emchook Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Talk about their selfish , ungrateful, high maintenance , expensive, challenging ways...I could go on for hours. Oh the embarrassment .. I have to go and buy eggs tomorrow to make a big birthday cake ... I am going to get such a ribbing for this from the "I told you so " family. At least the shop ones will be cheap [ After the brand new WIR mine are costing a whopping £1.86 each = - thats if they can be bothered at the moment ! ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 sorry but this made me laugh, they do it on purpose.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Do the family have to know ? Surely if you hide the lion mark evidence, they'll be none the wiser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 buy them from a farm shop, no lion mark there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emchook Posted March 3, 2010 Author Share Posted March 3, 2010 you sneaky cheaters !! I like it ! Unfortunately I have already fessed up to my mum ...she howled down the phone with laughter .. I didn't think it was that funny ** my feelings are quite hurt .. she will get a small piece of cake ** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 The same thing happened to me before Christmas I was one unhappy camper as I was buying eggs, I had 12 girls at the time, and took out the shop eggs to remind them what they are meant to be doing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 :lol: these chooks scheme and plot I am telling you! they found out about the cake and you were doomed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 They just wont lay to order Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Don't even start! I now have 14 hens and for a variety of reasons have approx 2 eggs a day. Aargh! the shame of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiler33 Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Well I'm going to stick up for the chooks - today, for the first time ever, I had Betsy's eggs scrambled on home made toasted bread and, to quote a Bristolian phrase, they were 'gurt lush' and I had to go out to the run and thank her ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poached Egg Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Put a plea out for spare eggs from local omleteers so you can raspberry the family - they won't know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickiepiggies Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 mine did it to me last week 4 cakes to make 2 eggs short! i'd been saving them up for three weeks especially for these cakes OH wasn't aloud to have any of the eggs for three weeks and i was still short!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 It's gone from one extreme to the other. Before Christmas I too had to buy eggs. Yesterday they laid 11 between them. I'm drowning in eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom123 Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 I got 28 eggs yesterday and none yet today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Shirl Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Either a feast or a famine that's the way it goes here too. My hens are never laying loads of eggs when we have visitors. I just shouldn't brag about how lovely their eggs are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busybird Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Space Chick wrote I had 12 girls at the time, and took out the shop eggs to remind them what they are meant to be doing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emchook Posted March 4, 2010 Author Share Posted March 4, 2010 Unfortunately I am on a baking frenzy for this party ..but even so , I thought we were a team I just know that come Saturday they will be back to 3 a day and I will be drowning in them .. Although luckily not 11 a day like Griffin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Oh it'll only get worse for me 101 Ways With Eggs is my bible Mefinks egg curry is called for again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS1 Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Mine really excelled themselves when we had visitors staying over New Year - the ex-batts started laying specially (I'm sure), so I was poaching five eggs most mornings for the guests We're back to between two and four eggs from six now, with the occasional five-egg day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helen1962 Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Hi All Sorry to rub it in but my two hens are still producing at least 10 eggs a week! Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gelbel Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Oh it'll only get worse for me 101 Ways With Eggs is my bible Mefinks egg curry is called for again! We have egg curry once a week without fail - trick is to vary the accompaniments. I started to make Friday evening after work "What can I do with the egg" night. Quiches, flan, savoury bread and butter puddings, frittattas, tortillas - all sorts. Great way to end the working week - pile of eggs in one hand and a glass of wine in t'other. The best was Scotch egg with some black pudding in with the sausagemeat. But how messy was it making them? You'd thought the girl's had made them theirselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Trouble is when you buy eggs, even the so called free range ones are nothing like the ones you get from the back garden. Wish you were nearer you could have had some of mine, I took some to work today as we had a count up yesterday, and since the weekend we had 45 EGGS!! Kept 9 here only as I ran out of egg boxes, but then had another 7 today! Back to my regular customers who had just about given up over the winter! Beckyboo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emchook Posted March 4, 2010 Author Share Posted March 4, 2010 Well what do you know .. they must have seen me carrying in a box of 12. .. they have laid a full house . 3 perfect eggs .. Shame they didnt do it earlier this week ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 what I tell you, plotting and scheming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emchook Posted March 4, 2010 Author Share Posted March 4, 2010 i know I know ... you were right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
