https://troutsfarm.com/2020/07/09/trendy-and-cute/ Where Reality Becomes Illusion Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://troutsfarm.com/2020/07/09/trendy-and-cute/comment-page-1/#comment-31484 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:31:21 +0000 https://troutsfarm.com/?p=6251#comment-31484 “Homegrown” eggs are great. When I worked on the farm in Middlemarch after I got to NZ (in the dead of winter, mind you), I was tasked with boiling a big pot of potatoes for the chooks every morning before looking after myself. I had to take the steaming spuds out to them and chuck them in their pen and they flocked to them like they hadn’t been fed in days! Of course they had. They got pellets and I was also told to pick long grasses for them or take some leafy greens out of the garden for them, too. She said they laid more eggs (maybe it was the calcium intake that helped). Anyway, I’d put their warm eggs into the deep pocket of the winter jacket to keep my hand warm on the way back to the house. I rarely ever ate them though…they must’ve laid at least 6-8 per day.

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