You wait forever...and...

[MaureenHall]

ok i want some now ..... i had to buy eggs again today ....... i cannot possibly wait another 6 months for eggs, mine are only 10 weeks this week ..... i'm gonna have to go get some big chooks

It might only be a couple of months before Pingu gives you her first egg, she might be one of the "early layer" types. Are they all on pellets now or still on crumb/mash?

[lynda66]

been on pellets for ages ....... though they don't like em, so i mix em in and put yummies with them like home made bread and cat biccies oats and boiled slug and make into a mash (mostly pellets), about 4 times a day .... if i put pellets in they bury em to make me think they've eaten em and stand there telling me they are starving

[Bephlam]

boiled slug?? please tell me you don't boil slugs for the chickens...please!!!

[lynda66]

lol, no i pour boiling water on em, cos if i put them in a tub inthe playpen they take em out then i'm removing slugs from the carpet for days, cos they get all excited and drop em and the slimy things escape

they eat em alive when were outside on a slug hunt

[Bephlam]

Oh gadz!!!!

I couldn't do that - boil the little things to death?? I can't even stand watching them kill a worm...in fact, I have been known to save them!

I'm too soft, but....it's moi!

You're eeeevil!!

[lynda66]

it's very quick ..... and i do apologise ..... like i do when i chop worms in half ........ they love their slugs ....... tis their favouritist after meal worms ..... you might change your mind if you had slugs crawling round the living room lol

[Glutton4...]

You are revolting Lynda lol! I HATE slugs, but I still don't think I could do that to one. Well, I know I couldn't, I can't even bring myself to pick one up - even with gloves on!

[terrier]

All eggsiting stuff! I know how we get enthused about home laid eggs but never in my life have I resorted to WEIGHING THEM!! It must be a womans thing

[lynda66]

You are revolting Lynda lol! I HATE slugs, but I still don't think I could do that to one. Well, I know I couldn't, I can't even bring myself to pick one up - even with gloves on!

ewwwww i don't pick em up, i flick em into a plastic pot with a stick.... can't touch em, they are revolting, ........ tis a bit gross though, they leak slime when you pour the water off, and have to rinse em through a colander ..... i now have one specifically for that job

[Glutton4...]

ewwwww i don't pick em up, i flick em into a plastic pot with a stick.... can't touch em, they are revolting, ........ tis a bit gross though, they leak slime when you pour the water off, and have to rinse em through a colander ..... i now have one specifically for that job

Yeeeeeuuuuuccccchhh! Feel sick now lol

Whoever invented Slugs needs a slap...

[lynda66]

bet you would have been sick if i hadn't told you that i got a new colander ...... cos i only had the slug one

and yes i agree slugs are gross, but chickens love them

[Bephlam]

I'm not the only one that weighs their eggs...right? I mean I don't do every one...

I know I'm not the only one....

[BrideXIII]

I'm not the only one that weighs their eggs...right? I mean I don't do every one...

I know I'm not the only one....

yes, you are, apart from me, and i don't even have chooks, but someone asked and i had to go off and weigh one to see.

[MaureenHall]

I only weigh the eggs when I'm making cakes so I get the proportions of butter / sugar / flour right

[Nicos]

I weighed my eggs for the first month- cos I'd never seen a bantam egg before and it seemed tiny!!!!
Then I realised the first eggs were often smaller to start with- and then they stopped getting bigger/heavier and now weigh 32-36g ( well they did until they were sat upon!)

I've just bought some medium 'normal' eggs - and they look HUGE!!!!!!!!- goodness what a large egg would look like in comparison- mine seem so 'normal' now until I put them into an egg box!

No more weighing needed for me- at 60g for a 'standard' egg, I know mine are 1/2egg for cooking