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    Old 04-07-2011, 05:11 PM
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    in the hen house today?!! No joke! Shell is a little "sandy" feeling.

    Have no new layers out there, Don't know of any bird big enough to have laid it that would risk the wrath of the girls.

    Is this one of Ester's? http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-113771-1.htm

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    Old 04-07-2011, 05:22 PM
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    Maybe it's going to be a little people (dwarf) chicken.
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    Old 04-07-2011, 05:49 PM
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    Are they real? Or plaster? Maybe someone is playing a joke on you.

    A second look looks like a little hole or crack on the far right one.
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    Old 04-07-2011, 06:02 PM
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    They look like chicken eggs to me do you have a hen that could have laid those? I have seen some with a sandy feel to the shell from farm chickens
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    Old 04-07-2011, 06:04 PM
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    My mother had chickens all the time I was growing up. She said the little ones (from regular sized chickens) were either the first or last eggs that a hen would lay. They sure are pretty brown eggs, my favorites.
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    Old 04-07-2011, 06:06 PM
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    No, guys, these are all real. I have 4 hens and get eggs every day. Wish I'd taken a picture of these all in the one nest box.

    And that's not a hole or crack in the right one. That hen always adds a little bit more shell to the bottom end of hers!
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    Old 04-07-2011, 06:17 PM
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    I agree with MawMawB - old ranch girl from Southern Alberta, and that is always what we were told as well.

    OR did you scare the egg out of the chicken...LOL
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    Is one of your hens a little Banny Hen? They lay small eggs.
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    Old 04-07-2011, 06:27 PM
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    Originally Posted by Kitsie
    No, guys, these are all real. I have 4 hens and get eggs every day. Wish I'd taken a picture of these all in the one nest box.

    And that's not a hole or crack in the right one. That hen always adds a little bit more shell to the bottom end of hers!
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    Old 04-07-2011, 07:07 PM
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    Originally Posted by d.rickman
    I agree with MawMawB - old ranch girl from Southern Alberta, and that is always what we were told as well.

    OR did you scare the egg out of the chicken...LOL
    Well, you could be right. Certainly their first eggs were like that, but I didn't know the last ones would be, too! And yah, a couple of the girls are 4 or 5 yrs old.

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