Homemade pasta to go with beef for dinner! First time making it this way. I usually roll it out by machine. Wanted them a bit heartier this time.
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Way to go on the weight loss. I'm down 8 or so in three weeks. My exercise is working in the garden. I'm taking a break now from digging up part of the yard where I'll plant my okra. It's a 25 foot long, 1 foot wide row.My diet is similar, noon and dinner, small portions. Have lost 40 lbs!!! 10 or 20 to go!!!
Stopped spending 3 hours going to the gym and bought equipment for the garage. Now it's 20 minutes. But that's not part of weight loss. At 71, I need the strength building too, especially in my legs. Old family trait to lose use of legs. That is not happening here!!!
I've been thinking about your little egg eater. I have noticed over these 8 years that all chickens will eat a raw egg if it is broken. Are you sure she actually broke it? That I haven't seen any of my hens do. For one reason or another, an egg gets broken and then they cannot resist eating it. This can happen with shells that are a bit thin and brittle, or an egg dropped too far or too close to another egg. Who knows all the ways an egg gets broken. But it does happen.When I checked for eggs this morning I learned that I have an egg eater. I caught her in the act so I chased her off the nest and scolded her. If I catch her doing that again I just might turn her into fried chicken.
That's a good point, @ValerieJ . Some of the girls do lay eggs with weak shells in spite of being fed layer pellets and having access to both eggshells and oyster crumbles. So it's a possiblilty that only broken eggs are being eaten.I've been thinking about your little egg eater. I have noticed over these 8 years that all chickens will eat a raw egg if it is broken. Are you sure she actually broke it? That I haven't seen any of my hens do. For one reason or another, an egg gets broken and then they cannot resist eating it. This can happen with shells that are a bit thin and brittle, or an egg dropped too far or too close to another egg. Who knows all the ways an egg gets broken. But it does happen.
When it happens in my flock, and a hen is eating it, I just let her have it. It is so good for her. She'll eat the shell and everything. Sometimes there is more than one hen eating it. It may only happen every 6 mos or year here, but I don't have a lot of issues with soft or brittle shells here. I haven't had a hen then go after an unbroken egg because she discovered it was good.
Maybe other people have had a different experience. But, unless you have dual purpose chickens because it is your intent to put them in the freezer when their laying slows down, I wouldn't rush to cull her. You have 7 good hens who generally lay 7 eggs, and apparently are easily herded back into the coop when you allow them to free range. That's a treasure right there.