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You take a skewer stick or just use the tip of a sharp knife and poke out a little hole in the top and bottom. Then you blow as hard as you can! Then wash it out and let it dry rea good. Then display it. Have you seen the little egg cozys that look like chickens?? Thats how I display mine
Yeah! Penny, a RIR, was the first to lay! We were certain it would be our increasingly noisy Barred Rock, but instead it was quiet and unassuming Penny.
Just bought 4 matched sets of bantams for the kids' 4H for next year Saturday morning and was in the process of making individual cages for them when two of them layed eggs.
Of course the size difference is just too funny between it and store bought.
Then next day one of the 4 EE's we bought gave us this one. It was larger than the store bought egg.
Today, Miss Artemis laid an itty-bitty teeny-tiny little egg for me after 2 days of egg-singing and much time spent in the nest box! 20 weeks old today, though her "sisters" Persephone and Demeter have not yet given me any, I'm happy with one little fart egg.
I bought a laying hen (she had been laying for about a week) so this may not count as my first egg... but none the less: THIS IS MY FIRST EGG!
Why is it speckled? I love it, but the 2nd & 3rd one that came out are not speckled. Is that from stress? She had just been on a 3 hour drive. lol. It was so cool how hard the shell was compared to the store bought ones I am used to. I had to hit it a few times till it broke.
My first egg
You can see the speckles
Yes, I know the outside of an eggshell is dirty. I washed it first.
Look how thick that white is! It was only about 5 minutes old before I cooked & ate it. hehe :-D
Ok, just in case anyone out there has a phenomenal memory... Probably 5 weeks ago, I posted that we got our first egg from our 13+ week old pullets. Well, as best as I can figure out, that wasn't the case but possibly Sally, our 1 year old golden comet laid 2 eggs in one day?? Because that's never happened again and it wasn't that small.
So anyway, once again, I proudly announce that we got our first egg from our babies! They're now 18 weeks, 2 days, so I assume it was one of our golden comets that laid it. Way to go, girls!
