Always interested in the morph-ing of language - some call it evolution, but we all know that God created English and High German, so I'll steer clear of the morass - I found this site of alphabetical loveliness.
Margruite's away tonight, so I got to gather the eggs this evening: seventeen hens, eighteen eggs! It's obvious that chickens are among the most efficient domesticated food (protein) producers we've engaged. Eight of these hens are coming up on two years old, and they're still producing consistently. If a hen averages five eggs per week (which, from our experience seems reasonable) she will produce something like two-hundred and fifty eggs a year (5 x 52=252). According to this website one egg yields about 90 calories (depending on size). So one hen, over the course of a year, would produce roughly 22,500 calories (250 x 90=22,500 cal), and over the course of a lifetime (they have about a two year span as layers - ours will live longer, and just look pretty peckin' n' pawin' around the yard), possibly produce 45,000 calories (22,500 x 2=45,000). I'm going to try to figure out how many calories that hen might consume to produce that amount of energy. Pretty cool stuff though.
Ride in: 7'C, Wind NNW 20ks
Ride home: 17'C, Wind NNE 20ks
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There are certain times in my life when I've wished I could live on a farm. When I think about horse-back riding, four wheelers, new born kittens and puppies, and gathering eggs. I've seen and held puppies and kittens, I've ridden on horses and four wheelers, but I have never had the...pleasure...(??)...of gathering eggs. Someday I'll gather eggs. I'm sure the task would get dull very quickly, after having to do it every single day. But just once or twice I'd like to. That's something that always reminds me of farms.
"I'm goin' out to get the eggs!"
Hey, If you're interested in trying it, just let us know. You'll have to be here at something like 7:30 or 8 AM. And then you can get the eggs with one of us! No charge! We'd probably even send you home with a dozen!
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