Alex Briffett » ex-battery http://www.briffett.net Life is just a state of mind Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:21:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 First Decent Egg From Ex-Battery Hen http://www.briffett.net/2009/06/07/first-decent-egg-from-ex-battery-hen/ http://www.briffett.net/2009/06/07/first-decent-egg-from-ex-battery-hen/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:38:57 +0000 Alex Briffett http://www.briffett.net/?p=64 Ex-battery hen egg (left) compared with shop bough free-range egg.

Ex-battery hen egg (left) compared with shop bought free-range egg.

Our ex-battery hens have laid us a decent egg or two after just a few days in their new coop.  This photo shows a camparison between our hen's egg and a shop-bought free-range one.  Maybe after some more time, grit(crushed oyster shells), vitamins, greens and exercise from our garden, our chucks might produce a darker coloured egg.

Earlier attempts at egg laying produced eggs with very thin shells or even one with no shell at all.

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