Comments on Urban Chickens Network blog: an update on our eggs (getting bigger!)

That's quite a size difference. I knew they start ...

2007-11-19T05:36:00.000-08:00

That's quite a size difference. I knew they start small, but that's pretty dramatic.

Great to have you here, Bad Wolf. I'm a fellow Ame...

2007-11-12T16:10:02.659-08:00

Great to have you here, Bad Wolf. I'm a fellow America's Test Kitchen fan, and I've seen their recommendation to crack on a flat surface, too. It's worked with the mass-produced eggs, but not with our yard-fresh eggs (yet).

Maybe as the eggs continue to get bigger, the shell will thin out enough so that the "traditional" ways of getting into them will finally take effect.

More pix soon, I promise :-)

I've been loving your blog and suffering from henv...

2007-11-12T16:00:00.000-08:00

I've been loving your blog and suffering from henvy.

I'm surprised at the trouble with cracking the eggs. Since I've been buying good eggs I haven't had to fish out hardly any shell where it seemed as though I was every time with the mass produced eggs; the shells were so thin.

I also thought the the really good humane eggs from the store were so much better (and they are) but then I put a couple in a pan with a pastured egg from a farmer I'm getting eggs from now and the depth of color in the yolk as well as its size and the height of the alum was amazing. The flavor was richer too.

However, America's Test Kitchen recommends cracking eggs on a flat surface while John from Caprial and John's kitchen suggests using one half of the empty egg shell to fish out shell bits (it works somehow attracting the piece though a clean shell is a good idea). What I like doing is cracking the eggs in a shallow bowl and then slipping into the pan or bowl when it's time. Maybe you just need to find what works well for you and the eggs you have now.

Take good care of the girls (and more pictures please).

Great to see you here, Ali!I was surprised at how ...

2007-10-30T08:27:26.412-07:00

Great to see you here, Ali!

I was surprised at how small the first eggs were, too, but not nearly as surprised as I am with how quickly they've sized up.

This whole chicken-raising experience has really opened my eyes to how quickly the chooks size up from week-old chicks to now six-month-old hens (or are they still considered pullets?)

that's great to know that the eggs increase in siz...

2007-10-30T03:01:00.000-07:00

that's great to know that the eggs increase in size that much after 7 weeks :) I was wondering how long it may take!!