Monday, May 12, 2008

Green Eggs

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!



5 comments:

Sharon said...

Some go to classroom education and I think they're absolutely beautiful, just as they are - jade eggs.

Kathy said...

Way cool! :) And very creative! But does Sally know? ;)

Leigh said...

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.

~~Sittin.n.Spinnin said...

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 :)

Tina T-P said...

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.