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4:58 pm
1st June 10
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annmarie
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We stopped buying eggs from the supermarket 3 years ago. I was buying free-range eggs and paying more for them but the yokes were not very yellow indicating they were not free-range at all. In the UK you can call something free-range providing you leave the doors to an animal enclosure open even though the animal does not necessarily go outside. So I started buying my eggs from the local farm shop. They were costing £1.40 for 6 free-range eggs but lately the yokes have not been very yellow so I've started getting them from a local smallholder, They cost less and you can clearly tell they are free range. I made an omelette the other day and you what have thought I had put food colouring in it. It was nearly orange. Here are some they let hatch.
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9:42 pm
1st June 10
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Ciderman
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One thing we miss that we had at our previous abode was free range chooks! Our 20 had 6 acres of pasture and established trees to scratch about in . We boasted that our eggs were 95% beetles and bugs! But they were lovely. We are still fortunate in that my senior daughter still has a similar set up and sometimes drops us off a dozen, but when Jill has a baking obsession we purchase “Henergy” eggs, (a brand) as they are SPCA approved and although they live in a big barn they forage during the day.
These were some of ours during the bird flu scare!
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Civilisation is a veneer, easily soluble in alcohol.
http://cidermannz.blogspot.com/
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9:51 pm
1st June 10
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Me.
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We have kept chooks for the last four years, sadly last weekend they were culled in preparation for our next move. They had stopped laying about three months ago, but we will miss having them around the garden … and the calling cards they discarded with seeming gay abandon. 
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8:38 pm
2nd June 10
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doreen
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What came first, the chicken or the egg
Definitely the egg.
A different mum and a very different dad fell in love and produced a pretty chicken.
Happened then and happens now.
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3:54 pm
7th June 10
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annmarie
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Ciderman said:
These were some of ours during the bird flu scare!
Love the photo. When I get my chickens I must get some of those masks just in case we have another outbreak. Did you get them on eBay? Would not want the chicks getting flu.
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