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Has anyone noticed recently the fact that chicken eggs are shrinking?

I bought 4 last week from Morrisons and have just had one for my breakfast and it looks like a pigeon laid it.

Are they not feeding the chickens enough?

Have we got Anorexic chickens?

They will be the size of quail eggs soon.

anyone else noticed that?

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I noticed that with the Asda Smart Price ones that I got,t hey were tiny and had a very small yolk

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up until i fell out with my neighbour we used to get them from a farm in Ribchester and they where much bigger

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quite possible. Might start getting mine off the market, the free range eggs are so expensive though

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There is a lot of "shrinkage" going on so that they can maintain there prices and its not just supermarkets as even Macky D's are at it. Its been happening in the sweets industry for years because if you think back al those years ago to those you ate as a kid they have shrunk. To the point that flashy made on the eggs it might be a false econemy as sometimes say for scrambled egg you could need half as many eggs again as you did originally.

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There are allotment holders locally who sell eggs.
My supplier has put his price up in the past year because the cost of chicken feed has gone up.
He says he will always be cheaper than the supermarkets.
The hens are positively free range (can see them running about on grass).
Sometimes the eggs are so big that the eggbox lid wont shut.

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Maybe they just need recharging :rolleyes:

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What with hormone and steriods? :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

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I watched that Jamie Oliver programme, forget what it was called now (funnily enough) but that really made me think about chickens and eggs.

Now I only buy free range chicken and eggs. I know not everyone will change their opinion, but I feel like I'm doing my bit.

I feel that all chickens and indeed all livestock should be allowed to live their lives out in the fresh air and not be cooped up (excuse the pun) as they are. They don't have long on this planet as it is, so what little time they have should be as free as possible.

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The Wandering Wilber kind that have there equivelent of 5 star food do drop better tasting and looking additions to my bacon butty. :D On a slight "off road" theme when they end up as roasters do they taste as good? Had Free Range eggs but never a roaster.

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was that not the one where Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall brought Jamie Oliver onto his programme on his 'chicken out' campaign?

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I don't think so, it was the one where he was doing live slaughters on TV - fairly recent perhaps a couple of months ago? Pretty horrific stuff

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lol Hugh did exactly the same, they where both involved in the same campaign

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ewww......the one with the chicks in the electrical box, that was horrible!!!!!

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If you want to eat them you have to kill them first. Many of us like to pretend they don't know where meat comes from and just get on with eating it.

Animals are here to eat, if god did not want us to eat animals he would not have made them of meat.

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Thats true. Its still a shock actually seeing how they are slaughtered. I know they do it as humanely as possible but its still a shock. No many people will have seen inside a slaughterhouse.

The thing is that was done on tv so its going to be made to look humane, what really happens in slaughterhouses? I doubt the animals are treated with the same respect

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Well gonna agree with Neil. Besides which I still maintain that if starving whatever your likes or dislikes on food they will eat meat after killing gutting and skinning it:eat:. Doesnt matter if its a little clucker out of a pen or egg :egged:a rabbit (great roasted:D) or some mooer that has become no good for milk we still eat it. At least we dispatch them humanelly in this country unlike some that could be mentioned.

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I'm fortunate to still have an egg man that comes round our area on a Thursday eve, 65p for half a dozen free range :)

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yeah I have been buying those large packs of them - I think there is about 36 in them for less thsn £3 they are okay pretty good size nd good taste to them too.

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Large eggs still only £1.50 at Iceland for 15

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or made them so tasty!!!!


:D:D:D:D:D

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do you know that is a John Cleese quote - doesnt surprise me you are both comedians lol
:D

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Here, here, this has been mentioned before on here when the programme first aired, the programme shocked a lot of people......i`ve been vegetarian for 19 years and would`nt touch any egg thats not free range and have`nt done for years.......try to use frre range farm shops when i can.

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I did know that yes :D

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I dont know because i dont buy eggs!

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2 fried eggs 3 rashers of bacon 2 sausage mushrooms tattie scone a fried tom fried bread. Now the question is "what else tasty can I add?"

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I thought the opposite, that egss were getting bigger! Well the 'large' ones seem to be. Makes you feel very sorry for the hens, free range or not!

Slightly off topic, but I have found a farm in the Ribble Valley that sells eggs at just 1 pound a dozen, compared with the Co op and their 1.43 a half dozen!! Shows you that someone is making a profit al9ong the line

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Baked beans or butter fried courgettes

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beans yes..... courgettes???? noooooo.........black pudding spuggie

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Bit of a thread wander here, but did anyone watch that kill it, skin it, wear it, the other week?

Oh it knocked me sick, i wont be watching that again, it was worse than the kill it, cook it, eat it!:(

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I think you will find that they are......A slaughterman has to have a licence to operate and any infringement bring severe penalties.
Regular visits by RSPCA Officers ensure rules are observed.
The Slaghterhouse also has to be registered with resident Meat Inspector.

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same with them Cadburys chocolate eggs , they are a lot smaller than they used to be , used to be you had to bite the top off to lick the stuff out , now they fit inside your gob in one go :D :D

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Lamb fries and sweetbreads............brilliant.

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all i can say to that is...ewwwwwwwwwww

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Lipitor and a consultation with a good arterio-vascular surgeon ... I can recommend Dr. Zelt at Kingston General.;):D

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Oh n here was me thinking I was missing something good:(

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Does he specialise in lamb castration? :)

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Yum yum. I love offal - even knowing what lamb's fries are. :D

I generally buy my eggs at Sainsburys. I buy free-range and either large or very large. Medium look very small compared to them and I don't know what "ordinary" must be like but I guess they're tiny.

When I was growing up we kept hens. For a while one of my brothers kept hens in battery cages but it didn't last long as it was too cruel and he hated it so they went back to their free-range life. We had a big hen-run and my dad kept a pile of rotting wood in one corner of the run. Every couple of weeks he turned the pile over and the hens used to run like the clappers to eat the creepy-crawlies, worms, spiders etc. We had quite a lot of customers for the eggs but, for a number of years, I could not be persuaded to eat them.

We never ate the hens either. How can you eat something that has run over your feet and clucked at you when you dished out the hen-food? :o

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Dunno ... he did my surgery and I still have mine ... there again I'm past the "lamb" age;)

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I think you're right, Willow.

Battery eggs are bound to be small with a poor insipid yolk. :(

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That puts you at 10 months

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Glad to hear that...Never had you down as lumberjack eunuch. :D

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If I'd had them reomoved as a lamb, I wouldn't have gotten myself into so much trouble in my life:eek:

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The last free range eggs we got from our friends had the most gorgeous bright yellow yolks and were of a fair size, they have also rescued some battery hens and the longer they have had them free range, the better and bigger the eggs have got.....:egged:

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i'd love to have some chickens in my garden, but i doubt t.v.h would allow me to have them

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Me too, it would drive the neighbours mad....Hee Hee......:D

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if only my neighbour was the problem, he wouldnt mind them

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To my thinking what to look for is a bright orange yolk....depending on the breed of the hen and a tell tale sign when you crack the egg into the pan which tells you if it is a battery hen or free range.
It is only there when the hens are running with a Cockeral.....I am sure someone will tell us?............go for it.

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The allotment holders near me keep cockerels too. They have different calls - when the dawn chorus happens I can hear at least 6 different 'voices'. The geese can cause a racket too. I don't mind it at all - better than traffic noise anyday.

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Now goose eggs are nice. Does the owner sell em?

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He did offer me some once but I declined - heard that they taste very strong.

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They are strong but boy they make a great omelette. :D

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Lead in the pencil.............so I'm told:confused:

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The colour of the yolk also changes depending on what you feed them.

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I reckon your right.. my mate put 2 in his gob ..he was salavating all over his kitchen ..but after about an hour he said he had ate them..pillock! don't mean it:D

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Sauté kidneys.

Maybe a small square of lamb’s liver and small piece of fillet steak with brown sauce or tomato ketchup to taste.

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Special Blend Ketchup obviously..............:)

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Can someone confirm that if an egg floats in cold water it is NOT FRESH?

Whereas one that sinks IS FRESH. Or have I got it the wrong way around?

This raises the question of - after how many days is an egg no longer considered as fresh?

How long will an egg remain edible at room temperature? What about an egg kept in a fridge?

I only buy what are labelled as “Organic” eggs from Asda. There are two sizes, medium and large and I haven’t noticed any size reduction over the years. I buy the medium ones because they fit in the egg tray in the fridge, whereas the larger ones do not. Well they do but not side by side.

I understand that it is the wrong thing to do to keep eggs in a fridge. I’m told that they should be kept at room temperature especially if you are going to boil one. Maybe it is time for me to change my preference and the way that I store them?

The methods for boiling the perfect soft boiled egg are many and various but neither is right nor wrong, just what you prefer. I place a medium sized egg straight from the fridge into a saucepan nearly fill of cold water and set the stop watch going. Once the water starts to boil I turn the gas down so that it just simmers gently. After 5 minutes the job is done. It takes 6 minutes for a large egg.

Has anyone ever boiled an ostrich egg? I wonder how long it would take?

When cooking an egg the yolk will only start to cook at 70° C whereas the white will cook at about 65° C so for a soft boiled egg ideally the water temperature should never rise above 65° C but it would take 10 or 12 minutes or even longer to cook.

There are two basic ways to eat a soft boiled egg. I prefer to slice the top off the ‘pointy’ end to let the witch out, whilst others prefer to beat the end and peel off the broken shell. But most people seem to agree that the egg should be placed in the eggcup ‘pointy’ end upwards.:egged:

Do a Google for some interesting facts about boiling eggs. Believe it or not some boffin has come up with a formula for the ‘perfectly’ boiled egg.

I think that for my tea today I will have 3 lightly scrambled eggs on two slices of toast. Now scrambling eggs is an art if the end result is not going to be what is in effect a scrambled omelette.

Years ago you used to be able to buy a set of egg scrambling pans. These were a saucepan that you filled with water and a frying type pan that sat snugly on top of the saucepan. Once the water boiled you kept it simmering and scrambled you egg in the frying type pan. The gentle heat enabled you to make the perfect scrambled egg, although even then you should take the mixture off the heat before it was fully cooked. It’s own internal heat would finish off the cooking.

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Yes jambutty, if a egg floats its off, and if it stands up its going off, and if ya put it in and it falls on its side its fresh!:) ;)

AS for the other questions....i havent a clue!