The Old Folks Home

[Wisher1000]

This is the most recent (and smallest ever) wind egg I have gotten. It was about the size of a robins egg and the tissue it formed around looked like a piece of cooked yolk.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Wow, that's a big spoon.

 

[vehve]

Hey, to get back to the price of electricity that we discussed earlier, we just got a letter from the company that delivers our electricity (Due to some sort of free competition law, you can actually buy your electricity from one place, and only have to pay for delivery to the owner of the electrical grid). Well, anyway, the letter said that due to low interest rates in the global marketplace, they are refunding their customers 15% of the previous years payments. 105 euros will be deducted from our next bill, not too bad.

 

[vehve]

But to all of you waiting to see what's in the egg, Karin is on her way home right now.

 

[vehve]

You're going to give her permission to open it?

This is something she doesn't need that for. I only try to influence her in areas where she isn't of sound mind in, like dog things. Sort of like asking a chicken person if they want 50 free chickens. I bet most chickeners would throw rational thinking out of the window at that point.

But generally, I'm the one that's whipped in this relationship - trust me. No need to fly the feminist flag here

 

[Highcotton]

But isn't it nice to live in a world where the good is so common, it's almost too mundane to notice, and the bad is still unusual enough make the news?

Yes it is.

 

[Highcotton]

Case in point re: unabridged comes to mind was the coverage of Hurricane Katrina. It was SO white-washed and sanitized by the news media. Oh, look, people wading in the water and stranded at the SuperDome. It wasn't (for me, anyway) until Oprah did an expose and showed the dead bodies floating in the water and the horrendous filth that the impact of the weather event became apparent. I thought it was her best piece of journalism....hard and brutal facts. Then it degenerated into a celebrity helpfest, but at least help got there. (At the time, though, I was involved with Best Friends Animal Society and they were doing massive efforts on the abandoned pet front, so I had an inkling how dire it was in N.O. via the network. But -- reiterate -- national news sources dropped the ball on the serious coverage.)

Sometimes the kids need to get the bejeez scared out of them. It's called a reality check. Most of them are so absorbed in their own little universe that it's amazing how little they realize...or can comprehend. I'm talking teens now....not toddlers and preschoolers. I think they've listed the maturity age at -- what -- 25 or 26 now? That's when the boundaries set in and cognizance of one's place in time and space start to set in. Being forewarned is being forearmed, as they say.

(My sister's kids are so clueless that it's kind of the family joke.... Of course, my sister is oblivious to a lot of stuff. Perhaps the apple doesn't fall far from the tree)

The news also missed Southern Mississippi and the area East of New Orleans which was hit harder than New Orleans. A friend of mine that lives just North of Pascagoula drove down Highway 98 (the coast road) and said that you didn't even want to go there. Dead bodies of deer alligator etc. were every where. The general public cannot imagine the carnage after a major hurricane.

 

[vehve]

Okay, eggtopsy done.

First, some size comparison. Like I said, it weighed 11 grams, and here it is next to a 45 gram egg.


The shell was very hard, and we had to whack it against the plate several times before it finally gave in. Then, with a knife we managed to pry the membrane open too, and poured out the contents.





There's some yolk in there, but it wasn't clearly defined, basically two yolk like irregular masses, and some yellow looser stuff around it. Part of the white was quite solid, and as you can see, part of it pretty runny.

 

[perchie.girl]

Hey, to get back to the price of electricity that we discussed earlier, we just got a letter from the company that delivers our electricity (Due to some sort of free competition law, you can actually buy your electricity from one place, and only have to pay for delivery to the owner of the electrical grid). Well, anyway, the letter said that due to low interest rates in the global marketplace, they are refunding their customers 15% of the previous years payments. 105 euros will be deducted from our next bill, not too bad.

Hey that happened here... well not exactly the same circumstance but my electric bill is normally 12.95 a month... this month it was -12.95.... They gave me a refund because I had proven i was trying to cut down on electricity....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Okay, eggtopsy done.

First, some size comparison. Like I said, it weighed 11 grams, and here it is next to a 45 gram egg.


The shell was very hard, and we had to whack it against the plate several times before it finally gave in. Then, with a knife we managed to pry the membrane open too, and poured out the contents.





There's some yolk in there, but it wasn't clearly defined, basically two yolk like irregular masses, and some yellow looser stuff around it. Part of the white was quite solid, and as you can see, part of it pretty runny.

Wow its like she did some house keeping.... Is this the hen that was broody for a while? If it was maybe this little egg start was in the works when her hormones took over.... Then after she got off the nest her body finished forming the egg.

deb