So glad Bella and your others are doing okay Mercedes.

Ours all snuggle up together too, they're such funny little creatures aren't they

Our girls seem to love it Mercedes - especially if the skin has gone a bit brown

Is it good to use Diatom routinely then? We've got a plastic house/coop - it's an Eglu set up

I thought too that the girls would slow down with their eggies during winter, however our Elsie laid her very first egg on the 19th December, in thick snow and Hilda laid her first egg at New Years weekend! All our girls are hybrid girls, does this affect things do you think? Our Dottie, the eldest ...

Ooooh I only ever give treats in the afternoon, to encourage the girls to eat their layers pellets When it was cold with the snow, I made them porridge oats with warm water, sultanas, honey and whatever vegetables I have to hand (though not potatoes or carrots). They absolutely love banana, skin and...

Hope Mabel feels better soon Alan.

Our girls are yet to have their first moult as they're still less than a year old

We love our egg skelter and you know which ones are to be used first!

Oh thanks for that Richard and John, I was just thinking I could do with something like that

Oh well done Jannie on your lovely Charlotte potatoes, so glad they made it through the snow

Looking forward to following your progress throughout 2011. I'm hoping to do more veggies in the garden this year too.

When we were kiddywinks, we were always in the kitchen with Mum and so my brother and I can both cook - I'm nearly 40 I regularly batch cook foods from scratch to put in the freezer for a later date, soups, sauces, stews etc. Also if I make a roast dinner, I'll box any leftovers up - they make a gre...

Steve the Gas wrote:You melt them eh?

Hehe I'm using hubby's phone and th keeps changing my words! doh!

perchy wrote:

lizziedoggarden wrote:Hi Maz..you can store them either way..I store mine in the fridge but only because I don't have room on my worktop

Ha ha ha

Ooooh Perchy, that's a mighty fine and full egg skelter you've got :-)

I never store my eggs in the fridge. Like Perchy, I have a nice egg smelter for our lovely eggies :-)

Thanks Steve, that's good to know. I must have been quick off the mark in collecting eggies sometimes, as I've noticed the wet thing you mentioned. I'd never use any cleaning solutions as the shell is pourous and it'd flavour the lovely egg! Only sometimes a quick rinse. You really learn things ever...

Ooh I'm a bit curious now, why aren't you meant to wash eggs? I have given an odd one a short rinse under the tap if it's been a bit mucky. I've not heard that before.