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Congratulations on your early egg!

Do real fresh eggs taste noticeably better?

I don’t trust my judgment on this. I think so. Partly, though, it’s that bantam eggs taste nicer because they have a much higher proportion of yolk to white.

If you boil eggs that are too fresh, they won’t peel well. But very fresh eggs make splendid mayo.

I’ll have to ask my chicken lovin’ colleagues if theirs have started to lay yet. I’ve had some of the eggs and they’re niiiice, the yolk is much darker than in store bought eggs. But hey…I like eggs. Chicken eggs, anyway.

Yes, the yolks are an extraordinary orange color. Partly because they’re fresh, and partly because my girls are truly free range…bugs, slugs, weeds, bits of junk. They eat everything.

There’s an old treatise on egg tempera painting (like, 16th Century old) that recommends using egg yolks from city chickens rather than country chickens, because city chickens are fed on grain exclusively and their yolks are paler.

They don’t lay during winter?

Nope. They need a certain amount of light per day to make an egg (twelve or thirteen hours, I think). If I put a little 40-watt bulb up in the chicken house and gave them a few hours extra artificial light, they’d lay all year ’round. Like the commercial egg producers do.

I have to assume it’s good for them to give them a little break in the hard Winter months, though. Ours are so much more pets than practical livestock, that’s my main consideration.

I use to laugh at people who had chickens as pets but I’ve come around. So many people do. Plus, their feathers are so pretty. And then there’s the eggs!

I had no idea! I wonder how many more chickens get eaten during the winter than when they’re laying.

Hey Sweasy – if you want to burn some time, check out my latest lame post at IB. If someone with some talent (glances sidelong at, well, you) could fix up my lame message & graphics, it might be useful to the forces of T,J, and the AW.

Congratulations on your first egg. May there be many more.

Looney Tunes:
“Miss Prissy or Prissy is typically described as an old spinster hen, thinner than the other hens in the chicken coop, wearing a blue bonnet and wire-rimmed glasses. The other hens describe her as “old square britches”.”

Fully two weeks earlier than last year.

I guess this means you keep a little egg laying journal?

I jot memorable happenings on a calendar. I’ve been bad about it this Winter, though.

What, you don’t need to have Mr. Rooster come around once a year or so to, um, recharge them?

Nope. Mister Rooster not required, unless you want behbehs.

They’re basically just ovulating.

Um, ew.

They’re basically just ovulating.

Cramps every day???

Damn right, ew.

And explaining the old saying,

“ Madder than a wet hen

I can tell you, it damn well hurts to lay an egg. This one, for instance, has a couple of blood spots. If you stand outside the henhouse and listen, you’ll hear the girl inside going “eeeeeeee! eeeeee!” trying to squeeze one out.

Makes me feel awful, really.

Ease her strain with a sharp piece of iron mounted on a wooden lever. Very traditionally Britisher… when the Druids were too busy fornicating around to come up with steel per se, any old chunk of rock did the job.

My hair’s falling out… either radiation or knee grows.

Verdammt meine Langbeine,

too many svarthies around. Kivvies. Engelander mongerelses.

.303 Britisch enthusiasten, these sillie 12 gramme Patronen.
No klein vonder ve deported their schtinkenden Arssen da wo de Sun no shines, wit Aboriginalen and othere sub-unter-Specien.

Kiri-kiri Kookoo-lookoo.
Kare-kare Poo-Poo Kaka-Kaka.
Kohu-Kohu Pio-Pio.
Mata-Mata.
Rama-rama.
Mere-mere.
Soockie-foockie.

Diese halb-Breine can no longer Sense understanden. De Papageien/parrakeetten teach dem how to speek, theese Kivvien.

Some Government should zend diese Kivvien to some penal Kolonie… Amerika perhaps/vielleicht?
Amerika takes alle!
dat vill teech dem to recognize de mighty 10.3×60 Rimmed mm!! one side from cassovary (badarse chicken wit allergrosse beak) to die oder!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4bPQznCjJ4

I take full and complete responsibility for the warmth of Britain right now. I have brought with me my CA weather and because of it, weather patterns in Britain have changed and warmed up a bit, thus the unusually warm weather. And if it does, in fact, get hot this summer (and I don’t mean hot as in 70*F) I am truly, deeply sorry.

However, grats on the early eggs! 🙂

I went to the grocery store and they tried to give me 2 dozen eggs for free. Cruel taunt? I think so!

Another fake Oceania post … this is obviously some retarded American.

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