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"Rod Out Back" wrote:

Biggest difference with our eggs is when you crack them open; BRIGHT yellow
yolk, and the whites are quite thick. Apparently, stale eggs are very runny
when cracked, but really fresh eggs are quite thick.

Yep -- the yolk of a fresh egg will practically sit up and beg. I've had it
with supermarket eggs, but I've also had it with the snails in the garden.

My Dad got a pair of ex-battery hens and kept them in the shed with the guinea
pigs. It took them a while to recover psychologically from being battery
hens, but they ended up pretty much normal (though as they had been debeaked
they weren't too good with getting snails out of their shells). One of the
guinea pigs developed a taste for layer pellets, to the chooks' annoyance. He
grew into one of the biggest guinea pigs I've ever seen! But can you imagine
cuddling a guinea pig who smells of layer pellets?!

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.