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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

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

[-] comador@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.

[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

The fuck? I didn't know this either

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

their turning the freakin hens gay

[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

♫ 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! ♫

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] BoisZoi@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

lets out sulfur farts all day

[-] HeapOfDogs@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

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

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 13 points 5 months ago

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

[-] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 36 points 5 months ago

Would you, could you on a boat?

[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 15 points 5 months ago

Would you, could you with your throat?

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

the throat goat make the scrote bloat

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago
[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

crewmate bluemate redmate ventmate

-Impostor Sus

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

No juevos verdes y jamon.

Yo soy Ramon.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

What are you, chicken?

[-] wieson@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Fermion@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 5 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

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

You can't make a Tomlette without breaking some Greggs

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I love the bantam egg on top.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 5 months ago

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

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I’d like to see a computer user in 1985 try to parse this.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago
[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

[-] fleabomber@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

And tney all taste the same on the inside.

Just like us

[-] ridethespiral@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] binomialchicken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 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.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 points 5 months ago

I always thought blue egg is rotten

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

Which is a TIL as well.

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