Eggs

**Jerry** · 10th February 06, 08:05 AM

This definitely isn't kilt related, but I wanted to show some eggs I collected from our flock yesterday.

This first photo shows the two big ones with regular chicken eggs and one bantum egg.

These last two are with a tape measure to show size. They may be goose eggs, as we have Geese, ducks, regular white leghorns. and Bantums. Even if they are goose eggs, they are big for our geese.

**Livingston** · 10th February 06, 11:06 AM

Looks like those 2 will give you a 4 egg omlette

**ByDand** · 10th February 06, 11:19 AM

I'm amazed you weren't awakened by the screaming from the hen house

**Pleater** · 10th February 06, 11:34 AM

If your geese are just maturing they might be tending to lay larger eggs, particularly this early in the year when they will be 'hoping' for the chance to hatch them.

I keep a few quails these days but in the past have had chickens, Rhode Island Red and Leghorn, black and white bantams, and geese way back when we had a large orchard.

The quail eggs have a really large yolk for their size - the only trouble with boiling them is getting the shells off. Six or eight of them make a really strange looking fried egg.

**Aggie** · 10th February 06, 12:13 PM

We have pilgrim geese. The first two you have pictured are consistent in size with what I see during the spring and early summer.

**Aggie** · 10th February 06, 12:15 PM

I think your going to need a bigger sporran. Now your eggs are formum related.

**cormacmacguardhe** · 10th February 06, 02:13 PM

Those big ones look like the ones I used to get from our African goose. She was taken from us, either by a large dog or a cougar. Right now the young female African I have has not yet started to lay. When she does we are going to let her hatch at least three or four.