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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I looked this up on Google and several sites say that you can tell what color eggs a hen will lay by looking at their earlobes... I didn't even know chickens had earlobes lol

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's not consistently true, Leghorns have yellow colored ears and lay white eggs, but yes, MOST eggs can be differentiated by their "lobes".

Source: Used to raise chickens growing up on a farm.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

The fuck? I didn't know this either

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

their turning the freakin hens gay

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

♫ When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs, every morning to help me get large. Now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I'm roughly the size of a barge! ♫

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Just imagine sitting down and eating five fucking dozen eggs to start your day. Gaston is insane.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

lets out sulfur farts all day

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

This feels more like mildly infuriating since the color gradient is just slightly off

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'll be damned if I'm gonna eat a blue egg

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would you, could you on a boat?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would you, could you with your throat?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the throat goat make the scrote bloat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

crewmate bluemate redmate ventmate

-Impostor Sus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No juevos verdes y jamon.

Yo soy Ramon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

What are you, chicken?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're from Araucana chicken from south America. Pretty cool if you ask me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know Araucana was spelled that way, neat!

My family had a few when I was growing up, the eggs were delicious and they only chased me around the yard sometimes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Getting chased by an aggressive rooster is one of my earliest memories. I mostly just remember jurassic park levels of pure terror.

Now that I'm a large person, that perspective seems absurd, but chickens are very scary when you are small.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I used to raise chickens when I was a kid and never got chased by a rooster for some reason, in fact usually it was the other way around. But my neighbors down the road had turkeys that they let roam free range around their property. I was a fucking short, scrawny little kid and they were almost as tall as me, and territorial af. At least a couple times I had to run for my life from those velociraptors just because I happened to turn a corner and bump into them while hanging out with that family. They'd just look at you, spread their tail feathers and start trotting at you making weird-ass noises. Fuckers are scary af

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

You can't make a Tomlette without breaking some Greggs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love the bantam egg on top.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

It makes the whole thing look like some kind of ergonomic laptop keyboard, with that egg on top being the mouse clit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I dont know whats driving this impulse but I really want to lay on them like a bed of nails

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

And tney all taste the same on the inside.

Just like us

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there a way to tell what eggs might have deep orange yolks? I find they taste (and look!) much better. Most eggs from the store over the last year have been very pale yellow yolks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That depends more on the hen's diet rather than what type of chicken. Backyard chickens that actually forage for wild bugs get darker yolks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I always thought blue egg is rotten

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The egg shell doesn’t really change color. I’ve had rotten eggs that had white shells. The hen layer determines the color of the egg.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My mistake, what i've seen is actually myna's egg, which is blue.

Which is a TIL as well.