Guest Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 (edited) Before the London Ladies rush to get a solicitor for slander or litigation, I would llike to make a public apology for my statement on my profile. At the time I made that statement, they were definitely showing signs of being stuck up and aloof. Anything in the egg laying department was just too common for them - especially after seeing the Norfolk Girls screwing their eyes up and making a big fuss about pushing out an egg just to please Old Mother Hen. There was no way that they were going to let themselves go and eat so much that they got as big as those carrot crunchers. Then today, on my second visit in torrential rain I found the itsy bitsy egg on the right in the hedge hidey hole The one on the left is from a Norfolk Lass, weighing in at 78 grms, not a personal best but commendable. The one on the right is from a genteel London Lady that has proved she is NOT too posh to push and weighs in at a more lighter weight of 31grm which you would expect from these perfectly groomed catwalk stars. She would like to remain anonymous and refuses to name the father maintaining that it was a virgin birth. Her figure has returned to slender normal so I do not know which one laid the egg. I do publically and humbly apologise unreservedly for saying that the London Ladies were too posh to push - when one of them has clearly shown they they are not. I would like to offer a triple portion of washed tinned sweetcorn as a gesture of goodwill in full and final settlement of this matter. Yours Now humbled Kooringa Mother Hen - I have now amended my profile Edited March 20, 2006 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Thanks Christine - just thought I would brighten up a miserable wet battleship grey Monday for someone. I sure brightened up my day when I found it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley-Jean Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 You could all brighten my winter up by sending me some of your rain WELL DONE to the lady who laid that lovely, perfect, little egg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 How much rain would you like - I can sell it by the barrel load at the moment. Filling up my water tanks up the lottie lovely ready for the usual Norfolk drought in the summer no doubt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Great news Kooringa! And well done to the lady who laid it; those little 'uns are such precious eggs aren't they? Let's hope that they all follow suit and you have your full complement of eggs from them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I hope so. If I let them go to bed in the new eglu tonight I might start getting them in there. Thanks Clare - don't know whether to blow it and frame it or eat it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I still live in hope of chocolate eggs, if I can work out what to feed them They are so sweet the chickens, and the cute little egg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Now that is an idea. Grate Green and Blacks in the pellets tomorrow then - see who gets on first! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 You did start me thinking about different size of chocolate egg, mmm Ideally you'd give them the raw ingredients rather than just processing G and B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motherhen Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Thanks for making me laugh on a nasty wet monday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Now there's a thought; shame Rosie's with her Dad for Easter, otherwise I could've substituted some chocolate eggs in the nest on Easter morning for her to find. Great news, though - today is our first 5-egg-day! Wnet back at lunchtime expecting to find a couple of eggs (maybe) and found 5!!!! Typical, now that the science test is over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Wow, five! Go chickens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Congratulations Kooringa on your first perfect bantam egg........May many more follow.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Don't forget that they're banties Choccy, so 5 eggs = 2.5 normal eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motherhen Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 When I'm baking, I just weigh out the eggs It can be really useful to have a 'half-egg' equivalent if you are halving a recipe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 So how do you work out the quantities then motherhen? I usually use th 6, 6, 6 and 3 rule to make a sponge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Don't forget that they're banties Choccy, so 5 eggs = 2.5 normal eggs But 5 cute little miniture eggs I'm a sucker for miniturized things. I used a T/S egg in a cake and yesterday and I think it made it go too eggy. Have to use Beth eggs I think, or learn how to guestimate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Need to have words with Hollie now as she has def not laid yet. Red faced and watches Lottie but no sign as yet, not worrried as have a lot of eggs. BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Looks like the public humiliation worked. I have just been out to give the girls their sweetcorn and Freckles was sitting in the nest box on this...... The one on the left 32grms. It was well worth buying another Eglu and the journey to Cambridgeshire and back yesterday. There is only one now that is too posh to push and I have a sneaky suspicion it is Pumpkin. When I put the corn in, Dilly Dilly, flattened herself, but Pumpkin dived in doing the little bantam squeaky happy version of - Ohh Goodey food. And pecked at it like a hammer drill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Either Pumpkin is too young, or just going through a non-laying phase then; have you seen any of her feathers around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Not one. Nor Freckles. Dilly lost 6 on the first day when she sampled the big girls breakfast. Off out for the night now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 So how do you work out the quantities then motherhen? I usually use th 6, 6, 6 and 3 rule to make a sponge. Clare - an average egg weighs about 2 oz so the 3 egg recipe would require 6oz of egg. Just crack and weigh your bantam eggs until you have 6oz. Congratulations Kooringa - just 1 to go now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 A hat trick was too much to hope for - but I am a very happy bunny. Rushing off out now - so you will have a bit of peace and quiet on here tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Clare, I just put the eggs in the weight pan of the scales, however many I need for the sponge size, and then use them as the weight for the flour butter and flour, you need a balance scale though. Works every time, my mum used to do it that way when I was a little girl, as we had banties! Karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
