A neighbor friend’s parents raise chickens and occasionally we receive a few of their eggs. I think they’re sooooo pretty. Yes, eggs. Yes, I’m odd.
It does make me wonder, though, why there are so very many pretty colors when the ones from the grocery are all so shock white. Differences in breeds? Do they bleach the eggs from the store? Maybe I don’t really want to know…
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Who raised chickens? I don’t remember that. Anyway, …………
“Hens begin laying at 18 – 20 weeks of age and a healthy chicken will
lay about one egg a day. A hen does not need a rooster to lay eggs
and eggs are produced in response to day light patterns. The eggs we
buy in the store are not fertilized (they don’t hatch). The size of
the egg is dependant on the age of the hen. Older birds lay larger
eggs.”
DID YOU KNOW???
· There is no nutritional difference between a brown egg and a white egg.
· Different breeds of birds lay a different colour egg. For example,
brown hens lay brown eggs and white hens lay white eggs.
· A hen lays one egg at a time.
· It takes 26 hours for the hen to make an egg.
HEEHEE!!
Oh. Whoops. I read that wrong. I thought you meant a neighbor friend when we were growing up. Sorry.
What did you do? Go to Wikipedia and look up chickens?
I didn’t know that, though. And, yes, it’s a current neighbor friends. 
I just did a “yahoo” search. Never “google” anything…yahooing is much better. I searched “How do Chickens lay eggs”. It took me to Wikipedia.