Where do eggs come from?

And very pretty they are. Unfortunately I can't eat them as I have an egg yolk allergy!
It's no yolk for me!

British chicken breed Legbar lays blue eggs.

Have any of you seen the pink eggs chickens are laying in China.
On the news today but I can't remember if B.B.C. or Sky. I tought is it April 1st.

At least in the trees they're less likely to get red mite

I probably didn't (or never thought about it anyway) until we had chickens and some of ours decided to roost in the trees even in horrible weather in spite of having a lovely chicken house.

I didn't know that about chickens roosting in trees!

Someone who had grown up on a farm which kept chickens as well as other animals, didn't know chickens would roost in trees if given the opportunity.

You only need a rooster if you want your eggs to be fertile (hatchable). You also need a broody hen. Electronic incubators work too for hatching, but not for chick rearing, so a broody hen is best

dorset

As any chickens I knew always had a rooster with them - Annobel I'm really embarrassed to say I thought they needed a rooster - and I've lived in the country though not on a farm.

When I taught French to Year 7, I dreaded getting to the Unit on food, when " fewer than half" could recognise the fruit and veg in the pictures yet alone learn the French! Also, one boy just wouldn't believe me when I said chips were made from potatoes (well they were in those days!)

A relative of mine (in her 70s) thought that it was necessary to put a rooster in with the chickens in order to get eggs.

I do know a grow man who had no idea that a cow had to calf before she could give milk - I let it slip into a conversation a couple of years ago and now he won't touch the stuff as apparently drinking breast milk (his words) from any animal is disgusting (he is in his 50 BTW). With adults like that, I am not surprised that there are children out there who have little idea where their food comes from. And having worked with children and young people aged between 5 years and 25, for over 20 years - I doubt if the respondents were 'having a laugh".

You mean eggs don't come from ASDA????

When I read this I said to DH that I thought the students were "having a laf"

Mamie I agree about the "fewer than half" but what about "butter comes from dairy cows"
No it doesn't, the milk that is churned into butter does though

Pogs

I can't really believe the statistic is true.
I remember asking a class of 4-5 year olds why a farmer keep various animals they gave good answers: cows (milk), sheep (wool), chickens (eggs). It was only when I asked about pigs there was a silence! Young kids don't always associate meat with livestock but hopefully by end of Juniors they have caught on!!!

Cadbury's

jeni's post reminded me: I heard of someone who refused a slice of tongue, saying she couldn't possibly eat something that had come out of a cow's mouth; she then asked if she could perhaps have an egg instead.

Exactly Mamie I thought it a little far fetched that's why I felt the kids were having a 'larf' - thinking just how dumb do they think we are? In the Indie too!

Yes. Me, too!

I think I might have more faith in the survey if it didn't start:

"Fewer than half of 16 to 23-year-olds know that butter comes from a dairy cow".

What precisely does "fewer than half" mean?

If someone asked me something as fatuous as that I might be tempted to have a larf too.

Yep!

Some people's lives must be very far removed from nature. Sad.

I knew someone who when they knew where eggs came from said:-
'I'm not eating anymore of those! They came from chicken's bottoms!'