Eggs, Oh My!

My sister only has seven hens left, but they are still providing eggs. She found some interesting eggs the other day. One was tiny about the size of a robin's egg. She said she's gotten eggs this size before. They're small when the hen first starts laying, but sometimes there isn't a yolk. The other egg she found was enormous. I asked her if the bird lived! Ouch.

For size comparison, a quarter, mini egg, and a regular sized egg.

Jumbo chicken egg.

I believe this is the hen who made Mr. Jumbo egg.

In other news, she only has one pig left. I heard the others were delicious, but she didn't share the profits with me :(

My Sister's Pigs are HUGE

My sister's pigs look enormous and disgusting. But I'm sure once all the mud gets washed off that they'll be delicious :) They have four hogs that have been ready for a little while except they've had to worm them a few times. I'm not sure on all the specifics, but I guess you can't eat a pig if you've given them worm meds. But according to a few people I know, you can still eat a pig if it has worms. Maybe there's just the ewww factor of eating an animal with worms? 

Oink Oink

They were small...

and now they are large!

My sister is becoming a real homesteader, and I couldn't be more jealous. She planned to get 2 pigs, but that quickly turned into 4 pigs. While I don't think I'd ever want to raise pigs, I certainly LOVE bacon enough that I'll gladly take some from her fridge once they meet their maker.

And I make sure to tell her that I'm coming for a visit a month early so she has time to start hoarding eggs for me too. I'm not sure how many chickens they have, but they often get 10 eggs a day (not all lay at the same time apparently). Farm Fresh brown eggs are so much richer in color and taste than what you can get in the store. And I save ALL of my bacon grease, so my dark yellow goddess yolks are fried in the tasty stuff. I hope eggs are considered good for you these days, because I eat 2-5 every day. And yes, my cholesterol is great.

This is Little Brown Hen. She likes to sit in her flower pot.

Little Brown Hen is not camera shy. What a diva.

ooooh, double yolk eggs. I always feel like I hit the lottery when this happens :D

Oh, and they also have honey bees! Jealous.