Eggs wilst backpacking

“Sorry Lyra, I had to look it up. I had no idea what a frerange chicken was.


USDA standards allow any chicken with access to the outside to be labeled Free-Range. Large poultry houses that raise chickens conventionally can give chickens access to a yard then regardless of what’s in or on that yard (i.e. how clean it is) and regardless of whether the chickens actually use the yard, the birds can be labeled free range. That may be the "letter of the law" but we don’t think it’s the spirit. (Click here to visit the USDA site which defines terms used in poultry labeling).

Oaklyn Plantation Free Chickens conform to a higher standard. We believe a truly free-range chicken is raised in uncrowded conditions and given free access to clean green ground. Chickens raised in this manner are sometimes more accurately called "pastured poultry". This environment, comfortable housing and good feed and water produce a chicken that has more flavor and substance. A customer said our chicken is to conventional chicken what steak is to bologna.

In addition to "ranging", Oaklyn Plantation Free Range Chickens are not fed antibiotics, coccidiostats and artificial growth stimulants.”

“dayhikerrrrrrrrrr!!”

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“I remember that cartoon about the "Boneless Chicken Ranch"....

They were having trouble getting around.”

“PAST: I can't resist. It's just too damned easy: which came first, chicken or egg?

I believe it was the egg and it mutated into a chicken.

PRESENT: Let's push this week's theme to greater levels of absurdity. Are you easily egged on, or are you fundamentally chicken?

Somewhere in the middle--I have an arousal personality type but I tend to be otherwise cautious.

FUTURE: And now for the ultimate in eggcitement. You have the technology. You have financial backing. You have a diabolical plan to improve chickens everywhere... what will you do? And does it involve world conquest? (Hey, can you imagine anything more diabolical than achieving global domination through the use of mutant chickens?)

I'd make them bigger and boneless. Muahahaha! Remember Gary Larsen's Far Side cartoon of the Boneless Chicken Ranch? One of my favorites. No world conquest -- there'd be enough to feed the world and alleviate hunger and suffering through poultry.

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I'm getting slow, Tilt.”

“Sorry lyra, you just left your self too open for ridicule with that comment.”

“Man, who needs to preserve eggs for a month?

Like the idea of egg beaters and have had success using the King Arthur's Flour powdered eggs that bacpac turned me on to.

However, still like fresh eggs for those weekend warrior trips or for the first few days of a longer trip. I usually just stick them in my cooking pot, keep them in the carton (cut to fit) and maybe with some additional padding of a t shirt, socks or sumtin. Never had a problem with them cracking or going off...”

“Wow! I was all set to start a new thread asking how to bring eggs on a trip (BowlderSon has requested them for our trip starting Monday...), but THIS THREAD tells all! Woo-hoo!!”

“I had never fully read all this... eerrrrr... still haven't!!! My eyes glazed over at the info TownDawg provided. But the rest (drumroll) cracked me up!! lol”

“Egg-zactly!”