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Fresh farm eggs

elke

By Elke


Fresh farm eggs

We sometimes get a couple of jumbos in the box, as here. I feel sorry for the hen...



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Oooo there big.....I feel sorry for that hen as well.....

13 Sep, 2009

 

You must admit they are lovely boiled with home made bread. I also pick up fresh eggs from a farm every wednesday when I'm passing,you carn't beat a fresh EGG !!.
Hi Elke, my brother also lives in Canada been there 40 yrs.

13 Sep, 2009

 

Hi Stripes! Yes indeed, farm fresh eggs are wonderful. These big ones won't fit in my poaching cups or egg cups, so I use them for scrambling or baking. Whereabouts does your brother live, BTW? Have you visited?

13 Sep, 2009

 

I love fresh egg. I kept 60 red hens through growing up and sold them to the market. These big ones usually had double yolks.

13 Sep, 2009

 

Oddly, these big ones don't - a large yolk and masses of albumen though. And the shells are very fragile. My son has explained that, as all of them are fed the same diet, this is a problem with the particular hen's oviduct (not producing the hardening coat). Anyway, it doesn't affect the quality of the shell's contents.

13 Sep, 2009

 

I don't feel sorry for the hen as it is obviously the hen ostrich that layed them.

13 Sep, 2009

 

LOL Well, ostrich eggs taste good, then.

13 Sep, 2009

 

Hi Elke, he lives in New Brunswick.

14 Sep, 2009

 

Thanks Stripes. Not far away from here - we travel right through NB every time we visit our daughter in Montreal.

14 Sep, 2009



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