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Post by housesparrow on Mar 11, 2009 15:54:00 GMT
Large eggs are cruel to hensIt might make a larger omelette but a bigger egg isn't necessarily a better one — and it certainly doesn't make the hen that laid it very happy.
That is the view of the chairman of the British Free Range Producers' Association, who says that if you want to be kind to hens, you should eat medium, not large or very large, eggs.
“It can be painful to the hen to lay a larger egg,” Tom Vesey, who keeps 16,000 hens on 45 acres at Dingestow, Monmouth, told The Times. “There is also the stress, which is a big problem as it takes more out of hens to lay large eggs. It would be kinder to eat smaller eggs. Whenever I go to the Continent people eat medium-sized eggs yet here the housewife seems to be wedded to large eggs.”
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Post by swl on Mar 11, 2009 15:56:19 GMT
How exactly do chicken farmers force chickens to lay large eggs? Do they put a rubber band round it's chuff or something?
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 11, 2009 17:46:57 GMT
The article suggests "selective breeding."
Am I right in saying that recipes including a set number of eggs assume they are large size? I have been told this is so and itmight explain why people prefer them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2009 17:56:29 GMT
I think this is rubbish and the farmer quoted is talking out of his ...................vent !
The way you get bigger eggs is to have a bigger breed of hen -which then has a bigger vent , so no problem . Hens that are on their second lay will lay bigger eggs , they are then mature hens not pullets they will be bigger their pelvic area will be larger and more open and their vent will be mature and stretched more . Apart from all that , as the egg emerges it is still soft and hardens as it contacts the outside world .
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Post by trubble on Mar 11, 2009 18:05:38 GMT
Phew.
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Post by everso on Mar 12, 2009 14:55:27 GMT
I think this is rubbish and the farmer quoted is talking out of his ...................vent ! The way you get bigger eggs is to have a bigger breed of hen -which then has a bigger vent , so no problem . Hens that are on their second lay will lay bigger eggs , they are then mature hens not pullets they will be bigger their pelvic area will be larger and more open and their vent will be mature and stretched more . Apart from all that , as the egg emerges it is still soft and hardens as it contacts the outside world . Girls, there's something about a farmer. Very manly. Knows his onions (or rather his hens' eggs). Makes you feel that he knows what he's doing. Or maybe I've been watching too much "Larkrise to Candleford" |
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Post by motorist on Mar 12, 2009 15:06:05 GMT
Hey, I have an idea. arealfarmer is still avatarless, isn't he? Maybe we could find an avatar of Farmer Barley Mo from "Bod" for him ;D
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Post by everso on Mar 12, 2009 15:12:13 GMT
Hey, I have an idea. arealfarmer is still avatarless, isn't he? Maybe we could find an avatar of Farmer Barley Mo from "Bod" for him ;D Couldn't be arsed downloading it and fiddling around with Photobucket. |
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Post by trubble on Mar 12, 2009 15:14:06 GMT
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Post by motorist on Mar 12, 2009 15:16:25 GMT
Ooh, now that has class  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2009 0:11:22 GMT
This was a biggy we had earlier in the season ;  |
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Post by trubble on Mar 13, 2009 0:35:34 GMT
You never said you were an Ostrich Farmer ARF. How exotic!  |
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Post by Patrick on Mar 13, 2009 0:59:49 GMT
I had one like that in a pack of eggies once - nearly twice the height of the others. Took a photo of that too.
Might have it somewhere rummage-rummage
I'm intrigued by the ebay ads at the top now! Weird!
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