Silence Is Not Golden Here

[Conan]

Candle them now!

I ate them for breakfast with a tiny hash brown and hot sauce - delicious.

 

[Cyprus]

@Cyprus
I am so sorry about your hen. It unfortunately happens to all of us and it's never easy to see/accept/get over. Something (I assume a fox or coyote) got my beloved roo a few weeks ago and I still find myself outside looking into the marsh and woods hoping he'll just come wandering back into the yard - even though reality is he's gone. Again...

Thanks. I know, I still keep looking for her even though I know she is dead.

 

[Kiki]

I ate them for breakfast with a tiny hash brown and hot sauce - delicious.

You could have almost just ate balutties.

 

[Conan]

You could have almost just ate balutties.

Nah - There were only three eggs and she just started laying. Besides, my roo is just a little dude though I did see her hunker for him yesterday... Hmmm.
They were adorable though! Beautiful pale blue about the size of a mature Bantam egg.

 

[itspebbl]

I love EE eggs! We lost the only EE we had, and I miss her. She was so quirky, but probably one of my favorites through the time I've had chickens. I hope to get another (or 3) ASAP

 

[Zinjifrah]

I love EE eggs! We lost the only EE we had, and I miss her. She was so quirky, but probably one of my favorites through the time I've had chickens. I hope to get another (or 3) ASAP

I don't even like eggs, yet I'm admittedly curious what color the three I have will lay. I do like blowing out eggs and cleaning them to make ornaments from, and they seem particularly well suited to that. Briefly toyed with the idea of carving emu eggs... concluded that I am not artistic enough for that.

 

[itspebbl]

The only eggs I eat are boiled (not balut @KikisGirls ). It's just really hard to make myself eat them otherwise.
We have blown out an egg before! Pretty neat process. How would you carve an Emu egg?

 

[Kiki]

I don't even like eggs, yet I'm admittedly curious what color the three I have will lay. I do like blowing out eggs and cleaning them to make ornaments from, and they seem particularly well suited to that. Briefly toyed with the idea of carving emu eggs... concluded that I am not artistic enough for that.

There are egg decorating contests here on BYC.
I think you need to practice this egg carving trick and enter the next one.

 

[Zinjifrah]

The only eggs I eat are boiled (not balut @KikisGirls ). It's just really hard to make myself eat them otherwise.
We have blown out an egg before! Pretty neat process. How would you carve an Emu egg?

You use a Dremel! Or other rotary tool. I suspect the best would be one of the silversmithing units, which I'd like to have anyway - along with a silversmithing shop. Google them - there's some pretty amazing carved eggs out there! Emu eggs are dark green on the outside - I'm sure everyone here already knows that! - but the deeper you go into the shell, the lighter the green is, so you can create color gradients. Near the inside, they're almost white. And they're thick enough that if you're careful, you can create some pretty intricate gradients.

 

[Zinjifrah]

There are egg decorating contests here on BYC.
I think you need to practice this egg carving trick and enter the next one.

Unfortunately, that was years ago... and I don't have a ready source of blown-out Emu eggs any more. I used to live near an Emu farm, and rather than crack the eggs for eating, they drilled out the ends and drained them, so they could sell the empty eggs to carvers and collectors. I still have one... not carved, just an empty egg.