Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[Snowy]

Must be the season for eggstraordinary egg production! Look what Florrie laid today! 94g - ouch!

 

Here it is next to one of Bella's 43g ones:

And in the tray with the others:

 

(sorry to keep posting about eggs, but you are the only ones who understand!!)

[Egluntyne]

Wow!

Bet its a double yolker!

[theherd123]

 

OUCH!!!!!!!!!

[chelsea]

might even be a triple yolker

 

looks so funny in the tray next to the others.

[chocchick]

You have some lovely coloured eggs, look white (or v pale) blue and dark brown in addition to the normal ones

I got a 102g one from Trinny yesterday (but she's still on antibiotics so can't eat it

Your egg is long and thin, very clever chicken the little ones are cute

[chelsea]

looking at them quickly, the eggs almost resemble little faces with all the writing on. like a little audience in rows

 

ignore me.....thats just me.

[Martin B]

I bet it's a double yolker.

 

I love the different colour eggs that you have!

[Snowy]

Thanks all. I'm a bit of an egg anorak, I weigh each one for my egg log (dare I say I even put the details into a spreadsheet and play around with the statistics and graphs? Just for fun of course ) It's amazing that 2 almost identical hens (the s) lay completely different eggs. Florries are the normal beige colour, but Pom's are the deeper chestnut colour. Ah well, I obviously have too much time on my hands.

[Looney]

Wow, Snowy it's a whopper!

 

We had a 94g egg that we thought would be a double yolker.....but it was just a MASSIVE single egg! I have never seen such a big yolk! It almost filled a 5 inch frying pan that we usually use for two eggs!

[Lesley]

Thanks all. I'm a bit of an egg anorak, I weigh each one for my egg log (dare I say I even put the details into a spreadsheet and play around with the statistics and graphs? Just for fun of course ) It's amazing that 2 almost identical hens (the s) lay completely different eggs. Florries are the normal beige colour, but Pom's are the deeper chestnut colour. Ah well, I obviously have too much time on my hands.

 

I used to do that as well Snowy - I came across my file yesterday when clearing out and tidying up. We have too many now but I still make a mental note of who has laid as I collect the eggs.

[Egluntyne]

Gosh...am I falling down on my duties....I just jot down the number laid every day and leave it at that.

 

We do have some whoppers from time to time, but my scales are not really accurate...should I dash out and buy some especially.

 

Massive guilt trip descending!

[Lesley]

Oh yes Egluntine! - you have to have scales which measure in 1g increments

[Egluntyne]

You mean like the ones that bad boys use for measuring....erm.....white powder, Lesley!

[Lesley]

... erm.... I hadn't thought of it in that way

 

I meant the ones they sell in Argos for baking purposes

[Egluntyne]

Are they so accurate? My scales are as old as the hills and in pounds and ounces.

 

Perhaps I should get some metric ones....most recipes are metric these days anyway, and I spend more time converting them than I do eating the result.!

[Lesley]

Yes Egluntine, they are that accurate. Mine also change between lbs/oz and kg/g at the touch of a button. Amazing what new-fangled things you can get these days

[Egluntyne]

Isn't it just!

[Lesley]

These are the ones I bought for weighing eggs ( ) but I use them all the time for baking as well.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8403331.htm

[Egluntyne]

Ooh ta Lesley.

 

Will get some (for Mothers Day I expect)!

[hillfamily]

YOu need these

 

 

I was brought a set for Xmas '05 and they are brill

 

All my girls have their eggs weighed and the details stored on their own calendar

 

note to self...........must get a life

[Snowy]

Don't worry Pam, at least you're not alone!

Mine have got their own calender too!

[chocchick]

Wow, Snowy it's a whopper!

 

We had a 94g egg that we thought would be a double yolker.....but it was just a MASSIVE single egg! I have never seen such a big yolk! It almost filled a 5 inch frying pan that we usually use for two eggs!

Trinny's big eggs are always single-yolked but I think just have a lot of white

I have the eggxact scales, they convert grammes/ounces and good for weighing eggs, is a kitchen timer and calculates your hard/medium/soft boiled egg from fridge/room temperature by weight, but not for poor Trinny's oversize eggs (any over about 70-80g) which come up as "error"

They're not so good for weighing flour etc. in big bowls.

 

P.S. I understand the egg obsession. I emailed, texted OH about Abbie's first egg, posted on forum, on my blog, and just get a polite smile from everyone I tell

I only weigh particularly small or big eggs now, but have been following Abbie's increase from 53g up to 58g.

[The Dogmother]

Ours have a spreadsheet Rosie is egg monitor and she weighs each egg, notes the weight, chook and date on the egg in pencil and logs it on the sheet. It's useful for keeping note of who hasn't laid for a while.

[Christian]

All my girls have their eggs weighed and the details stored on their own calendar

 

note to self...........must get a life

 

We have LSB or BSL or SLB codes on our calendar to denote who has laid too

 

Laverne, Shirley or Babs!!!

 

(Also have our frst 2 eggs as a wallpaper on my mobile)

clearly need to get out more too

Edited March 12, 2007 by Guest

[The Dogmother]

But it's so important, isn't it?

 

Especially as mine don't lay every day.