Yesterday Jayedee shared a Simple Woman’s Daybook entry with her readers in blogland. After reading her entry, I clicked on comment and shared my two cents worth on as many points I could remember. Last night in the deep of night as I lay awake in my bed, of all the things I could ponder my comment to her post invaded my thoughts. Words are some of my favorite things. So much can be done with them. Expression is limited only to the word-spinner’s ability to spin. Jayedee told of a chicken breed she would like to add to her menagerie, the Silver-Spangled Hamburgs. These are beautiful, showy birds. I intended to say they are dingee (made up, non-existing word) like a blond, but I called these spectacular birds “dingy”…dull and dirty. (So…who’s calling who blond?) After shaking my head, I got a good laugh and drifted off to sleep.
Two things can be gleaned from this silly tale…
It’s healthy to laugh at ourselves on occasion. Otherwise life becomes way to serious and heavy.
Choose your words wisely or the words you spin may boomerang.
Egg count to date…209, and it’s early in this production day. Aren’t these beautiful?
Until next time…
No one has the right to do as she pleases unless she pleases to do what is right. ~ unknown ~
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This happens to me all the time… my mind gets ahead of my fingers when typing.. and then my eyes see what my mind thought when proofing. Pitiful. You’re right though, can’t dwell on it or you’ll make yourself crazy. – 209 eggs? That’s wonderful!
look at those eggs. good for u… yummy
I’m cuious Judy do you candle your eggs? Or do you just break them in bowl to see if there was any blood in the eggs. If you find one with a little blood do you throw them out of give them to your dogs? I used to work on an egg farm. The big barn for the chickens had several cats that live in that barn too so they could catch mice. When i collected egg there was always a few shelless eggs and the cats would follow me to a area where they knew i would tear open the eggs and let them eat them. Do you weigh them so you know is they are small, medium, large, or jumble? You have a smaller set up at your house than what I used to work yet where i worked was considered small cause it housed 200 hens.
Renee, poor proofing is just one more proof in the pudding that I’m not perfect. I need the reminder sometimes. Keeps me humble.
Laurie, I would candle the eggs if we were allowing a broody hen to keep eggs but not routinely. Our hens are sharing a yard with a couple roosters. More than likely the eggs will be fertilized. I don’t worry about the little spot in the eggs at all, and anyone getting eggs from us may as well not. If I’m making something like meringue I remove the spot…if the egg will be incorporated into what I’m cooking I don’t worry about it.
I’ve heard fertilized eggs are actually “better” for you…
As for feeding a cat eggs…not around here. Cats are more likely going to be the food…dog food. Not on purpose, mind you…but our Boxers hate cats. The never stick around this place for long.
We’ve only had one egg without a shell…
Well there can still be blood in eggs that are not fertilized. I say that cause when I worked at that farm for the chicken coop there were no roosters only hens. So egga can still have a little blood spot without ever being fertilized. The farm i worked in had a washer for the eggs. Before they went to the washer they were candled ( not real candle but a worker behind a dark curtain with a light that shine through eggs and all eggs with any blood in them were thrown in a five gallon bucket. I don’t know if that was thrown out or what but I do know that when chicken get older they can lay shelless eggs and also blood egg are not necessary fertilized eggs. I even now when cracking and egg will say young chicken or old chicken cause young chicken lay harder shelled eggs.
funny when i told people about shelless eggs and only a thin skin membrane holding it together many people thought i was lying but a few that grew up on a farm or had a farm knew it to be true and they would varify for me. Hee hee.
oh and personally i think you can still eat those shelless eggs if you ate soon after layed cause if they sit too long they dry up. Maybe they can be kept a little long in some water. I don’t know really. The cats were kept in the coop on that farm for rodent control. I got a cat from them once. They said they were going to kill him cause he was a boy and boys weren’t good mousers. They just had trouble catching him. If you looked at him he was gone. I caught him when i was tearin shelless eggs in a pan for the cats and i did not look at him directly cause if i did I wouldn’t be able to get him. Anyway at the right time I reached up quickly and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and he was a screaming. I had a cage i had brought in my car ana i put him in. He was about 6 months old and wild. Vet said I would probably never tame him. But months of hard work he did get tame. We named him Cooper and he was an excellent mouser.