks are not quite as bright and the whites appear a little thinner, but they still cook up without any difficulty. I use food-grade hydrated lime for my preservation. I have been water-glassing for 5 years now. Also, I have 10 dozen eggs per 5-gallon bucket; although I have found 8 doz seems to be an optimal fit with less loss of product. I have occasionally lost 1-4 eggs in any given bucket. I currently have 90-100 dozen in storage.
That's a lot of eggs! I am impressed! Thanks very much for the feedback.
You have NEVER waterglassed an egg because lime is NOT anything but lime. Waterglass is Sodium Silicate and is better and more expensive than lime. saw some at home depot for concrete sealer, also you can find crystals.
@@RRaucina 🤪😂😂😂
Subscribed after hearing about how God made it for the chickens to rest during the winter. You care and that is fantastic to hear!
I thought the water glassing method was presented very well. The fact that chickens don’t lay or lay very little during the winter certainly does attest to God’s care for them and for us since He gave us a brain to figure out ways to preserve our foods. Any one that thinks God made chickens out of lizards is very odd and probably should see a phyche doctor.
Our chickens lay all year round.... could they be devil chickens????
My thoughts exactly,God is always in the details! I thought hens laid all of the time ,all year round!
Che' Saxton I so agree with letting the chickens be chickens. I like this idea I have been freezing eggs for years
Some do lay all year but like she stated, most of the time their laying is drastically reduced. The solar clock is what regulates their egg laying, which is why she doesn’t use artificial light. I completely agree with her, the hens typically last longer and have a better life. Every hen has a finite amount of eggs she can lay from birth til the end. Let ‘em live a little. Looks like God knew what he was doing, huh?
Hey Carolyn, I just water glasses my second year of eggs. The last ones were still fresh in the bottom of the bucket. Cheers for the tutorials.
Haha Peter your reply is so funny!! Im sorry for those that are too serious but since the crap news everyday I thought I would never laugh again. Peter Thankyou so much I needed that. My stomach is hurting😝😝
WOW! That is AMAZING!!!!
@@peterstiff8988 I thought it was funny. People just took it wrong.
Does the lime settle on the bottom of the bucket? I’m doing it for the first time and after mixing it well and adding my eggs the lime settled on the bottom.
I’m really glad that I found your channel. Greetings from North Carolina. I just inherited 50 acres of family land that has been in our family since 1834. Looking forward to moving out there and getting my own homestead going and teaching my grandkids how to live off of it. Thank you guys for the wealth of info that you give out.
Wow! That’s fantastic!
She’s a source of a lot of great information and I highly respect her and her family and all the work they’re doing.
She just happens to be wrong about using pickling lime and having to start with unwashed eggs that have never been put in the refrigerator.
Howdy Neighbor!! What part of NC?!? I grew-up on a very old family farm near Greenville, NC and my parents/some extended family still live in the area. I spent most of my professional life in New Bern, NC and I now live near Wilmington, NC but visit the Greenville, NC area whenever possible. ❤️
That's awesome! Hope all is going well.
WoW! What a blessing you have been given. Enjoy those 50 acres and the GRANDkids!!
great video, was very shocked my chickens did not stop laying this winter for some reason. I followed your pickle recipe, and they came out better than the store thank you.
You must have very happy chickens😊
She seems so happy while she works and teaches. I love it.
Ever hear the saying we've forgotten more then we now know? Lost knowledge. This would have been common knowledge in everyday life at one time. I'm always reminded of this when I learn new gardening techniques. "I'm sure this was common knowledge at one point in time". Great vid
Thank you
It's because things are made to be as easy as possible. With electricity and refrigeration people dont need to know this method. Which isnt smart because if a disaster happens and those things are gone..people will be screwed. It should be mandatory for everyone to learn how to survive without electricity and how to grow and preserve food.
My mom taught me a lot of things but thus one she didnt know. I'm sure she would have stumbled upon it at some point though. I'm glad I did.
After working for an egg farm year-round for a while, I love how you think about your chickens and their well-being
Okay. As wonderfully informative as this preservation method is, I feel like what blew my mind the most was the olive oil evaporation trick! How genius! It’s one of those things that I never would’ve thought of myself but as soon as I heard it, it makes perfect sense and I’m definitely going to use that idea!
What is the olive oil evaporation
Been doing this for years with great success
@@lovinfl07 she mentions using olive oil, if you don’t have an airtight container. The concept is, the oil will lay on top of the water solution, preventing the water from evaporating. Which would allow your eggs to eventually spoil, if the air gets to them.
I love this family...we definitely should not demand animals to produce more than they normally can.
😅😅...I never said we should not eat meat,I do and I enjoy it.
That includes adulterating chickens to harvest them earlier-- Why?? (I raised chickens on our small farm- they are ready to eat plenty early without adding chemicals to them... Ughh)
@@carriepo8671 Well,if you grew them without any chemical/artificial enhancements then that is totally fine. I'm not saying that people shouldn't make their farm operation as efficient as can be.What I'm saying is we should not put unnecessary chemicals/stresses on our animals just because we want more from them.
The main reason chickens do not lay eggs in the dark days is because the eggs are to produce baby chicks and they must be kept warm. The darker days are colder.
I came because I thought she was a little girl with impressive knowledge, I stayed bc of how much canned food was behind her.
Ditto
Me too!
Lol, me too!
Same wish I could trust myself to can goods
Amen!
Its amazing how much we as a people have forgotten after only a couple generations. Really valuable info. Please keep teaching us city folk!! Thanks for waking me up, now I just need a farm with chickens!
+Slick Willy Yes - It really is amazing how quickly we forget as a society!
I want chickens too!!!
dont need a farm my friend a family of 4 can have all the egg you can eat with a 4 by 10 coop
Because u live in a digital world that's why
you don't really need a farm.you can keep chickens in your back yard.if your city allowed.
Oh my gosh. I've never heard of this. We're preparing to get 6 chickens within the next couple of years and this is soooo good to know. Thank you!
This girl is more precious than gold and silver. And a real beauty too.
And pregnant.
@Carol Burns So? WTF? like I give a crap. Plus Someone else galled her a girl not me. And nope I wont be responding to such idiocy.
Carol Burns feminist alert!
Would bang
She's Wholesome! 💜🏆
May the almighty continue to bless you and your family , thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤️🙏🏻👍🏻😎
Amen. 🙏
i love this lady..."we have to work before we play" i'm so using that from now on...
Poke poke??
Right? And to tell your chickens that is 🤯
"Now, ladies, if you want to go to the club you gotta lay some eggs. Chop chop!"
I love your kitchen. Love that you have cloth instead of cabinet doors. So down to Earth.
Thank you! 😊
I'm just curious as to who in the crap gave this a thumbs down?? She's pleasant, informative, and did a great job demonstrating.. She answered all the questions surrounding this method, so what is your problem?!? Geeeezz!!! What has this lovely woman done to deserve your hate? And how do you think you could have done this any better??
Honey, you ignore these people who are giving you negativity. As a small homesteader, new to the game, you got it going on!! I just happened upon your channel! I will sub! Look forward to all your wisdom!
Loving her for taking her time out
If someone gives it thumbs down it’s “hate”?
@@yolandagarza6378 well, it's not love.
Its modern women, that have no skills passed to them from thier Moms or wise older women and are jealous of this womans knowledge and lifestyle.
Matthew Ronson Jr. it’s not hate either. A thumbs up doesn’t equal love.
This might be the single greatest homesteading pro tip I’ve ever learned. This is awesome.
Josh Jewell Exactly what I was thinking too!
I feel like this is the most useful \educational video I've seen in years. Seriously, I'm going to buy this 50lb bag asap. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
There's more then 1 kind of lime be careful
She did say that in the video
John, She did say in the video to use Hydrated Lime.
@@martinkerker1190 yet i noticed she does not answer any one , or likes anyone's comment , its like she just makes the video and leave you with what she posted and that's it.
Vincent ferrando what the hell do you need to know?? The video is self-explanatory. You probably ask a stupid ass question like the comment you posted... Dumbass!
Thank you for caring about their wellbeing. 💕
I loved this! The quick history lesson, the info on chickens laying less in winter, the hydrated lime comparisons and manufacturing. This I already was very familiar with, I had chickens as a kid and had to pour cement with my dad and carry mortar as I was the right age....under 16 and older than my useless brothers. (Forced child labor in the summer, lol) Yes, I was at times an angry teen, but this was an informative and enjoyable video to watch. She is an excellent teacher as was my father. I learned a skill that has helped me my entire life. At my current residence I have put in 10 yards of concrete and built privacy block walls, much of it with little to no help. My father taught science, mathematics, and physics. If you have been taught to read you can read the warnings on labels, decide yourself if you want to use this method. There are warning labels on many things, even Christmas lights, phone chargers, extension cords, gas pumps, I even read a cereal box from the dollar store that read, may contain lead, how about... produced with GMO ingredients.
I DON'T EVEN FLINCH KNOWING IT IS HYDRATED LIME. I have used it in other applications. Even pickles but years ago purchased it at the grocery store just to save time but paid way too much for it.
Be responsible for yourself. Thank this lovely lady for her time and information. Be a positive force in this world. Share your knowledge, even knowledge like this that has been lost due to our fast paced work, work, work, to get out of debt mentality and pay too much at the grocery store fatigue. Sorry about the rat race rant, I feel there are undeserved negative comments. I'm so appreciative of the ability to be able to get this information, and to have free speech. Thank you for making this!
"Forced child labor", Hell yes! And I'm a much better person for it. To this day I could care less if the tv was on or not. Nothing on there worth watching anyway.
BULLS EYE AND AMEN!!! Love your comment!!!
Which cereal was it?!
681 thumbs down??? What world am I living in? Was it not eggy enuff for ppl? ... Not homesteady enuff? ... Maybe a pleasant lady giving genuinely interesting information just makes ppl hate things? I don't know you, homesteading family, but I (for one) learned something I did not know. So thanks. And 👍.
edit- babbling on is not informative, only about 3 minute of good info but must endure 13 + mins to extract. why do you assume "hate"
Uncle Ledbetter those are stupid people you cant fix stupid all you can do is ignore them
It's growing... 797 thumbs down when I watched! Morons! Probably people working for big pharma or the gubment! Lol you know how they hate us working together passing on solutions that actually benefit ourselves
@@murray8958 genocide is difficult if people have food
Uncle Ledbetter maybe because she talks too much.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for reinforcing the stability and constancy of the design of God's plan to guide our lives through Mother Nature. Though I'm not religious whatsoever, our Creator had the best plan laid out for the whole of us for a reason and it's sad to see that we no longer follow that plan that's the best for all; nature, humankind, the environment, and the All!
I homesteaded in the '70s in Western WV. We would buy waterglass in the grocery store and mix 1 qt of it with 2 1/2 gallons of water in a 5-gallon crock and fill it with eggs like you using the extras during the spring and summer. I kept them in the cold cellar with a wooden lid and a brick on it to keep out mice ( one mouse spoils the whole batch). They would get us through the winter. One point was that the yolks would be flat and often break when you cracked the egg so they were no good for frying, OK scrambled with other ingredients, and just fine for cooking cornbread and stuff like that.
It was a good healthy life but you had to work every day all day just to survive! The city kids mostly washed out and back to mom and dad when the weather turned.
My grandmom still had her cold cellar in the 80's and swore by it.
Wow
@@mala3isity learning these skills can never harm you!
Were the yolks flat due to the 5-gallon container, or does this preservation method cause flat yolks in general?
@@louise7571 I think it's just age, they aren't bad they just are stored without refrigeration.Good luck!
Agreed. Letting the chickens have their natural break in laying is good.
She is not pushing your chickens to lay all year fool...just to preserve some when you need them when they don't lay fkn listen
@@kymhealy3761 😂
My brother told me recently that chickens have about 500 eggs . I never knew that. So they either lay them over a number of years at a natural pace, and have vacations in winter, or they are pushed to lay their eggs continually with lights. And then they are all used up quicker.
@@pattysherwood7091 human females the same...born with the total amount of possible eggs...use em up and there are no more...some with fertilization and you have an offspring...circle of life...with the chicken or the egg question... Not yet andwered
Kym Healy that is true. And that dang question about what came first is pretty deep. Must be something farmers wondered about during chores.
Awwwwww, I love how you care about your birds ...everyone needs a break !
WOW you're never to old to learn something new. I'm 65 yr old & I must say I have never heard of this before. Great job young lady you're a great teacher ❤️☺️
This is so cool,thanks for keeping this knowledge alive. I'm almost 40 and had never heard of this until maybe a month ago.
I just thought your perspective about God making chickens’ bodies to rest during winter to be so beautiful and respectful. Lots of love to y’all!
Not "forcing" them to lay. Just containing them, to lay in the confines of the nest boxes.
Also, if the chickens aren't laying the eggs in the winter isn't that god's way of telling them not to eat eggs in the winter?
You guys are so funny. God is a children's story. It won't matter to the chickens. They follow whatever patterns their evolution has set for them.
Jim Groth God made the chicken and the eggs u eat so shut your piehole and be grateful .Go on get we do not want u here .
+Jim Groth
Unless you become as little children (believing), you shall in no way enter into heaven. You too. It may hopefully may touch your poor deceived heart when you are up against disaster or at deaths door. The logic of man is never enough, however useful God made it to be.
I had to finally check on my water glassing experiment. 17 months of waiting. It was time to go through it. I lost some due to the extreme cold of the garage through winter but I am shocked! They are amazing. They smell and look great! Some yolks are a little weak but some are standing up high like store bought. Blows my mind. I am making mother lodes of pasta with them.
this method is fake
@@BlackMamba-lt8oe you don't have a friggen clue what you're talking about! Go back down in your mommy's basement and let the adults talk!
@@BlackMamba-lt8oe lol
@@BlackMamba-lt8oe your fake what?
@@binderdundit228 more real than ur foster dad
I feel so connected to this woman. She's so straight forward in her delivery.
No hesitation, she knows what she's saying.
I dident know that that is how water glass was made.
And I've known of it for many years.
Thanks.
You learn something new every day,
This is my first time watching, keep it up.👍
I thought water glass was some unobtainable old-timey potion years ago, when I had a springtime egg glut and was researching egg storage. This was just before the internet became widespread. I never did try it, but I will now.
Extra corn helps chickens lay for longer when it gets cold- being high in energy it helps them keep warm. Great vid and hi from Oz all :D
During the dead of winter we get about 7 hours of daylight a day where I live.
My father uses high protein cat food for his ducks; they go wild for it and the eggs are amazing.
Your kitchen is so cute and your ball jar pantry is inspiring!!!
I did this, just as explained, and 9 months later did a comparison between these eggs, and fresh eggs. NOBODY could tell the difference. Thank you for making this presentation. I enjoyed all of your insight, and very valuable information. My girls started laying again like crazy, so I'm going to start with a second batch, and use up the older eggs. Blessings to you, and your homesteading family!!
What this world needs is more great mothers like you!
+RonRay That's so kind...
RonRay What this world needs is someone who is not afraid to tell the truth... as is. Robbing other species from everything precious to them, including their lives to eat their eggs is absurd, unethical, unnatural, foolish and self - destructive behaviour. There's nothing sustainable, nor humane or ethical about animal agriculture! A good mother will NEVER, EVER feed her own children with the blood and flesh of someone else's children. I use to think like you un till the light bulb enlighten my 18 year old brain blindfolded by my ancestors stupid, absurd ideas and traditions. When we wear, use and eat animal products we create, encourage, allow and promote diseases, wild life extinction, hunger, deforestation, pollution, global warming and violence. Do some home work, before you jump all over me. Here few places to start with. On youTube, Netflix or/and Google:
-WHAT THE HEALTH
-FOOD CHOICES
-THE FOOD WE WERE BORN TO EAT
-WHAT'S THE "NATURAL" HUMAN DIET
-NUTRITIONFACTS.ORG
-DON'T EAT ANYTHING WITH A FACE
-BBC : FOOD ON THE BRAIN
-DR. COLIN CAMPBELL- THE CHINA STUDY
-DR. ESSELSTYN
-RAWFORBEAUTY.COM
-HUMANEFACTS.ORG
-NUTRITIONSTUDIES.ORG
-RAN.ORG/RESPONSIBLE_FOOD_SYSTEMS
-BEYOND CARNISM AND TOWARD RATIONAL
-2 AND 1/2 MILLION YEARS THE BULK LIVED ON STARCH BASED DIETS
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+cooperrosa STFU! My God!
Mike Luther Why? Uhh, I guess the truth is bothering you. Well, not sorry to tell you, don't care. I'm not going to STFU so you stay comfortable and ignorant. If anything, YOU STFU, do your home work, check out the great life - saving links I kindly provided earlier to know and do better than this. Good luck, you need it. Thanks
cooperrosa--What the world needs is for liberal imbeciles with big mouths like you to all fall in a deep deep deep pit where we don't have to see or hear you anymore! That's the nice way of saying it...others won't be so kind.
I’m an urban chicken daddy and just started water glassing. I’m in north Texas so we don’t have a long, hard winter, but the girls do slow down and even stop their laying in the colder months and shorter days. I’m using pickling lime and 1-gallon glass pickling jars.
Just wanted to let you know, I water glassed a bucket of eggs back in May and we are now eating them. They are totally edible and not much different then a fresh egg. The yolk is a little flat but all good. Thanks for the tip on water glassing. Happy 2019!!
Joshua Smith Did your lime settle over the eggs?
J.E Anderson What does that even mean? Of course the lime will settle over the eggs, especially as more will sink to bottom naturally, (gravity), and you want the lime to surround your eggs, as shown. The eggs are immersed in the solution so unless you keep your eggs in only an inch of water, how do you think the lime won't settle on the whole egg, top side? If you clarified you could actually be helpful. I hate when people ask beginners who cite issues, questions they know will make the beginner feel stupid. Just be thoughtful and helpful without asking questions or being ambiguous, using technical terms, or other when replying to those with observations or questions. If you have trouble explaining things, or simply like being a smart a--, don't respond.
the thing is you should still be able to get enough eggs for your sunny side up in morning but for pancakes, cakes, other recipes etc the waterglassed eggs are no different than regular
Thanks for sharing these valuable conserving tricks we need it much in our area cause the electrical power going so bad god bless you i appreciate your feminine efforts a lot with all my respects
@@myohmy451 I think I'm wondering the same thing; Once you whisk the solution around and put in all your eggs, the lime seems to settle to the bottom. I whisked my solution several time, but still a lot of the lime settles. I guess that's just going to happen, and the top less-settled solution is enough to preserve the eggs that aren't sitting on the bottom of the container. I don't suppose there there's some trick to keep the lime from settling, since it will never fully mix with the water. (by the way, I'm using Mrs. Wages pickling lime and filtered water)
I’m totally digging your kitchen and you’re wearing an apron, reminds me of my grandmas house! She gardened, canned, raised her own meat. Towards the end her and my grandpa started calling the butcher to come out and process the beef and pork. My best memories are of summertime at grandma and grandpas house. We got to drive tractors build forts in hay, eat strawberries till we got sick of them. We would get up with grandpa at 4:45, the smell of his percolating coffee was AWESOME walk in to kitchen and there he would be with his big smile and his warm blue eyes asking if we wanted oatmeal or what we called baled hay which was that wheat cereal that literally looked like bailed hay in a bag, forget the name. 2 bales came in each bag in the box. I could go on and on but is really really wish I had followed my grandma and grandpas lifestyles with my family. So nice and very exciting to see young folks today taking on the adventure. Your kids are going to be so happy and well adjusted.
Hahaha! I know the cereal you're talking about. Like the frosted mini wheats just bigger. We used to call it hay cereal too. That's to funny.
Beautiful memories you have. A lot kids will never have memories like that these days. I try and make sure my kids will have some like that.
It is called Shredded Wheat and you can still buy it that way in some stores. I prefer it.
The cereal is called wheatabix. Still have them here in canada. They're awesome with warm milk and brown sugar.😉
The bale hay was called shredded wheat. I love it! Cann't find it around me wonder if they make it any more.
Potrvlb Shredded Wheat?
What a great teacher. I paid strict attention and didn't look out the window once.
I watched this because it's something I know nothing about.
Now I know a little. Thank you
In Europe we used another watery solution to prepare eggs - the real water glass (natrium silicate 1 : 9 mixed with water). Your method is not real "water glassing", but laying the eggs in a calcium hydroxide solution. Both methods work on a similar principle. The advantage of using natrium silicate is that it does not give the eggs a chalky taste. But natrium silicate is more expensive. Thank you for your interesting video!
I thought she said at the start of her video that there are several different ways to do it, so I'm guessing that there isn't a right or wrong method... just different methods of getting the job done.🙂
Interesting side note. Yesterday I filled my 4 gal bucket with about five dozen eggs. I then, a bit concerned about the lime being evenly distributed, very gently stirred them with my hand. This morning I went to rearrange them with the pointy end down and everyone one I checked was already in that position. I was shocked until I realized the air space in the big end had obviously floated to the top all by itself. Thank you, God.
Well that’s how you know about egg from a good eggs and it wasn’t happening to all of them was it?
Susan Barney, did the lime stay mixed? Mine mostly settles on the bottom. When the eggs were in it they had a little bit of white on each one.
I have this question also... Is there any problem with the lime settling? And if you use a big container and add the eggs gradually, the lime is already settled on the bottom.
In this case I've given my eggs a gentle stir to move the lime around but I've ended up with cracked eggs twice! :(
You should always throw away and egg that floats.
I am absolutely against stirring the solution, even gently one eggs are in it, because sooner or later an egg that is going bad by itself will float when you add take the ones on top of it that are unharmed by its presence.
The whole idea that you have to worry about the solution because the powder settles to the bottom is wrong!
Some of you think you have to stir it because it settles to the bottom is incorrect because the solution will seek saturation because of the natural motion of the ions in solution due to being present in the water.
You don’t understand the science of a saturated solution. A saturated solution means that it’s holding all of the calcium hydroxide (in this case) that it could possibly hold.
You don’t complain about the Dead Sea having crystals of salt on the bottom, thank you somehow have to stir it!
Even when you first put it in, if it’s not saturated within a day or two it will become completely saturated without any help or interference on your part.
Try not to make this complicated! It’s as simple as putting the eggs in gently walking away from it and picking them up gently and not stirring the water after putting in even a single egg; ever ever ever!
Just leave the powder alone on the bottom and equilibrium will take care of itself and you won’t ever have to worry about stirring it yes if you stir them.
If you stir, don’t be surprised. You’re going to crack them;stop stirring the solution as soon as you are ready to put in the first egg.
I repeat stop stop stop stop!!!
@@cyndibird7758 The short answers there’s absolutely no problem with it settling. You’ve made a newbie mistake which I’ll explain in another comment.
Making that mistake doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. ;)
Hi Caroline, i did this process, i started around July and i just started eating the eggs this January and their is no difference, it is awesome, thank you so much, i bought the 50lb bag at the feed store and your right it will last forever.
Mellissa Saucedo-Yes, to the first part. Yes, you need to find a cold dark place to store the bucket with eggs. You only remove the eggs that you want to use at that time. The rest stay in the bucket. This method preserves the eggs up to 8 month from the time you put them in the lime mix.
Hi all- PLEASE use food grade lime, not construction grade. Construction grade can be contaminated with inorganic arsenic and is NOT safe, even in small amounts, especially for kids and pregnant women. This woman may believe God will protect her, but for everyone else let's use common sense and not use industrial grade chemicals in food processing.
This is such a great video! So easy to understand and follow all the steps. Thank you for making this.
My backyard pullets are laying more than I can eat this, their first, winter so I am saving some this way in case they take a hiatus during the summer heatwaves (110+) we get where I live. Then I'll save the spring eggs for next winter when they will have their first molt.
It is so exciting and rewarding having a little backyard flock.
I was raised as a city kid but did have times on my grandparents citrus ranch with chickens. I've never heard of preserving eggs. Fascinating.
Hydrated lime is also used for drinking water treatment in large industrial and municipal water treatment plants. It's used for the softening process. You have to be careful with it in an industrial plant because it generates a lot of heat and can burn your your skin. I used to be a licensed water and wastewater treatment plant operator in Florida.
Hello-I bought some “Dolomitic Hydrated Lime” in mason section of building supplies store. Do you know if this is ok to use for this egg preserving project? Is it the same kind of lime as in video?
@@eva-zb6ni I'm not familiar with that type of lime. The lime I used was Industrial calcium hydroxide. We got it delivered 50,000 pounds at a time in a tanker truck. It is also known as slaked lime.
@@lpd1snipe thank you for your quick reply. I’m having a hard time finding out about it.
I wondered about the young lady putting her bare hand down into the solution.
I have read that you must use food grade calcium Hydroxide or you risk death or injury.
This is exactly what I needed to hear for my emergency food supply. I'm going to a farmers market this weekend and I will definitely ask if the eggs are cleaned or not. Otherwise I will get myself directly to a farm. God bless you and your family. Thank you so much for sharing this information.
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Backyard chickens. Check local laws to make sure you don't get in trouble, they are easy to care for and the "pay rent" in egg production. Check your local tractor supply or atwoods etc for baby chicks. Most of them are a few bucks each and realistically almost anything can serve as a coop. I live in the city literally 3 blocks from City Hall and we have 25 laying hens and a rooster. We get so many eggs we give them away. Our friends and neighbors love them. Now I will have to do this too, so as to save some for the hard times coming up.
Thank you sister! Never heard of this!! Hard times may be coming where this will be an incredible blessing
My grandma sold eggs. She had me "candle" them and put in cases. I had no idea what I was doing but know I realize it was to ensure a chick wasn't forming so it would have been dark or darkening. The candling was a light bulb in a cardboard box with a hole at top where I set or held the egg to check it.
Just make sure there isn't a rooster in the hen house.
I used to work on a chicken farm as a teenager during the summer and candeled eggs...Its was really odorous..🤗
@@barbaraalden6013 very true. My grandfather's hen house had a magnificent older. LOL
All those that put a thumbs down used store bought eggs. Great info! Thank you! Use FRESH UNWASHED eggs! 🤗
Slaked lime is also known as Calcium Hydroxide Ca(OH)2 it is mildly caustic and like natural soap has a PH level that provides a hostile environment for bacteria. Without bacteria there is no degradation and eggs will be preserved providing the PH level is maintained
Thank you for explaining that! Pretty cool!
Makes me wonder if you could soak store bought eggs in water with a few drops of liquid iodine+iodide (aka Lugol's solution) since it's a natural antibacterial. Vinegar is also a natural antibacterial so I wonder if that might work too??
@@Donna777 vinigar will pickle the eggs
Donna vinegar will dissolve the egg shells!
@@Donna777 vinegar is acidic not alkali and will dissolve the calcium in the egg shell. I understand why you thought that iodine would be antimicrobial but I don't think it would be safe to use as a food preservative and would most likely affect the taste and colour of the egg.
Nice that you give God the glory for His design of His creation.
I live in south central Pennsylvania, and this is what I did to preserve store-bought eggs at room temperature. I took regular sandwich bags, put one egg in each bag, coated the eggs with mineral oil, and put them in with my canned goods. 6 months later I cracked and ate the first egg, and it was just fine. I only added enough oil to coat the eggs and have a little bit left in the bottom of the baggie. Hope this helps 😁👍