Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: AmandaH on November 04, 2009, 08:54
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I've noticed that, over the last few weeks, the whites in my girls' eggs have gone funny. Not ha-ha funny but a bit peculiar.
They seem to be in two "parts". Both bits look like egg white but there is a firmer part surrounding the yolk and then, around that, a runnier bit. It all tastes ok and all the girls' eggs are the same but I wondered if anyone else had had this and what it was...
Thanks x
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That is how a fresh egg should be, they sit up nice and high in the frying pan unlike supermarket eggs which have runny whites .With fresh eggs the yolk takes a bit longer to cook but it`s worth the wait.
Sometimes the fresh egg whites will look a little cloudy but this is normal too. :)
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My hens are off lay at the moment due to moulting and I have had to BUY eggs from the supermarket - best quality free range (they taste of nothing and have runny whites) :tongue2:
I am so looking forward to my hens laying again so I can have eggs as 8doubles describes again.
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Yes, 8doubles, the yolks do take longer to cook too. Oh, I'm so glad it isn't something I've been doing wrong (feeding the girls wrong or something).
Sad, isn't it? That I have to have someone tell me what a fresh egg looks like...
Thank you x
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the whites are jelly like, and not runny like from the shops :) I think once you have your own eggs there's no going back.
You have my sympathies Aunt Sal, and I do hope that normal production is resumed asap
My poor girl has still not laid since being dragged about by foxy :(
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I bought some eggs off the person over the road who has chickens as I couldnt face supermarket ones with sloshy whites. Bought the eggs yesterday and today my girls have laid me 7 (from 5, possibly 6 girls if one of the young ones has started ???) - they were obviously shamed into it by the girls over the road :lol: