A real Easter Egg!

[wafflycat]

Gabbana has just laid her very first egg this morning - at 11.29hrs.

Her first ever egg - a REAL Easter Egg

Hurrah!

To use the words of MrsT... "We are a grandmother"

 

[Muddyfox]

Congratulations !!!

Boiled ~ Fried or Scrambled ? or maybe Poached

Simon

 

[wafflycat]

If it gets eaten today, it'll be poached. A truly fresh egg is glorious when poached.

 

[rusky]

... and a b1tch to get teh shell off when boiled!

BTW, Gabbana is???

 

[wafflycat]

Oh yes, truly fresh eggs are not much good as a hardboiled egg. The egg needs to be at least a week old to be good as a hardboiled egg.

Gabbana is a Silver Sussex hen. She, along with Dolce, a Light Sussex girl were two girls I got as point-of-lay birds at the beginning of March. I now have five in my small flock: 3 ex-batts and 2 posh girls.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Congratulations Waffly. What perfect timing the young lady has!

 

[wafflycat]

Her timing was rather good, I must say.

 

[Baggy]

Eggcellent news

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Eggcellent news

Cue the start of eggy yolks, ova and ova again

 

[longers]

As far as eggs go, it's a beauty

Did you polish it for the photo?

 

[longers]

Edit: what's a 'point of lay' bird please?

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Edit: what's a 'point of lay' bird please?

Well, you know when you've had a good night out, you get back to her place for coffee, the gentle music, balmy breeze, and you make to her boudoir.........................oh, heck, I see what you mean

 

[wafflycat]

As far as eggs go, it's a beauty

Did you polish it for the photo?

It is rather lovely and entirely in its natural state. No beauty treatments required

 

[wafflycat]

Edit: what's a 'point of lay' bird please?

'Point-of-lay' is the term used to describe a young hen - bigger than a chick but not quite old enough to start laying eggs, but at the stage when it could happen in the next few weeks. e.g. about 18-20 weeks old. They are literally at the point of starting to lay eggs. Sometimes referred to as POL.

 

[wafflycat]

Well, you know when you've had a good night out, you get back to her place for coffee, the gentle music, balmy breeze, and you make to her boudoir.........................oh, heck, I see what you mean

Well yes, I suppose it's even more rural & isolated up in Lincolnshire than down here in Norfolk... but, heck, Gerry, I didn't think it was quite that bad .. as to be thinking of hens in those terms...