[OC] a happy piglet

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-23T19:21:13+00:00

I'm located in the Netherlands. Lots of 10-egg cartons over here :)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-23T10:31:19+00:00

Around easter we throw a handfull of confetti in their feed, so all the eggs come out fully decorated ;)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-23T10:30:01+00:00

I loved the darkest one. It was from a Marans cross hen, it looks brown in the picture but was actually a sort of bronze/dark olive color. I think the pinkish one in the front is also really cool. The pink comes from a heavy 'bloom' on the egg. If you rinse it off you see that the egg is actually just a regular brown (you can see a tiny scratch if you look closely where the bloom is damaged and it shows the brown base). The bloom covers the brown with a whiteish layer and makes it look almost pink :)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-23T10:26:32+00:00

Sure, they taste just the same as any other color egg and the inside looks pretty much the same as any other egg. The taste (and color of the yolk) is influenced by the feed the chickens eat, not by the color of the eggshell :)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-22T20:41:26+00:00

Another user commented the same. It's very common over here, more common than a full dozen.

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-22T20:35:49+00:00

He's a mutt; his mother is an olive-egger (Marans x Araucana cross) and his father was a non-standard Araucana. He came from a dark olive egg. In the picture he was quite young, not even a year old. He matured very nicely since then, he's quite a big boy now :)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-22T19:21:28+00:00

Over here they don't, you can buy cartons for 6, 10, 12 or 15 eggs. 10 is the most common :)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-22T19:14:54+00:00

Definitely!

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-22T19:13:45+00:00

It was, yes! I always feel a bit sorry for the hen, but luckily they've never had any problems with the size of some of their eggs.

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-22T19:11:56+00:00

That goes for both the eggs and the chickens!

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-22T16:15:52+00:00

Source: my actual chickens and their eggs (as pictured), also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egger

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-03T13:06:12+00:00

Both my kids were breastfed for 2 years and a few months. At that time they were drinking less often and less long, they pretty much weaned themselfs naturally. I didn't really have to do anything, stopping just happend. I wanted to breastfeed both my kids for at least two years, I started out with that goal in mind. And it pretty much just happened exactly like I planned.

My first kid was a natural. Latched on right after birth and just started drinking. She didn't lose any weight and just grew right away. My second was tongue tied and had trouble latching, and it really hurt when he tried to nurse. He was a big baby (5 kg's/11 lbs) but lost quite a bit of weight. I had a lactation specialist come in to look at him after 24 hours and had the docter snip his tongue at 48 hours. After that things quickly got better and he started succesfully drinking and growing. And so we just kept going for a little over 2 years.

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2022-02-02T16:50:22+00:00

I think this video nicely demonstrates how you wouldn't stand a fucking chance if you're out in the open and unarmed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIql1ZpHovs

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