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Chaka stands near my okra in the garden.
Chaka is no longer into terrifying bags, she is now the mom of her first egg. I noticed that she constantly strayed away from the rest of her crew that day, 9-29-09; and was seemingly in her own world, and was looking for a nest. Well, by about 4:30 pm, Chaka decided to just quietly sit and release her first egg in front of the house.
I sat, watched, and waited, then picked the egg up while it was still warm. Being that she is of the Black Giant breed, I was surprised that her egg was quite smaller than Queens'.
Wow those are definitely different sizes....do they taste different? You might convince me into building a roost and getting a few hens!
ReplyDeleteChaka is a beauty, those eggs look so good. I love your blog. Make me a pound cake when you get about a dozen eggs. LOL. How do the eggs taste?
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ReplyDeleteI boiled and did a taste test with the eggs, and could not distinguish a real difference in taste between the eggs from the two chicken. I think that I might have imagined the slight difference. (I felt that boiling them was a better way to distinguish the flavor, because grease and pepper would have altered the true taste had I fried them. I only dabbed a little salt on the boiled eggs. I just can't stomach boiled eggs without some salt.)
I did, however, notice a difference from the store eggs. My chicken eggs were more flavorful than the eggs that I used to buy, and the yolks had a much more deeper color and texture. Chaka and Queens' eggs had a more, for lack of a better term, gamey or farm taste.
I feel pretty sure that their eggs are more healthier, as eggs from free range chicken are suppose to naturally be healthier....and as I raised them from week old babies, they've always been free range, and especially into my landscaping. LOL
LOL on the poundcake Stormee. I might just try making one though. It would be nice to know how a cake would taste made from their eggs. My daughter usually cooks.
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