proactive
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Cracking eggs! Buying from side of the road.
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Gramaisc
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The eggs would be useful for making the custard to go with the apple pies and crumbles that she'll be leaving out this year..?Handy information in a thread about eggs
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
I don't understand why people didn't take the apples she left out.
I once left a bicycle outside the front of my house and someone took that...
littleme
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Haha, reminds me of when I used to live in the West Midlands, you couldn't even leave a doormat out cos someone would nick it.....and hanging baskets had to be padlocked on - most times they were still stolen!
Carole
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Handy information in a thread about eggs
Eggsactly, but it's not entirely unrelated.
I was responding to the post by Noah about leaving stuff at the side of the road.
proactive
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I know
flossietoo
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It isn't. Unless my hens are skewing the national average. I have three enormous double-yolkers in my fridge at the moment awaiting a particularly rich weekend breakfast of scrambled eggs. Serves six, eaten by two. They normally come from some of the bigger birds at the start of their first laying season.
wmrcomputers
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That's what we usually do here. Admin frequently has to tell us all off for de-railing threads
wmrcomputers
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Hmm. Not to be picky, but do these aforementioned butchers eggs have a stamp on them. You know, the little bit of red code on the egg shell itself?
If not, then not wanting to be picky but it's against the law as ALL retail sold eggs now have to be from licenced producers that stamp their egg shells.
To sell local eggs that aren't from a licenced producer isn't illegal as long as you sell them yourself directly... it's what is known as "farm gate egg sales" even if you live in a house like me (I used to sell our surplus eggs). But if I had asked a butcher to sell mine, then we would both have been breaking the law (IIRC)
Gramaisc
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I know, beware of anybody talking numbers at you..
Reminds one of the Top of the World..
Sorry.That's what we usually do here. Admin frequently has to tell us all off for de-railing threads
flossietoo
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I know, beware of anybody talking numbers at you..
Exhibit A M'lud:
On the left, a double-yolker
On the right, a normal-sized egg from the same breed of hen
In the background, oven gloves.
(Of course, if the link hasn't worked, this will make no sense at all and you'll just have to take my word for it)
flossietoo
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Quite right and a massive faff. If you want to describe your eggs using a 'special term' such as free-range or organic, then you also have to submit to humungous inspections. The local health food shop wanted to sell some of my eggs. As a result I had to keep exhaustive records of every egg laid, discarded as cracked or dirty and sold. My records were inspected, my hens were inspected, my eggs (well, not MY eggs) were inspected. A constant procession of people arrived at the end of our drive, disinfected themselves and their vehicle and came to look at stuff. I even had some chaps from the council arrive out of the blue demanding to see where we stored the meat. I explained that the only eating of my hens was done by foxes and sent them packing. At one point it seemed to make more sense, once I was doing all that anyway, to expand the flock. I was supplying posh delis in London (£3 a box their customers paid. £3 a BOX?!) and a supermarket. And what was supposed to be a hobby had become a total nightmare. I was up until midnight candling eggs for cracks, weighing them and hand-stamping.
Now I have a few layers and some retirees. If anyone wants spare eggs, I happily give them away.
monkey bidness
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I recall having listened to a Radio4 programme about 18 months ago where they answered a similar question about double yolks by conducting an on-air experiment and cracked at least 4 double yolked eggs in sequence. It seems that young chickens who have just come on to lay are more likely to produce double-yolks. Most of the eggs we buy in the shops are from Hybrids chickens bred specifically for their capacity to convert feed into non-stop egg production. These chickens are typically disposed of after about a year when their daily egg laying begins to flag and they are replaced with new stock. It is perfectly possible that you might buy a box of eggs all gathered from new layers and thus the probability of several double-yolks in your box is significantly increased.
Gramaisc
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That was the same chap in the Today snippet that did the 'unravelling statistics' programme about the double-yolk situation. I heard that, too, but it doesn't seem to be available any more.
Carole
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I knew someone once who left a bike by the back gate saying "bike free please take"
They could not be bothered to take it to the tip or put an ad in the paper or eBay it even though it was a perfectly good bike.
So after a few days the bike was still there and a neighbour said there must be something wrong with it......who gives away a perfectly good bike?
So he put a sign on it ..." bike for sale £10"
The next day it was stolen.
Gramaisc
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A friend of mine had an Escort van in the '80s that would drive OK, but would never get another MOT. He put it in the Newsletter for £50 three weeks on the trot and got not a single call. I told him to try once more, but put £300 this time. The phone was ringing when he got home and the caller came straight round and bought it - saying, "I'm desperate for one, just has to last for a few weeks, but there's only been fifty quid scrappers in the paper for the last few weeks"...
flossietoo
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I love that we soldier on, ever further from the thread. I think that demonstrates a certain independence of thought. Admin may not agree of course but if so, (s)he is going to have a difficult job separating this lot out into distinct threads.
Gramaisc
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At least you managed to include an egg-related word.