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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: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:18:14 -0800 (PST)

Right now, she is standing underneath the sour orange tree, barking at the
chi-chi birds. She has been standing there barking at those birds for an
hour. If I don't let her inside (which is what I'm about to do) she would
bark at them until dark. If I had a chicken coop (I've thought of it). She
would never get her 'business' done outside. She would stand and bark at the
chickens forever. She is not the smartest dog in the world, but she is
pretty...............bobford


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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, 11:48 AM
> I recently read where they are now feeding chickens brown
> tinted chalk and that makes a white egg chicken lay brown
> eggs. This was due to the fact people believe the brown ones
> are more wholesome and better for you. The quality of the
> egg should have nothing to do with the egg's color, but
> how the hen is raised and what she feeds on. Because the
> standard factory bred hen lays white eggs, people just
> assume the other colors are not from factories.--Sage
>
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:30:56 -0800 (PST)
> bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > --- 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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