Comments | peregrinefalcon: 3-egg day

peregrinefalcon

3-egg day

Mar 03, 2009 22:48

Today was glorious. Sunny, warm, beautiful. Sadly, I was working, but I did get off early enough to enjoy a bit of sun.

I found this in the coop today:

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pictures, chickens

Comments 5

springstreet March 4 2009, 21:06:25 UTC

Are they huge eggs, or do you have small hands?

springstreet March 4 2009, 21:06:50 UTC

Or perhaps I am misremembering the size of our chicken eggs.

peregrinefalcon March 4 2009, 23:01:06 UTC

I think they're about normal chicken-sized eggs. A bit smaller than what you get at the store, typically. My hands are on the smallish size.

Great pictures of all the little pores in the egg... anonymous March 5 2009, 01:48:04 UTC

All eggs need to lose a specific amount of water through the shell to hatch. It's the same, peregrine or chicken.

That's why when the DDT screwed up calcium depositing they couldn't hatch their eggs.

mom

anonymous March 5 2009, 05:26:57 UTC

I think that once you've stockpiled some of those, you should loan me some and I will wave my wand and turn them into magic cookies! On my magic new cookie sheets!

Katie