My amusing eggs....I may need to get out more...

[Poddington Pea]

This week we have had a fantastic array of curiosities being laid in our backyard farm.
I just wanted to share!
On the left is one of our normal giant eggs (they do not fit in 'jumbo' egg boxes!)
Second from the right is a nearly spherical egg! We call it the meatball.

[ladylottie]

Brilliant! I remember when I kept chickens (sadly a long time ago now) we had one laid which was almost a rectangle. It had the two broad ends of the egg with the pointed ends joined together if you get what I mean. Must have been really painful to lay!

[Nicos]

Te he...a fantastic collection!!!!!

[mrbadexample]

So when your recipe says "two eggs", what do you do?

[Poddington Pea]

Haha! These have all been laid this week, usually we have the huge eggs on the left. The hens are ex-commercial-free-rangers and they had come of the end of their commercial laying lives. When we got them none were laying. In the last two weeks we've had 6-8 a day from 10 hens. I think the unusual eggs on the right are from 1 hen coming into lay (or trying her best!)
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[Glutton4...]

I get a wide variety of sizes and colours! My ex-Batties either lay huuuuuuuge round eggs, or huuuuuuuuuge long eggs, these are usually double-yolkers. My 'babies' lay small perfectly formed eggs, 2 white, 1 cream and 1 pale blue. The Batties brown shades vary from pale sand to ginger, and the Marans (when they can be bothered ) lay from mid brown, through pink/brown to dark brown with spots on!

My Goose lays bladdy great big long white eggs that are so thick and hard, that they will crack a Pyrex bowl if you try to break one on the rim of it!

[lettucegrow!]

Love it! Always interesting to see what you will collect each day. That anticipation doesn't lessen.

[SarzWix]

A medium egg weighs around 2 ounces, with the shell on. So if your egg weighed 4 ounces it'd be about the equivalent of 2 medium eggs.

Or, if you just wanted to make a basic in sponge, you first weigh your eggs, and then use an equal weight of fat, flour and sugar.

(in reply to mrbadexample )

[Poddington Pea]

I always weigh the eggs and use the same weight of butter, flour sugar and a slug of milk. Best sponge recipe by far! Always moist, always light and always delicious! Complimented everytime!
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[mrbadexample]

But if you weighed two of the small eggs you'd end up with a really weeny cake. That would be terrible. Although better than no cake at all.

[Snadger]

I've had a few strange shaped eggs recently. Wrinkled, elongated and round mostly.

Naturally I couldn't put these in my honesty box so have always finished up using them myself.
But now I have some young chicks which get all the 'dodgy' shaped eggs mixed in with there chick crumb!

[ginger ninger]

I WANT SOME HENS...then I can join in. Fantastic collection of eggs you have there Poddington Pea. In exchange for CAAAAAAAAKE & curds, a friend of mine let's me have a tray of ungraded eggs, there all shapes and sizes...and they have poo on em , not like the scrubbed clean ones from Tescos .

[Poddington Pea]

The eggs we get are mostly clean, as long as the boxes are kept clean and the hens don't have dirty bottoms they should be clean. I'm not sure about supermarkets, but you're not supposed to clean eggs before selling them.
I can't bring myself to cook the teeny tinys, they're so cute and I won't get much from them anyway!
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[Glutton4...]

I usually find that the teeny tiny 'wind' (as in paarp!) eggs, have no yolk anyway.

[Flummery]

But if you weighed two of the small eggs you'd end up with a really weeny cake. That would be terrible. Although better than no cake at all.

We call it a bun!