"idk whose egg that is, but it was tasty"... KNOW THINE EGG

Lol. I'm suspecting it was my little raptor headed green-feathered freak, or my puffy faced eagle head. They're my two 'mystery hens'. I can't find their breed anywhere, since everyone displays males because of the fine plumage.

But it DID in fact come out of a chicken, I promise XD

"puffy faced eagle head" Sounds like it could describe one of mine. :B
Ooomg chiggn pix plox!

Fresh eggs are the best eggs.

OH MY GOD I KNOW RIGHT!?!?!
Store bought eggs don't taste like ANYTHING compared to these. I don't even need salt on these :O THEYRE SO GOOD

That is why I try and buy organic free range eggs, that is the closest I can get to fresh eggs. Not to mention eggs are good for you...got the perfect amount of fat for the first meal of the day. Much better than any grain cereal. All you need is some bacon fat to cook them in and...oh god now I am drooling.

Yeah I love a great veggie omlet with plenty of onions, garlic, spinach and peppers. Carbs, fat, protein and no grease! Slather taht sumbitch up with Heinz 47 sauce and thats breakfast XD Coffee and toast too, of course.

Man now I'm hungry too ;_;

We be meat eaters fo' sho'

I guess I have a plainer pallette for just good ol' scrambled eggs and bacon. Barely cook the bacon (love mine really limp) then dump out half the bacon fat from the pan and throw those eggs in there. Mmmm I think I am gonna have an early supper tonight and totally do that. Husband brought home some thick country bacon that I have been dying to try out.

True dats. I prefer to do just eggs as my meat/dairy intake for breakfast. I feel like I have more energy that way, idk. Heavy meat and dairy for dinner though XD I wish I had a milking goat.. mmm.

Oh man I love bacon fat. Its good in EVERYTHING. OKAY OKAY HERE
Fry you up some bakuhn
Get a can of cambells tomato soup
Cook you up dat soup with half a can of water, then when it's good n' thick pour in about six tablespoons bacon fat
Add fresh basil, white pepper and a dash of salt.
When it looks like its almost done, add half a can of heavy cream
GRATS YOU NOW HAVE TOMATO BISQUE

its my favourite rainy day soup!

God gonna remember that. Sounds like the perfect lunch meal.

That's a big egg on the end!

It sure is! And a tiny one on the other end XD I was collecting eggs today from the coop and alyssa loves to come hang out on the porch- apparently she laid one under a rocker on the porch, lmao.

She's practicing for Easter! he he My dad had Fuzzies when I was younger, he had one lay an egg a bit smaller than a golf ball before. I thought that was so neat when I was 13 he he

Egggggssss! XD Oh hey, I FINALLY got pics up here of my 2 chickens.

Awesome!!! What breeds are they?

I have no idea! 8D http://www.furaffinity.net/full/5374216/

The male is probably an ancona, or a really thin holland XD I've got tons of hollands. They're so laid back and just awesome.

Yeah, Von's a goon but in a good way.

My 6 chickens give my family about 3 eggs a day, so we give em out like crazy. good luck to you

All hens, or fivies and a roo?

all hens, we killed all our roosters since they are all related, and we have neigbors who hate all my pets, and we didnt need all our pets getting hauled off for trying to communicate with the world. yeah, one of my dogs think she is a person, so she talks to the world,so roosters woulda been jumpin on some nerves.

Aw, sorry to hear about the rooster, but yeah if you've got a talker that might've been a little much. We've got 2 roos, both incredibly loud talkers. Most of our hens are quiet cluckers though, so no worries there XD

the only downside to the roosters is that my grandma wanted to have em for dinner after we killed em. she grew up on a farm, and was used to eatin fresh chicken, so you can imagine how annoyed she was with my mom's 'christian mass grave' for them, so i lolled hard for a long time.

...you BURIED your roosters? o.O lol I side with your grammaw on this one XD

Ours lays green brown and tiny tan egs. X3 I love the green ones. :D

Argh! I hate you! :D I thought I'd ordered 2 green egg layers but NOPE all brown, except for my tiniest polish eggs XD

The ones that do are araucana chickens. :3 We have like 5 so we get tons of green egs. XP

I thought I had anconas, but they're all hollands. And all roosters at that! DAMN YOU STRAIGHT RUNS!!!

LOL it happens. X3 But the speckled eggs are pretty, we just got solid color eggs.

Oh Jesus I've always wanted to keep chickens and so has my mother. How many do you keep and do you have any advice about how to do so?

I have 18 at the moment, but am trimming it down to 7(Don't worry they're not going in a pot :P A local farmer wants some hens and lap roo's).

Get 2 or 3 and start your flock from there :D As long as they have a warm place off of the ground to bunk up that predators can't get into, and lots of grass to munch on between feedings they're pretty happy. They really love tree trunks, especially rotten ones filled with bugs. And make sure you immunize them against merick's disease. They're really easy to keep. My biggest problem(East coast) are foxes(But we have a wire fence to keep them out) and falcons/hawks(We have some netting to keep them sheltered)

That's great advice, thanks! How large an area would you recommend to keep them in?

For 2-3 chickens? If you have a backyard you can just let them loose out there. Their shit doesn't hurt the soil, unlike predator(Dog/cat/human/etc) feces. It's a SUPER great fertilizer. Whenever I shovel their pen I toss the old hay into my compost pile :)

For 2-3 chickens? You could get away with a coop that's 2 foot long, 18 inches deep and 14 inches high. That's PLENTY of room for them. Make sure you put some perches in there(Dowel rods work great) and a nest for each of them.

They need about 4 square feet of grazing room per hen, and a cup of cracked corn and/or pellets a day. If you have a tractor supply company or southern states nearby, they sell bags of feed for $15 per 50lb bag(Will last you a LONG time). The only other thing they need are crushed oyster shells or tiny tiny rocks to help them digest their food. TSC also sells these nex tot their chicken food :)

Well that's certainly an excellent excuse to eat more oysters, he he.

Thanks for the great advice, I really appreciate it.

<3

Yeah! Good luck, I hope you choose to get some, they're really great pets :D

And there will be much omnomnom

I'm too busy being disgusted over the "weathers getting warm" part..

I've always wanted to have my own laying hens! Since it's probably not likely I'll end up living where I can do that, I might just have to become friends with a chicken farmer, but getting them fresh each day sounds so much more decadent :p

Lol, you don't have to hear them goin' at it ever five minutes :P

If you were on the East Coast, I'd be happy to give you some eggs XD And man.. fresh eggs. I just need to slaughter and salt a hog for ham n' eggs and it'd be PERFECT. They're a huge time investment(Well, they feel like it sometimes, but theyre not really) but totally worth it and don't require that much caretaking.

And I understand northern california is pretty agriculture friendly, so don't discount it!

impressive eggs! I didn't know you've chooks!

Millions of em! (Just 18, actually)
Love me some eggy weggs!
If I could have a milking goat I'd be in heaven XD

This made me go out and buy eggs and fry them up at the public kitchen. Thanks a lot. The brown eggs are SO delicious.


And Milking goat? I'm getting one!

Aww that tiny egg! We've got 4 hybrid browns, they started laying about a month ago, we're inundated :/

And there is nothing like the taste of fresh eggs from your own farm.
Egg tip...
If you want to use more of the eggs, they stir nicely into soups for added protein. Also scrambled and then broken into tiny pieces, they mix nicely with rice.

Awesome, thanks for the tip mulie! I love a good egg drop soup, so I'll drop one in to my next batch of veggie stew XD

I don't really like the taste of eggs, maybe actual fresh eggs taste good? XD I've never had fresh eggs before. Maybe it's the same principle as shrimp. I don't like shrimp from here on the coast of California, but in Utah and Nevada it didn't taste like dirt, it tasted really good. Hrm. XD

XDDD Yay, eggs! Must be a bantam polish?

Standard, actually- unless they mixed up my babies. Which is likely from McMurray.

Really? o_o That seems like a tiny egg from a standard! I know polish aren't as big as RIR, but still...XD It's so tiny and cute.

Other than that, how was your experience with McMurray? I've been wanting to get some polish, and thought about ordering through McMurray.

Yeah! Mine are super small, but they're not really fully grown- so i expect the eggs will get better.

McMurray was my first experience and they were really good w/ customer service. I ordered 25 straight run of mixed standards. They sent me a free rarest of rare breeds(Pheonix, male- he's beautiful), and send 28 or 29 in the box just in case any died in shipping. I like that they have such a variety to choose from as well as offer merricks vaccinations. I had a good experience, would reccomend them based on my experience.

Oh! That would make sense. *nod* I bet it's exciting to get your first eggs!! :D

Thanks for telling me. They have a bunch of reviews on their site, but it's always nice to actually hear from someone outside of their site. XD Would love to see some photos of your chickies! <3

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ow ow Ow OW OW! bahahaahaaa good producing chickens. *strokes their headpuffs* c:

Yum! If I can't get farm eggs I don't eat 'em. We have some family friends who just offered us some biddies! ^^ I can't wait to get some once we've got a coop ready. :)

Have you ever had the Araucana chickens? Those lay my favorite eggs. I used to love finding those. I also loved finding the litttttle tiny Bantam eggs. :] You make me miss them, we only have our one male left nowadays, he's very old. My parents don't want to keep chickens anymore, so no more babies and eggs. I LOVE how dark the yolks are in farm eggs, they're so good.

Bahhh that sucks :( SOrry to hear almost all your chiky chicks are gone. And no, these are my first chickens, I've got polish, holland, a single male pheonix, two wynadottes and three unidentifyable 'generic' chickens

Hey cool Eggsecute fursuit!

BAHAHA

I expect eggs at next Birdcon

pretty eggs! C:

YAY! enjoy your omelets ^.=.^

also, if you used to buy eggs, not sure if you saved the cartons or not.. but old egg cartons are great for storing them. funny how containers designed for holding eggs are good at holding eggs.

And if you eventually start getting overrun with eggs, you can probably find a farmers market to sell overstock eggs to.

*Nods* I've got a few half cartons I saved up as planters.

I don't think we'll get overrun until they get a little older. Right now the average is 1 egg a day. And my poor polish only make eggs the size of a quarter!

But yes, I could probably give the overstock away, this area is on eof the biggest egg prodeucers in Maryland.

chiiickeeeens x3 hehehe you gotta post pics of them!!!

BRAVO to a new chicken owner!! knowing where your food comes from is pretty much the best thing ever. I've got eggs comin' out of my ears from my flock, it's that time of year! my favorite eggs come from my americaunas who lay the most beautiful sea-foam colored eggs... I miss my old welsummer hens who would lay deep mahogany brown eggs. good luck w/ your girls!!

And boys! Thanks!! I prefer knowing where my food comes from. I'm from a farm, so moving down into the suburbs for college is pretty much awful. I can't keep any cattle or goats :( but chickens will do. Gonna grow a heap of veggies this summer. How about you?

heck yea!! i garden in the beds around the outside of my house, I grew a bunch of cabbage, potatoes, broccoli and herbs and sweet peas last year. ma has a huge organic garden down the road so I get fresh stuff whenever it's in season. fun stuff! I keep long tailed chickens (phoenix and cubalayas) right now and I love them!

Our chickens are laying eggs as well and I've noticed at least three different kinds of eggs that they lay. We also have a rooster that is in the chicken pen and another that found its way to our house that is absolutely beautiful, but does not like to get in the pen....he just stays outside. x3

awesomeee

A friend of mine has 2 hens. Their eggs are about the size you get at a grocery store. Chickens are just so cute!

Fresh eggs are such absolute win. I get some cause my best friend has chickens and they always have a ton so I take the extra. Store bought doesnt compare in any way shape or form.

My Quail will be ready to lay eggs when spring comes right around, I can't wait to see what they taste like X3 I wonder if the chickens freak out when you take thei

Good luck with an abundance of eggs! And yes, I have to be sneaky about it or they do freak out.

Hopefully I'll be able to order some more when they come back into season <3 Only three out of the twelve I ordered were fertile and hatched, and tow died from the heat lamp being not enough, which I found out too late ><

And I will be enjoying those eggs. If I can get to them before my Uncle XD

OOps, it posted before I was done 0_o

*when you take their eggs away and they never see them again?.....Nah XD