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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: eureka AT hctc.net, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Local chicken - 1/4 pound egg
  • Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:29:59 -0800 (PST)

'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?

p.s. I'm a little curious of what the end result of the goat and her eye
................bobford

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--- On Fri, 11/21/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:


> One of our hens laid one that big this summer and it only
> had one yolk. Left hand is mine, right one holding the eggs
> is my husband's...and we both have big hands:

> http://flowerweaver.blogspot.com/2008/07/that-must-have-hurt.html
>
> --Sage
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:12:08 -0800 (PST)
> bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > This is from my local paper.'says an egg this big
> is rare. There is a pic on the paper's site, if you
> click on the link. I don't know if it is as unusal as
> the article reads...............bobford
> >
> >
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Southwest Valley
> >
> > Tolleson chicken lays rare 4-ounce egg
> >
> > by Jonathan J. Cooper - Nov. 21, 2008 08:42 AM
> >
> > The Arizona Republic
> > Stan Wilkinson thought his son was pulling his leg
> when he brought a large egg in from their Tolleson backyard
> chicken coop.
> > At 4 ounces, the egg is almost twice the size of a
> standard egg.
> >
> > Wilkinson is no amateur egg man. He grew up on a farm
> with thousands of chickens and he's seen his fair share
> of eggs. "I never saw an egg this big," he said.
> "I've never heard of anything like this
> before."
> >
> > Wilkinson is unsure which of his 11 hens laid the
> giant egg. He thinks it was the largest, a Japanese silky
> named Kika.
> > He usually collects the eggs from his chicken coup
> each night and has scrambled eggs every morning, he said.
> >
> > A chicken expert said the 4-ounce egg is rare.
> >
> > Hickman's Family Farms, a Buckeye-based egg
> producer with 3 million chickens, occasionally sees eggs too
> big to fit in the company's largest cartons, said Clint
> Hickman, vice president of sales.
> > He said the egg might contain more than one yolk or no
> yolk at all. Abnormally large eggs are usually produced by
> the oldest and youngest hens, he said.
> >
> >
> http://www.azcentral.com/community/swvalley/articles/2008/11/21/20081121swv-bigegg1121.html
> >
> >
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