THRIVING after the FALL
Book One FEASTING after the FALL

The Menu · Small dishes and charcuterie

Pickled eggs

Hens and eggs Sour and fermented

Its documents

The chapters that use them

In the log

The claims that cite its documents, the safety rows first.

  • A74 unresolved Safety Limewater: 1 kg slaked lime per 15 l boiled cooled hard water, lime into water; eggs under 24 to 36 h, unwashed, candled, points down, 5 to 8 cm cover, lard …
  • A76 amended Safety Salmonella killed at 70 °C held 2 min throughout; never wash an egg (cuticle); a warm egg into cold water draws contamination through the pores; onset 6 to 72 …
  • A75 confirmed Hen's light threshold 12 to 14 h (draft 1 had 14); moult 8 to 12 weeks, half rate after; pullets lay through first winter at 50 to 66 per cent; cohorts 7 …
  • A77 confirmed Hen ration 80 g grain, 30 g pulse, 40 g roots, 25 ml whey, 8 g grit; c. 29 kg grain a bird a year, 438 kg for 15 birds, 0.18 to 0.22 ha of rye
  • A78 partly confirmed Tallow lamp 15 to 25 g fat per hour; 50 hens lit 4 h a night for 120 days burn 43 to 72 kg fat for 600 to 900 eggs (3 to 4 kg egg fat); fire risk in litter
  • A79 amended Breed dates: Bielefelder Gerd Roth 1970s, Sundheimer 1880s, Vorwerk 1900 to 1912, Reichshuhn after 1870 (chapter's 1907 for the standard also printed), …