Someone remind me why I spent so much time agonizing over which breeds to buy? Carefully chosen to provide a spectrum of shades of brown egg? Because they’re all exactly the same color.
I laughed when I opened this picture to crop it in Photoshop. I briefly considered deleting the poop from the eggs with the clone stamp tool. (I’m not above occasional use of the clone stamp tool.)
But then I thought, You know what? I think it’s good for people to see poop on eggs. That is the truth about eggs. They come out of a chicken’s butt*. They have poop on them. That’s how it works, baby!
And as long as I wasn’t going to clone stamp away some POOP in that picture, why bother to clone stamp out the coffee ring on the sideboard?
So there you go. There’s poop on the eggs, and a coffee ring on my sideboard. Conventional wisdom is that you should wait to clean eggs until you’re about to eat them, so that’s what I do.
* Not to be graphic with the biology lessons, but chickens only have one “hole.” (You’re welcome!)
…Thanks? ;D
I did not know that. Do they ever try to hatch their poop?
I learn something new everyday…
I want to come hang out at your house with chicken offal and coffee leavings.
I’ll bring my knitting…and what else?
Your eggs are beautiful!
Actually it looks like everything comes out the same hole, but there are several avenues that lead there
If you are interested you can look at these illustrations: http://www.iacuc.arizona.edu/training/poultry/species.html
I often get eggs with poo on them from the supermarket … do you guys have them cleaned? O_o
Cloaca!!! The fancy name for that “hole”
Very interesting indeed. Say Erika, have you reported on your chickens working out their pecking order? If yes, could you direct me to it? If not, how did your guys fare? Do you know who the low chicken is and does she get the crap beat out of her regularly?
The chicken-sexing episode from Dirty Jobs would be fairly scarring to someone unclear on chicken anatomy, I think.
(I have to say I found the turkey artificial-insemination episode WAY more scarring, though.)
May-be chickens get the colour of their eggs harmonized the same way that a bunch of women living together get their periods at the same time.
mmm I actually see a little difference in the colors.
Crack? Too much sudoku? Wishful thinking? perhaps.
I like the real stuff in the pix. Plz to not photosmack up. Keep it tru (or something.) I like coffee and can’t do eggs w/o.
Brown eggs iz brown. Whatcha gonna do?
We wipe off the ones we sell just before we sell them. For our own use, we just give them a quick swipe just before we crack them.
There is poop on chicken eggs?