This weekend one of my projects was to clean the remaining eggs from Sally our emu hen. This is about half of her production this last fall and winter. I scratch and poke a hole in one end of the egg then scramble the insides with a straw and shake the egg over a bucket to catch the yolk and whites as it falls out of the egg. Each egg equals approximently one dozen chicken eggs. No I do not eat them. I give some to the dogs fresh out of the egg then freeze the left overs to put over their food later. Yumm!
I sell some to my friend Cindy who has a dental tool to etch them. Each emu egg has three colors to etch out. The dark green on the outer layer, then a light green on the second layer and last there is a layer of white. Some people can make some beautiful pictures on each egg using the natural colors. I felt over them!
I sell some to my friend Cindy who has a dental tool to etch them. Each emu egg has three colors to etch out. The dark green on the outer layer, then a light green on the second layer and last there is a layer of white. Some people can make some beautiful pictures on each egg using the natural colors. I felt over them!
5 comments:
Some go to classroom education and I think they're absolutely beautiful, just as they are - jade eggs.
Way cool! :) And very creative! But does Sally know? ;)
I had some friends one who had emus. They actually did eat the eggs, but somehow I never wanted to try that. You've done some very interesting things with them however.
Very Cool Mim! Can I buy one next time Im up? It would probably end up in the doll case, I wouldnt know what else to do with it :)
I have collected eggs for a long time (started in 1981 when I went to China - I even have some turtle dove eggs that are really tiny - an emu egg would be a fun addition to my collection - would you ship them to Washington state? T.
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