Re: Crushed-silk egg

Ginny wrote:
a_l_p wrote:

Fascinating pix. I don't think that's what it was in my hen's case mind you. All eggs normal since then.


No, I didn't think it would have been but the pic was so similar.

And it's winter in NZ. I thought at first it was just me getting older and softer but it's not: everyone says this is an awfully cold winter. Brrrr!

A L P


At least you are getting a winter. The east coast has finally been getting cold weather but I'm beginning to think the west is going to miss out if it doesn't arrive soon. 24°C yesterday. Lovely for gardening but not so good for the crops and nothing in the dams yet. My poor hens and ducks are getting buckets of rainwater everyday but if it lasts much longer I'll have to get rid of them all as the rainwater won't last us all next summer using it now.

We had the most glorious May. The driest since, eh, whenever. And warm, lovely for working outdoors. Then all of a sudden KA-POWWW!!!! Instant Midwinter! Took a while for the wet to come but we have now had a fair amount of that too. In fact up in the North Island, NZ, suddenly far too much - flooding, slips, disaster areas. Terrible for some of the farmers who had just recovered from the last "one in a hundred years" (hah!) flood, got their pastures producing some feed again, beginning to see daylight after one hell of a lot of heartache and backbreakingly hard work. And now fenceposts showing a few inches above water then nothing as the land slopes down slightly and the whole fence is submerged. Again.

A L P
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