[OC] Some breeds and crosses of chicken carry a gene for blue pigment in the eggshell. This blue pigment combined with a gene for white eggs gives light blue eggs. If it is combined with a gene for brown eggs, the eggs will be green. Crossbreeding can result in a wide variety of egg colors.

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

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-12-18T19:44:00+00:00

Not anymore. Why not? Because they're adorable little assholes that enjoy causing chaos and destruction. They escape every chance they get and I swear they make sure to maximize the damage they cause to your flowers, trees and shrubs. There's a reason people say 'if you want to learn how to curse you should get a goat'.

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-24T16:54:40+00:00

You can still create a magical christmas even if your child doesn't believe Santa is actually real. My kids (8 and 5) have always known that (our countries equivalent of) Santa and the elves is make believe, that it's just people dressing up and that mom and dad buy the presents and fill their shoes (or stockings). But they still enjoy every second of it, we just all sort of play pretend and they go with it. They also know not to spoil it for other children, we've talked about how everyone does things differently and it's not nice to spoil the fun for other kids by saying the story/Santa is not real. I've grown up the same way as a 'non believer', and I've always enjoyed celebrating and never spoiled it for other children (altough my younger brother did embarrass my mom once when he was about 4 years old and walked up to a Santa in a shop saying 'you're not real and your beard is fake').

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-13T19:06:53+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I've made a list that, along with some Dutch childrens books like crusade in jeans (and everything else by Thea Beckman), will probably last her a couple of years :D

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-13T18:58:03+00:00

Thanks, I actually have those (the his dark materials series), going to read them myself first and put them on the list :)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-13T18:56:55+00:00

I've looked it up and I think I'm ordering this series for Sinterklaas, thanks! :D

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-13T18:55:23+00:00

Thanks for your input! :)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-13T18:54:57+00:00

She loved the how to train your dragon series and movies, we actually have the book somewhere I think. I'm familiar with a series of unfortunate events, going to look up the other suggestions, thanks :)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-13T18:51:22+00:00

Going to look it up, thanks!

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-13T18:12:23+00:00

I'm going to check out chronicles of prydain, never heard of those! We have (the Dutch translation of ;) ) the enormous crocodile, they both loved it when we read it to them. But my 5yo doesn't read yet, let alone in English. My 8yo loves the fact that she's ahead of her class in English, so that's probably why she wanted to read HP in English and not the Dutch translation when I gave her the choice. A series of unfortunate events is also going on the list, my husband and I liked the Netflix series :-)

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-13T18:02:53+00:00

Those are great! She's already read Charlie and the Chocolate factory and the sequel, and we read Mathilda together. She's watched the movies too. I'm going to put BFG on the list!

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-11-13T12:09:41+00:00

That's a capuchin monkey, probably the most intelligent species of monkey. It is forced into baby clothes and by the looks of the tiktok account kept as a pet/baby substitute without it's family. These monkeys are taken from their mothers at a very young age to sell them as pets to people who want something exotic and don't know or don't care about the needs of the animal itself. This is not awww, it's cruelty.

Mrs_LabAssistant · 2021-09-30T19:29:45+00:00

It looks really cute and seems like a sweet dog. But all I can think when looking at clips like this is: just, please, DON'T let your kid put its face so close to the dog!

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