Y’all are probably pretty sick of pictures of chickens, so now for something completely different: pictures of eggs! OK, so y’all are probably pretty sick of those as well, but look how nice these came out! Our youngest layers are the white leghorns, so for the past two weeks I set aside all their white eggs to dye and used the brown or green ones (from the Ameraucanas) for everything else. On the inside, most fresh eggs are basically alike regardless of shell color, but for making Easter eggs there’s simply no comparison. For a few years now I haven’t had any hens that lay white eggs, so I’ve been forced to use brown ones and the result is simply not as festive, especially when using colors toward the red end of the spectrum. But this year my yellows and oranges look lively rather than dingy, and better yet I managed to boil two dozen without cracking a single one. Now if I can only figure out why the red ones all come out looking either orange or purple rather than actually red, maybe I’ll really be getting somewhere. And you can relax knowing that I probably won’t be annoying you with any more poultry-related photos until the new pullets start laying this summer.
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Diary #718
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