[Homestead] Local chicken - 1/4 pound egg
bob ford
bobford79 at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 22 13:30:56 EST 2008
I just bought some brown eggs at the grocery, this week. I have never seen them in the market , before. They were considerably cheaper than the regular white eggs? I use to buy from a local man with backyard chickens. he had brown, blue & white eggs. His eggs were smaller than market eggs, but they free ranged in his yard and garden and were supplemented with organic chicken food. I lost touch with him. I can't have chickens. My dog kills even slow pigeons.
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--- On Sat, 11/22/08, eureka at hctc.net <eureka at hctc.net> wrote:
> From: eureka at hctc.net <eureka at hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Local chicken - 1/4 pound egg
> To: bobford79 at yahoo.com, homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 11:15 AM
> The breed of the chicken does determine the color of the
> egg, but it starts out white and is colored along its path
> out of the bird. What is interesting is you can generally
> tell what color egg a breed will lay by the color of their
> ear patch, if you don't know your breeds, or have mixed
> breed chickens. Our Ameraucanas lay in an assortment of blue
> green, from robins egg blue to army green, the Polish lay
> white eggs that are very pointy, and the Brahmas lay brown,
> the Faverole tan, etc.
>
> --Sage
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:24:57 -0800 (PST)
> bob ford <bobford79 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > No; I didn't know that, either. I suppose the
> ethos of chickens would therefore be centered upon
> pre-determination, rather than free will. I'm still
> curious to what sage said about what causes chicken eggs to
> color. I assumed it was the breed of the chicken. I guess
> I was wrong......bobford
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > --- On Sat, 11/22/08, Gene GeRue
> <genegerue at ruralize.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue at ruralize.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Local chicken - 1/4 pound
> egg
> >> To: bobford79 at yahoo.com,
> homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 6:35 AM
> >> On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:29 PM, bob ford wrote:
> >>
> >> > 'I'll be'. Yours looks like it
> could
> >> easily be 1/4 ib. also. Your blog pic said that
> all eggs
> >> start out white and change colors being delivered.
> How does
> >> that explain "blue" or "brown"
> eggs. What causes the color?
> >>
> >> Egg talk is fun. Did you know that the nucleus of
> every egg
> >> a hen will ever lay is within her when she emerges
> from the
> >> shell?
> >
> >
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