We’ve had 36 eggs so far, and to be totally fair there’s no way they’d rival an ostrich or goose. In fact, they’d have difficulty challenging another chicken; when we put them next to some shop-bought eggs on our camping trip last week (hence the lack of posts) they were positively dinky.
That doesn’t matter if you’re poaching, boiling, scrambling or frying, of course, which as far as we’re concerned right now is the best way to eat them as they’re so rich and yummy, but it is important when it comes to doing things with them, like making biscuits and cakes. That’s because eggs are graded by size, and most recipes call for greedy big large ones.
So I decided to find out what constitutes ‘large’ eggs, and thinking about it logically I should really have worked out for myself that it’s more to do with weight than size.
Weighing the eggs we’ve not yet eaten, they’re averaging 49 grams apiece, regardless of who laid them; they’re very consistent. That means they’re officially ‘small’ eggs, as they’re less than 53g each. A medium egg would be 53g – 63g, a large one 64g – 73g, and an extra large one anywhere beyond that.
So now we can do some simple maths. A recipe that calls for two large eggs needs two and a half of our home-laid eggs, and one that needs six will consume almost nine of our own.
Clearly they need to lay either faster or bigger.
Or both.
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Slave drivers she says laughing. Give the young ladies a chance – perhaps things will improve with age. Oh and you sure that you are feeding and amusing them right – you do need contented chuckies you know.
We’ve just got four ex batteries and on their first day they lay an egg weighing 78g!!! (Perhaps I should start a rival “bragger” blog…;o)
Apparently its because older birds like these OAPs lay less often (every other day) but bigger eggs. So give it some time!
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