Egg shells on store bought eggs are soooo thin now! You don’t even have to tap them to crack them.
I don’t remember them ever being so thin as they’ve gotten the last few years. Then again, I am now only buying eggs based on price**, so maybe that figures into it.
Geez, I miss when we raised our own chickens. Endless eggs! ***
**I wish I could afford to worry about ethics, especially after my childhood trauma of a kindergarten school trip to an egg farm. Those poor chickens!! Believe me, after that things like “free range” and “cage free” bring back memories of those birds stacked in tiny individual cages, one over the other, poop of one isolated bird falling on the one below…. It was HELL!
***I am already spending half my money (and frequently more) on the dogs, cats, and Ryoga (hog). I can’t afford chicken feed and building a new chicken lot. Every year during poultry hatching season the Tractor Supply has all these baby birds for sale, and I find myself standing there sighing. Okay, it’s the ducklings I long for the most (I had pet ducks as a little girl), but the chicks tempt me too. But then I look at the fact that by the time I get to the store I have JUST enough left to buy the hog feed and I remember I can’t afford more beasties!
Reruns from 2015
This guy ended up with a bird’s nest on his head, and one of the eggs has hatched. Doesn’t sound comfortable for me, I mean you’d have to sleep sitting up and those upstairs neighbors might get noisy. and messy! LOL
And this guy has a bird’s nest on his head. One of the eggs has hatched, though how such a big chick came out of such a little shell I dunno.
I hated the face, disappointed by the bird, but at least the eggs turned out ok-ish.