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Thread ID: 120578	2011-09-15 05:48:00	Eggs	jareemon (5207)	PC World Chat

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1231249	2011-09-16 23:29:00	We pick up our eggs from the laying boxes daily so that there is no chance of them starting to develop (have roosters so large proportion of the eggs are fertile). If we find any outside the laying boxes, we assume they are probably old so we leave them. With completely free-ranging fowl, our egg yolks are almost orange in colour, and they seem to take a shorter time to cook from room temperature, especially the egg whites. Weird. Haven't really noticed huge difference in taste though. BTW have about 4 to 5 doz eggs spare a week at the moment: email me off-line if anyone's interested in getting some...(Auckland) How many chooks have you got?, must be chook city	prefect (6291)
1231250	2011-09-16 23:44:00	35 at last count: but they keep increasing!!!!	ellpow (16400)
1231251	2011-09-17 00:17:00	LOL. Down South there were 2 egg places. I went to one - all good, always. The other, she never checked properly, the chooks had access to roosters, they were all over the place, not only would you get fully formed chicks in the eggs, 1/2 formed chicks, often you got rotten eggs too. I never bought any but was given some twice. I took them back and showed her and declined any more after that. Ick. Some people take "free range, organic" to mean pay no attention. She was very unprofessional letting the roosters roam with the hens if she was selling eggs.	mikebartnz (21)
1231252	2011-09-17 00:21:00	If we find any outside the laying boxes, we assume they are probably old so we leave them. Very easy to check just put them in a bowl of water and if they have the slightest inclination to float toss them. One xmas break I was looking after some ones pheasants and collected about forty eggs then gave them the float treatment and incubated the good ones. The guy said it was the best hatching he had ever had.	mikebartnz (21)
1231253	2011-09-17 00:26:00	We are also worried about half-formed foetuses: do the eggs float if they are partly through their development?	ellpow (16400)
1231254	2011-09-17 00:56:00	We are also worried about half-formed foetuses: do the eggs float if they are partly through their development? Yes a totally fresh egg will remain lying end for end in the bottom of a bowl of water then after a few days one end of the egg will start to float upwards and if it is well gone it will pop to the top.	mikebartnz (21)
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