How to articles
A series of articles explaining the basics of looking after your chickens:
How to Feed your Chickens
How to House your Chickens
How to Hatch Chickens
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| Spicy Egg starter |  | Ingredients
- 6 Eggs, ready boiled and peeled
- 2 teaspoons of Curry powder
- Cayenne pepper
- 1 green or red mild fresh Chilli, finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons of Lemon or Lime juice
- 1 teaspoon of finely chopped and ground fresh Ginger
- 80ml 2.5 fl oz equal parts sour cream and Mayonnaise
- Salt and Black Pepper for seasoning
- Handful of Parsley or Coriander leaves
| Method Combine the curry powder, lime or lemon juice, chopped chili and ginger in a bowl. Stir in the sour cream and mayonnaise. Season with salt and pepper.
Cut the peeled eggs in half lengthwise. Remove the yolks and press (yolks) through a sieve into a bowl. Add to mayonnaise & sour cream mixture.
Put mixture into a piping bag (or use a plastic bag with a small hole in the corner). Pipe the filling into the hollow parts of the egg white. Garnish with a parsley or coriander. |
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Controlling Humidity during Incubation |
Here's an interesting method for controlling humidity during the incubation process. An egg should lose 13% of its weight due to moisture loss over the 21 days. If it loses too little or too much, the chick may fail to develop properly and die.
You can use the eggs weight to check if its losing moisture at the correct weight against a simple table - see here.
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| Make your own labels |
 | The PKA version 2.1 includes a neat facility for designing and printing your own personalised egg box labels - here we run through the steps to show you how its done
| First thing you need to do is get yourself some self-adhesive labels.
The PKA prints to A4 letter size paper divided into 8 labels - these fit nicely onto the standard 6 egg box.
Initially, just print to plain paper until the labels are lined up properly, its cheaper that way. | |
Here's one I prepared earlier - all the text is entered via a simple form dialogue.
The background can be one that comes with the software or you can enter your own.
The image here is of 2 Speckledys, a Cream Legbar and my Cambar cockerel.
You can optionaly have the date included on the bottom right - I have not included it here as I have pre-printed several sheets of labels.
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Getting started |
First you need to make sure the labels are going to be lined up properly when printed.
To do this first get the print Label dialogue up and then click on the Load Label button, selecting the 'The PKA Test Printing' label form the list (it will be the only one on the list if its the first time you have used it).
You should see this:
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Place some plain paper in your printer and print out the labels (you want ot select the A4 Portrait layout).
Hold the printed paper up against your label sheet - do the printed labels line up correctly?
If the labels are aligned properly - go here to design your own.
Go here to centre the printout. |
