Urban Hobby Homesteader: Sometimes an egg has twins

Friday, December 16, 2011

Sometimes an egg has twins

So remember the awesomely large egg that Elsa gave us last week? Totally a double-yolker. Man, do I know my chickens or what? Shawn did some research last night about them, and I guess it happens to young pullets who are new to laying eggs and are still figuring out their laying patterns/cycles. It is likely to stop happening once it's all figured out, but there are some hens who will continue laying them periodically. Oh, the complications and beauty of being a woman...

Don't mind the broken yolk.

I hope we get more. They're so fun.

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Katharine KnightDecember 16, 2011 at 9:59 AM
I once got a whole box of double eggs! They are good luck.
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The Homesteading Hundred

Develop a good sourdough starter. (Check!)
Make real sourdough bread. (Check!)
Grow a meat chicken.
Be ok about eating my own chickens.
Make root beer.
Build a chicken tractor.
Make a permanent living fence.
Grow a life-like peter pepper. Teehee.
Successfuly integrate new friends into the chicken flock. (Check!)
Successfully make kasutera. (Check!)
Not buy any fertilizer, use only home-composted chicken manure. (Check!)
Make umeboshi.
Make tofu. (check!)
Build a greenhouse-type thing.
Get a greenhouse type thing. (check!)
Start saving seeds. (check!)
Grow good spinach.
Make my garden chicken-proof. (Double Check!)
Not kill my basil.
Find a deknittable sweater that's not cotton or acrylic.
Knit myself some super comfy socks.
Make and use homemade cleaning products that work! (Check!)
Make effective laundry detergent. (Check!)
Make and use homemade lotions and balms.
Be rich enough to afford ingredients for homemade cleaning and beauty products.
Make apple cider. (Check!)
Make gingerbeer. (Check!)
Make pear cider.
Get some bees.
Spin my own wool.
Dye my own wool yarn.
Sell my crafty-wares at a market.
Make my own yogurt.
Make a t-shirt quilt.
Make a real quilt.
Braid a rug with old clothes.
Hatch my own chicks. The real way, with a hen.
Get a rooster.
Increase my chicken flock. (Check!)
Grow something in the wintertime.
Make some hard cheese.
Make some cheese. (Check!)
Have a good raspberry year.
Have a great pear year. (Check!)
Can those pears. (Check!)
Not buy any vegetables all summer long. (Not possible.)
Knit a garment I won't be embarrassed to wear. (Check!)
Grow a decent cucumber. (Check!)
Grow a decent apple. (Check!)
Grow a decent heirloom tomato. (Check!)
Get my hands on some sunchoke starts. (check!)
Make some paper and add chicken feathers. (Check!)
Get Some Chickens! (Check!)