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High hopes that none of my words are erased from this blog, LOL, in my dreams!!
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Yes, that is certainly a lot of eggs to wash....I buy my eggs locally and know how old they are....I used to keep chickens myself and am well acquainted with the smell of rotten eggs.. I let my chickens free-range most of the day, put them in the coop/pen at night and let them out mid-morning after they had laid their eggs.....This worked well most of the time for most of the hens, but sometimes we found eggs elsewhere...There was a large boulder down on the beach that was perfect for throwing raw eggs at......so satisfying..."egg therapy" I called it....Whap!!! I like to free range the birds, they help keep the insect population down. Good egg schedule, but you are correct, the little stinkers lay eggs outside the coop as well. I'd tossed the eggs at trees, no big boulders here. I like that, "egg therapy", I always called it target practice.
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My granny used to keep chickens. I loved going out to the hen house every morning checking how many eggs were there to bring in to her.  I remember her saying that some of the chickens were very lazy layers, some days there used to be very few eggs in the coop.  I remember my mother and aunt doing that egg test too, it's a good one .  Good post, Niles, brought back childhood memories.
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I HAVE A VERY SIMPLE SOLUTION. I DON'T EAT EGGS AND DON'T BAKE ANYMORE.
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What a handy Blog! I wonder if my new neighbors would care if I kept chickens (as long as there wasn't a Rooster). I to grew up hunting eggs, we had chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. We candled our eggs to see if they were fertile, if they were, they went in the incubators. Nothing quite as beautiful as being a kid on a farm.
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Yep, you never know if the egg has been fertilized until it's in the frying pan, or the third day in the incubator. Oh, larvae of the Bot Fly, we call those Warbles on rabbits, or any other rodent that has them. The horses hate those things and if I can get them to stand still long enough, I can get the fly spray on them. My horse stands quiet, but my daughter's mare does this dramatic dance trying to get away from the pests! I think when I had that Bobcat here he wiped out the rabbit population and took the warbles with it. I just realized I didn't have to scrape any Bot eggs off the horse's legs this past summer.
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My granny used to keep chickens. I loved going out to the hen house every morning checking how many eggs were there to bring in to her. I remember her saying that some of the chickens were very lazy layers, some days there used to be very few eggs in the coop. I remember my mother and aunt doing that egg test too, it's a good one . Good post, Niles, brought back childhood memories.
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I HAVE A VERY SIMPLE SOLUTION. I DON'T EAT EGGS AND DON'T BAKE ANYMORE.
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What a handy Blog! I wonder if my new neighbors would care if I kept chickens (as long as there wasn't a Rooster). I to grew up hunting eggs, we had chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. We candled our eggs to see if they were fertile, if they were, they went in the incubators. Nothing quite as beautiful as being a kid on a farm. My niece decided to get a few chickens for her backyard and doesn't have a rooster, they're not allowed in her area. As we know, you don't need a rooster for a hen to lay eggs. Tell your neighbors the chickens are your new outside pets.
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Caponized chicken tastes better than rooster meat. We always knew when my grandma killed one of the roosters for dinner, lol, it was the worst fried chicken I ever ate as a kid. Pretty interesting about a capon being a better brooder than a hen, but even way back when, my grandpa incubated eggs in this huge incubator in what we called the egg room. Leghorns aren't the nesting type, great egg producers, but kind of flighty. LOL, if everyone pooped outdoors there would be no controversy, but it sure would be one big stinky mess.
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Whoever said that never picked up a soft shelled egg, and no, I'm not going to squeeze an egg to find out the dynamics of an egg. I think the dinosaur eggs were hardboiled, lol, that's my conspiracy theory.
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LOL, I figured that out, because I have never seen a bull hauling hay in my entire lifetime, but they do have all the fun. 
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Hi Nile, good to see you again Your post takes me back to my childhood up running around bare footed more often than not, with crunchy Jack Frost sometimes underfoot in winter and fresh chicken poop which I learnt to dodge where/when possible (not the most pleasant of fragrances, lol). One of my chores included collecting the hens eggs as well as making sure there was a constant supply of fresh water (automatic trough) and topping up the self-feeder pellet bins. Our laying hens were mainly Leghorns with a few Australorps (Australian black, dual purpose breed) whose brown eggs made a nice change from the leghorn's white. One of our childhood friends once boldly stated (we thought) you could squeeze an egg without breaking it, so being sceptical, we challenged him to prove it there & then with one of our fresh hens' eggs. We prudently stood back in case the egg splattered but to our incredulous eyes, the egg didn't break. Still sceptical, we asked him to repeat it several times before gingerly trying it for ourselves. As it was such a long time ago, I can't remember if he used two hands (palm to palm) or one hand (fingers extended top, thumb below to cup egg), but regardless, the egg remained intact. Just to test my recall once again, I just repeated the experiment with a fresh egg, lol, I am pleased to report the egg nonchalantly withstood the test! What is critical is where you apply pressure to the egg, i.e. horizontal, end to end. Just found the following information for the 'why'. [The egg is strongest at the top and the bottom (or at the highest point of the arch), which is why it does not break when pressure is added to both ends. The curved form of the shell also distributes pressure evenly all over the shell rather than concentrating it at any one point. Science World]
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My step-son was selling eggs. He purchased some baby chicks and one of them grew up to be a rooster. I suggested that he put it in the stewing pot. He told me "absolutely not" he can't do that to a pet. Eventually the rooster and some of the other hens were devoured by a raccoon that broke into the coop. He donated the surviving chickens to a friend with a farm. That farm has Great Pyrénées dogs that guard them along with the rest of the livestock. I try to buy local much as possible but lately it's just a carton of egg whites. Abracadabra 
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Hi Nile, good to see you again Your post takes me back to my childhood up running around bare footed more often than not, with crunchy Jack Frost sometimes underfoot in winter and fresh chicken poop which I learnt to dodge where/when possible (not the most pleasant of fragrances, lol). One of my chores included collecting the hens eggs as well as making sure there was a constant supply of fresh water (automatic trough) and topping up the self-feeder pellet bins. Our laying hens were mainly Leghorns with a few Australorps (Australian black, dual purpose breed) whose brown eggs made a nice change from the leghorn's white. One of our childhood friends once boldly stated (we thought) you could squeeze an egg without breaking it, so being sceptical, we challenged him to prove it there & then with one of our fresh hens' eggs. We prudently stood back in case the egg splattered but to our incredulous eyes, the egg didn't break. Still sceptical, we asked him to repeat it several times before gingerly trying it for ourselves. As it was such a long time ago, I can't remember if he used two hands (palm to palm) or one hand (fingers extended top, thumb below to cup egg), but regardless, the egg remained intact. Just to test my recall once again, I just repeated the experiment with a fresh egg, lol, I am pleased to report the egg nonchalantly withstood the test! What is critical is where you apply pressure to the egg, i.e. horizontal, end to end. Just found the following information for the 'why'. [The egg is strongest at the top and the bottom (or at the highest point of the arch), which is why it does not break when pressure is added to both ends. The curved form of the shell also distributes pressure evenly all over the shell rather than concentrating it at any one point. Science World] I have tried the top and bottom squeeze on an egg, that's the strong part, but you can take your thumb and index finger, squeeze the middle of an egg and it will break. I've never tried squishing one in the palms of both my hands though, but I do remember the egg toss when I was a kid. We used to do that at family picnics. If you have never heard of egg tossing, it's when two people toss an egg and with each successful toss, you take another step back until someone breaks the egg. This is done in teams, the last team with an unbroken egg, wins. It's all on how you catch that egg that will keep it from breaking on impact.
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My step-son was selling eggs. He purchased some baby chicks and one of them grew up to be a rooster. I suggested that he put it in the stewing pot. He told me "absolutely not" he can't do that to a pet. Eventually the rooster and some of the other hens were devoured by a raccoon that broke into the coop. He donated the surviving chickens to a friend with a farm. That farm has Great Pyrénées dogs that guard them along with the rest of the livestock. I try to buy local much as possible but lately it's just a carton of egg whites. I may have to get a Great Pyrenees, too many loose dogs where I live and too many predators.
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